The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-10
A BIG GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT
To the Editor Ocala Banner:

Wednesday, OecemDef OIL, - %nS
date, and Fort Pierce the place for
the biggest good roads rally the east
coast of Florida has ever seen. The
meeting will begin in the afternoon
and continue through the evening. Lo-
gan Waller Page, director of roads,
U. S. department of agriculture, and
Secretary Elliott of the touring club
Of America, two of the best known
good roads experts of the country,
will be the chief speakers.
The details were outlined to the
good roads committee of the Jackson
vile board of trade Wednesday after
noon by Chairman Claude Nolan, of
the special committee named to con-
slider the arrangements for the rally.
Mr.. Nolan and his committee were
continued in charge of the arrange
ments for the meeting. The other
members are DR.. w. NJ Stinson and
r. L. Boyd.
The main purpose of the meeting is
to get plans for the MontreaIto- Miami
highway in definite shape for work.
a number of automobiles loaded with
good roads enthusiasts from Jackson
vile will leave Tuesday morning, and
will reach Fort Pierce Wednesday
about noon. simultaneously a party
will leave Miami for the run north
ward, gathering up delegations along
the way. At st. Augustine, the Jack
sonville delegation will be Joined by
a number of motorists and good roads
enthusiasts from the st. Johns coun-
~ organization, and at each town
down the way additional cars will be
picked up.
Chairman Nolan and his committee.
men have not yet agreed upon the
place where Tuesday night will be
spent, but it is likely to be Titusville.
or some town in that vicinity. The
distance to Fort Pierce from this city
is approximately 200 miles. After
the meeting, on Thursday morning,
the party will leave for the return
trip. Jacksonville will be reached
Friday morning.
The members of the special CON-
mittee will also collect all informa.
ton to be had as to the best routes
for the highway, and submit it to the
convention for oof;0p Noro,o4;4:1-
has arisen at several points, particu-
larly as to the best place for crossing
the st. Lucie river The present road
crosses at Stuart, but many people
from Jensen are urging that the Sew
all's Point road be followed to a point
opposite Port Sewall before the river
is crossed. H. B. Racey of Jensen
was in Jacksonville last week with
maps and data to urge this change
with the committee. Several promi-
nent men from Stuart have written to
Chairman Nolan. 1t is stated that
the committee will merely collect in
formation to be laid before the meet
ing. The convention will recommend
whichever route appears to be he
most favorable.
The good roads committee of the
board of trade took up the plans for
the rally several weeks ago, but the
matter has been delayed pending the
return of Mr.. Nolan, who is distribu-
tor for the Cadillac automobile, and
had number of entries in the Gid
den tour to look after, and DR.. Stin-
son, who had his Cadillac machine in
the tour. Mr.. Boyd is the manager
for the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany at Jacksonville. All three COM
mitteemen are among the most en-
thusiastic good roads advocates in
this section of Florida and have con-
tributed much time to the cause.
December 9Th was selected as the
date of the meeting because of the
fact that Messrs. Page and Elliott
will be in Jacksonville for a week
about that time. They will speak at
several good roads rallies to be held
in this immediate section. One of
these will be meeting to be arrang-
ed for some point on the Nassau riv-
er, at which the counties of Nassau
and Duval will be asked to get to-
gether and agree upon the early COM
pletion of the road to Fernandina.
The date of this meeting is to be
Saturday December 2. Judge H. B.
Phillips and ]. H. Williams will scout
the road and select the meeting place.
An oyster bake will be feature.
| ALVIN ROBERTS.
COLDS VANISH