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TIHIENTKEM SEPARATE
SUBJECTS ON GOOD ROADS
Pan-American Road ("nngrcss, Whirl)
Convenes September i:?, lias
Interesting I'rojjrnm.
OKI). P. rOLK.MW TO RPKAK
State Highway Commissioner of Vir
ginia Will Toll of Commonwealth's
Success in Working Convicts I'pon
State Highways?Other Speakers.
XKW VOn K. Aug'ist 7?Oporso P.
Coleman. State htciiway commissioner
of Virginia, m? n^cn selected by <he
program comrr.i'.tci to: the pres. nta
tion of .1 most Important paper at tue
ran-AmerJcan Road Congress. Mr.
Coleman " :!' trea" of 'Convict T^ahor
for Highway Work" and by reason of
the fa<-t that for several years Vir
ginia has eontimi ? ??.?= I>- and s i vc-ssf'ul
1: used a larce number of convicts
in road buildit p. Mr. <Vileman's ex
perience must necessarily be of valuo
to the ineir ? ? ?? of t t-.?? i 'onan-ss. Mis
paper will >e pi. -ir.ied Thursday
morning. September '
The advanct ?i"lle:al procram of the
Pan-American Congress shows that
twenty.seven separate subjects will be
? ? -fisscl durinu the ten ies^ions; tlie.se
subjects covering practically the en
tire field ? >;" road and street construc
tion and maintenance. and tin- organ
i.-ation and a? i:::i:;:st rat;<>!; : highway
;i '"fairs.
T!u method pursued .s t'? secure th"
pre para t ion ? a paper >>n the sub
ject assigned by the committee by
some .vuthority act.vely encased in the
????ar of work concerning
which hiF paper treats, and thus bring
!?> bear the fullest possible presenta
t "n of the problems connected "vvi11?
the subject. This is to be followed
t \ a discussion of the various phas.s
? f the subject by men of wide ex
perience .and knowledge, until every
det.i 1 of the most approved practices
shall have been made clear. The
i: :? .- <>n the pro-.:: im are those known
as the most ? . roughly competent men
n the country in thiir respective line.
of activity.
The Pan-American Road Congress
will convi tie at the Municipal Audi
io: itini. Oakland, , M ?nd'iv morninir.
September 13, and i-ontlnue until Fri
day nipht. The opening address will
be made by Governor Charles \\\ Gates,
Vermont, cl irmaii of the execu
tive committee of tiie Congress. lie
\? 11 be followed by Governor .lohnson,
of California. Mayor Davis, of Oak
land. and Pirretor of Consresses I'arr,
?if the Panama-Pacific Kxposition, who
will deliver addresses of welcome. Ad
dresses in response will be made by
George IV. Tlllson, president of the
American Road Ruilders" Association,
and Fairfax Harrison, president <>f the
American Highway Association. The
Congress is to be held under the joint
auspices of these two associations, as
sisted by the T:i-State <; i Roads As
sociation of California, <'regon and
Washington, and the Paciilc Highway
i Association. Previously the two groat
associations, which are of national
character, have hold separate annual
conventions.
On Wednesday. September IS. a di
version from the usual place of meet
ing has been announced. That day has
been designated as Pan-American ltoad J
(Congress Day, and the sessions of the
i congress will he held in Festival Mali
?n the grounds of the Panania-1'acitlc
Kxposit ion.
For those who desire to make the
.congress the central feature of some!
weeks of sight-seeing, a special train
will be provided. This train will leave
Chicago on September ". and proceed
by easy stages to allow for visiting
points of unusual Interest, reaching
; Oakland September 1". Returning af
ter the congress, the train will leave
j Oakland September IP. and reach Chi
cago October This train will carry
? very convenience that modern travel
can suggest for the comfort of its pas
sengers
Special representatives of the Pan
American ltoad Congress have been
and are being appointed in practically
ev< ry section of the country. Full and
detailed information may bo obtained
from them.
