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-K~OO SCIVORt r1VK0I1VK11!11 Mr. Page Who Represented America Says Lasting Benefits Will Re sult-Royally Entertained. Washington, D. C., Dec. 22.-Logan Waller Page, director of the office of public roads of the United States de partment of agriculture, who wa. named by President Roosevelt as head of the American commission to the recent International 'Roads Congress at Paris, returned to Washington a few days since, firm in the belief that in some of the more scientific branches of highway construction the United States has nothing to learn from the Older Nations, though he was willing to concede that thosa countries surpass this to an amazing degree in the percentage of improved road mileage and in the jealous care with which their splendid highways ara maintained. Among the many things which es pecially impressed Mr. Page during this European trip were the methods for regulating automobile traffic in France and England; the belief of a majority of the delegates to the roads eongress that the automobile running at average speed is not detrimental to highways; the splendor of French hospitality; the discovery that many miles of very satisfactory highways in England have been constructed by mixing limestone and granite aftex the methods set. forth in publications issued through the United States of fice of publi. roads, and the amusing discussion now being carried on by English automobilists against horse traffic in city streets and upon subur ban highways. It is his belief that from the con gress itself at least one big result will flow and credit for that must go to America. . On a suggestion by Mr. Page, it was determined to create an international bureau. of roads, similaT in some respects to the international bureau of navigation. This body will consist of two or more delegates from each of the 29.governments represent ed at the congress. Its purpose will be the collecting of all possible infor mation on road work, the passing on it by a committee of experts, and its distribution throughout the2 world. The ultimate 'benefits of so far reaehing a move cannot' now be esti ^ mated, but the world will some day carry a heavy debt .of gratitude to the government whose highway rep resentatives conceived the thought of such a bureau. and brought to its support the delegates of every eivil ized country on the globe. Credit must go to Mr. Page for the propsed erection of a memorial to M. Tresanget, the great French highway engineer who was the originator of the modern French system of road maintenance, and who began the building of the incomparable system of highways that has made France fa mous as a roadabuilding Nation. The resolution to that effect was introdaer' ed by Mr. Page ~aund unanimousb. adopted; the secretary general being empo'wered to receive contributions with which to carry out its provisions, Asked what plpe~ France had mde~ for the visitors. Mr. Page said thai he had been am.azed at the manner ir which the Reptiblic had planned foi the comfort and the entertainment ol hedelegates. Among the functions was an elab orate reception at the Elysee Palaec where the national delegrates were re ceived by President Fallarieres. Th4 sessions of the congress were held ir a 'vast auditorium at the Sorbonnre the various sections meeting in rooms especially furnished for their com fort and convenience at the Salles dt Jeu! de Paume in a corner of thi beautiful garden of the Tuileries. Besides the official reception al Elysee Palace, there was a specia theatrical entertainment given al which a famous French actress recit ed a poem specially written for th< occasion; a reception at the palace od the minister of public works; anoth er at the magnificent Hotel de Ville side excursions to Fontainbleu ani Ni.ee; and a luncheon at the beau tifu palace at Versailles. .This latter function was of especia interest to many Awericans becaus' of the -his orical associa ans linger ing about the magnificent palace. Thi luncheon was served in the superi orange room, and when the delegate to the number of over 750 had takeu seats, the fountains which form th great decorative features of the sup ex'b apartments, were set playing, tribute by France to the visitors, fo it is only on rare occasions that th water is turned into this chain of bas * ins. At the reception at the Hotel d Ville the visitors were also treated t scenes of splendor foreign to Ameri can ideas of simplicity. A regimen of the picturesquelv uniformed Chas seurs of the French army were detail ed to stand at attention, one on eithe end of every step of the grand marbi staircase down which the delegate! passed; and thence in double rows t< the state dining rooms and grand sa loons. Gratifying and impressive a were these examples of almost roya hospitality, the chairman of th American delegation found more of in terest in the perfection of the system of roads with which the Republic i provided, and in the systematic meth od of -maintaining them to the highes degree of efficiency. He was told tha on the magnificent raad leading fron Paris to Versailles 5,000 automobile! pass either way on each fine day, ba he noted that it was in such perfee condition that it was practically a dustless as the carefully swept asphal street of a large city. No better macadam roads are buil in France than can be and are bul in this country; but maintaining o: these roads is attended to with thi utmost care, and for that reason thi highways are invariably in sue] splendid condition that they exciti the envy of American visitors. Prior to his arrival at Paris, M Page spent some days in England ii the company of some of the famou highway engineers of the Empire, ex amining roads throughout England It is his belief that England has ar