The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-09
Car Gm9
Highway

| The good roads movement mas such
strong following In Virginia. es-
peciaiiy in Richmond, that 1t would
not be amiss to have a good roads
exhibition at the first annual exhi-
bition of the Automobile Dealers
Show association. in the Horse Show
building the week of February 17th-
22nd inclusive.
1t might be possible to take the
| matter up with Logan Waller Page,
director of the United States office
of public roads. Mr.. Page is a yir-
ginian and has a special interest
In the good road movement here.
The New York show directors have
taken steps In this direction, as this
little item indicates;
AS a feature added to the coming
| automobile show in Madison Square
Garden and the Grand Central Palace,
which opens on Saturday night. there
Will be good roads exhibit II will
be made by the Office of public roads
department of agriculture. and will
occupy space in the palace. This.
besides the working operations OF
machine tools that will be part of the
garden layout. will show two inter-
esting things that are by way of be-
Ing by-products of the automobile
business. II the management only
can include now something automatic
for reducing gasoline to livabIe prices
the show indeed will be, complete.
The good roads exhibit will have
twenty-three models In miniature OF
various types OF road construction
These include sand. clay, gravel, ma
eadam, both water bound and btu
minous, brick, concrete. asphalt and
asphalt block roads. together with
special foundations and drainage, con-
crete bridges and culverts. There
Will be, too, a historical series, nlus-
trating the development of highway
construction through a period of about
2.000 years. This begins with a model
of the Appian Way. Then follow ex-
amples OF the Treasaguet method,
the Telford method, the early Macae
dam and the late Macadam.
There will be models of a good
roller and rock quarry and stone
crushing plant, all operated by cleo
tricity.
The road models show several
steps in the preparation Of each sur
face from the beginning until the
highway is completed. .
What New York attempts Rich
mond can accomplish.
w. J. Miller On Deck Again.
Manager w. J. Miller, of the Cor
after a rather severe illness. Mr..
Miller ts orfs~of the directors OF the
Automobile Dealers Show assoc!a-
ton.
TIP 10 Careless Drivers.
That careless driving Is the cause
OF thousands Of dollars loss to drivers
OF motor cars, because Of the useless
wear on tires, is the opinion of How
ard N. Smith. The average man
does not pay half enough attention to
his driving" he says. He runs along
as faat as possible, and In nine times
out of ten stops too quickly. Drawing
UP sharply, even though the wheels do
not slide. causes a severe friction on
the tires. and. Of course. great wear.
/ have seen men make practice OF
seeing In what short space they can
stop their cars in.
7 ACT ualiy believe that almost one
half OF the wear on tires Ia useless.
Or course in a friction transmission
car. where there are no jerks or Jars.
the wear will be much less than with
the gear car Even that wear could
be reduced by careful application of
the brakes in stopping, Pick out the
men who run their tires for distances
of from Ave thousand TO ten thousand
miles and you'n invariably find ex-
tremeiy careful drivers, who realize.
az they should, that all strains ON the
tires must mean needless loss to
their,