Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-22
MANY WILL ATTEND
new ROUTE MEETING
II viii Convene in Albany
Next Tuesday

The local Board of Trade has issued
call to all citizens of Americas and
Sumter county, urging their attend
ance at the meeting at II O'Clock OF
next Tuesday, April II, at Albany,
when officials and representatives
from all the counties along the pro-
posed new route from Atlanta to Tam
pa, via Americus, will assemble for
the purpose of definitely organizing
the movement to secure that route.
While the route is not definitely ar
ranged yet, it will likely include all
of the following nearby towns and
cities: Fort Valley, Montezuma,
Americas, Leesburg, Albany and 9TH
ers. The Board of Trade is very
anxious to have a full delegation to
attend the Albany meeting and urges
everybody that possibly can to lay
aside business matters for a day and
give that day to the work of boosting
the new route.
Sumter county has been the pion-
eer county in good roads building in
this section of the state, and now Sum-
ter is called upon to show the other
counties of this section that it is still
in the lead in promoting good roads.
There will be a baseball game in Al
bany next Tuesday, so that the trip
can be made enjoyable. Plains, Leslie,
DeSoto and other towns in the coun-
ty are requested to send delegations
to Albany and to help in the move
ment
The fertile lands of Sumter, with
their famed pecan orchards, peach
orchards and other fruit crops should
fom one of the most prominent of the
inviting features that the new route
offers to tourists Certainly Sumter
county will have unlimited attractions
in point of good roads and other ad-
vantages for all who care to come
this way.
In taking up the consideration of
the route, The Atlanta Constitution
said in part:
An interstate highway, Atlanta to
Tampa, is proposed by good roads adj
vocates Of counties in direct line be-
tween the two cities, and will be the
subject of an enthusiastic and inn
portant meeting which will be held at
Albany Ga, next Tuesday, April %,
at II o'clock, noon.
All along the proposed route the
greatest enthusiasm now prevails, and
it is said the meeting at Albany will
be one of the largest and most repre-
sentative good roads meetings yet
held in the state.
This meeting. it is stated by par
ties interested, who were in Atlanta
Thursday, will formally request The
Constitution to make this interstate
Atlanta-Tampa highway the route of
it's regular fall tour
Mr.. H. W. Bedingfield, secretary Of
the Chamber of Commerce of Monte
zuma, who was among those who
placed the matter before the Consti-
tuition, spoke as follows:
eve are anxious to have The Con-
stitntion take up this route for its fall
tour, and we feel satisfied if it gets
behind the movement it will be pushed
through to quick success.
"pat of the route is precisely that
which was followed by The ConstitI-
tons Around-the-State Tour last
fall---he section from Atlanta to
Thomasyille, and as pointed out, the
roads are in good shape as result Of
that tour"
Mr. Bedipgfeld said there have been
several suggestions for a name, such
as Capital to Capital Poute," since it
includes Atlanta and Tallahassee; then
there is the Fruit Belt Route" and
there have been others.
1t will traverse the rich fruit sec
ton Of Georgia, will pass through An
derscnvillc, famous in national his
tory, through the famous pecan sec
ton, and on to Florida, the land Of
flowers 1t is a route which, as Mr..
Beding1eld stated, would unquestion-
ably be the most popular one through
out the winter, as well as in other
seasons.