. Public works . cDonald, state highwayengineer of Iowa; James H. MacDon-ald, formerly state highway commis-sioner of Connecticut, and S. D. Foster,chief engineer, Pennsylvania StateHighway Department. The sixth annual Good Roads showheld in conjunction with the eleventhannual convention of the AmericanRoad Builders Association was form-ally declared open at 8 oclock on De-cember 15th, by president W. A. Mc-Lean, at the International Amphithea-tre, Chicago, 111. The evening session was held underthe auspices of the Association of Chicago and CookCounty, with W. G. Edens, pre
. Public works . cDonald, state highwayengineer of Iowa; James H. MacDon-ald, formerly state highway commis-sioner of Connecticut, and S. D. Foster,chief engineer, Pennsylvania StateHighway Department. The sixth annual Good Roads showheld in conjunction with the eleventhannual convention of the AmericanRoad Builders Association was form-ally declared open at 8 oclock on De-cember 15th, by president W. A. Mc-Lean, at the International Amphithea-tre, Chicago, 111. The evening session was held underthe auspices of the Association of Chicago and CookCounty, with W. G. Edens, president,presiding. Among the speakers wereHon. Carter H. Harrison, mayor ofChicago: A. D. Gash, Nelson P. G. Edens, Peter Reinberg, presi-dent Cook County J. Tice and R. J. Finnegan. At the Wednesday forenoon meetingthree important papers were presented:Road and Pavement Dimensions—Widths, Depths and Crown, was readby the author, Linn White, chief en-gineer of the Board of South Park. SAMPLE PAVEMENT SURROUNDING PARK. 934 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL Vol. XXXVII, No. 26 Commissioners, Chicago. Mr. Whitespaper was discussed by A. R. Hirst,who described the practice in Wiscon-sin in regard to the width, depth andcrown of roads. James H. practice in Connecticut andtouching briefly upon European roadwork. Road Foundations—Concrete, Tel-ford, Gravel, etc., was then presentedby J. A. Johnson, MassachusettsHighway Commission, and discussedby Robert C. Terrell, commissioner ofpublic roads of Kentucky, who took upthe question from the viewpoint of theengineer working in the South wherethe conditions governing foundationwork differ greatly from those obtain-ing in the North; C. A. Kenyon, presi-dent of the Indiana Good Roads Asso-ciation; F. E. Ellis, manager of theEssex Trap Rock & Construction Peabodj, Mass.; Mr. Johnston, LinnWhite and H. W. Durham, chief en-gineer of the Bureau of Highways,Borough of Manhattan. New Y. The third
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