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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



National Congress 



of Road Builders. 



The seventh annual convention of the 

 American Road Builders' Association, held at 

 Indianapolis, Ind., December 6, 7, 8 and 9, was 

 a great success. The sessions opened promptly 

 on the morning of the first day with a good 

 audience. 



Gov. Thcmas R. Marshall, on behalf of the 

 State of Indiana, and Mayor Samuel L. Shank, 

 ( n la-half of the city, welcomed the delegates. 

 Neither of the two officials were ready to 

 cc minit theniM-lvi- to the state aid plan; al- 

 though the governor said he hoped the roads 

 of the state would be made so good in a few 

 years that men with jaundice or with cross- 

 eyes would be unable to find fault with them, 

 which sounded to the delegates considerably 

 like sarcasm. 



Hi n. Logan Waller Page, director of United 

 States office of public roads, sent his regrets, 

 saying that he was detained by the congres- 

 sional committee attending to his appropria- 

 tion. Mr. Pennypacker, Mr. Page's assistant, 

 read a paper prepared by Mr. Page on "Re- 

 lation of the City to Its Adjacent Country 

 Highways." Addresses were made and papers 

 read by the following: A. N. Johnson. State 

 Engineer of Illinois; F. J. Robinson, Deputy 

 Minister of Public Works, Province of Sas- 

 katchewan, Canada; Joseph W. Hunter. State 

 Highway Commissioner of Pennsylvania, and 

 Horatio S. Ear e, former State Highway Com 

 missioner of Michigan. Tuesday evening a 

 banquet was given in the Marion County 

 Club rooms to the speakers, which wa- a lire 

 affair. 



Wednesda-y the following took part: Sam- 

 uel Hill. President W-ishinut- n State G o '. 

 l-'oads Association; Samuel H. Lea, state en- 

 gineer of South Dakota; Charles P. Light, 

 state highway c> mmissioner of West Vir- 

 giniaf James C. Wanders, state highway com- 

 missioner ( f Ohio; T. R. Atkinson, <-'."te e 1 .- 

 giiieir if North Dakita. and Harold Parker, 

 chairman Massachusetts state highway com- 

 mission. 



Wednesday evening a banquet was piven 

 the delegates in Murat Temple. A. A. O. N. 

 M. S., and was presided over by former 

 Mayor Charles A. Book waiter, and was an 

 occasii r such PS the delegates will remember 

 with p'easvre for a lifetime. 



Thursday, thoe who took part were: W. 

 S. Gearrart- state highway engineer of Kan- 

 Paul D. Sargent, state highway cnm- 

 missii rer of Maine: Hon. James H. Mac- 

 Donald, president American Road Builder?' 

 ciation: T. Hugh Boorman of New York 

 ; A. N. Johnson. C. A. Kenyon, Samuel 

 Hill and Frank F. Rogers, deputy state high- 

 wax ci mmissioners of Michigan. 



Thursday afternoon was taken up answer- 

 ing onestirns. Harold Parker held the fort 

 and did it well. 



Fridav was Indiana day and many local 

 men spoke for state aid, a state highway de- 

 partment, the doing away with the old ante- 

 quated -tatute labor law, and the passing of 

 .Hitions memorializing the legislature to 

 d'. what might be necessary to place Indiana 

 ug the states in the front rank in the 

 road building line. 



The last speech made was by Michigan's 

 eld gind roads war horse, Good Roads Earle. 

 wl-o had <pok<-n several times before during 

 the convention by special demand. 



It was the beM and greatest road conven- 

 tion ever held in the world. The sentiment of 

 imp' rt was. that roads of c- nse- 

 nee should be built so a.- to be practically 

 indc-tim-tihle. and the general opinion was 

 that this can be best done by some kind of 

 a bituminous binder for the upper course of 

 11 t- road. 



S"ine delegates favored a rock asphalt bin- 

 der, others a binder artificially made of sand 

 and asphalt oil, but the fact would not down 



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that asphalt in some form was the biM ci.re 

 for ruts, dust and wear. While one delegate 

 advocated making good roads out of oil and 

 sand, he admitted when questioned that such 

 a road would only stand pleasure driving, 

 and that such a road would cost about :.n 

 cents a running foot, or c. nsiderably more 

 than a thousand dollar- per mile costing 

 more than many of the gravel roads of Michi- 

 gan per mile. 



Of course amateur road builders and vision- 

 ary men are likely to be caught on a penny 

 wi.-e pound to lish policy, the same as thev 

 did with the King drag. This class think 

 good roads can be sung into place, but 

 cannot, it takes brains applied and money in 

 hand to build roads that will stand modern 

 traffic, and the properly built macadam, b ndcd 

 and capped with a lasting binder, either rat- 

 ural rock ground up or made artificially, wa^ 

 believed generally in the convention to be 

 the best and cheapest road. 



NATIONAL ROADS ASSOCiATI 



Thr American Association for lligliua\ 

 ;IP ivciiH'iit. a national organization for 

 'Y.rtlu ranre of ihc good reads in vement, 

 been nr.s. arixcd by men of national impi i't 

 and permanent headquarters will 1> 

 li-hed in \\ asliiiigf n. 



The officers are Logan Waller 

 tor of |l:e I'nited States llureau of 

 Roads, presidei:! : \Y. C. I'.rown. prc.-iiiu 

 the Xcw Yi rk Ceniral Railway, vice-; 

 Lee McCluug. trea-nrer of the t'niie;'. Sta 

 treasurer, and J. R. Pennypacker. ser:<;ar 



T]-.e board of director* include Louis 

 the WcMeru railroad man, chairman: Ja 

 McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania 

 road; II. W. Finley, president of the S. 

 em Railway: I!. F. Yoakum, of the Rock 

 and System; L. W. Page and A. G. Spald 



