Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-19
G00DROlDs LEADING ISSUE
Great Congress on subject o. Good
Highways To De Held In Allan
tie City This Fall.

All the enorts that have been mad
In the last decade to give the Unitet
States system OF public roads equa
to the one possessed by France will
come to focus In Atlantic City from
September 30 to October 5. when the
American Road Congress holds III
first annual session. The date and
place for holding the congress have
Just been announced by Logan Waller
Page, director of the United States
Office Of public roads and active presi.
dent of the congress.
The American Road Congress will
mark the consolidation Of the conven.
tons Of forty Of the most important
road organizations in the United
States, including the American Asso-
citation for Highway Improvement and
the American Automobile Association.
Atlantic City has rendered the use
of the million-dollar pier for the great
gathering and 1t is there that the daily
sessions will be held. President Taft
is the honorary president OF the con-
gress, which has for its active presi-
dent Director Page, and for it's treas
urer Lee McClung. treasurer Of the
United States.
The National Association of Road
Machinery and Material Manufac-
turers has voted to hold its exposition
of materials and equipment in con-
junction with the congress. Among
the members of the manufacturers
association are many OF the largest
manufacturing companies in the world.
Every industry relating to the build
ing and care of roads and bridges will
be represented, and it will be possible
for the road builders and road users
to acquaint themselves fully with all
the labor saving devices, methods and
formulas that American ingenuity and
inventive genius have brought out
turing the past century.
A remarkably ingenious exhibit will
be made by the United States Office
If public roads, consisting OF a COM
,lete set of miniature models illustrat-
ng every known type Of roads and
miniature working models of rollers.
and various equipment oper-
tied by tiny electric motors. The gov
'rnment's priceless collection of mod
lis showing the development of trans (,
from the primitive human
'urden bearer to the modern auto
mobile and locomotive may also form
feature of the exposition. "Old /
rails" exhibits recalling scenes along
he famous old roads and trails, such
S the "Old Cumberland Road" and
ne Santa Fe Trails" will add pic
lresqueness to the display.
One of the principal organizations
the congress will be the
merican Association for Highway
Improvement. composed of about 1900
len who are leaders in their respect
e lines Of activity throughout the
nited States. Interstate Commerce
commissioner James S. Harlan is
hartman of the board of directors: /.
7. w. Finley, president of the South.
n Railway Company, is chairman OF :
e executive committee; Thomas Mel
IN Page, the noted author, is chair
an of the membership committee:
Id w. c. Brown, president of the New :
DIRK Central lines, is vice president
the association. Thirty-five organi. :
lions for road improvement are iden.
led with the association and twenty
ilroad companies are giving it their :
pport.
The American Automobile Associa
IN will represent at the congress the 4
rye and ever increasing number of
ad users, who, while adding to the
ficult problem OF road construction
d maintenance because of motor =
iffic, are giving a new Importance :
d uses to the roads and are con- =
outing heavily to road improvement y
'urs from all important cities will o
conducted by the association in :.
ne so that all will arrive in Atlantic d
ty on Road Users Days. From Que ~
and intermediate points will come :
great contingent of good roads en- !
lsiasts who are striving for a great VI
'ough International highway stretch ~
from Quebec to Miami, Fla, trav. ~
ing the entire American seaboard III
csc will be met at Atlantic City by W
Southern boosters who will come ~
m Miami and intermediate points
e arrangements for these tours will 20
under the directions of the Ameri. ae
Automobile Association and the Gu
lerican Association for Highway I'll
provement. an
The United States is paying $1,000. II
a day for its roads, more than ma
$1,000 of which, according to govern. Dt
Mt estimates, is wasted. Some OF In
country's roads are among the