Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-30
More Substantial Business
Men Pronounce Project a
Tremendous Forward Step
for the South.

II has caught on The good roads con-
test and automobile reliability run that
The Atlanta Journal and the New York
Herald started last Sunday has been
taken up with a whoop of enthusiasm on
all sides. TITS the greatest thing on rec
ord they all say. There's no dream about
IT, The contest is as certain now as
the coming of the month itself in which
II will be held.
simultaneously in New York and Allan
Ia the spotlights were thrown on the
mammoth project by the two big papers
that stand behind it. First there was
gasp of establishment. People rubbed
their eyes when they read their sunday
morning papers.
Great guns!" they said. Can this
thing be possible?"
Then they read on through. dgesting
one after another of the thoroughly
worked-ouu details.
''Possible?" the repeated. ''Of course it
is. Why hasn't somebody thought of II
before? Not only is is possible. It's GER
tain. It's going to be. There's nothing
chimerical about it. It's solid all the way
through"
So said good roads enthusiast and auto
mobilist So said manufacturer and idi-
vidual owner So said everybody. There
has been no project launched in the his
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spontaneous support as has this one for
the good roads contest and reliability
run. Everybody is lined up behind it.
Monday afternoon The Journal pub
lished half dozen stirring Endorsements
of the contest, from Governor Smith,
Mayor Maddox, and others. special
dispatch from New York brought other
Endorsements from prominent automobile
authorities there, showing that as the
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gripped New York.
A New Note Sounded
Tuesday The Journal is publishing
other enthusiastic endorsements Of the
big scheme, uttered during the morning
by a few OF Atlanta's most prominent
men. Beaumont Davidson, Of Dawson,
Paxon and Stokes, strikes a new note that
will ring through the whole project
hencoforth-the advisAbiiity and feasibil-
ity of securing national aid in the con-
struction of the great north and south
highway which the contest calls for. Mr..
Dawson speaks as an authority on the
subject for he gave the project of ma.
tional highway to Washington and New
York some deep study a few months ago.
Others who have talked about the con-
test. Tuesday, are r. E. O'Donnelly, OF
the Kelly company, an automobile enthu-
siast and a business man combined,
who sees the matter from two view
points; Morris Rich, of M Rich Brothers
company; Henry S. Johnson, of Chamber
Observation-Disclosures company; Preston
Arkwright, president of the Georgia Rail-
way and Electric company; Forrest
Adair, the real estate man; Colonel w.
l.. Peel, president of the American Ma
tional bank; Charles I. Ryan, cashier OF
the Fourth National bank; c. A. Wood,
one of the owners of the Piedmont hotel,
and w. r. McClelland, president Of ]. Nj.
High company. All these talk as busi-
ness men who foresee the development
that will come to the south through the
great highway, and the importance that
IL bears to Atlanta bupsiness interests,
and as automobilists who hail the run az
one of the most tremendous automobile
events in the history o. the nation.