The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-12
STEVE SMITH IS
 BACK FROM TRIP Thinks southern Route Best to
 Atlanta JOB GOING ALSO RETURNS Thinks Jefferson County Must Now Begin to Build Permanent High ways of Most Approved
 Design.
JOB GOING ALSO RETURNS

Steve Smith and his party returned at midnight from their pathhnding tour in his Buick car after fine trip by Chat tanooga. They made the run from At lanta to Chattanooga in seven and half hours, breaking the previous record of nine hours and 15 minutes, and left Chat tanooga yesterday morning at o'clock.
 "The roads from Atlanta to Chatta- nooga were fine," said MT. Smith, "but our return was often very rough The whole state of Georgia puts it over Alabama like the Fuller liquor bill when it comes to good roads, You can always tell when you are in Alabama, because the roads are bad.
 T was impressed very favorably with the use of convicts on the roads in Geor- gia. They use them in Atlanta and they tell me the system is working fine. No one had any complaint to register and there was no fear of the convicts among the farmers anywhere. The Georgia farmer is better educated and more pros- porous than the average and he is en- thusiastic in his indorsement of all plans for good roads,"
 Asked about the best route to Atlanta, MT. Smith said: 'I believe the best route goes out by Leeds, then to Moodys Cross Roads and to Pel City From Pell City to Anniston we have a. fine road. We then go on to Tallapoosa, and from there to Atlanta the roads are excellent. The advantage of this route Is seen In the fact that only about 20 miles of imperfect road need remedying, and this Is being built now. Then, too, the road lies prac- tically on the railroad all the time."
 MT. Smith thought that the Montgom- cry route should now be blazed, and was enthusiastically in favor of joint cam paign between the two cities.
 Job Going, president of the Board of Revenue, returned from Atlanta yester- day after looking over the roads of Full toc county and was thoroughly impressed with the substantiability of the roads, and the excellent engineering in the work.
 "True. they are building good roads, ,'' he said, land 1t is costing lots of money. They have a small county of only 400 miles of road all told.
 "We've reached the point where every part of Jefferson county Is reached by good roads. Now the thing to do Is to build substantial boulevards-make them wide and well drained
 '"This has got to be done by modern machinery, and the only way to accom- plish 1t in the style they are doing 1t is to vote bond issue. We can't keep our present roads up and build these ey- pensive roads at the same time. I cer- tainly favor fine roads in our county and believe that the bond issue is the only proper way to do 1t.
 T was also impressed with the way the citizenship of Fulton county goes after a thing. The s350,000 for that speed way was contributed by private citizens and any other good cause is supported in the same manner.
 s.No," he said, in reply to a question, i've cannot do anything in road exten. sion for the next few months. We can't stand for registering claims against the county. The money will begin coming in in January, and as we get 1t in hand the desired improvements may go ahead, but until then we will have to hold up.'