The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-10
First State Wide Convention
3 . for This Purpose in State.
Gathering Here While State
Fair Is in Progress.
MACHINERY Be IN OPERATION
Immense Exhibits of Apparatus
for Road Building.
Real Highways VIII Be Built
- for Convention Guests.

al The first state wide convention ever
held in the interests of good roads in
Kansas will be called to order in To-
peka September 10, in conjunction
with the Big Free Fair at Topeka, Sep
TENDER II to IS. Governor Capper
will issue call for the meeting which
will be held at the Commercial Stub
and at which widely known good roads
men have promised to deliver ad
dresses advising the people how to OBJ
tain the best and most lasting hard
surface roads at the least expense.
=. The meeting will be presided over by
w. S. Gearhart, state highway en-
..gineer, of Manhattan. and H. S. Put
1.ney. president of the Kaw Valley I'm
proved Highways association. Good
roads enthuiasts from every county in
the state are expected to attend and
the exchange of ideas and the advice
of the speakers who have promised to
attend are expected to have an in
fnence on the highways the state is
sure to build within the next five
years.
liz Speakers at the meeting will also
comment upon the appropriation of
money to aid states in road building
by the federal government The
eproper measures to take to secure this
money will be explained, together with
suggestions as to how the most may
be obtained from the amount ex-
pended
--. Machinery There.
At the Big Free Fair at the same
time and thruout the week there viii
be immense exhibits of road building
machinery in operation Everything
that is used in building roads will be
shown, according to letters received
from manufacturing concerns VINO are
writing in for information about Kan
sass big road meeting next month.
These machin IS will be shown at
work, demonstrating the many uses to
which they may be put in improving
- travel conditions
49, These demonstrations will be thoro,
according to the manufacturers. Real
roads will be built. They Will be con-
structed so that every man who at
tends the big free fair will know
how the work is done, the men who
Will put on the show say. The makers
of patent road preparations which are
FUSED in building hard surfaced high
ways also are making arrangements to
come, according to letters received by
. Phil Eastman, secretary of the Fair as
ISOLATION. These men wilt lay their
hard surface preparations and test
rtnern before the immense crowds at
g the big free fair so that county and
township officers. as we'll as all other
persons interested in good roads, may
,.fsee exactly what each will do.
10e The call for the good roads meeting
.Awill be issued soon by Governor Ar
thur Capper and it is expected that
stha inquiries from road machinery
zTInakers ana the firms dealing in pat
~ ent road-making materials will be
greatly increased following that an
nouncement. The names of speakers
and exhibitors will be announced later,
but the date of the meeting will be
"Wednesday, September 10, at the Big
Free Fair at Topeka. The exhibits
will be on view and demonstra tons
given. thruout the week.