The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

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RUTLAND. Sept. 10.-With an eff
fective organization of nearly 100 mem |
bers. the Hotel Association of Vermont
met yesterday at the Prospect house as
guests of the lake hotels and settled on ;
a policy of advertising Vermont, co-or-
dinating its publicity with those of the |
state publicity bureau and the state
chamber of commerce and developing
winter sports.
Thurman w Dix. state highway com
missioner, made his first authoritative
public statement on the work of the high
way department., his address pointing in
evitably to the construction of hard sur
faced roads. as the final solution of Yer
monts problems.
Mr.. Dix declared that good roads
Eirst-Serviceabl the year round
Second-Safe:
Third-Good riding qualities;
Fourth-proyide freedom from dust.
The first demands q weil-drained road.
with strong heavy foundations, he said.
In this connection Mr.. Dix stated that
the state was going to spend 100000 in.
draining some of the worst stretches on
the main roads and that he favored set
ting aside a sum for that purpose each
year.
For safety he advocated correction of
curves and grades ard the installation
of standard danger signs and ratings
lie also described in detail the land light
house which is being tried out between
Barre and Montpelier.
The speaker admitted that q grave,
road made a good riding surface, but was
Il IL fp ta1 Il
reported on the calcium chloride exper-
! imentS in the Il road districts and said
! that it was great help in subduing the
| dust nuisance but should be applied be
| fore dashboard develops to be of much
J service.
The speaker called attention to two
extensive and costly gravel projects in
/ the state at French hill and in Dummer-
StOn. in which the cost was as high a
So. 900 a mile. but that the money went
I into grading and improving curves rather
! than surface.
Outside of grading, drainage and
bridges. he gave the following costs OF
! construction and maintenance:
J First cost per mile; Gravel, 5000 to
! s.. 600: bituminous macadam, $4,000
to $4,000 arconcrete., So, 900 to $50
coo.
Maintenance cost per mile per yNar
! Gravel. $500; bituminous macadam, $500
/ TO $500: concrete $50 to $40 in the first
years up to 500 to 5000 depending OF
the traffic
\ general discussion followed and
, there was an interesting discussion OF
the development of boys and girls camps
| participated in by George Giifeather OF
| Poultncy. Jerome Hale of Wells River
and w. H. Eantine of Grand Isle.
r. f. Could. president of the New
! Hampshire Hotel Mems association, adj
vocated cooperative advertising and
state aid to small towns in remedyine
the dust nuisance.
James l.. Taylor of Burlington spok,
Of the winter sports plans. and w. Oar
rah. the associations public man. urged
Incorporation in boosting Vermont II
/ was voted to authorize the president t
appoint a committee to make a survey
of the plan for a cooperative advcrtis
committee to look into establishing {
Vermont bureau in New York.
About 100 hotel men. ladies and guests
sat down to an excellent served dinner
in the Prospect dining rooms. Mr.. Taylor
being in charge of the after-dinner speak
ing. He made witty and brilliant tall
on boosting Vermont. urging the hote
men to throw out the pictures of forcigf
scenes and scenery on their walls am
replace them with Vermont scenes, ant
cooperate in getting out booklets fol
every route like the Roosevelt highway
and to get busy with definite plans tol
winter sports.
Gov. James Hardness spoke of the no
tel men as the heads of hospitality il
their respective centers" and paid trib
uteS to the work of Mr.. Taylor, thu
beauty of Lake Champlain and the val
Hey above Walliugford He mentioned
the "HartnesS plan briefly as being one
that proposed more industrial develop
ment for Vermont. lie urged Il better
opportunity for every Vermont boy anC
girl in his own state.
Commissioner Clarence II. Dempsey
spoke of education as Vermont's long
term Investment i'll the boys and girl.
in our schools and complimented the no
5 tel men on their prize essay contest
which he said would make them Vermont
II boosters for life