The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-30
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
TO Be DISCUSSED
Delegates from Almost Every
State in Union Will At
tend Meeting.
(Natfonal News Association)

tNationaI News Association)
=. CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 30.-Highway
improvement will engage the atten-
ton of the foremost public officials
and expert road builders in the United
States during the four days of the
ninth annual convention of the Ameri-
can Road Builders association which
convenes here on December 8.
Among these men will be delegates
from almost every state in the Union
besides large attendance of public Of
ficials. The deliberations of the con-
vention will be limited strictly to the
administrative and technical phases
of road and street construction.
A large exhibition has also been Or
agnized for the instruction of the dele
gates. This exhibition includes not on
ly the features which have contributed
to the value of the former conven-
tons, but an exhibit by states and mu-
inequalities showing road building ma
terials, methods of administration and
construction and other matters of in
terest to the layman as well as to the
engineer or contractor.
er years will include displays by the
leading manufacturers of and dealers
in various road materials including
oils, asphalts, tars, cement, ETC., paw
ing companies and others.
The meetings and the exhibits will
be held in Music Hall, which provides
ample accommodations for the dele
gates. The city officials and citizens
of Cincinnati, as well as the state Of
ficials of Ohio, co-operated with the
American Road Builders association
and put forth every effort to make the
1912 convention the most successful
ever held.
Governors Invited.
Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio
sent out letters to the governors of
the various states of the Union indoors
ing the purposes of the American Road
Builders association and requesting
the appointment of official delegates
to the convention. The states from
which delegates have already been ap-
pointed, and the delegates, are as fol-
lows:
Alabama-State Highway Engineer
w. s.. Keller, of Montgomery; Hon. V.
b. Atkins, of Selma, and Hon. R. E.
Spragins, of Huntsville, both of the
latter members of the State Highway
commission. I,.a
Arizona-State Engineer Lamar
Cobb, Of Phoenix.
Florida-Jno. B. Floyd, ST Angus
tine; Guy Metcalf, West Palm Beach;
E. M. Hendry, J. w. Lykes, r. M. Wier,
Tampa.
llllnois-State Highway Engineer A.
N. Johnson, Springfield; w. G. Edens,
president, Illinois Highway Improve
ment association, Chicago, and c. A.
Killer. chairman, Good Roads commit
tee. Illinois Commercial Federation,
Champaign.
Iouislaua-Chief State Engineer
Frank M. Kerr, New Orleans; Hon.
Sebastian Roy, Arab, and Hon. Ira
w. Sylvester, Alexandria.
Maryland--Henry G. Shirley, Chief
Engineer of the State Roads commits
sion, Baltimore; G.. E. Weller, Edward
F. Ruggles and B. Powell Harrison,
members of the State Roads commits
sion, Baltimore; D. P. LeFevre, Cum
berland; L. H. Green, Annapolis; VIM.
G. Socro, Tewson; II. A. Paine, Dem
ton; J. T. Richards, Elkton; G. e.
Hamilton, La Plata; r. H. Dixon, Jr.,
Cambridge; Isaac Gibbs, Chestertown
i. L. Dent. Upper Marlborough; F. E.
Schnepfe, Centerville; l.. N. Whitcraft,
Princess Anne; Frank w. Seth, East
on, and H. M. Clark, Salisbury
Missouri-State Highway Engineer,
Curtis HILL Columbia; Street Commits
sioner J. C. Tavilla, of st. Louis, and
j. d. Clarkson, organizer of the 1865.
Day Club, Carthage.
Montana: Neil O'Donnell, Butte; P.
N. Bernard, Kalispell; John Nj. Keith,