rived- as near to the solution of dust less roads-the present day problem of all highway engineers-as any na tion. Her engineers have given the us of bituminous materials for sprayin macadam roads the utmost though and care. Spraying highways wit such materials after science has bee called to the aid of the highway buil der, has a -tendency to preserve thi Isolidity of the roads and prevent th formation of dust; and England ha made such progress in this branch o: road study that many miles of sub urban roads are as free from th disease-breeding dust nuisance as th, best kept streets of the principal ei ties of the world. So firm are the highway scientist; it the demand that these condition not nierely maintain but improve, tha the first fight against the horse ha been taken up by the automobilists. When the motor car began to comi into use, the teaming interests of thi world were strong. They berated thi automobile in unmeasured terms; sai< that it was a menace to the publii and to the horse; that it. endangere4 life and limb; in fact advanced ever: argument against it that from timi immemorial has been advances against the advent of every great in vention or civilizing influence. In the early days of the Americai Republic, the pack-saddle men fough bitterly against the advent of the wa gon. They declared it would maka 'possible the carrying of heavier load and the consequent ruining the pack saddle industry. the wagon mer fought the stage coach on the theor; that it would facilitate -traffic an throw' wagon men out of work; th stage coach m:en battled against th railroads on the theory that the run ning of steam cars would drive out th stage coach driver: and each in tur: was forced to make way, The fight of the horse-car me> against the trolley ear is rememberet by all. The claim was then made tha 12,000,000 horses would be thrown o of work and that horse breeder would starve. The trolley is well nign un iversal, and yet more horse are raised each year than the yea before and they bring better prices. The horse interests have ever fough the automobile. There have bee thousands of columns of argumer published against it, and short-sighi -ed men have advocated such heav taxation against it, that a great an an ever growing industry would hav been sadly hampered, had half th unwise legislation planned been pu into execution. Now highway 'experts aided by th motor ear interests and by a powerft association of London and its suburb have turned like the trodden worr and started an attack on the horse. The claim they advance is that th polluting of all public thoroughfare is done not by automobilists but b Ihorses; that if no horses were allowe to drop organic matter on publi thoroughfares, the dust nuisan( would soon be naught but an unplea: ant memory. They advance the log -cal statement that the nuisance creai ed by hundreds of thousands of hor es is detrimental to public health an a menace to the pavements, and the charge that the continual cleansing c Sthe streets because of this traffic in -poses a vast and an unjust tax upe Sthe citizens. rIt was a source of great gratifica Stion to the Amreican chairman to I - frankly told in both France and En: land that this Nation has steppe Sahead of both those Nations in ti )testing of materials for building ma - adam roads. Various experimen t conducted by the offiee of puhlie roai -. have developed the fact that it Spossible in road building to obtain r better bonded surface by mnixir e oks uh as limestone, with si] cious rocks, such as granite or sand- ST > stone. - That discovery-embodied in pub; 1 3 lications sent outf through the Unit- 1 1 ed States department of agrivulture- Ex< a had been adopted by some of the Brit- me: - ish highway engineers, and while in Pa i England Mr. Page was driven over a 1 number of stretches of splendid high- I . way built by the blending of such ant t material, and was commended by ( t those who b.uilt them. I 1 In conjunction with that phase of sell ; highway construction, Mr. Page was bid b asked if it would be possible for his dui t office to receive about 300 samples of da3 3 the characteristic road building rocks all t of Great Britian and make laboratory sitl tests of them. sai t It was specifically stated in the of- thi t ficial invitation sent from France les E many months ago that the congress at a Paris was called for the purpose of ma discussing the .effect of automobile ' 1 traffic upon public highways and if 3 deemed detrimental to devise means Pu of overcoming the effect. Asked what the conclusion was reached by the con- yeg gress, Mr. Page said that automobile ed s traffic and its effect was ,very thor- wit - oughly discussed and that mary bril- sal liant papers were presented, every ani . phase of the question being treated for . of. As it was impossible to arrive at u 1 a unanimous conclusion, the question pa - of damage done was left for a later pa e determination. It was the consensus an of opinion, however, that automobiles gak t driven at ordinary rates of speed are not -especially harmful to good high 1 ways. - Mr. Page was especially impress e ed by the laws regulating automobile I GI I traffic in practically all portions of i s France and England. Nnlike the laws C prevailing in nearly every section of - this country, the moto car restrictions a of those countries are framed for the a purpose of stopping ieckless driving - and the officers responsible for their enforcement are not restricted as are 3 American officials. No speed limit 3 provisons are incorporated in the laws a b of France or England. If in the wii 3 judgrent of an officer, a moto car ch< driver is reckless even if proceeding ev4 a at less than eight miles an hour, he is ma a subject to arrest. 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