The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-31
Better System
OfPubEc Roads
In theh Country Will Be 4
Result of the American,
Road Congress.

WASHINGTON. b. e., Oct. "a
That the movement for better sys-
TEN of highways in the United states
has been greatly advanced by the
American Road Congress held in At
lantie City, September 80 to october
s, was the ssertiOn OF all the d.
rectors OF the American Association
for Highway Improvement at the
meeting held in Atlantic city at the
conclusion OF the 1912 American
Road Congress.
For the sake Of convenience the
title of the American Association for
Highway Improvement, was changed
at the annual meeting to the Ameri-
can Higway Association az it will be
henceforth known. Logan Waller
Page, director OF the United States
office of public roads. was reelected
president of the association, while
w. w. Finley, president Of the
Southern Railway Company, was
elected vice president in place of w.
c. Brown, president of the New York
Central lines. j. E. Pennypacker,
Jr., was reelected secretary. while
Charles p. Light was reelected or
ganizer and field secretary. Lee
McClung. treasurer OF the United
States, continues as treasurer of the
American Highway Association.
Newly elected directors of the as
ISOLATION are James H. Macdonald,
state highway commissioner of Con-
necticut; George w. Cooley, state
highway engineer, OF Minnesota; A.
G. Batchelder, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Automobile Association; c. A. Ken
yon, president OF the Indiana Good
Roads Association; and DR.. Joseph
H. Pratt, state geologist of North
Carolina.
The greatest satisfaction was ex-
pressed by the directors of the Amer
lean Highway Association not only
over the great growth of the associ-
alton itself, now having more than
forty state and Interstate road asso-
Citations affiliated with it, but over
the fact that the American Road
Congress, which consolidated the
conventions OF the American High
way Association, the American Auto
mobile Association and the National
Association Of Road Material and
Machinery Manufacturers, was by
far the greatest road convention
ever held
Fifty states and countries we're
represented at the congress while
twcnty-four highway commissioners
participated in the deliberations. The
government OF France was repre-
settled by NJ. de Pullingby, chief en-
gineer OF bridges and highways;
Canada by Minister Caron OF the de-
partment OF agriculture and roads,
iof Quebec: the corps Of engineers
of the United States army by Col.
Spencer Cosby. The exhibit at the
congress was by far the largest ever
made at any road convention in the
world, even surprising the exhibit
at the International Congress held in
Brussels in 1910.
In reference. to the question OF
| federal aid in the building of high
ways the American Highway Associ-
alton, which was invited by the
United States Senate committee to
give advice which largely Influenced
the adoption of the bill providing
for a joint committee to investigate
the subject, passed the following
resolution:
This association looks with ia
vor upon the Investigation by the
present Joint committee of Congress
toward giving federal aid in the con-
struction, reconstruction and main
tenance of highways in the United
States and pledges itself to cooper
ate with, and assist that committee
in every way possible towards an
early decision and the preparation
of and presentation to Congress OF
an appropriate bill looking toward
the immediate or ultimate granting
of federal aid for all highways for
vehicle travel"
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