The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-08
WANT UNIFORMITY
 OF HIGHWAY LAWS
AMERICAN HIGHWAY ASSOCIA TON WILL TAKE STEPS AT
 PRESENT CONVENTION
Win Have Recommendations to Make to the States of Laws Taken From the Best of Those In All the States

An important conference hy repre- sentatiyes of the American Bar As- socation. American Highway Assocl- .ation and the United States office of Public Roads, will be held in New York to take steps to aid uniform revision of road laws ia the several states. Committees were appointed 10 take up this work at the Third American Rodd Congress held in De- troit, and they have in cooperation wit hthe United States office of Pub lie Roads completed a literal compila- ton of the road laws of all the states.
 The great mass of legislative en- .actment accumulated as result of this labor exceeds three million words and reveals the most bewilderng con flict confusion, and inefficiency. IL is the purpose of the committee to re. commend to the legislative session Of the American Road Congress, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia dur ing the week of November 9, that tnr legislature of each state be invited to avail itself of tn great amount of ma terial compiled by the committee and to appoint a special committee to work and Colorado. will discuss with state with this central committee in a suit able revision of state road laws.
 The state highway commissioners from Washington, California, Utah highway commissioners of Southern states at the Road Congress. the i'm. portant question of what to do with state conyicts, Most of the states are now in agreement as to the desirabil- ity of using convicts on the roads but there is controversy as to how far the honor system, which has been tried out on a small scale in far western states, can be applied in the utiliza- tion of convict building gangs, Other questions of importance to state road management will be taken mp authori- tatively at the Atlanta Congress, as the official heads of every state high way department in the United States except five, will be in attendance.
 The final program of the Congress has been announced and covers every phase of road and street work from the standpoint of legislation, finance, economics and engineering.
 The Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agri- culture will display at Atlanta, Geor gia, during the Fourth American Road Congress, November 9-t3, a complete set of models Illustrating the con struction and maintenance of stan' dard types of roads. The models win be so arranged as to present the his torical and technical development of road building, It will be the most complete and interebting exhibition ever made by the government on this subject.
 An Interesting feature of the exhibit will be a set of models showing the evolution of stone road building for a period of two thousand years, and will include the Appian Way, as repre- senting the Roman type of construc- ton, the early French roads during the reign of Napoleon I, the Teliord and early macadam roads built in Eng land during the reign of George ". and macadam roads as they are con strucled today.
 One of the models illustrates the characteristic features of road con structiou in the Swiss Alps; another represents the best practice in this country of road location and reloca- tion In the latter model is shown an old earth road, with characteristic fea- lures. such as steep grades. bad al. ignment, dangerous grade crossing. unsafe wooden bridge poor location, inadequate drainage, dilapidated farm buildings, and the old district school house. with uasgihtly an unsanitary surroundings. In the same model is shown the new road, located on high ground on side hill slopes with easy grades, pleasing and practical align ment, with etcrossing eliminated permanent culvert and bridge, good drainage, a well constructed and main tained macadem surface, slightly farm buildings. and attractive consolidated district schoolhouse, supplied with pure water by means of windmill and reservoir.
 The most approved methods of sub drainage, for roads which pass over soft or unstable ground, are shown by model which represents the V-drain the Telford base, and the French drain Models showing details of construction and important stages in the building of reinforced concrete culvert and a concrete bridge of the incased steel I-beam type are also included
 Three of the models illustrate the construction of earth, sand-clay and gravel roads. Miniature mechanical models in actual operation show the marrying and crushing of stone and the use of a power rodder working on macadam road.
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