The executive committee, which has
I charge of the congress consists of the
following: Governor Charles \V. Hates,
of Vermont, chairman; Major \V \V.
Crosby, chief engineer. Maryland Geo
logical Survey. Munsey Huildltig, Ral
tlmore. program. .1. 10. Penny backer, of
P. S. Olllce of Public I toads. Willard
I! libling, Washington, I >. C.. arrange
ments; James 11. Mael >onald. formerly
Highway Commissioner of <'onnectlcut.
New Haven, finance, and 10. 1. Powers,
?editor C5oo<} Roads, Nassau Street,
Nev. York. publicity.
Among the acceptances already re
ceived from those designated by the
eommlttec on program are the fol
!owing
s. F. Hradt. secretary Illinois High
way Commission.
H. iO. IJreed, first deputy State High
way Commission of New Vork.
I.ntnar Cobb, State < ngineer of Ari
zon.'i
? I. P. Coleman. State Highway Com
missioner. Virginia.
\V. H. Conneil, chief highway lm
renu. Philadelphia.
George W. Coo ley. State hisrhway
r n u i n e . r. Minnesota.
A W. Pean. chief engineer Massa
ehuset:.'-- Highway Commission.
11? ? n; \ \\"< lies Durham. formerly
hjuhu.iy engineer Rorough of Man
hattan.
A. R. Firtcher. State highway en -
K i n e i California
W. S. Uearhart. State highway en
cineer. Km.-.is
s l> ?;i111? it. auditor State highway
commission. New Vork.
Henr\ s firavos, chief United States
Rureau of Forestry.
Fairfax Harrison, president A. H. A..
Washington. P. o.
Curtis Hill, city engineer, Kansas
City. Mo.
prevost Hubbard. United States Pe
' partment of Agriculture.
A. N Johnson, bureau of municipal
research. N*'-\\ York City.
H. J. Kuelllng. county highway
commissioner. Milwaukee. Wis.
N P Lewis, chief engineer board <*.f
estimate and appointment. New York
j City.
' James 11. MacPona'.d. former liich
! way commissioner of Connecticut.
T. II. MacPonald, Stato highway cn
: glneer, Iowa.
\V. A. Mcl.ean, chief engineer On
tario Highway Commission.
K. It. Morgan, Stato road engineer,
I I'tah.
I M. M. O'Shaughnessy, city engineer,
| San Francisco.
1j. W. Page. director United States
Olllce of Public Roads.
I l>r. .1. II. Pratt, State geologist, North
! Carolina.
!?'. F. Rogers, State highway commit
1 sloner. Michigan.
William It. Roy, State highway com
missioner. Washington State.
Paul O. Sargent, chief engineer
Maine Highway Commission.
Professor L. S. Smith. University of
Wisconsin.
W. I">. Sohior, chairman Massa
chusetts Highway* Commission.
Colonel K. A. Stevens. State commis
sioner of public roads. New Jersey.
George W. Tillson, president A. R.
H. A., Borough of Brooklyn, N. V.
W. I>. Uhler, chief engineer Penn
sylvania highway department.
A. P. Williams, chief road engineer.
West Virginia.
,1. F. Witt, county engineer, Pallas.
Texas.
DOES WORLD FACE
SERIES OF WARS?
(Continued from First Page.)
in France and England who ,-ry out for
the continuance of the war?derive
from all the horror of war nothing but
? lie delusion thaf they must revenge
themselves on the foe; by no means <lo
they draw the simple conclusion that
they must avert war as a thine which
? brings all those things in its wake."
The professor then goes on to say
that the present struggle "has now de
veloped into such a confusing tangle
of infuriated nations, each biting the
other, that it will he extremely ditllcult
to separate their fangs."
Peace negotiations, when they come,
will last an Interminable time, and will
be interrupted by elements of new
crises, and. even in the most favorable
case, all the evil passions aroused by
the war will for a long time solemnize
their orgies and debar Europe from
peaceful work.
