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Show TH0US1DS ARE NOW EMftOpp ROADS American Road Congress Is Planned to Bring All Active Ac-tive Workers Together. That tbfre are r,orr 100,000 men offi riallv employed on the work of super-: super-: Irterulirie the ni.iiiiteniiiir Bud BOB' tntction of the roadu of the United Statss is one of the indications of tp inze of the American Knad congress that. i to be held in the fall. 'Hi-3 American Road congress will draw not odIv the men who are actively CDpagcd in the road work but also most of lh-automobile lh-automobile men of the country, all 1 he n , r. ma i li i rii-rv ,'i lid rocd materinls. and thousands of iub-ie iub-ie offieials and private citizens whose interest in the road improvement movement, move-ment, while not so direct is eaually enthusiast en-thusiast i-:. Farmers thxoagnout the country are showing a lively interest in the approaching COllJgTeSB and will be represented by a bis delegation. PecHiie ol the lmnienj-e size of the congress, which is a consolidation ot the American Antomobilfl association, liir American Tiond Builders' association associa-tion the American Association for Highway Improvement, and the National Na-tional Association of Road Material and Machinery Manufacturers, the committee on time and place which lias been appointed bv the executive committee com-mittee of the congress to select the iry, where the biff meeting will be held has been instructed carefully to Inquire into the railroad facilities, the hotel Accommodations, and tie convention hall facilities of the various cities which are under consideration. vMruuir DJQfl ror i ne convention nave been made bv ' hieaco. Atlanta, New Orleans Detroit. Kansas City. St. bonis, Atlantic 'ity, Buffalo. Washing-tqn, Washing-tqn, T. C, Milwaukee. Philadelphia, i incinnati, Cleveland, San Francisco, I 'eirer Colorado Springs and Mountain Moun-tain Lake Park. Md. Ml bids will be considered bv the executive committee, but do seleetipn will be made until the facilities of the various cities have bcfn persorinllv inspected by the com-i com-i inittee on time .-ind place, which will , Ptart out within a short time. Tenuesseo Building Roads. , ,,,c Prejen ,ir"c Ton lessee Is' oDilubifr more i i inanenl roads than anj otoer state in i,t. union. The ono great I project, the Meinphls-Brtstol mart, which 3 l tiuw 1 1 1 i r course of ,-onsti nc tlon, v. Ikii i Kinpli tod Will be the longest eon-i eon-i niioiiK macadamized road in the lMin-u lMin-u try, covering 60'.' miles. Alreatlv $510.- , uaj been spent an i and it will take ai leaat another yaar Tor It com-pletlon. com-pletlon. Tim highway will pmsk through twenty-three counties and elghtv-two K-wns. Knowille at:.l Njishvlll Ay niout: the towns through which the road pacse:. |