The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1909-01-23
GOOD ROADS
FEVER IS
CONTAGIOUS.
1t Is Rapidly Spreading Through
out The Length and Breadth
Of Florida.
ALL RAD|ATE FROM DAYTONA.
ALL RADIATE FROM DAYTONA.

Never before in the history of Florida
has there been so widespread interest
and so genuine clamor for good roads
in Florida. Daytonians may well feel
chesty over the agitation. She may take
credit for the movement for better roads
for this city was the pioneer in the good
roads movement. The most charming
speedways in all Florida are to be found
radiating from this city and other Flor
ida cities have taken cognizance of this
fact and on all sides are expressing a
. wish to reach out and connect with Day
tomas outstretched arms.
The suhjoined clipping from the
Times Union of January 18th was sent
the Gazette News by John Anderson
manager of the Hotel Alcazar, St. Au-
gustine, who is good roads enthusiast,
and the credit for the good roads in Yo-
lusia county is due in no small degree
direction:
"Nolusia is better roadmaker than
either Duval or St Johns and she is not
hiding her light under bushel. The ad-
vice to automobiles to ship their cars
to DeLand and drive through Volusia to
Daytona is worth the cost of a big adj
vertisement already; if the route holds
good for five years it will plant line of
settlers across the backbone of the coun-
try and divert lot of capital to that
section. This bit of experience already
proves that good road is a good in
veStment."
The West Palm Beach Tropical Sun
has long article on the importance of a
hard surfaced road from Jacksonville to
Miami via St. Augustine, Daytona, New
Smyrna. Titusville, etc. Among other
things the Sun said:
"The good roads question in Florida
is being thoroughly agitated, and there
will evidently be no halt until the road
froIn Miami to Jacksonville is COM
pleted. In St. Johns county an active
interest is now created toward the COM
pletion of the highway from t. Angus
tine to Jacksonville. The members Of
the Board of County Commissioners of
ST. Johns county. together with party
of good roads advocates. made the trip
from Jacksonville to ST. Augustine on
Saturday Arriving at the Hotel AL
cazar in the latter city shortly after 5
O'Clock
"The party were very enthusiastic
over the trip, and fully determined that
this stretch of highway must and will
receive immediate attention, and it is
quite evident that hard-road highway
will be completed between these two
important cities at an early date"
In an article on good roads the Ocala
Banner among many other things says:
The best suggestion that we have
heard was recently made by James l..
Knight He said that if an automobile
road was built direct from Ocala to
Daytona we would have the tourists
here bv the hundreds every winter, and
We believe that he is correct. The drive
could be made in three hours The at
fractions in this section are not sur
passed by any in the State. The face
of the country is SO entirely different
from that along the seashore; our com.
paratively high hills and beautiful ham
mock woods would be quite fetching
Silver Springs, Lake Weir, Orange Lake
and our phosphate mining would all
prove good drawing cards With this
road built and the erection of one OF
two modernly equipped hotels We be-
lieve that this section could be made as
popular resort for winter tourists a:
the East Coast is now. But We must be
up and doing. The spider never sit.
down to catch the flies until he spread:
his web"
This and lot of similar talk is in
dulged in daily by Floridians and b,
the Florida press, all of which not onl,
shows that all Florida has her eye OF
Daytona and that Daytona and he
beach and roads get deal of advertiS
ing, both by word of mouth, by lette
and through the press
Let 'em talk and in the meantime lie
Daytona put her roads in tip-top shap
and keep them SO