The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-02-11
NAMED CLUB WORKERS
AUTO ORGANIZATION HEAD
. HAS COMMITTEES
7abors Passed Around Among
Members; Motor Car
Paragraphs

President Charles T. Taylor of the
Mankato Automobile CLUB yesterday
announced the appointment Of the
following standing committees for the
coming year: Pc
Good Roads: John Nyquist, chair
man, J. II. Macbeth, Erick A. Engwal-
son, George Wiedenmann, A. ]. Vel
Sc Entertainment: Theodore Williams,
bauer, o. w. Walker, August w Pae-
gel
President Taylor also appointed the
following special committee on free
camp sites for tourists: J. B. Rich
ards chairman, George M. Draper, H.
A. Monson, Lawrence Henline, c. ".
Christoferson. This latter commit,
tee will operate with a similar
committee to be appointed by the
CIVIC and Commerce association.
President Taylor is a member ex-
officio of, the good roads committee
In selecting the committees he has
followed the practice Of changing them
to large extent, so as to pass the
work around. The board of governors
will act as a membership committee,
with such others as may later be
named. The club is planning for a
very active season.
Sign board work is the order of the
day all over the country. The Lin
coin Highway association has recent
~ completed the placing of metal
signs erected on special posts on that
route across the state of Iowa. There
We're IT'S signs erected on the. $50
miles of the highway The Mankato
Automobile Club is going into sign
board work extensively this year.
New York will resume highway
construction this year, having with
held all new contracts last year be-
cause of high prices.
Women's clubs of Delaware county,
New York, have undertaken to plant
trees along the twenty miles of high
way between Hobert and Delhi The
State Highway Commission will aid
in the work.
Wisconsin has had surveys and
plans made for 81 miles of concrete
paving on federal aid projects for this
year, 81 miles of concrete paving on
miles of gravel surfacing FL miles Of
top surfacing, 81 miles of earth grad
ing and five miles of shale surfacing
Under state aid, plans have been pre-
pared for IA mileS of concrete paw
ing, 173 miles of gravel surfacing, half
a mile of asphalt, 23S miles of earth
grading, and Sc miles of stone mac
adam Bridges costing more than two
and quarter million dollars are also
planned.
Traffic demands wider and thicker
pavements +" declares S. E. Bradt, of
the Illinois Highway Commission, in
"a recent article on the evolution of
the Illinois highway specifications. In
1918, Illinois specifications called for
concrete pavement slabs six inches
thick, laid on crowned subgrade. In
1915, the subgrade was made fiat, in
creasing the thickness of the center
Of the slab to seven inches. In 1919,
this thickness was increased to eight
inches in the center and seven inches
at the edge Present plans call for
slabs eight inches thick both at cen
ter, and edges. Widths called for have
advanced from ten feet in 1913 to is
and Is feet. ....' .
All plans sfor improving the Bah
cock roads call for rounding corners.
When the Madison Lake road Is re-
built under state specifications the
state will buy some land at the Bus
key corner and make an unusually
large circle because of the heavy traf-
|fic. This will be pleasing to autoists.
One man lost his life there few
years ago, because of the sharp turn
concealed by corn crop.-E. F.
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