The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
BIG MOVEMENT FOR
 ROADS IN GEORGIA
Numerous Prizes Offered for
 Best Highways
PLAN ID BEAT WOODWARD
Steps Taken to Allow Mayor Maddox to Succeed Himself-Woodward Building His Political
 Machine.

Atlanta, May Special )-There is more talk in Atlanta just now about automobile endurance contests as a stimulus to good roads building per haps than any other subject.
 Automobilsts and business men gen orally are enth usiastic over these pro jects.
 One Of them backed by the Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald, con- templates an automobile endurance con- test from New York to Atlanta, with prizes of money and plate offered both to the machines and to those communi ties furnishing the best roads. A scout car was recently sent out over the route proposed, and the arrangements are being rapidly made.
 The other project, backed by the Constitution, is confined to Georgia, and the encouragement of good roads con- struction within the state.
 It Is the latter project which, natur ally appeals most strongly to Geor- gia communities, though both are warmly advocated. The fact that the counties of the state are working to- geather for the construction of sub stantially built roads crossing the state in all directions, has stimulated a community interest growing out of a desire to have this or that important highway pass through certain towns and cities.
 Albany, Ga. for instance, wants to be upon a roadway extending from Alt lanta down to the line of western Florida, and with a view to keeping in the forefront of the agitation and get ting all there is out of it, has offered prizes of 5000 for automobile endurance contests and good roads. This sum was contributed by various interests, the city giving part, the Automobile club part and citizens a part.
 Similarly, Fitzgerald wants a road from the northern part of the state reaching the Florida line and has given another prize of 5000 contributed in much the same way and for the same purpose.
 There has been general and favorable comment in Atlanta upon the action of the Savannah Morning News in offer ing a single prize of $500 for an au- omobile endurance contest from Sa- vannah to Atlanta, to be run under the auspices of the Savannah Automo- bile club. The enterprise of the Morn ing New, and its well known efforts in behalf of good roads, have been warm ly commended here, and particularly so in automobile circles, wherel the inter- est in the coming events is most keen.
 The Fitzgerald automobilists are pre- pairing to make big test run to Ma con, for which purpose six large tour ing cars will leave that city Monday morning at 730 o'clock, reaching Ma con in the afternoon. In this party will be Mayor Knapp and a number of prominent citizens of that place.
 At Macon the Fitzgerald party will be met by a similar party which will leave this city Monday morning, and will include President Asa G. Candler of the chamber of commerce, President F. H. Inman of the Fulton County Au tomobile club and many others. A con ference will be held when the two parties meet in Macon.
 From this time on the official path finder for the contests will be busy. There are routes to be planned in all directions and reaching practically every city in the state.
 Although these contests will not take place until November, there will be something doing pretty nearly all the time, and no lack of incidents and events to keep alive the interest which is growing.
 The six months interval, too, will give splendid opportunity for road building in those counties through which the various routes will pass and which will enter the competition for the prizes offered in this connection.
 Most of the Georgia counties are now well equipped for road building and they are pushing the work In many of them for all it is worth.