Foreseeing the possibility that Ger
many may be crushed and parts of her
territory annexed by each of her
enemies, the desires of the population
thus severed from tluir country will
work for war.
Altogether, the view the professor
takes of the situation, no matter what
the final outcome of the present war,
i? an exceedingly gloomy one.
The Deutsche Tageszeitur.g. the paper
iit which Admiral von Tirpitz and
Krupp's right-hand man. Count Krnest
von Reventlow, recently made furious
attacks upon the t.'nited States and
denounced the lack of backbone of
Rethmann-Hollweg in a manner which
led to the temporary suspension of the
paper, has found a new source of
worry.
Although tho financial experts of the
i paper iNsist that there must be at least
i a billion marks of coined gold In the
hands of the German people, the undent
appeals of the Hi'lohsbiuik for Kold
in exchange for bank notes are no
longer heeded, and there are now prob
ably less than 1,$00.000,000 marks in
gold in tho bank.
Until about a month ngo a steady
; current of gold kept coming into tho
j bank from various sources. School
! children collected it all over the coun
I try, ministers urged their conRreKU
! tions to send in all they had, and every
j savings bank was drained.
| The amount, however, steadily Krew
I smaller, and n??w the Tageszeltung
? says it has practically ceased to flow.
No payments in gold, of course, are
j made In Germany. l??it even the small
! countries IiK<> Holland and Scandinavia,
where Germany ki-is her supplies front
abroad, have begun to Insist on regular
I payments In sold being made. The
value of (ierutaa paper money abroad is
rapidly declining. and extreme meas
ures may soon have to be taken, which
cannot be kept secret, and will make
I the financial misery dangerously plain.
FRANCE IS UNITED
FOR PURSUING WAR
(Continued front First Page.)
; left for the front, and only very few
engineers and workers of military age
were permitted to remain at the fac
tory. because it was though that the
gnat national arsenals would be aide
to keep the artillery supplied.
Gradually, however, the orders in
creased. and the firm got permission
i to hire workers among the older sol
diers employed at the depots. These
. men. however, were soon found unable
to stand the exceedingly heavy work
and long hours, and by scouring the
entire country for younger men the
Creusot works succeeded in bringing
the number of workers up to the
normal figure. When the French War
Department was reorganized and an
Under-Secretary of War was placed
| at the head of the munition depart
' mcnt skilled workers were recalled
J from the front, and from that moment
the factory has been running night
and day. turning out guns and shells
j in enormous numbers. Only once a
week there Is an Interval of twelve
hours for the inspection of furnaces
and machinery. The men work in two
shifts of twelve hours each, and tho
j men themselves consider it an honor
to see that not a single minute is lost,
and some of them even growl because
they are allowed two hours for their
meals.
| The masons, who formerly took their
. time in repairing tho furnaces, can
now hardly be made t<> wait until they
have cooled. The only thought of
everybody is to serve the country to
the utmost of his ability.
The example is set from above. Th<>
old firm of Creusot which formerly so
jealously guarded the se -rets of its
I processes now scatters them broad
least. It distributes its plans and draw
I ings among all its competitors who
arc willing to make guns and shells.
M. Albert Thomas. the Under-Secre
tary of War for Munitions, recently
said that there aro In France no longer
mobilized men at the factories and
mobilized men at tho front, but Just
(one great army of soldiers.
j "If any one doubts this," the eorre
( spondent concludes, "let mo tell him
j the words of a workingman from Crett
j sot Just back from the trenches. Wuen
I a short leave of absence was denied
: him he made a grimace and said: 'Wo
! had more of a rest down there.'
"He missed the life at the front."
I CIIAXtJE IN SIM111T
OF KIIRXCII i'ihipm:
| .lust one more fart which shows tho
j spirit of France for tho change which
'lias come over the people. Ordinarily,
? the French peasantry and the middle
j classes, who are tho real owners of
! the wealth of France are careful al
'most to tnlserliness with their money,
j and 1 remember bow a few short
! month* ago they hoarded up their
| precious coins and rather would let
j you owe them money than take paper.
