People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — The Road Congress. [ARTICLE]

The Road Congress.

The Indiana Road Congress, to be held under the auspices of the Commercial Club, Indianapolis, will begin its session in the House of Representatives, Indianapolis, on Tuesday, Decembers. It will be largely attended by official delegates from all parts of the state, and the indications are that the assemblage will be one of great importance. All phases of the subject of road improvement will be discussed, including methods of work, suitmaterial, faults of the the system, needed legislation>and the various practical questions involved in the road making problems. Several' men of national prominence ■will attend the congress and deliver addresses, including Gen. Roy Stone, of New York, the executive vice-president and secretary of the National League of good roads; Isaac H. Potter, of Nev 7 York, chairman of the Highway Improvement Committee, League American Wheelmen, and Col. Albert A. Pope, of Boston, a pioneer in the movement for better roads. Addresses will be made to the congress by others as follows: G. W. Dorrell. “The Roads of Southern Indiana;” E. L. Furness, “Construction, Cost and Benefits of Improved Highways in Northwestern Indiana;” J. T. Campbell, “The Gravel Roads of Parke County;” W. P. Carmichael, secretary of the Indiana Society of Civil Engineers, “Construction of Roads in Indiana Under Present Laws;” Prof. W. B. Johnson, of Franklin College, *‘A Plea for Better Engineering on Our Country Roads;” B. L. Blair, “Road Making Material in Indiana, and Its Distribution;” J. P. Applegate, editor of the New Albany Ledger, “Roads Without Metal; the Best Way of Making and Keeping Them in Repair;” Senator J. A. Mount, of Shannondale, “Good Roads from an Economic and Social Point of View;” D. L. Thomas, “Farmers’ Need of and Ability to Construct Good Highways;” Louis H. Gibson, “The Roads of Europe;” Prof. W. C. Latta, superintendent of the Indiana Farmer’s Institute, “The Money value of Good Roads.”

These addresses will lead up to a general discussion of the legislation needed in Indiana as a means of securing a better system of roads, which will be introduced by William Fortune, chairman of the Commercial Club Committee in charge of the congress. Legislation is the main object of the congress, and it is hoped that it will result in the enactment by the next legislature of a law which will aid in putting Indiana in advance of all other states in the matter of good roads. Arrangements have been made by the committee in charge of the congress by which delegates and others attending the meeting will be able to get a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip on all railroads. Any delegate can avail himself of this rate by paying full one-w.ay fare to Indianapolis and procur ing from the railroad agent of whom his ticket is purchased a Central Traffic Association certificate (Form 2) properly filled out. This certificate will be so endorsed at Indianapolis as to enable the delegate to procure a return ticket at one-third the regular fare.