Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-18
WILL BRING TOURISTS
BY AMERICUS ROUTE
Not Discouraged By Highway
Committees Choice


err route than that traversing Ameri-
Gus had been chosen for the National
Highway, naturally caused some dis
appointment here, the consensus of
opinion is that Americas, Sumter
county and Andersonville will in real
ity make this the route that will be
Il os, travelled.
The mere selection of the so-called
central route by the authorities IN
charge will not in any way injure this
city, county or section. The route
through Sumter county is the most
logical and most attractive route, and
the tourists will naturally follow it.
With the end in view and the de-
termination that the discrimination
against this city and section shall
serve only to aid in advertising and
developing this section rather than in
hurting it, the Board Of Trade and
the county officials will take immediate
steps AS soon as the road from
the Sumter line to Oglethorpe and
that from Smithrille to Leesburg shall
have been completed, the county au-
thorities concerned in each instance
having agreed to complete this work
within few months, the road from
Macon TO Jacksonville, via Americas,
will be Incompatible There will ne
no douJt about the tourists coming
this way.
Mr. Crawford Wheatley, president
of the Board of Trade, voiced his
sentiments concerning the National
Highway announcement in the follow
ing interview:
81 am greatly disappointed that
the loss of the National Highway. I
could probably diagnose the cause Of
this loss without holding a postmor-
tenn examination, but it would be use
less to do so.
what is now necessary is to make
the best of a bad situation. We must
perfect the road from Macon, Ga, to
Madison, Fla, via Americas, and in
conjunction with the cities along this
route place sign boards advertising
the beauties and advantages of this
route in preference to the one Sc
lected by the Journal-Herald commit
tee.
Permission, no doubt, can be OBJ
tanned from the commissioners Of
Houston county to place a large adver-
tisement at the point where the Fort
Valley road DIVORCES from the road
leading to Perry, and many tourists
can undoubtedly be turned this way
1t is time for concerted action along
tAis line. More work and less talk
WI surely produce the desired re-
suit"
Mr. Clarence ]. White, secretary Of
the Board of Trade, yesterday gave
the following interview to the Times
Recorder relative to the highway via
Americas:
Il naturally feel disappointed and
a little sore over the decision of the
Journal scouts, but am not surprised
because of intimations that l have
seen in the last few days from relia-
bic sources.
Il was under the impression, this
impression being gained from con-
versation with the scouts, that the
main considerations in the selection
of the route would be good roads and
hotel accommodations. A few miles
distance makes no difference if they
have the roads and our route has the
best roads of all the routes. This,
| thought, was what the scouts were
out to determine, and l did not think
they were surveying to locate a short
line from Macon to Jacksonville That
could have been done by following
the line of the G. s. and F. railroad
as they have done, without all the
work.
Il also feel that some recognition
was in order for the valuable SER
vices that have been rendered the good
roads movement by Sumter and other
progressive counties in Southwest