Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — GOOD ROAD SHOW IN CHICAGO SOON [ARTICLE]

GOOD ROAD SHOW IN CHICAGO SOON

Five Hundred Foot Boulevard Constructed of Different Kinds of Pavement to Be Shown. A magnificent boulevard, twenty feet wide and more than four hundred feet long, extending around the arena in the great international amphitheatre, will form one of the unique features of the coming good roads congress in Chicago. The boulevard will be divided into sections, each section being constructed of different materials and fyy different methods. Practically every known type of Standard road and pavement will be represented in tlie different sections. In addition to the industrial exhibitions of road machinery and road material, and accessories connected with road and street building, several states will present exhibits which will portray their methods of accomplishments, and a number, of universities and colleges will present the exhibits which they have assembled to aid in the instruction of their classes in highway engineering. In the entire exhibition every feature is intended to supply information concerrtjng the best and most economical “construction of roads and streets-for the benefit of those who build them and those who pay for them. The fifth American good roads congress, which is also the feveventh annual convention of the American Road Builders’ association and the sixth annual good roads show, will be held at the international amphitheatre, Chicago, Dec. 14 to 18, inclusive. The program, now being arranged, will include technical papers arid discussions concerning practically every phase of road and street construction and maintenance, which will be presented by the most eminent authorities on those subjects. The purpose of the congress and show is to comhlqe ip one aggregation all modern intelligence on the subjects of the organization, construction and maintenance of stmts and highways, to the end that the best results shall be achieved'for the public funds expended. The American Road Builders’ association claims that to its membership, *which includes practically all state highway officials and hundreds of city and county engineers and others, the remarkable development in road building methods during the past half dozen years has been almost entirely due to the study and Experimentation of its members, and the publicity given to the successes and failures at the annual conventions of the association, establish in the hi&hest senee the usefulness of the organization to the great tax-paying public, and the value of its conventions to the public’s road building representatives.