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Show AUTOISTS WORKING FOR GOi llfllllElIi Enthusiastic Meeting Held. at the Weber Club by Automobile Owners of City Urge City and County to Get the Roads in Good Shape Two Big Auto Parades Committees in Need of Rooms for Visitors to Good Roads Convention,' Sheep Show and the Four-State Four-State Fair. ed lu condition to vU "queen's j taste' for automobile drlTlog. Auto Trips ior me ,ates. It wb ataud by the cnalrman, JudRe Howell, that It la expected that there will be from 200 to 400 delegates dele-gates to the good roads convention, and that ll had been arranged that there shall be an automobile parade on Friday, Sept. 23, In which nil the delegates to the convention will participate. par-ticipate. The machines to carry the delegates must be provided (or by the automobile owners of Ogden. and hi wondered how It could be accomplished. accom-plished. He 6Uted further that there rue.lo" machines In tbo city and that very likely there would be available for the occasion about 100, I be question ques-tion being, however, Just how to got them together at a stipulated time on tl.at Friday and at a particular place Archie Dlgclow tjuggeitte J that It would likely bn a good plan to appoint ap-point a committee to look after this particular thing, and tbo Judge stated stat-ed that If there wai no objection bo would appoint Harold Peery. J. N. Spargo and p. A. Kohn to assume It-is responsibility. The gentlemen were at the meeting and they stated that they would undertake to handle han-dle the matter Demonstration of Good Roads. Judge Howell further stated that o.i Mcnduy, Sept. liG, there 6ball b? an automobile demonstration of gon 1 ronds in Weber county and that It would require the same outfit of automobiles au-tomobiles on that day as on the preceding pre-ceding Friday. He ruled that this same commiUco see to It that there be ample eutos on hand for the occasion oc-casion On this day the good roads people will be driven over the county coun-ty road north of the city and up the Ogden canyon as far as the Hermitage. Hermit-age. The committee said that they would also do this. Need More Accommodations. Some of the comm ttee having to d.j with furnishing sleeping and eat-lr-:,- accommodations lor the delegates to the good roads convention, to the big sheep show and the Four State lair were present and they stated that they had a tvv trouble. of their own. Their greatest desire was, hon-ever, hon-ever, that the Standard announce that all the people of Ogden who have "spare" rooms report the same to j Dun Ensign of the Arlington hotel. It Is requested the.t tho parties give tl'clr names, addressed, the aceom- ' niodatlons that can be furnished, and tlr-. prices they will charge. A record rec-ord will bo madu of the reports thus Landed In and the hotel people of the city will have the record on hand, which will enable them to provide ae-c'iiiiilchI.'UIoiis ae-c'iiiiilchI.'UIoiis lor every person who enters the eutes. ot the city during tl.e Fuir week;' The reports should be ci.ni t. y.r.' Ensign at the earliest pcsMble moment. All these things wrc ordered, and alter Denny Smith ha I told a story or two of how the 'Vpcodom.lor of the I city administration" had bt-en after Turn, and Judge Howell stated he was i g"a 1 they were after "Denny rather j than himself," the meeting adjourned adjourn-ed sine die. The pronounced expression among the automobile owners of the city at tbo Weber club last evening was thai the county commissioners should ruake a epeclal effort to have the roads between North Ogden and Pleasant View, and tbo boulevard through Ogden canyon la tip-top condition con-dition when the derogates to the ln-tcrmountaln ln-tcrmountaln Good Iioad.s convention visits the city Sept. 23 to 29. Inclusive. Inclu-sive. ll was etaterj at the meeting that the canyon road is covered In places v Stb Bbale. and that if It Is not rolled end hardened the road durlog the convention con-vention will be practically impassable, impass-able, and It was also said that the county road north of tbo city Is in lad shape, and ehould be repalrcl for the beueflt of the good road3 advocates ad-vocates that are to visit this section v. lthln the next throe weeks. j The Idea was expressed that Road Commissioner Child should get bus on tho road between Five Points and Pleasant View, fill up tho ruts and i make tho road as smooth as possl-1 ble. Want City Road3 In Shape. The city council, particularly the chairman of tho streets committee, came In for a littlo criticism. It br-1 Ing said that there is not a slugle street of tho city leading to tho boulevard bou-levard of the canyon that Is fit to tiavel with delegates to a good roads convention, and that it will bo a burn-' ing sbarac if some one street Is not placed In a respectable condition. It was suggested that a communication bo sent to the city council urging that Twenty-third or Twenty-fourth , street be placed In prime condition before the meeting of the good roads people of the lntermounlalu region asseiublo in tho city. The dok-gntos will have to be taken tak-en lo the canyon, and necessarily there must be a good highway leading lead-ing to the canyon boulevard, if Og-cien Og-cien cares to maintain 1U reputation lor good roads. Judge Howell, chairman of the committee com-mittee having in hand arrangements for the good roads convention, stated stat-ed that he would put a flea in the ear of Mr. Parker, chairman of the streets committee of the city council, and urge him to see to it that some street leading to the entrance to the canyon bo placid In good :shape. It v as also sugc-sted that a fence on thi; river side of the dngway at the pi. trance to the canyon, this ride of tho Sanitarium, be built so as to avoid accidents. Madson Soys Roads Will Be O. K. While Hie automobiM it? wore lu siTsion, County Commissioner Mad-son Mad-son telephoned that the ran you roa 1 would be place in propor rendition for tho reception of the de'.fgptes t' the good ro;ids couven'lon: tiint the shale now bring placed on th ; boulevard boule-vard would be properly crashed and rolled and sprinkled, ani that he thought there would be no question but what Road Commissioner Cnllds would sees to it that tb roadway to Hi- Utah Hot Springs would bo pk'c- |