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A Camel
Will LEAD.
The Good Roads Show In
Columbus Tuesday
Unique Pageant Planned As
Special Feature
Of The State Fair In COlum.
bus Coming Week
Three Hundred People Will
Participate
And There viii Be Many
Floats Of All Kinds

Columbus, o Aug. 29-Despite all
that has been said and done for the
scientific improvement of highways,
1t has remained for State Highway
Commissioner James r. Marker to
cap the climax in educational lines
with new method of enlightenment
at the Ohio state fair next week,
when the department is not only to
give its usual exhibit of good roads
building, but is also to portray his
tory of locomotion ON highways with
a spectacular pageant.
The procession is to be given for
the first time on Tuesday, which has
been designated as good roads day.
1t will wind about the race track
course, beginning at IL a. M, and pro
visions have been made for seating
the spectators in the grand stand free
The pageant will be under the super.
vision of r. S. Wambold, director OF
recreation for the city of Columbus.
The exhibits are under the direction
of Arch w. Smith of the state high.
way department.
On Tuesday a short program is to
be given in the good roads building,
beginning at $3.50 a. M, when Cover.
nor Cox, Commissioner Marker and
Jesse Taylor, president of the Ohio
Good Roads Federation, each will de-
liver Commute address. There will
be music by the Indianola Junior High
School Orchestra daily, afternoon and
morning.
The pageant will detail in particu-
lar the progress made in vehicular
traffic. The camel, with character
Of the time Of Isaiah, carrying ban
ner with the prophets words regard
ing the betterment of highways which
reads: Cast up, cast up the high
way; gather out the stones; lift up 9
standard for the people," will head
the procession. In chronological or
der there will be given in living mod
els the Mound Builders, the Indian
pack trains, the stage coach, the sui
ky, landau, phaeton and the like. The
development of the bicycle will be de
tailed, followed by the great strides
made in the development of the pow
er-propelled vehicles and automobiles
Included in the list OF participants
will be a company of soldiers from
| the Columbus barracks, and the Ohio
corn boys from the S8 counties will
carry standards on which will be ap
propriate inscriptions respecting the
good roads movement in their coun
ties. 1t is also possible that Henry
Clay's old coach, which he used OF
the National Road in going from his
seat in Lexington, KY, to the Capito
at Washington, will be in the pageant
The finale to this show will be sew
en- floats which the state highwa,
department has had constructed
These will show the following: Neet
Of road maintenance; state aid t.
farmers; the necessity of uniform
road construction; relative activities
of the counties; return in dollars t,
the people from road improvements
ohio's 10-year program, and the de
creased cost of living.
The participants in this pagean
will number no less than 500 people
1t will be the first time in the histor.
of the good roads movement that al
attempt has been made to give tn,
people education on the subject witt
a moving panorama of life. Commits
sioner Marker believes that he cal
tell the people of Ohio the story o
road making quicker and with NOR,
of an indelible impression than b,
any other method. A special commit
tee of men interested in the goo,