The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-14
Mr.. Bisnner's Litrie Laugh.

! "F. 0iSuHVS @'tGG ASeeS''
h. A. Blenner is having quiet lit
i, tie laugh over the way his White car
! beat a big high powered. high priced
machine in a hill-cimblng contest
around the loo~ at the reservoir II
| wasn't exactly a race but it certainly
was stifY test. and If pressed Mr..
| BIenner. as a guarantee of good faith
| will tell the name of the other car.
| Incidentally Mr.. Blenner has just
! sold d two-ton. special body White
motor-truck to w. Fred Richardson
! for his storage warehouse business.
! Mr. Richardson has lust built a $fo,-
I 900 fireproof wareiit use of tn most
modern style. and he wants every
thing In keeping. Hence the White
I truck to carry the furniture OF his GUS
j toners.
| Lee 4 Folger pand n visit to De-
| troit last week. but got back in time
| for the meeting Of the Dealers Asso-
citation Friday night.
There Is no longer any doubt az
| to the Grand prix and Vanderbilt
Cup races being conducted near Mil
| YANKEE ne@. fall. A letter from
| William Y. Vanderbilt. Jr., president
of the Motor cups Holding Company.
conf1rmatory OF the telegram has been
! received by President Hickman. of
the Milwaukee Automobile Dealers
Association.
Probably the greatest group OF men
ever gathered together In one cause
is now enlisted In the work for the
betterment OF the public roads OF
the United States under the auspices
Of the American Association for High.
way Improvement. Starting out lit
lie over a year ago with the inten-
ton Of crystallizing and correlatinE
the road movement. then underway
In the various states but with no
central clearing house for general CO.
operation. the American Association
has now the most compact working
organization In the country and its
most prominent men in the walks
OF life.
President Taft. for instance, is one
OF the leading members OF the assoc
clifton and Andrew Carnegie is a sus-
tanning member Other sustaining
members are General T. Coleman Du
Pont, OF Delaware; Alfred Noble,
the eminent engineer Of New York;
Thomas Nelson Page. of Washington,
John j. Duff. of Washington: Charles
Henry Davis. of New York; Inter.
state Commerce Commissioner Har-
Ian; James IAughlin, Jr.. of Pitts
burg. and Bryan Lathrop, park com
missioner of Chicago.
Among the regular members
there are such men as Major-Gen-
eral Leonard Wood chief of staff
of the army: Brigadier-General W.
H. Bixby, chief of the corps Of
army engineers Onward Bates
past president of the American
n, tell Il nj cd
States Senator Chiffon. OF West Vir-
GINA, United States Judge Ashton
&. Dayton. former Senator Henry
@. Davis, Of West Virginia; Presi-
dent +. A. Delano. OF the Wabash
railroad; Fourth Assistant Post
master General De Graw, State
Highway Engineer A. b. Fletcher.
Of California; w. w Finley, presi-
dent of Southern railway: Governor
Glasscock, Of West Virginia. Rear
Admiral Richardson Glover. Charles
G.. Glover, of Washington; DIR. b.
J. James. president OF the University
OF Illinois: Judge Martin e. Knapp
OF the Commerce Court; Congress
man William Il. Mckinley. who Is
the director OF the National Taft
Lee McClung. treasurer Of the United
States: A. g. Spalding, Of Califor-
MIA; Rear Admiral Willard Brown
son, Rear Admiral Stevens, B. F.
Yoakum. chairman OF the Frisco
lines: Senator Carroll s. Page, Of
Vermont, General John G. Black,
chairman of the Civil Service Com
mission. and W. G. Brown. presi-
dent Of the New York Central lines
All the prominent members Of the
association. OF whom there are near
~ 1000. are taking an active in
terest In the work that is being
done. About l40 local and State as
sociations have been formed by the
American Association. and the pur-
pose Is to provide every locality in
the United States with an organiza-
ton working for the Improvement Of
the public roads. Every State in
the Union Is now represented in the
American Association by regular or
sustaining members, and 1t Ii the
hope Of the directors Of the asso-
citation that before the end OF the
year afsfifated- associations vii. cover
every section o." tho country. The
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