The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-07-11
WOULD BUILD A
MACADiM BOULEVARD
Representatives of Ocean to Ocean
Highway Association In County.

/ from ocean to ocean. yet pioneers in a
transcontinental improved highway de-
velOpment, as important in this modern
age OF progress and expansion as that
which confronted the frontiersman when
he sought to pilot his prairie schooner
across the continent, along the path of
| the buffalo, the advance guard of the
Ocean to Ocean Highway Assocla-
ton, Col. Del NJ. Porter, of Clifton,
Arizona, national organizer of the asso-
citation, Judge J. NJ. Lowe, of Kansas
City, president of the National Trails
Road Association; Burt G. Smith, auto
mobile editor of the Los Angeles Times,
and John Yak, driver and mechanlcian
of the Times Special" the automo-
bile in which the party in travelling, ar
rived in Grantsville Tuesday afternoon
to further the cause of macadam boul-
evard from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
cause of which they are ardent and elo-
quent opponents.
The gentlemen were met in Frostburg
on their wav east and escorted to Cum
berland by State Highway Commissioner
Andrew Ramsey. of Mt. Savage.
Our mission is to foster public sen
timent and enlist workers in the cause
of an ocean to ocean highway, said Mr..
Smith to press representative. Our
plan is to secure an appropriation from
tho Eadara1 r,o.-arrr,op+ For hale 49,
cost of this improved road, the states
through which it passes to bear the re-
mainder of the expense. To that end
we left Los Angeles on May 18th, in our
car provided by Gen. Harrison Gray
Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times,
who bears all the expense of our expe-
dition.
Leaving Los Angeles, we followed
the old Sante Fe trail through New
Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Kansas
to Kansas City, where we struck the
Boon's Lick trail, following it through
BoonsviIle, Mo-, into Illinois. Here we
/ found the western terminus of the Cum
| berland pike, or as it is better known,
the National pike and have followed it
through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West
Virginia. Pennsylvania and Maryland to
its beginning to Cumberland.
''ln every city we have visited we
have paused long enough ITO effect an
organization of workers and the result
of our efforts has been most gratifying.
| We have secured a total membership
of 3l2, 900 and will make it a half million
when we reach the Atlantic California
has 10000 members; Arizona TO- 056;
| New Mexico 10,O5S; Colorado II. 500;
Kansas 43, 300; Missouri 43, 400; Illinois
IS, 600; Indiana 80, $50; and Ohio 80, 600.
| We have started our organization in
Wheeling and throughout West Virginia
and will hold meeting in Philadelphia
having started the work in UniontOwn
and Connellsville. Special efforts to
enlist workers will be made in West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New
\ ork and here we propose to recruit
our army to half million to petition
Congress in December for federal aid.
Each member pays one dollar for mem
bership half of which is used by the
district organizations and the remaining
sum is employed by the parent body TO
send out literature and to prepare a
bound roster of the members, each Of
whom will receive a copy. Petitions
will be sent to Congress in car load lots
and the influence thus concentrated and
directed will certainly bring about
favorable Federal action. Wherever we
have been enthusiastically received, for
our project is universally popular.
The gentlemen will continue their
journey today via the Baltimore pike
and organizer will be sent back to
continue the work of enlisting support
for this most commemorate project.