The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-15
SOUTHERAROAD
TRAIN WILL Be
HERE TOMORROW
PEOPLE WILL HEAR SOME GOOD
TALKS ON MAKING AND
KEEPING UP ROADS.
A Warm Reception Will Be Given the
Train Here as Many People in
Brunswick and GIynn County are
Interested in the Work.

The special Road Improvement
Train being operated by the South
ern railway, working in cooperation
with the United States office of pub
lie roads, will give an exhibition in
Brunswick on Monday, October 16, at
10 a. M, which is sure to be attrac-
tive and helpful to the farmer, road
supervisor and county official. The
coming OF the train has been awaited
with much interest and 1t is expected
that large crowd will be on hand
to hear the lectures and inspect the
exhibits.
Travelling thousands of miles and
preaching good roads advantages to
people in almost eyerw section of the
South, making an average OF two eX-
hibitions every week day since May
l, the train is putting the economic
importance Of the good roads move
ment before the people of the South
in a manner never before attempted
and great good is resulting from the
tour.
The train consists of three coaches,
two being equipped for demonstration
and tn for the accommodation
of the e7' ts in charge. One car is
fitted Ups, a lecture room and is
provided with stereopticon, slides and
screen, arranged in the center of the
car and visible from every seat. The
second car is filed with exhibits and
working models
Illustrated lectures and demonstra-
tions showing the advantages of good
roads as well as how to construct and
maintain them, will be conducted by
Messrs. H. c. Wells and NJ E. Worrell,
two experienced road building engin-
GERS of the United States department
of agriculture, and w. ]. Hurlbut, of
the Land and Industrial department
OF the Southern railway. These men
are qualified to give the most valuable
information as to road building and
will throw out practical ideas as to
the best and most economical meth
OdS to be used in road construction
and repair in order to accomplish the
best results with the materials at
hand. E. D. Baker, field representa-
tive of the American Association for
Highway improvement, is a member
of the party, accompanying the train
in order to organize branches of the
association in the different counties
through which the train goes.
Aci11 sY+o
the train will bean attraction to peo-
pie not actively interested in such
movements, drawing them by reason
of the novel exhibit and probably
sending them away with a knowledge
that after all the good roads problem
is one that concerns each individual
no matter in what walk of life.
In the lecture coach stereopticon
views viii be flashed on the screens
as the experts talk, and all the ad-
vantages of good roads as well as the
disadvantages of bad ones will be
pointed out in a strikingly forceful
manner. There are views showing
how a bad road led to the death of a
patient whom the doctor was unable
to reach because his buggy was caught
in bad rut; how the undertaker's
wagon was delayed on the way to the
cemetery for the same reason; while
other views show trying experiences
of automobilists with bad roads
A view appealing especially to the
farmers and all interested in the cot
ton industry is that showing two loads
of cotton. One came to market over
a bad road and the load necessarily
was light, while the other came over
smooth, improved road and carried
from eight to ten times the. load of
the other team, the difference in the
weights of the two loads showing the
profits and losses that come from good
and bad roads.
These views were all taken from
life and they show how community
is not only kept from the door of pros
perity when it has bad roads over
which the traffic must move, but how
the bad roads really cost many times
over the sum necessary to improve
these roads and kept them in repair
The experts in charge Of the train
extend a cordial invitation to al
Brunswick people to be present at the
exhibition, and it is especially desired
that the farmers, county officials, ant
road supervisors attend.