The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
ALL SIX COUNTIES |. EAGER ID START ON THE NEW HIGHWAY Birmingham to -MontgOm- cry Roadway Has Enthu-
 siastic Meeting DEFINITE ACTION IS
 EXPECTED SOON All Counties Will Probably Be Ready Within Three Weeks to Make
 Application for $20OO
 Appropriations

| the executive committee of the Birmfng-
 ham-to- Montgomery highway, held al
 Jemison in Chiffon county, when repre-
 sentatives from all the counties along
 the proposed route were assembled and
 decided definitely to bring about ma l terialzation of their scheme.
 The meeting of the committee was
 called to order promptly at 2 o'clock
 yesterday afternoon by Judge A. L. Rey-
 holds of Clanton, chairman. who pre-
 sided with j. P. vandiver also of Clan
 ton acting as secretary. Representatives 1 from six counties were present as fol- l lows: Autauga, w. w. Wadsworth and l.. c. Hawes; Fillmore, Captain Dudley | Williams Chiffon, Senator Thomas Cur ry, F. A. Gullege and W. H. Conway; Montgomery, pr. C. J. Baldwin and c. C.. Abercrombie; Jefferson, Job Going, J. A. Rountree and w. R. Starbuck Mobile was represented by President John Craft
 of the Alabama Good Roads associa-
 tion, ex-officio member of the com mittee
 l In addition to the regular members of 1 the committee there were a large num- l Der of people interested in good roads from all the counties along the route present at the meeting. The first busi- ness of the committee was the conf1rma-
 ton of all the appointments made by
 the chair and all of the acts in advancing the highway movement.
 During the early part of the session 1 Miss Alma Rittenberry and Miss Maud
 Mcclure Kelly, representing the Daugh- ters of 1872. asked for the privilege of
 naming the highway '"The Jackson Mem
 orialn after presenting an interesting preamble on the plan formerly proposed for preserving as nearly as possible by means of highway construction those places of historic interest which other wise may finally suffer total oblitera- l ton. The preamble was heard with in- terest by the committee, but the mem bers deemed it advisable to defer nam ing any highways until they were built. They informed the ladies that upon the completion of the highways the commit tee would then receive the delegations with their proposals for appropriate names.
 Next, the delegates from different coun- 1 ties made their reports on what their
 respective countless were doing for the adv ancement of the Birmingham-t to- Mont
 gomery highway. Job Going. president of the board of revenue of Jefferson coun- ty, reported that his county was ready to build to the county line of Shelby
 and drew the attention of the commit tee to the fact that Jefferson county is already connected in this manner with
 three of it's adjoining counties.
 Shelby Ready for Business
 Following the remarks of MT. Going,
 Probate Judge A. P Longshore of Shelby county reported that his county would meet the Jefferson county highway at the dividing line with the construction of the highway. A most favorable re- port was heard from the delegation from Montgomery county, who stated that they
 were already connected by modern road with the Autauga line. The representa-
 ton from Autauga then reported that
 they would take the matter of connect Ing with the Montgomery roads up be- fore their commissioners immediately and that they felt reasonably sure of an approval from this end as there is strong sentiment and great enthusiasm among the Autauga citizens over the
 Birmingham-t Montgomery highway.
 The members from Chiffon county
 told of a great deal of enthusiasm over the highway proposition on the part of their citizens and informed the com
 mittee that a special mass meeting had been called for July 15 at Clanton when the entire county will be gathered to- gether and a decision made s to the route of the road. Al an early date the Shelby county Board of Revenue is scheduled to meet with the Board or 1 Revenue of Jefferson county to decide | on the route across their boundaries. Within three weeks 1t Is expected | that all the counties represented at the meeting yesterday shall have had time
 to take definite action on the Birming- l ha m to- Montgomery highway project and will be able to again get together and make application for the state l highway appropriation of 5000 for l each county and put in request for | the state engineer to make survey of the entire route.
 Masonic Installation
 During the morning previous to the
 session of the executive committee the
 Jemison lodge of Masons had their in stalIation of officers. Frank $. Andrews | of Birmingham had charge of the cer- 1 emonies and made the installation ad-
 dress. He was followed by John Craft
 who spoke to al least 300 people and
 outlined to them the various possibil- l ities which good roads will bring about
 in the development of commerce, in dustry and agriculture.
 I Following this address the gather l ing was entertained at sumptuous dinner, spread under the open in the l old fashioned way. Following the feast
 inc Odd Fellows held their installation i exercises, after which the meeting of Itbo shighWay committee was called to | order.
 5-E Chicago-t Gulf Project
 Miss Maud Kelly. president of the Ma | tional Society of United States Daugh- ters of 1912 for the state of Alabama and Miss A. Rittenberry, chairman of | the historic roads department of that l society. returned from Jemison last nipht very enthusiastic over the out look for the road movement seeking | to connect Chicago with the gulf. They l a re especially interested just now in the movement to build a frst-class road
 from Birmingham to Montgomery. Miss l Kelly said that she and Miss R1tten- l berry would attend the meeting to De | held at Clanton three weeks hence, when permanent Chiffon County Good Roads organization will be perfected. 1 She said furthermore that the pros
 pects for having good road all the way from Chicago. to the gult were particularly bright. Great interest she
 said, was being taken in this movement i in the states, north of here.
 Mayor Will Co-Operate
 Miss Rittenberry recently received
 this letter from the mayor of Chicago; | Dear Madam i've your letter ask | ization, which Is on ieavoring to have
 built a highway from Chicago to Mo bilc. I shall be very glad to cooperate 1 with, your organization,ina in any way in my power in this undertaking and you