Evening star., 1924-06-06
GOVERNORS TO GREET
HIGHWAY DELEGATES
Thirty Eight From Latin Ameri-
can Countries Will Study Roads
of United States.
ITINERARY IS MAPPED OUT
Party Will See Coolidge and
Hughes at Capital.

Governors of five states will well
come in behalf of their respective
,ommonwealths the thirty eight dele
gates from Latin American countries
who, during June, are to make field
study of highways and highway
transportation in the United States as
guests of the highway education
board, a study of the three-week
itinerary discloses.
These chief state executives are
Gov. Cameron Morrison of North
Carolina, Gov. Len Small of Illinois,
Gov. ]. A. o. Preus of Minnesota,
Gov. John J. Blaine of Wisconsin and
Gov. Alexander J. Groesbeck of
Michigan, representing the five states
where the major studies of the party
will be pursued.
Other states which the delegates
will traverse include in order Vir-
sinia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, In
diana, Iowa, New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. Twenty Latin
American countries are to be repre-
sented in the group which will be
conducted by highway education
board officials through these several
states of the Union on the most
unique road tour in the history of
the country.
Will Meet Coolidge.
After two days of entertainment in
Washington, June and 8, during
which they will be received by Presi-
dent Coolidge and Secretary of State
Hughes, the delegates will leave for
Raleigh, n. c., the first stop on the
itinerary. They will be received by
'Tov. morrison at the executive man
SION on the morning of June 4. con-
Guiding the forenoon with an inspec-
way commission, guided by Frank
Page, state highway commissioner.
and Charles NJ. Upham, state high
way engineer.
North Carolina. cities included in
the itinerary call for temporary head
quarters to be established at Dur
ham, Greensboro, Winston Salem.
High Point, Asheville, Chimney Rock
and others. Altogether seven days
will be spent studying the HIGHWAYS
of that state. where conditions are
held to be akin to those to be found
IN many Latin American countries
both as to soil, climatic and topo-
Sra phlc conditions, and other char
made of highway construction and
maintenance in all the phases that
North Carolina can reveal.
BY Rail to Illinois.
From North Carolina the party will
go by rail to Springfield, Ill, where
special attention will be given to the
maintenance and otling of black soil
earth roads and to the various meth
DDS of grading in alluvial soil
Before reaching Illinois, however,
the party will pause at Lexin gton,
Ky, where it will be entertained by
the board of commerce and prominent
citizens and be shown the many
points of interest in that historic sac
tion. Cincinnati, Ohio, claims the
delegates for the evening of June IL,
after which they will proceed to
Springfield.
Gov. Len Small and his staff will
receive them upon their arrival. and
the delegates and those of ths official
party will be his guests at breakfast
on the morning of June II. After
wards will follow an inspection of the
celebrated Bates test road, the party
returning to Springfield to visit the
Lincoln tomb on the same day. Mem
bers of the group will motor to
Bloomington and spend the evening
in Peoria
Three Days I'm Minnesota.
Three days will be spent in Mime
sofa, the party arriving in st. Paul
on Sunday, June Is, in time to attend
o. Preus and State Commissioner of
Highways c. M Babcock will well
come them to the state and afford the
visitors an opportunity to inspect the
road construction being made through
sparSosy settled regions of the coun-
road building and maintenance meth
DDS in vogue in that state Duluth,
Hibbing, st. Cloud and other cities, in
addition to St Paul and Minneapolis,
will have an opportunity to enter tain
the Latin Americans before they