The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-18
To MEET SOON AND
DECIDE ON ROUTES
PeII City Determined 10 Be on
Official Trip
LETTER FROM Mr.. TILloN
Commissioners Have Already Agreed
to Fix Bad Stretch of Road and
Admission is Going to Pull
for South Route.

The board of governors of the Birmlng-
ham Motor club will probably meet
Wednesday or Thursday of this week to
consider the data gathered by the path
finders tour to Atlanta and Chattanooga,
that 1t may be tabulated and the best
routes selected; and steps taken to have
guide posts located along the route.
At this meeting it is probable that a
very urgent invitation will be rendered
Montgomery to start her pathfinders for
a good road to Birmingham, offering 10
meet them half way and entertain them
while here.
The club will be called to meet next
week, and will Immediately take up tm
matter of connecting all the principal
cities of the state. 1t is intended 10
push this matter with the utmost zeal
and to stir up the people of every county
IN Alabama.
The result of the recent trip to Atlanta
is becoming more and more evident
every day. Delegations are coming in to
make, further bids for the route. to prom
Use improved roads and offer all kinds of
inducements.
Pell City and the farmers whereabouts
became so enthusiastic that they held a
mass meeting and induced the county
commissioners to appropriate the money
TO complete the chain through their
county. A letter from McLane Tilton,
Jr cashier of the First National bank Of
Pell City, to DR.. ]. E. Dedman, says:
your letter of yesterday noted With
pleasure and interest. | am delighted to
know that you are inclined to favor our
route. Roads being anywhere equal, we
have the other course beaten six UP and
five to go. Admission is strongly with us,
l am advised from letters.
Our meeting Monday was largely at
tended and very enthusiastically unani-
nous for the Cars Gap improvement. We
adopted strong but respectful resolutions
asking that the road from Moody's cross
ing to Trusses' ferry be cherted, graded
and drained forthwith, and l have FIVE
petitions out getting signatures, with over
50 signers already.
1.-THE pressure behind this movement
will be so firm that the commission will
not disregard it, since this division has
over $4,000 still to its credit and no other
roads in our section will have near the
backing We have rallied to this.
Your suggestion as to guide posts has
been acted upon. Within 10 days we
hope to have the trail blazed with index
fingers, distance In miles, direction, etc.
We have strong and active committee
appointed to confer with the bond com
mission and attend to other details.
President Rennie of the cotton mill
here will take his car out with an en-
gineer and we are going to have a map
worked out roughly, printed and distrib-
uted among your members and the clubs
at Admission and Atlanta. This will show
course between Admission and Birming-
ham via Pell City and should be conven-
lent for you in advance of the official
guide.
You may depend upon 1t that We are
going to get what we are after, a per-
feet road from Noodys to Trusses', so
that the rest will be UP to Jefferson and
Talladega and Calhoun The Admission
bunch are game to the core, and I don't
see how Birmingham can afford to give
the two sets the go-by will follow il
you decide on Gadsden and Rome. Then
there Is Cooks Springs to break the
trip with dancing, pool etc. Arriving at
Pell City there is north and south val
ley road 80 miles in length, graded,
drained and cherted, where you can turn
on the high and give your car all she
can carry this side of an explosion"
A letter of the next day states: ST have
a letter from the bond commission say
ing that the resolutions were welcome,
that our money would be apportioned at
once, the apportioners have been chosen,
and the commission will meet with local
committee on date selected at Pell City
for purpose of considering Cars Gap.
After reaching Pell City, you will have a
choice of two routes to Admission, one to
Bagdad and Coral City now nearly COM
pleted, and the other by Seldom or Crop
WELL which are dead sure to be finished"