The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-04
MUCH INTEREST
IN GOOD ROADS
Crowds Visits SOuthern's Road
Improvement Train
PROFITABLE LECTURE MADE
Appreciative Audience of business
and Professional Men and Farmers
Hear Subject Discussed and Illus
trated by Expert in the Arcade
Theatre Wednesday.

Several hundred of the most prom
inent citizens OF the city and county
af Durham interested III good roads
Wednesday listened attentatiyely TO
IN illustrated lecture by Southern
railway experts at the Arcade thea
fer and crowded into the special
train to get look at the models
Of road building machinery and ex-
amples of road building and ma
terials
The special good roads train OPP
Grated by the Southern Railway Com
pany throughout the eouth arrived
in Durham Tuesday afternoon. This
morning at $50 O'Clock large
audience of business and profess
sional men OF the city and leading
farmers of the county assembled in
the Arcade theater 10 lear the lee
ture, illustrated by stereopticon
views, which impressed upon the
minds of the auditors in lasting
manner the importance and immense
advantages of good roads.
The lecturer was introduced by
Mayor w. ]. Brogden.
These gentlemen are here" said
Mayor Bregden, ''in the interest of
one OF the greatest activities of civ
ilized mea. All civilizations in all
ages are measured by the amount
that has been contributed toward the
building OF roads"
The lecture this morning was de-
livered by Mr.. l.. Z. Boykin.
The reason given for the opera
ton Of the train throughout the
south BY the Southern Hallway Com
pany at great expense vas that the
company expected 20 get large re-
turns from the money invested be-
cause of the increase l. production
that wou.f result from the building
Of good roads.
1.-THE first great necessity for sue
cessful production is transportation.
No commodity Is worth anything
that cannot be transported. Any
thing that cheapens transportation.
eheapens production.
"Lecturing 10 the people Of
Durham county on good r1ads Is like
taking Goals to Newcastle. You al
ready have so many improved roads
and are doing so muen along this
line tha, there would seem 70 be
very little cause for iecf ring on this
subject III your county, Durham
county Is known far ard vide as a
leader in good roads construction.
The audience was very pleasantly
entertained as well as receiving valu-
able instruction from the stereoptican
slides that served AZ 4 basis for 4
large part Of the lecture Bad roads.
with all OF the consequent incon-
yenience and waste OF energy. were
shown by the slides Madholes and
bad places In roads were shown with
broken vehicles, dead horses. wrecked
automobiles resulting. The vast DIFF
ference IN the loads that could BE-
hauled By the same teams over good
roads a. compared with bad roads
were shown The fact that bad roads
lend bat p the blacksmith shop and
that the cost u repairs 70 vehicles r..
sulting from bad roads more than
eounterbalanced the taxes that were
levied was sent home With impressive
force ~ the lecturer The dilapi.
dated barns and dwell ings along bad
roads and the improvements III TIL
standard u living. brought about b
good roads. was also impressed
deeply upon the minds of those in al.
tendance The improvements ID
sch0olh0usss and churches sere ais
shown II districts where the road
had been improved
Ia Gullford county Il has beer
proved conelusiyely that the member
nhip 81 the Methods; church has beer
considerably Increased III thr buildini
u good roads. declared the lecturer
Numerous methods 81 building road
ard keeping them 81 repair wsr,
shown and discussed The spllt-loi
drag came Ii for IL share 81 praise
ard the wonderful improvements Il
rJadE thai this invention has br0ugh
about ID al parts ~ ne country wef
shown The best methods u con
sifneting sand-clay gravel macadan
aud other kinds d roads sefe dls
caHsed anil illustrated
After TIE lecture the demonstration
cars, placed OF The sidetrack near til
Maagum street crossing. Wefe throws
open aud there was such a Jam 0
spectators that L WAS almost impa
EIbir u ~ Inside Models II yari0li
Aid Improved Kinds ~ road-nakin,
machinery uerf shown II operation
along Nth foad.masing materials AZ,
various other matters Of interest con
cerniug good roads
The LTain ien Al 1877 for Raleigh
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