The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-06-10
HUGE ROAD Bee
IS ON TODAY
IN MICHIGAN
MilliOnaires and l4abOrers Work
Side by Side on Bay City
Mackinac Highway
NORTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
TURNS OUT EN- MASSE
Thousands Give Time, Tools and
Labor in Effort TO Finish
263 Miles of Turnpike

A.PENA. Mich.. June Cuisines
/ IS suspended in Alpena today. Five
thousand men are working with might
Pud main In Northeastern Michigan
nom Bay City 10 Mackinac Island.
Tuey are directing the efforts OF five
Thousand teams VI horses that are
pulling hundreds OF road drags and
z hauling hundreds OF tons OF gravel
and stone The are building an auto
mobile highway from Bay City TO
Mackinac Island by way OF Alpena
aid other intervening towns. The
road is 263 miles long and they are
building II in one day-today.
This feat is made possible by one
OF the most remarkable displays or
public spirit on record. Every man
of the thousands who are working OH
the road Is donating his services.
Many OF them are the owners OF the
horses and tools which are being used
and OF the automobiles which are
carrying crews OF workers fiom one
point to another All OF these are
donated also.
Only about $4,000 in cash is being
expended on the road, and without the
public spirit which has taken form
OF the highway would be a practical
imrossibility. Bankers and million
afro lumbermen are working side by
size with their employees from the
lumber camps and mills OF Northeast
ern Michigan.
Connection with a fairly good road
from Bay City to Detroit. the Huron
Shore Highway will furnish a direct
trunk road from Detroit 10 Mackinac,
and an influx of motor tourists, which
II expected 10 grow as the fame OF
the highway spreads, Is looked for
from Southern Michigan and from 9TH
err states.
The highway of the Lake Huron
Good Roads association, beginning at
Bay City, runs almost due north
through Bay and Arenas counties.
Il touching Pinconning, Standish and
other towns, il takes in the north
eastern corner OF Ogemaw and then
vcers to the east through Iosco coun-
y ty, taking in An Sable and Oscoda
Its course through Alcoma county Is
almost due north; after striking the
city Of Alpena II runs through the fine
island lake section Of Cheboygan and
Pressure Isle counties and on to Mack
inaw City. Most of the important
towns Of the section are on the high
y way. and others are connected with
by branch roads.
II has been largely matter Of in
! spiI alton, this plan for the Huron
shore highway. and out OF the idea
\ which produced 1t came q number OF
other things. among them the present
4 plan for state trunk highway system
& 90 provided for In the Allswede law.
enacted at the last session Of the leg
4 lslature.
Y Of the state when members OF the
Western Michigan Development bu-
\ reau and others got together at Trav.
erse City, last winter. and decided
X they wanted road down the shore Of
Lake Michigan to open up the west
ern Michigan summer resorts to auto
\ mobile tourists.
Later came an invitation from some
q the Traverse City enthusiasts ask |
Ing Alpena representatives to attend
\ meeting In Saginaw, early in Febru-
AIRY, OF all persons Interested In good
roads.
A dozen live wires from Alpena
vent down to Saginaw. State Senator
Answede was there. and he outlined
the plan which has since developed
INTO the Allswede law. Before the
meeting adjourned the Michigan
Il Trunk Road association was formed
with the object OF spanning Michigan
with roads running the whole length
4 and breadth OF the state.
After the big meeting had adjourn.
cd, little group OF men from seven
or eight counties between Bay and
Chebdygan gathered in corner OF the
nall and formed the Lake Huron High
way association, with but one object
In Its existence--to build highway
which should be ready for business
this summer.
Details were worked out at q meet.
Ing In Alpena, Feb. 20. Somebody
Y told of q "bee day" In Iowa where 200
miles OF road were built In a single
day. The suggestion was made that
3 the Lake Huron association adopt the
plan, and the suggestion took tho
meeting by storm. June was named
as 'bee day"
James X. Shady. OF Onaway, Is pres
ident Of the Lake Huron Good Roads
association, and John r. Simmons.
sherif of Alpena county. Is its secre
tsry. They. with Henry K. Gustin. OF
Aipena, road commissioner Of the as.
ISOLATION. were the moving spirits in
h the plans for bee day"
"A The Huron association is UNIQUE In
n tts manifestations. leaving not a ham.
let In the, entire section without or.
ganization for bee day.
Directors In each OF the seven ooun.
ties from Bay to Cheboygan wers
named for organization purposes
Each director was mt the head Of the
county organization. which In turn