Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-12
ROAD CONGRESS
At ATLANTIC CITY
Boosters from Every Part of
the Country Are to Meet
in September.
WANT SYSTEM IN U. S.
LIKE THAT OF FRANCE
Government. Railroads and Man
u%facturers All Are Aiding
the Movement.

: All the efforts made in the last dec
ade to give the United States a sys-
TEN of public roads equal to that of
France will come to a focus in At
lantic city frcm September 80 to
October ;, when the American Road
Congress holds its first annual ses-
sion. The date and place for hold
ing the congress have just been an
nounced by Logan Waller Page,
director of the United States office of
public roads and active president of
the congress-.
The American Road Congress will
mark the consolidation Of the conven-
ions of forty of the most important
road organizations In the United
States, including the American Az
ISOLATION for Highway Improvement
and the American Automobile AS
ISOLATION. 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 honorary president
Of the congress. It's treasurer Is Lee
McClung. treasurer of the United
States.
Big Exhibits Planned.
The National Association of Road
Machinery and Material Manufacture
ers has voted to hold its exposition
of materials and equipment In con-
junction with the congress. Among
the members of the association are
many of the largest manufacturing
companies in the world. Every in
dustry relating to the building and
care of roads and bridges will be rep
resented, and it will be possible for
the road builders and road users to
acquaint themselves fully with all
the la~bor-saving DEVICES, methods
and formulas that American ingenu-
tty and inventive genius have brought
out during the past century.
A remarkable ingenious exhibit will
be made by the United States office
of public roads. consisting of a COM
plete set OF miniature models Illus
trating every known type of roads
and miniature working models of roll
ers, crushers and various equipment
operated by tiny electric motors. The
governments priceless collection of
models, showing the development of
transportation from the primitive hui
man burden-bearer to the modern
automobile and locomotive also may
form a feature of the exposition.
"Old Trails exhibits. recalling scenes
along the famous old roads and trails
such as THE Old Cumberland Road
n the Santa Fe Trails" will add
picturesqueness to the display.
Railroads Giving Aid
One of the principal organizations
composing the congress will be the
American Association for Highway
Improvement, composed Of about 1900
leaders in their respective lines of
activity throughout the United States.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
James S. Harlan is chairman of the
board of directors; W. w. Finley,
president of the Southern Railway
Company, is chairman of the execu-
tive committee; Thomas Nelson Page,
the noted author, Is chairman of the
membership committee; w. c. Brown,
president of the New York Central
lines, is viee-president of the asso-
citation. Thirty-five organizations for
road Improvement are identified with
the association and twenty railroad
companies are giving it their support.
The American Automobile Asso-
citation will represent at the congress
the large and eve~r-increasing num-
Der of road users, who, while adding
to the difficult problem of road con-
struction and maintenance because of
motor traffic, are giving a new i'm
p%ortance and uses to the roads and
are contributing heavily to road i'm
provement. Tours from all import
ant cities will be conducted by the
association in time so hal all will
arrive in Atlantic City on Road
Users Day"
Finest Roads and Worst.
From Quebec and intermediate
points will come a great contingent of
good roads enthusiasts who are striv-
ing for a great through international
highway stretching from Quebec to
Miami, Fla, traversing the entire
American seaboard. These will be
met at Atlantic City by the southern
boosters from Miami and intermediate
points. The arrangements for these
tours will be under the direction of
the American Automobile Association
and the American Association for
Highway Improvement.
The United States is paying ST.
600, coo a day for our roads, more
than $500. 600 of which, according to
government estimates, is wasted.
Some OF this country's roads are