Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-22
MANY FLORIDA TEAMS WILL
JOIN GREAT GLIDDEN TOUR
Jacksonville May Enter Is 20 This Week Numerous FIo
da Towns Are Organizing Teams and Roads Are Being
Whipped Into Shape to Prepare for Tour

OF eighteen miles of roadway to the coun-
ty line within an apparently impractic-
able time limit, stands at the head of the
list
Contractors who are to construct the
roadway have three big gangs Of men
at work at both ends and in the mid
die of the stretch. They. are giving a
demonstration of speedy road building
that would be revelation to many road
engineers. Members of the local COM
mittee, who at first expressed some doubt
as to the ability of the contractors to
finish the work in time, are now con-
WINGED that the undertaking Will be
completed well in advance OF the date
Of the start from New York on Oc-
tober IA. The company which has the
contract for the completion OF three
miles of brick paving on the roadway
from the city limits, though not COM
PEELED to do so under the terms OF
their agreement with the commissioners,
have announced that they will begin at
once with extra crews and have their
part of the road completed by the time
the resurfacing Of the other long stretch
is finished.
Other Florida counties along the route
of the highway are not sitting idly by.
Counties that are not on the highway
lance of constructing latterals, and
these, too. Will probably be completed
by the time the tourists reach the land
of flowers. The coming of the tour and
the agitation along the route OF The
Journal-Herald highway has done much
to open the eyes Of the county officials,
the public in general. and business men
in particular as to the enormous bene-
fits to be derived from the construction
of roadways that make practical the
use OF motor vehicles both as a means
of transportation of passengers and for
the marketing of farm products and
delivery of goods to industrial settle
ments.
OFFICIALS ARE PLEASED.
Officials of the State Good Roads as
ISOLATION are highly gratified. The vast
benefits of the tour which directly In
terest our citizens are already strongly
manifest" said F. o. Miller, secretary
of the State Good Roads association
"F'lorida's farm products are largely of
a perishable nature, and quick means Of
marketing furnished by good roads and
motor trucks means a big saving to the
agriculture al and fruit interests of the
state in the course Of a years time.
Quick action followed the selection of
Jacksonville as the southern terminus
among the counties along the route. but
members of our association write that
the same influence is being felt in a
less degree in the remotest parts of
Florida"
State dealers in automobiles declare
that there has never been such inter-
est in any event throughout the state
as there is already in the Glidden tour.
One dealer who has just returned from
visit to the factory which manufactures
his machines said that he received two
orders by telegraph while away from
Florida entries for machines to be de-
livered and ready to run at New York
not later than the first OF October.
Several other auto men have recently
returned from visits to the factories
they represent. They declare that there
is more interest throughout the middle
west In the present tour than there has
been in any tour for years. They be-
lieve that some OF the western cities
will be represented by as many as four
or i've teams.