The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-21
ceive prompt attention.
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TO NOrrolk.
That was a very interesting meeting
the Underwater Automobile Association
n held In Norio!k last Monday night IT
and a strictly business meeting com
bincd. There is way nowadays OF
discussing great industrial proposi-
q good thing, II il is really good, and
the Norfolk kind are always that way.
The presumptton is that after man
has eaten well he can think we'll and
talk well. and in general way help
{nid d ,bi l2 %nyfo haa M homer to At
and had the further glory OF taking
part In the discussion Of the subject
81 the even!ns, which. was the building
of great highway from Norfolk. the
seaport city OF Virginia, and all Of the
south, as for that matter, and Rich
mond. the capital city. 1t was a good
suit In great good for Norfolk and for
Richmond and for all of Virginia. es-
and Norfolk The meeting launched
movement FOR the building OF Il frst-
class country highway between Nor
la unchine OF such a scheme vas a,s'' a
good nights work That 1t was we'll
launched there can be no doubt.
One Of the speakers on this occasion
depiored tho fact that there has here
tofore been too little pull together
between the two greatest of the Nir
GINA cities, TO- wit, Norfolk and Rich
lnond. With a touch OF hImor and not
a little sarcasm, he gave some causes
for the failure of these two good cities
to work in harmony There may have
or truth in what he said about lack of
harmony. but lie all OF that as it may.
the time is passed wher Norfolk and
Richmond should antasonizc each
other. As the speaker referred TO sug-
gested the two cities are Ia Virginia,
and they are both close TO North CARO-,
nT M ~
should get together 10 build up them
selves and the two great States, of
which they are part, so 10 speak. and
Commonwealths they will be building
up themselves and making the two
cities the pride and the JOY OF all the
and Richmond have heretofore divided
they can certainly get together on this
road between the two cities. n high
way that will be an object lesson to all
the balance of the state. Thus the two
largest cities can help all Of the old
state.
Between Richmond and Norfolk there
great automobile highway one is a
little longer than the other. but both
are eligible and go through fine sec
sentatives at the Norfolk meeting from
both OF these routes. one cutting
around Southampton County and touch
llP inc BOOU towns oil FRANKLIN, Court
land and Boykins, and the other frisk-
ing through an edge Of Southampton
and the centre of Sussex County and
touching the towns of Ivor, Wakefield
tanta and two or three villages inter
vening. 1t was no funeral or mine,
ee hae ii w w cost asked aooay
amount OF money 10 build this great
Richmond Norfolk highway, and il
stands TO reason that the route that
Richmond
help in the matter of meeting the ex-
pense. will probably be the route Sc
not be valuable suggestion to the
two routes that are on the anxious
bench, so to speak.
In this connection it is well to hear
from the Tidewator News. splendid
paper published at Franklin. in
the routes mentioned above. That
newspaper says;
Plans were launched Monday night
Norfolk and Richmond by the Tide
water Automobile Association Mt u
banquet and meeting, at the Monticello
southampton County 10 secure this
hghway--a chance which our progress
sivc county. cannot afford to let pass.
rn9 Plan briefly ssa6ci Is THIS the
mote the movement; the surveying OF
the most suitable route. between the
two chief cities of Virginia; the loca-
ton of the best available material
along this route for constructing the
highway, and the general cooperation
OF every one in the. territory OF the
proposed road in making II a reality.
II is not proposed to build an expcn-
sivc macadam road. or 10 Issue bonds
for road building in any of the coun
ties through which it is to pass. but
for the supervisors OF the several
counties to build the very best pos
sible roads out of the material they
have at hand with their own road
crews and machinery, and to provide.
of course, for their maintenance.
! att Ia ~ faCt yao 'vall retouoizcH thnf