Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-01

The activity of the new Connecticut Good Roads association is about to be- gin. At meeting at the office of the president, Henry A Bishop, in Bridgeport, on Thursday of last week, the executive committee arranged a plan of preliminary campaign. This will be opened In 8 week or so by the journey of a pilot car over the full length Of the route which 1t is pro posed to cover with the special so- called permanent pavement The route is four hundred miles long and will occupy at least a full week in passing over it.
 The purpose of this campaign is to arouse interest among the automobil- ists throughout the state to advise the people of the purposes of the new organization to enroll membership to study road conditions and gather in the necessary funds with which to conduct the later and more serious work of the campaign.
 Two days after the Inauguration of the next president of the United States the second federal aid good roads con- vention, under the auspices of the Am erican Automobile association will be held at Washington, D. C., the dates
 
 cess of the initial federal aid gather ing in Washington in January last was so pronounced that the A. A. 4. Ma tional Good Roads board decided to make it an annual feature until fed eral aid shall have>become a substan- tial accomplished fact through con- gressional action. If results follow future conventions as rapidly as they did the first one. it should be a mat ter of only few years before a com prehenstVe system of national high ways constructed by federal appropri- atiOns is in existence
 The assembly in Washington last winter, attended by delegates from two-thirds of the states, was the first convention devoted to the subject of federal aid in highway construction. The action taken memorialized the congress for the appointment of a joint committee of senate and house to investigate the subject of federal aid and, formulate a programme for national participation. The joint res olution that resulted had the approval of Representative Underwood, who ap- peared before the rules committee in l it's support. Its adoption practically in | it's original form by congress was q step the full worth of which has yet |, Io De thoroughly appreciated. inc ] joint committee appointment under 1 this resolution consists of Senators Jonathan Bourne of Oregon; Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania; A. J. Gronna ! of North Dakota; Lee s. Overman of | North Carolina; and Claude A. Swan son of Virginia; and Representatives i D. W. ShackIeford of Missouri; Cor ] don Lee of Georgia: Daniel J. McGil- 1 licuddy of Maine: Martin B. Madden | of Illinois: and Richard W. Austin oi Tennessee. This committee is now collecting information on the subject and preparing to report at the com- ing session of congress. Its appropri- ation of $25, 900, however, is hardll sufficient for thorough study of tht subject and it is anticipated that fur must be made before any scheme ot national highways can be intelligently adopted. Incidental to laying th' ! ground work for large scale participa tion by the federal government, thu present congress also appropria tet s500,000 for use by the department O agriculture and postoffice departmen in the experimental improvement o rural free delivery highway routes.