The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-06-14
GIVES A BOOST
To GOOD ROADS
IN THIS STATE
PRESIDENT OF JACKSONVILLE
AUTO CLUB PRAISES THE
ROADS IN GEORGIA..
Recent Run to Savannah Showed
the jacksonville Men How the
Country Roads Can Be Improved
Very Easily,

The Jacksonville Metropolis OF
yesterday contained tie following in
teresting article anent the recent
auto run:
Georgia can teach the people of
Florida great many things about
road tuilding.
That was the sum and substance of
the remarks of President W. M. Stin-
son, of the jacksonville Automobile
Club, this morning. President Stinson
with other members of the jack
conville party, returned from the trip
to Savannah on Saturday night.
Hard surfaced roads are all right
sand DR.. Stinson, "and we want just
as many of them as we can get, but
ell roads can't be hard surfaced, we
known that. So does Georgia, and
the crdinary country roads there will
allow one to speed along in his auto
mobile at as good as twenty miles
an hour. You couldn't do that on
the country roads of Florida.
Too Little Attention.
THE whole trouble is that in our
only of the principal thorughfares
which we know must be hard surfac-
ed, and gave too little attention to
the ordinary country road which can
be made into good road even with
out any sort of surfacing. These
roads in Georgia, of which I speak,
are just ordinary Gand roads, the
same as we have here in Florida,
but the stumps and rcots nave been
dug out and the road rounded up
fully three feet above the surround
ing land. bitches sufficient to carry
off the water have been constructed
alongside until the sand road is made
into a long straight turnpipe over
which we glided as easily as upon
the paved streets of the city. TIE
rains of the last few days had packed
the sand and the going was almost as
smooth as upon the sands OF an ocean
beach.
what wonders could be worked
with our own roads rigAt here in
Florida and Duyal county, If we
would but try tbs same method
Callahan to Kings Ferry.
Dr.. Stinson is a good roads enthus-
last, and the trip to Georgia, he says.
has taught him tha. Florida can take
some less rs from her neig3boring
state,
"The worst part of the road be-
tween this city and Savannah, says
and Kings Ferry, a distance OF
about twenty miles. But for this
stretch of road the entire journey
to Savannah is Ger fairly good roads.
"The great drawback to the Sa-
yannal trip, just at present" contin-
Mr.. Stinson, ''is the trip ~ lighter
frcm Dents Landing to DTien, Ga
Between these two places is q great
stretch of rice fields through which
runs a canal connecting the two
streams Of water in order to give wa
ter for the rice fields. There is no
roadway across these rice fields ana
a long Journey has to be made 0y
lighter around through the canel.
Within the next year this VIII oe
eliminated with a roadway and trestle
work through these rice fields and
then it will be less than days run
to SAVANNAH. In fact the roip could
be made now if there was ~ tro"N''
in the canal such as we have had
on the return trip. Four cars amonS
them by own were on the lighter
when it stuck in TIE mud owing to
the fact that the tide was lew. We
were conn elled TO wait several ho"TS
for the tide to rise before we could
continue on the journey. We amused
ourselves with listening to the songs
>of the rice field negroes and i'll toss
ing them watermelons : goodly ssp-
ply Of witch were brought from
Darien.