The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-06-27
NATEGNAL HIGHWAY is
NEAR.
INFLUENTIAL MEN FROM WEST AND EAST
At WORK.

Practical work has at last been be-
gun toward the construction of ma
tional highway across the continent.
On Monday night there was organized
at the Bar Association, Al West For
,y-ioarth street, the New York and
Chicago Road Association, the pur-
pose of which is TO effect The construc-
lion of broad, smooth surfaced road
between the two cities.
A national highway from the Allan
tic to the Pacific has been urged for
years by prominent statesmen and
good roads advocates, but this organi-
zativn has plans that promise to yield
results at least between the two cities
named and that will be the first and
most important step toward the final
realization of the much desired road
from coast to coast.
The officers OF the Association that
were elected had al! been canvassed,
and for couple of months the prelim-
mary work of organization has been in
progress East and West. The officers
are Col. Albert A. Pope, Boston, pres
ident; John B. Uhle, president of the
Highway Alliance, first vice-president;
L. G. Boardman, New York, second
vice president W. L. Dickinson,
Springfield, Mass, treasurer; A. II.
Beatty, New York, secretary.
The road now commonly used in
travelling to Chicago, by way of Alba
ny, Buffalo and the lake shores, Is 9S7
miles long. The proposed route is
$50 miles long and of this distance
about 400 miles is now represented by
existing good roads.
The practical character of the under
taking is the plan adopted to form To-
cal organizations to build the connect
inr links in the sections where the
gaps occur, and this work is to be be-
gun at once. The assurances Of CO.
operation from counties and towns now
in hand are such that tentative route
Was laid out, but is subject to vara-
tion when county or tow nship may
choose to undertake the cost of build
ing the highway through its limits i'll
order to I've on the national highway,
which some are willing to do. The
course will not, however, be sufficient
ly detected to cause any serious in
crease of the distance
The route adopted is as follows: 1t
starts from Fort Lee, \. j. runs back
of tie Palisades to Newburg, then to
Bing hamton, 10 Eimira, Corning,
Olean and Jaulcoluwn, thence to Con
neaut, Ohio, near the boundary line
between New York and the Buckeye
State, then on through Ohio by way
of Cleveland, Elyria and Sandusky,
across Northern Indiana by way of
Goshen, South Bend and Hammond,
and from there into Chicago.
A convention has been called for
July Is at Atlantic City, which is du-
ring the week of the L. A. W. meet
there, at when good roads workers
from everywhere will he invited to
join and assist in the work of local Or
ganization.
This is the most definite and seem
ing!y the most practical step toward
the establishment of a national high
way since the national turnpike from
Washington to St. Louis, that caused
such lot of political squabbling, was
begun in 1926. Vestigcs of this old
road are yet to be found in Maryland
and in Ohio. The Mexican War in
1916 CHECKED the work, and after that
the introduction of railroads put per-
manent damper on it.-Neo York Sun.
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