Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-08
OUTLINED
BY ROAD BUILDERS
Association In Session Here
TO Demonstrate Every Type
of Modern Highways.

An exhibition of every conceivable
machine and material used in the con-
struction of the modern streets and
highways was opend yesterday afternoon
in the Washington Auditorium by the
American Road Builders Association in
connection with the Sixth international
Road Congress.
The exhibition was opened at 1850
O'Clock at a luncheon in the auditorium
given by the American Road Builders
Association in honor of the delegates
to the congress from 63 nations all over
the globe.
The road builders show is being given
In two sections, the exhibition OF ma
chinerv and materials being on display
on the ground floor of the auditorium
and practical demonstration OF road
construction and the capacities OF ma
chinery being given the foreign dele
gates on the demonstration field, on
Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway be-
tween Virginia avenue and K street.
Exposition Open Daily.
Both the exhibition and the demon
stration will be shown daily to the for
! eien visitors throughout the sessions OF
the congress. which will close Friday
night. Paul Claudel, Ambassador OF
Frances headed the group OF diplomats,
legislators and statesmen from all over
the world vitality interested In good
roads and all they mean, the inter-
national friendship that Is promoted by
motor highways, roads that promote
ever-increasing travel, interchange OF
business and consequent interchange OF
prosperity, roads that bring hostile peo-
ples into amicable relationship and
roads that open wide the portals
of vast undeveloped lands rich in scenic
splendor, potential mineral and agr1cul-
tural wealth were on hand at the open
ing of the show.
American manufacturers OF every
conceivable device for the proper, EN-
cient and speedy construction OF streets
and highways we're on hand to exhibit
and demonstrate everything from sand
to asphalt, and every device from
trowels to steam shovels.
Presiding over this afternoons lunch
con, which opened the show TO the
visiting delegates was w. A. Van Duzer
president of the American Road Build
ers' Association, here for the Road Con-
his organization, from his home In Har-
risburg, Pa.
Federal Bureau Represented.
Holding an important place in the
exhibitions is that of the Bureau OF
Public Roads, Department of Agricul-
ture. The exhibition of the Govern
ment occupies large part Of the floor
space in the Auditorium and tells the
story of the good highway and street
from the trackless forest and cobble-
stone days up to the modern day Of
super highways built for super speed.
In the list of materials and equipS
ment displayed at the show at the Au-
ditorium and on the demonstration
field are: Excavators, power shovels,
hackfillers, truck bodies, carts,s COM
pressors, cranes, crushers, distributors,
engines, street hushers, forms, fresnos,
graders, kettles, mixers, motors, PAYERS,
pumps, reinforcementS, rollers, scarf
fiers, screens, traffic signals, spreaders,
subgrade machines, tanks, tractors,
traiiers, trucks, asphaltS, emulsions,
tars, cement, steel and other equip
ment and materials used in street and
highway construction throughout this
and other nations.
Demonstration Field Features.
On the demonstration field will be
shown those materials being laid for
the foundations and completed articles
in the way of streets and highways
Here also will be shown the principal
operations of all manner OF street and
highway constr ,tion machinery, with
roads being lai6 under the newest ma
chinery for such work. grades being