The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-10-22

|tion of machinery and material en-
ployed in the construction of roads
and, having in mind the mutual ad
vantage it would be to all parties
concerned, he presented the claims
of the Southwestern Louisiana Indus
trial Institute at Lafayette to the
general manager Of one of the larg
est manufacturing concerns represen
ted at the congress, which claimt
will likely receive recognition in the
form of a gife or continued loan Of
an outfit of machinery suitable fol
practical demonstration in road build
ing on and around the Institute cam
pus.
Twelve States, among which Vlr
ginia, the Carolinas and Tennessee
of the South, had exhibits consisting
: for the most part of photographs and
maps, although some of the States
showed models of the roads which
they are now building.
The exhibit of the United States
government attracted by far the
greatest attention, showing at a
glance, as it were, 2,400 years OF
road building, beginning with the
Appian way, built by Rome in the
year 800 B. c., and ending with. mod
ern macadam and the latest btu
minous type of road.
Another exhibit comprised models
of all the different types of improved
roads which are in use at the present
day. These included gravel, sand
clay, water bound macadam, bitumin.
uous macadam, brick and concrete
of different types.
In this exhibit there were also
models showing the different methods
of road drainage. and the proper con
struction of bridges and cuiverts:
and also miniature working models OF
rollers, crushers. and various equip.
ment operated by tiny electric mo-
tors.
The national governments collec.
ton showed the development Of trans
portation from the primitive human
burden bearer to the modern auto
mobile and locomotive, and "a said
to be the largest and most complete
exhibit of the kind ever made.
Experts who have devoted the best
part of their lives to the construction
and maintenance of good roads not
only in this country, but in Canada
and France, interchanged their views
at one session of. the Congress.
Among the speakers were Monsieur
DePulligny, Engineer in Chief of
Bridges and Highways in France and
the official representative of the
French Government at the Congress-;
]. E. Caron, Minister of Agriculture
and Roads in the Province Of Quebec,
w. A. Mclean, Provincial Engineer
of Ontario, Canada; DR.. Joseph Hyde
Pratt, State Geologist of North Caro-
lima; Prof. F. P. McKibben, of Lehigh
University; A. H. Blanchard, Profess
sor Of Highway Engineering. Colum-
bia University.
Monsieur De Pulligny impaired a
great deal Of valuable Information in
his explanation of the system in
vogue for the construction, mainten-
ance and regulation Of highways in
France, which country leads the
world in the quality Of its roads; and
the Canadian oficials bound them
selves and their government towards
aiding in the construction of interna-
tional highways, notably the propos-
ed route from Miami. Florida, to the
great cities of the Dominion of-'Can-
ada.
Monsieur De Pulligny showed evil
dent pleasure when the writer ad-
dressed him in the language of his
country. in expressing to him the
profit he had derived from the great
store of practical information con-
tanned in his address to the Congress.
The reply of the writer "je suis un
Francois de la Louisiana to his
query "vous etes du Canada caused
him to smile affably, and he seemed
to be much pleased at hearing pro-
nounced a number of genuinely
French names of individuals and fam
lilies residing in Lafayette. The
writer realized that he vas in the
presence of a French scholar, and
purposely allowed Monsieur De Pull
ligny to do most of the talking during
a conversation, in which the style of
expression of the Frenchman from
Louisiana suffered by contrast.
In the commercial clubs of the
country, numbering 1000, the love-
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