Evening star., 1921-11-27

That women are beginning to in
wade another field which heretofore
has been exclusively mans estate is
shown by the fact that numerous
women actually engaged in highway
construction and in the promotion OF
the good roads movement generally
will participate in the twelfth Ameri-
can good roads congress and thir-
teenth national good roads show to
be held at the Coliseum in Chicago
January Il to 20 next.
The American Road Builders Asso-
citation, under whose auspices the Dig
congress and exposition Will be held'
is taking cognizance this year of the
feminine invasion of the road build
ing arena and is extending special
invitations to women, fully realizing
that they are voters, taxpayers and
road users. and when once interested
in a patriotic movement are indela-
tigable in it's behalf.
The surprising extent to wnlch
women are invading the field of high
way construction is shown by long
list of feminine road builders invited
TO the congress. Among these is Dr.
Jennie G. Murphy. the only woman
street commissioner in the world. DR..
Murphy bosses the construction
gangs and street cleaners at 1ank-
ton, s. Oak, and has held the job TO
the entire satisfaction of her CON
Stituents and the credit of her city
for several years.
Mrs. Holm a "COntractOr."
As a contractor" Mrs. Axel Holm
of South Range. Wis. has just COM
pleted four and half miles of state
highway through Pattison State
Park. near Superior, Wis. doing
job that would do credit to any man.
The road which she has just COM
pleted forms a part of the great
Mississippi valley scenic highway
from New Orleans to Canada. Mrs.
Holm handles the finances of her
company. bosses a gang of fifty-seVen
workmen, cooks their food and looks
after the welfare of her machinery
and twenty teams of horses. TWO
daughters, Vivian and Verna, keep
Ier books and assist her in her work.
Another contractreSS engaged in road
work is Miss Eva CreSsey. president
and general manager of the Cressey
Contracting Company, at Everett, Mass.
Road machines manufactured by
Miss CreSSey are used in many states
of the Union for spraying oil. tar and
asphalt in road work. At the present
time Miss Cressey has machines
working on contracts as far south
It's Texas, in addition to many in the
east and. middle west.
1t was Miss II. NJ. Berry of Chapel
Hill. n. c.. who as secretary of the
North Carolina Good Roads Associa-
tion did more to put over" the S5O,-
100000 bond issue for the splendid
new roads now being constructed in
her state. She is expected to attend
the congress. An invitation has also
been sent to Charlotte Rumbold.
Cleveland, Ohio, secretary of the Ohio
state Conference on City Planning,
and another has gone to Katherine F.
Butterfield. a high school student at
Weiser, Idaho, who won the Firestone
good roads essay college scholarship
contest last year and received her
certificate direct from the hands of
President Harding himself.
Along with DR.. Murphy. the woman
street commissioner, delegates to the
congress and visiters to the exposi-
said to be the only woman bridge en-
Sineer in the country. DR.. Melton
graduated in civil engineering last
year at Colorado University and is
trict offices of the United States bu-
reau of public roads. She is the
only woman engineer in the employ
ot the federal government.
Numerous demonstration tests of
road building machinery will be in
Guided in the exhibits at the show,
with the machinery in actual opera
tion. Reservations of exhibition space
have broken all records, the entire
lower floor of the Coliseum and An
mex having already been engaged,
necessitating the leasing of adjoining
buildings in order to house the over
how The exposition will be the larg-
est of its kind the world has ever
seen.
Congress to Hold Eight Sessions.
Eight sessions of the congress will
he held 1t is expected that at least
10000 delegates will attend. One ses-
sion will be devoted to discussion of
comparative designs in road pave
ments. another will be devoted to a
discussion of the problems involved
In highway traffic. especially truck
and future laws and regulations gov
erning highway transport. A third
session will be devoted to taxation,
bond issues and problems of highway
administration and finance.
The Portland Cement Association,
Chicago. ILL.,; the Asphalt Association.
New York: the National Associat ton
of Paving Brick Manufacturers.
Cleveland. Ohio. and other organiza-
tions of road material producers are
cooperating in the arrangements for
the congress. One session. to be held
under the auspices of the Portland
Cement Association, will be devoted
exclusively to a discussion of proper
methods in building the various types