The Republican journal., 1912-12-19
Maine Automobile Association
Annual Meeting to be Held In Portland
Dec. 2Oth. Public Meeting to Follow.

Annual Meeting to be Held In Portland
Dec. goth. Public Meeting to Follow.
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. 16. 1912. Logan
Walter Page, director of the United
States Office of Public Roads, and con-
sidered the greatest read authority in
this country today, is to be principal
speaker at the annual meeting of the
Maine Automobile Association to be held
in Portland on Friday evening, Dec.
goth. In addition to Mr.. Page, A. G.
Batchelder of New York, chairman of
the Executive Board of the American
Automobile Association, and the man to
whom the wonderful success of that or
ganization is due, is to be the second
speaker.
Mr.. Page will take for his subject,
Highway Legislation Needed in Maine, :"
and his address will represent the good
roads side of the Maine Automobile AS
ISOLATION. Mr.. Batchelder will speak on
the growth of the Automobile, and will
represent that side of the Associations
platform.
The meeting at which these speakers
are to be, is to be held in the City Council
chamber of the new City Hall, and will
be open to the public, ladies included.
The annual meeting of the Association
is to be held at the new Falmouth hotel
beginning at o'clock. At this session
the annual election of officers will take
place, and the annual reports will be
read. The Association has had a mar
velous growth during the past year, and
from a membership of 250 at the last
annual meeting, has grown to over 2, 200,
most active and influential civic bodies
in the State.
The report of the treasurer will show
that nearly $1,000 has been expended
during the past year in the good roads
and automobile cause in this State.
The public meeting will follow the an
nual meeting, the latter adjourning in
season for the members to 60 to the City
hall to listen to the addresses.
The membership Of the Maine Auto
mobile Association extends to every
corner of the State and it is expected
that big delegation will be present.
Mr.. Page, the principal speaker at the
meeting, was born in Richmond, Va, in
1870, and is known the world over ASIAN
eminent geologist, authority on highway
construction, inventor and writer on
scientific subjects. He has been a men,
Der of the Massachusetts Highway Com
mission, was director of the testing
laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard University from 1893
to 1900, and was chief of the division of
tests in the United States Department
of Agriculture from 1900 to 1905 He
was elected director of the United States
Office of Public Roads in 1905, and has
held that position since that time. He
is the author of Testing of Road Mater
ial and of numerous bulletins and papers
on road construction.
Mr.. Page is the inventor of both the
Page Impact Machines used in testing
road material, and is recognized as hav-
ing developed and standardized all of the
modern road material testing apparatus
except the Daval abb aston machine He
has especially developed the Derry Hard
ness Machine, as now used, and the bri-
quet-forming machine.
| Under Mr.. Page, the office of public
works has developed from a statistical
bureau to one of the most important
bureaus of the Department of Agricui-
ture.
This will be Mr.. Pages first visit to
Maine, to deliver public address.
A. G. Batchelder, chairman of the
Executive Board of the American Auto
mobile Association, is enc of the found
ers of that great organization, which
now is one of the greatest automobile
associations in the entire world. He has
been it's executive head ever since its
establishment.