The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-28
RALEIGH ON TWO
HIGHWAY ROUTES
The Capital and Quebec Mi
ami are to Pass Through
This City
GOOD ROADS WILL WIN
ROUTE rom HENDERSON

Hyde Pratt Gave Interesting Accounts
of Events of Good Reads Congress in
Rich1nond-North Carolina Took q High
Place in The Reports As To The Devel-
Made at the Meeting.
Return ng from the sessions Of the
American Good Roads Congress just held
in Rlchmond Col. Benehan Cameron and
Or. Joseph Hyde Pratt bring reports thai
1t was a most gratifying meeting, largely
attended and that deep interest was shown
tn ali the proceedings
is that Raleigh is not alone to remain as
a fixed po Mt on the Capital Highway. with
two possible routes to tn city. but that
it is also to be on the Quebec-Miami In
fernational Highway, the route of which
is to be to this city from Durham and
then on South. In h Raleigh again
that Wake county should get busy quick
and bu.ld good roads. The development
of North Carolina in good roads gives
it a leading place in highway work and
Wake should be among the first counties
in the State on good roads
Col. Benehan Cameron Talks.
Col, Benehan Cameron in speaking OF
the meeting in edmond had the follow
in" to say:
Il think ie was unfortunate that the
Richmond papers should have magnifed
the very slight opposition to Government
aid for road Improvement. 1t was still
more unfortunate that one of the delegates
who came from Ohio lost his temper and
sharply critic sed the press of Richmond
for magnify ng the matter. IN point OF
fact only three gentlemen whom | know
IF were opposed to the measure. One was
the president Of the Congress, DR.. l.. W
Page, director of the good roads division
of the department Of Agriculture. who
appropriation for his department, another
was Mr.. John A. Stewart, of New York,
one Of the members OF the resolut ons
of the Cox b Ii which he and | had intro
duced in Congress, he as president and
as chairman Of the legislative mmit
Of the international Lea que for Highway
improvement. which he did as he thought
there was some chance of this being, en-
could be done in the way Of appropriations
as Pres dent Taft had told him and me
last winter that our measure for Nat1ona!
Surveys was the only measure he had
seen that he was willing to endorse, CIV
ing us permission to say this before the
Committee ON Agriculture of the House
on the first day of last February: another
member Of the resolutions committee q
gentleman from Texas, concurred in Mr..
Stewards views.
I'm urging the passage OF the resolu,
ton. instead OF the substitute ] argued
to the Committee on Resolutions that
thought there was Il colSiUeIdUic SI"AS S
since the time of which Mr.. Stewart spoke
for s.nce then Hon. Champ clark Is
Speaker in place Of Mr. Cannon, and we
have a great many more members or the
Senate who had stood for Government aid
for years, that | When we uId
not have an advocate in the Tn ted States
beth senators from Virginia, North caro-
Tina. South Carolina, Georgia, AiaDaIaa'
and many Western States, including sen
ator Cullotn, of Illinois, one OF the Oldest
and mast conservative Senators, now one
OF the most pronounced N FAVOR OF uos,
eminent aid and that therefore it behooven
every ayocation, to endorse tn S movement
which the Farmers National congress;
the National Grange and the Farmers
Union constituting over thirty milllons %
the American people, have a number OF
years been advocating. and that therefore
we should embrace this opportunity %
was taken in the comm ttee It stood stgn.
for the resolution. the other two memoirs
not voting against it. When the resuluz
ton was presented to the body it passeu
unanimously. I was put on the commit
tee, representing North Carolina, TO pre-
sent the matter to Congress.
from Montreal, Canada, to Miami Az.
came up and the route thar was auso-
Gated by same was via Harrisburg. HaseIs7
town, the Valley of Y rg MA, Atlanta ana
10 JacksonyiIle. but we succeeded in nam
ing the route via Baltimore, inston'
Richmond and Durham; 1t y ahw sas route
we could JOIN tue Iap'tai -. f-an,
at Raleigh. I suggested the route 1Ionl
had been voted for this section in August
last, and from Clarksvtlle to the nc ead,
Carolina Inc the road IS already Inacauo
aInized: through Granville county the
roads are grayeIlea to the Durham line;
through Durham county the route - ma
cadamized to the Wake line, except three
miles which has been ordered to be done.
At this meeting General Julian s: Carr
presided and / was elected the director
for North Carolina.
Il heard q good many favorable com.
ments on the editorial n The News ana
Observer OF Sunday N the matter OF con
sicts on the public reads. Both the VIZ
K MIA Senator's. Messrs. Martin and swan
son, and Congressman Lassiter. OF Peters
burg, made speeches before the Sonsress
uTg ng that the proper thing 60 90 was
TO put convicts to work on the roads IN
Virginia. | talked with the Comm ssloher
OF Highways of the State OF washington