Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-14
FLORIDA ROAD QUEST
is ENDED BY SCOUTS
Great Ovation Given Path
finders All Along the Pro-
posed Route of Highway

Shortly after 4 o'clock Monday after
noon The Journal-Herald scouts rolled
to stop in front of The Journal office
in Atlanta. completing their quest of the
national highway extension into Flor
ida. They came unheralded, and an
hour or two earlier than they had been
expected. Their arrival was a surprise
to Atlanta, and significant though it
was of the ending of an important piece
of work, it was as quiet as the coming
of any private party of tourists.
With all the data in hand on the LOO
miles of road they travelled, the scouts
will make their report very soon; and
then nothing will remain but the an
nouncement OF the highway route, and
after that the sign-posting of 1t. OF
course, other readings will have to be
taken, in straightaway direction north
and south, for the highway route book;
but that will be an incidental part of
the finishing work.
The Journal and the New York Her
aid expect TO announce their decision
of the highway route. together, next
Sunday. .G
The run of the scouts on their last
days tour was from Milledgeville to
Atlanta. 81 miles. They passed through
Eatonton, 209 miles; Godfrey, 1913
miles; Pennington. 1873 miles; Brough-
ton, 44.3 miles; Newborn, 46.S miles;
Mansfield. 49.6 miles; Covington, 602
miles; Almon, 64.S miles; Conyers. TIA
miles; Lithonia. 77.7 miles; Ingleside,
$40 miles, and Decatur. ola miles.
DR.. 7. NJ. Hall, of Milledgeville, led
the scouts out of that city. using his
own car to pilot them a couple of miles
on their road to Eatonton. The scouts
he ali al fo
Der of miles. to the point beyond Eaton
ton where they turned away from the
Madison road toward Godfrey. These
signs serve a very useful purpose in
directing tourists along that section. for
there is a great deal of travel through
there between Atlanta and Savannah.
The scouts lunched at Covington,
where they arrived at 1880 o'clock, at
the Flowers hotel There they met
four or the six Newton county commits
sioners, z. L. Almand. the chairman of
the board: DR.. o. L. Holmes. II. ]. Bog
gus and F. d. Billiard. These gentle
men evidenced a close interest in the
national highway movement. and pledg-
ed Newton county not only to remain
staunch under the good roads banner,
but also to do all in it's power for the
national highway If the route to Florida
is laid through there. Mayor George
T. Smith also welcomed the scouts at
covington. where the scouts had the
plea sure of meeting. too, the co-editors
of the Covington News. L. L. Flowers
and J. e. Taylor.
Covington was left behind at las
o'clock Between Conyers and Lithonia,
the former in Rockdale and the latter
in DeKalb county, the scouts found a
sand-clay road second to nothing they
had travelled in Georgia. That road is
six miles long. and is a model of its
kind, worthy the study of every north
Georgia county. 1T is not, however,
being cared for as well as the sand
clay roads of Macon and Sumter and
other South Georgia counties, and will
have to be rebuilt unless its excellence
is preserved carefully
( PRIMO Dir. FINE WORK.
The PrimOs official car which, The Jour
nal ana the New York Herald selected
for their 'scouting work. proved Itself
more than worthy the confidence which
those two papers placed in it.
Throughout the whole scouting work
ii did its work we'll Under the hands
of George T. Coggins. superintendent of
the primo factory In Atlanta. it covered
all sorts of road (and sometimes no
road. at ain and finished the work in fine
condition.
over LOO miles were piled up on the
two Warner autometers that the car
used, in dts highway route running. Be-
fore that began, some $50 miles were on
those measuring machines. representing
the test work that the car did after 1t
left the factory and after the autometers
were placed in position Altogether,
therefore, when the Primo stopped in
front of The Journal building in Allan
ia. Monday afternoon. it had 1000 miles
to its credit with an absolutely clean
sheet, without motor adjustment and
without the slightest trouble as oiack
mark against it. Mr.. Coggins took par
ticular pride in running the car just as
II stood. without readjusting any part