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Show EXHIBITION OF ROAD MODELS Greatest Display Ever Shown In Any Part of World Will Be Seen at 8s n Franciaco In 1915. Arrangements are to be made by the United Statea department of agriculture, agri-culture, through Logan Waller Page, director of the office of public roads, to place on exhllbtlon In 1915 the greatest collection of road modela ever displayed In any part of the world. The models will furnish exact duplicates dupli-cates of the old Roman roads, French roada, and all of the various types oC modern roada, together with miniature modela of road machinery operated by electricity. The office of public roads made aa exhibit of road modela for the first time at the Alasks-Yukon-Pacifle exposition. ex-position. The aim waa to put on view such striking esamplea In miniature of road models that visitors would not only appreciate the beneficent effects ef-fects of Improved highways, but would at the same time be able to understand under-stand the methods of tbelr construction. construc-tion. Since the Alaska-Yukon Pacific exposition ex-position closed, the exhibition has been displayed at various other expo-sitlons expo-sitlons and fairs. Since that time the collection haa been greatly augmented, until every slnglr type of road Is now represented and every known device used In the making of roads has been reproduced iu miniature. Aa a result of the instruction furnished fur-nished by theae road models, many farmers hsve Joined forces to Improve their own hlghwsys, and the road building movement haa bad a great Impetus. |