The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-02-23
/ LARGE CROWD
At The BARBECUE
GIG BOOST is GIVEN TO GOOD
ROAD BY THE MANY
SPEAKERS.
People Were Present From Jackson
willie, Bru runswick, Fernandina and
Various Points Along the Proposed
Automobile Highway.

The good roads meet held yester-
day at Owens Ferry under the au,
spices of the Brunswick Automobile
club was such success that even
the most enthusiastic supporter of
the movement was surprised. In all
there must have been 250 people at
Owens Ferry and they came Ey every
possible means of transit. From
brunswick II automobiles with about
rs people, Jacksonville sent over a
dozen machines with perhaps so, Fer
nandina contributed two autos load
ed to the capacity, while the rest of
the crowd was made up from those
who went from here on the steamer
Atlantic, came to Owens Ferry by
rail and drove in from the surround
ing country. The day was an unusu-
ally cold one, which kept numter
of local machines from making the
trip. and which initiated generally
against the success of the meeting, so
far as numbers were concerned.
In the Brunswick party there was
almost the entire membership of the
Brunswick Auto club, three or four
members of the county commission
-ers, representatives of the press, etc.
The party left the city at g.: 80 o'clock,
headed by the handsome Oldsmobile
of President Brown, of the local or
ganization. The run to the Ferry
was without mishap of note and was
made in about two hours and thirty
minutes. The 1S machines travelled
about 40 or so yards apart, present
ing a very pretty picture as they left
the city, and in the same order they
interested spectators all along the
run to. Owens Ferry.
The Brunswick party arrived short
sy before II o'clock, followed in pret-
ty good time by the machines from
Fernandina and Jacksonville. Then
there came an influx of guests from
the steamer Atlantic, Thy team, etc,
until the ordinarily quiet Owens
Ferry took on the appearance of a
real busy spot
The time passed quickly and at 1
O'Clock President Brown. of the Bruins
wick Auto club, announced that
dinner was ready to be served The
guests did not waste time in answer
Ing the call and the spread was real
~ "a treat consisting of barbecued
mutton, pork and beef, together with
the little incidentals that make such
- ,ays stof> xsys4 y,
the real business of the occasion was
entered into. President Brown made
the leading talk of the day and it was
a good one, which was in part as fol
lows:
''Gentlemen-This assemblage is in
deed fitting testimonial of the inter-
est taken at this time. fgs the most
progressive element of the most pro-
gressive section of this country. Half
n century ago the pioneers of devel-
opment of this territory were discuss.
ing and formulating plans for the link
ing of this undeveloped wilderness to
the north, east and west with bands
OF steel; today we find progressive
element likewise endeavoring to unite
this territory to the more populously
favored but less fertile section by pub
Tic highways. In this great country,
where the march of progress has been
one forced campaign of accomplish
meant, the slightest cessation or halt
overruns each section with an idle
class. Such a condition we are expe-
riencing today in the United States.
1t is our duty and destiny to heat out
our own fortunes on the anvil OF
time. When the strokes of progress
ce9 the anvil grows cold and re-
quires additional and more concen-
trated effort to the welding of ties
after such a cessation. There is no
better plan for the employment of
the idle than for this government to
devote its idle forces and finances to
that end. Ancient Rome, in such pc
idle and builded such highways as
have been a standing monument and
an inspiration to all who have come
forward thereafter for that purpose
The railroads, constructed years ago
skirted the fringe of the cloth, so tc
speak. along the margin, of the marsh
'es, with first consideration of the to
biography of the country with the idea
sof minimizing the cost Of construction