The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-15
DIRECTORS FIX
HIGHWAY ROUTE
TO WASHINGTON
Alexandria Gets Place on Map
and Manassas Wins from
Occoquan District
LATTER WILL SPEND
$lOO. 900 FOR A ROAD
TO FREDERICKSBURG
Large Delegation from Pied
mont District Put Up
CameBattle Tor Orange
Culpeper Route

AT the meeting OF the StrKiniA
Board VI Bii..,o oil the Richmond
Aasn.nston CIV I.ion 81 the Qaessc-
Aia.ai International Highway Assoc
eiaiion, neiu ses.efuay ia The nuui,or-
fuul Oh the f3Ctei Jes1ei son. aeainiie
route tor the highway was aeeiaed
Gl0n.
lac route is the one taken by tho
pathnnaing lusty In November. lsll,
Wlin one nuiaeie exceptions. AiexaH-
erla ana not rails Cnurch Will oe the
first Guy On the map going south into
\ ifkinlA, and ihe last gong north into
Washington.
Cccoqnan will get place on the
of ciai map showing the highway as
an asteinaIe route.
The BOARD Of directors also assured
the rieusuont section citistns that
their chain OF good roads from Manas-
sas to 1uipeper. orange. dordonsviiie
and Louisa would also receive oAicaal
recognition.
Inc halfway that will DO built
through the enorts OF the Washington
dlEhway Ass0eiatlon. which - Inc
popular name or this organization, VIII
be from Richmond to Ashland, Bowl.
ing t,feen, Fredericksburg. HARDWOOD
Church, Gaflclt's. Manassas. Fairfax
(oun,y Courthouse, Alexandra, T" aSh-
tngfon.
70 Assist Counties.
II was voted as the sense of the
board that each county thu ough which
the road passed should have assist
ance in keeping with their efforts 70
build the highway. OF the Aiso,oeu
10 be raised between Richmond ana
Washington 50 per cent is to be set
aside for construction work. Eacn
county |. TO get a rate slightly less
Than 81. 900 per mile for each mile OF
the highway completed. The rate was
10 have been Sl.0o0 per mile nat. but
n win fall a little below this ftgure
for the board expects to expend %i@e,
600 for approximately $50 miles OF
Henry w. Anderson was e'eetea
president OF the association ana the
board adjourned to meet on the nrs'
Thursday in June. :.
The session lasted seven hours. ana
would have been very much Longer
had not Chairman Sara Cohen ex'
pedlted matters. In fact. the meeting
might still be going on hac nos sir'
Cohen more than remiAdcd speakers
that they were not In order.
"Mr. Chairman, may l make mo-
tom inquired one speaker, after
seven had been making themselves
heard.
.You may replied Mr.. Cohen;
.there are SO many before me now
that one more WoH itiGAS ally 6A~~~
difference"
Saunders Helps Chairman.
Supervisor Saunders helped clear
matters when the members OF the
board seemed afar of from any de-
cided action. He urged the adoption
/, nfa thet route and .lAtev. With .W, n.
Embrey. assisted Supervisor Lyon. OF
Caroline county, In obtaining the as
surance Of the directors that Caro-
line county would get all possible as
sistance in the building OF the high
way. Caroline county will get $780,
600 At the lowest possible estimates
The money to be expended on the
highway will be disbursed by State
Highway Commissioners. Captain r.
st. Julien Wilson. Captain Wilson
will cover the entire route Ia. ~ an
. early date and report to- the dircc-
tors In regard to the cost OF build
ing the highway. material and other
details.
The action OF the board OF direc-
tors will como up for discussion at
the business mems meeting in room
$40 OF tho Jefferson Hotel next Tues
day night
An Cwerhow Mseting.
When the dslegates 70 the meeting
ton met In the Chamber Of Commerce
yesterday at noon the overflow was 80
large that the convention adjourned
10 the Jefferson Hotel auditorium.
Men from Manassas and OccoQuan
Ia Prince william county were pres
ent. Delegations came from = apqultr.
Orange. tuipeper And Aeiisa. In an
etlort 10 change the route Of the high
1 way to th1ss districts. citlxens of
FfederickxDurs and Bowling 6reen
were on hand, the Bowling Green men
nervous over the report that move.
,aent v ~ atoot to snift the route from
Bowling Green 70 Spotsyivania Court
house.
Tho delegation from the Piedmont,
section Was MY atrong,4 and they had
otta med the services Of Lewis z. VIII
iamx 20 marshal their night. There
Va no douoting the eaSnestneas Of
4 The Piedmont delegation. Thoy want
"a the highway and they thought they
had vesy good reasons Tor wanting i,
Il eanActnlly - FAuQuier haa just voted
favorably on hond issue, ana Culpeper
r. u follow suit. But to the 8roat
/ 10Y 81 the AanasSas men the sp0kes-
nan Tor FAuquier county declared
fhnf Fnuuuicr would stand BY the Ma
nnssae route. K FredericknbuTG would
vots OF theF route by Cetlettc: &! AZ
1 Non@utDr. ~ 1earasaas = Pfiuce WI
Sl ss1 q = 81 aesst q