Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-28
JOURNAL SCOUT CAR
ARRIVES At TOCCOA
Had Night of Adventure Among
Red Clay Hills and the Lady,
rinthal Roads in Vicinity Of
Cornelia.

| OOTu6I1ds
| ToCCOA. Ca, May 26.-At 10:40 o'clock
| Wednesday morning The Journal scout
| car. Lamar's Oldsmobile, arrived here
| from Cornelia wearing her mud chains
! and still more completely covered with
! sion from the roads down Dicks hill and
/ Currahee mountain.
On the Currahee the car was caught IN
a mountain rainstorm that left the roads
/ the rest of the way to town, more than
five miles, in fierce condition.
Nearly all of the road from the base of
! Currabee has been recently worked and
| Is 80 deep that teams and buggies have
not been able to use it for week, out
! the gigantic wheels of the big Olds clear
ed II all and brought the car here from
; Cornelia. seventeen miles, in one hour ana
| ffty-three minutes.
J TOCCOA WAS WAITING.
Toccoas people were talking with Cor
nelia trying to locate the car, when II
arrived Unexpectedly among them A
number of them, headed by Mr.. Glen
! Davis, who showed the previous scout
! party many courtesies, have pressed The
Journal party to stay over for the day.
| or at least for luncheon.
! Mr.. Davis will go with the car out OF
here over the rough road down Whiting
Gap to CARROTS bridge and on to West
| minister This part of Georgia is alive
! with enthusiasm over The Journal-Herald
highway
GOOD ROADS MEETING.
The meeting last Monday night OF HAD
ersham county with the Corneiia boaro
of trade has stirred Habersham. Another
meeting, a convention of all the counties
Immediately interested in the road
through this section has been called for
! next Monday night in Cornelia, Haber-
sham, Stephens, Hall, Gwinnett and JACK
son counties will be represented, the lat
/ ter two to consider an alternate route
from Cornelia straight through between
Maysville and Gillville by an excellent
| wide road to LawrenceVlhe on tne
southern route.
! AT Cornelia nothing would be accepted
for any of the entertainment that The
Journal party received in Cornella. Man
ager Grant, proprietor of the Grant MOTEL
famed for it's chicken pie, Informed the
party that everything was on Corneha
The committee of eight would not even
hear of thanks for the courtesy. me
committee escorted the party to the coun-
~ line and l.. +. MaXwel came WIN IL
on to Toccoa.
J ARRIVES In CORNELIA
! At 1890 o'clock this morning
after night of adventure among
the red clay hills and labyrinthal
roads of this section. The Journals north
bound car going to meet the New YORK
Heralds southbound scout, arrived IN
Cornelia, little more than twenty miles
short of its schedule If it had left Atlanta
at the same time that the Herald car leIt
/ New York. The latter had gotten away
from Herald Square at 10 o'clock Tues
day morning, seven hours and forty min
utes ahead of The Journal car.
| Probably no automobile that ever rolled
a wheel had harder initiation than II. j.
I,amar's Oldsmobile, The Journal car, mad
Tuesday on the first day of its travels
ITnloaded Tuesday noon from the freight
car that had brought 1t from the factory
by the time the sun set on the same day
the magnificent giant automobile was
| fighting the hills of north Georgia. When
It came to it's final stop at Cornelia, just
after midnight, it was no longer new
car. 1t was covered with mud and glory.
| IT had made a century run and more In
the first day of it's active life.
Between Flowery Branch and Gaines
VILE, The Journal party discovered an
! excellent road. This Is known as the
Lawrenceville road. 1t follows ridge
very consistently for several miles, and
moreover helped to shave the distance to
Gainesville from Atlanta by some four
| become an important factor in the con-
sideration of this north" route.
From Gainesville to Lula, too, another
| road than that travelled by The Journals
first scout was followed, but was found
to be impossible from the standpoint Of
The Journal Herald highway.
wednesday, The Journal party will con-
! iinue on the north route, expecting to
pass through Greenville and reach Spar
tanburg s. c. in time to spend the night
| there.
CORNELIA PREPARED WELCOME.
A number of Corneria citizens were
waiting to go down to Gainesville, Tues
day afternoon, to meet The Journal car
and escort it to their town, but. probably
| on account of the late start made by the
car, they understood that it would not
try to come through that day. At a late
| hour, not being able to find II anywhere
along the route from Atlanta, they gave
it up. Wednesday morning they found it
among them in Cornelia.
A committee named at meeting, Mon
day night of the board of trade and the
| citizens of the town and county, waited
upon The Journal party at the hotel -
Law the claims of this section before II
for the big highway. They were L. +.
| Maxwell G. W. Hill, ]. w. Peyton, Will
liam Eberhardt. J. E. Barr, j. L. Perkins,
DR.. q. W. Shirley, mayor, and ]. c. RudI-
! sill and e. B. Irwin. These gentlemen
accompanied The Journal party to the
Stephens county territory, turning them
ever TO the citizens of Toccoa.
MAJOR LAMAR'S GOOD DRIVING
Mr. Lamar, the sportsman and automo-
bilist who is driving the mogul Odds, his
| own car, has demonstrated an unmistak-
able ability to manipulate county roads,
! and that with a car new from the fac
tory The big 42-inch wheels of the Odds
mobile. which give II the appearance Of a
| veritable locomotive without a track,
have followed a safe and rapid trail thus
far under his hand. over good and bad
roads some of which are exceedingly
| heavy from recent damp weather.
| They have scorned mud holes and ruts
that would conquer smaller wheels, and
they have, during some six hours of actual
running time over all sorts of road, kept
! the big car averaging about 20 miles an
| hour.
! In the car are Mr.. Lamar, its owner;
| Nx-o1ta, Of Macon advance apant