It is all changed.
A little over a month ago the Hanquo
do France asked the people to let it
have their gold In return for bills, and
i since then a torrent of gold, tho sight
t of which would drive tho Gorman Min
1 ister of Finance insane with Jealousy,
lias been rushing into the bank nearly
fifteen millions a day. It surpasses the
, most saiiRUino expectations, and it
| comes from every nook and corner In
the country.
; 1 do not know what the pold reserve
of the Hank of France is to-day. hut
a month ago it was nearly four bil
lions of francs and about half a bll
I lion more was on hand in silver.
USES SOCIALISTS
AS PEACE DECOYS
(Continued from First rago.l
; extract from the diary of fallen Gor
man officer:
i "When our army first becan to make
use of asphyxiating gas we knew that
this was a cruel means to use. but we
j were assured that it would help us .to
j conquer our enemies without any
losses to ourselves, and would thus
accelerate the coming of peace. In
reality, the results have boon quite dif
ferent. I myself have seen more than
Half of my own regiment asphyxiated
while tilling the gas cylinders. At th?
moment I was at the regimental head
quarters. together with a number of
! other officers. An unbearable odor
filled the room, though we were very
far from the place where tho cylinders
were being filled. The results, there
; fore, of this new weapon are .? very
? brilliant, and. on the other side, our
enemies are not afraid of it. 1 may
safely say that we have not won a
single victory with the aid of asphyxi
ating gas."
A German wounded officer now re
i covering in one of our hospitals has
expressed himself with great frank
ness to a surgeon. '
"I do not know what tho outcome
of this war will be," ho said, "but I
know that so far It has been to us
ono constant series of disillusions. I
still believe In German-victory, because
It appears an Impossible thing that the
German empire should be defeated. We
shall win, but Vfrhen? We were first
told that tho whole thing would boj
over In two months; then they said
to us ihat It would last ji little longer
than expected, but that this summer
would see tho end of the war. To-day
wo know ihat we must prepare fori
another winter campaign.
"Ono thing is certain?every German]
will do his duty. Those who count on
a revolutionary movement in Germany
will bo disappointed. It would not j
| take long to shoot down a few hun
j dred Socialistic idiots, and then thoj
j rest would obey orders.
"if we were told to eat hay. we
would cat hay; but It is absolutely;
false to ray th:>t Germany is starving. I
All our military magazines are full of
'grain, and our agents have houprht up!
i tlie entire crop of Roumanla. at a|
| fabulous price, of course, and perhaps
lit was tho great landowners of Rou
| mania who delayed Roumania's dec s-;
lion until the deal had gone through.
but in the end Koumania will *:oj
. against us. as will Bulgaria and
j r;ree<-e and all th? world, for tho whole i
. world detests us. but Gortnuny u ill
| triumph over th?* whole world."
PIukIiii: Dusky Diamond*.
j PMARMCSTOX. W. VA? August 7.?
'Coal production in West Virginia dur
inc tiio year 1014 totaled 71,707,
short tons, an increase of about 501,
j 000 tons as compared with 1H13. which
was the previous big year in that
State. Tho value of the coal at the
mines was estimated at J7I.301.10S.
FUGITIVES TELL STORY
OF TERRORS IN BELGIUM
(Continued from First Page.)
other on tho stage, and the lively little
French ally, how looking saucy and de
bonair, offered her cheek to each
valiant defender of his country as ho
climbed up the platform, as though
she wore really n<> novice at the game.
Cnmborwell. It is true, is a pretty tough
quarter, and Gaby must have squirmed
a bit at some of the embraces she bn.)
to undergo. What the noxt move will
ho to induce men to serve their coun
try cannot yet be divulged. Hut tho
representatives of imperial Germany in
I-onrton must bo dotnK a lot of sly
laughing? in their sleeves.
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