The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-28
BRUNSW|CkHAS
CHANGE TO GET
ON NEWH|GHWAY
STARTER OF GREAT GLIDDEN
TRIP TO MAP OUT NEW ROUTE
FROM NEW ',oRr; CITY.
1t Will Come Via Savannah and If
Pc pie of This City Get Busy They
Can Secure lt-WouId Mean Much
to Brunswick.

Brunswick people who have been
keeping up with the Glidden tour
the run being f1cm New York to that
city, fully realize what it meaat to
every city thfv Ugh which tho tourists
passed,
Now that the run is over, a new
and shorter route between New York
and Florida is to be established, and
it is up to Brunswick to get on this
route. E. l.. Ferguson, starter of the
Glidden tour, will start out from
Jacksonville this morning to locate
a shorter route. He will go via Sa-
yannah, Columbia, Augusta and Char
Iotte. Brunswick is on this route, but
before the autoists can be brought
through here some improvements will
have to be made on our roads and
bridges. The people should by this
time, realize what Brunswick is miss
ing by not being on the route. Dis
cussing the new route the Jacksonville
Metropolis of yesterday contained the
following:
"A new route from New York to
Jacksonville, laid out by the American
Automobile association and furnished
in strip-map form to every member
OF this powerful organization, will
soon be reality The route will pass
through Columbia, S. c., Augusta, Ca,
and Savannah. 1t will be considerably
shorter than the route over which
the Glidden tourists made the trip,
and the highway, it is stated on good
reports, will be every bit as good. At
Charlotte the new route will commun-
1cate with the North by way of the
Dixie Trail which brought the Gid
denites to this city on Thursday.
The new route will be laid out by
b. L. Ferguson, starter of the Glid-
den tour, who will be assisted in the
work by James A. Hemstreet, his as
sistant in the Glidden.
Mr.. Ferguson has selected as his
car for the trip Flanders '20 No SO
of the Glidden entourage. This car
will be driven by Peter Kunz of De-
troit. 1t came over the Glidden route
with but one penalty-this the direct
result of collision with big car
which skidded into the Flanders at
Lancaster. The Flanders '20 will
start the run without even an over.
Hr1ic
shape, as did all the other Flanders
cars which competed, and Kunz is now
ready to take the road
In all probability, the start north
ward will be made some time on Sat
urday. 81
No attempt will be made for ex-
treme speed. Mr.. Ferguson will be
occupied with his duties of road map
ping and will hold good roads con-
ferences enroute wherever possible.
There has long been a feeling in
Jacksonville that a shorter route ex-
listed between this city.arid New York
In fact, several motorists have made
the trip. 1t was necessary. however
to make frequent delays to inquire
road information.
with the official sanction of the
A. A. A. and the strip maps of the
highway, the new route is sure tc
bring an increased amount of trave
to the cities which it reaches. In ad-
dition, it will provide quicker means
of reaching Savannah from New York
An effort will be made to have the
map in the hands of tourists in tim<
for them to use it in motoring to the
scene of the Grand Prize in Novem-
ber."