The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-13
HIGHWAY WORK
BEING PUSHED
QUEBEC-MIAMI ROAD TO BE COM
PLBTED BY FALL OF
NEXT YEAR
-N
PEACE CELEBRATION
ROUTE THROUGH MANY or THE
IMPORTANT AND P0PLLOUS
CITIES OF THE ALLAN
TIC COAST.

LIN A N.Y. N Jan
Most gratifying progress has been
made during the season just closed in
the work Of constructing the Quebec
Miami international highway, accord
ing TO reports received by Howard ID.
Hadiey. of this city. president of the
QUetec- Miami International Highway
association.
New York state, having already
spent s50,000.000 for good roads, voted
last November another 10000 900. Ii
is significant that the majority by
which the voters approved this second
100000 bond issue WAS nearly 300,-
000-the largest ma jorlty ever given a
proposition in the history of the EN-
pire State,
A good deal more than half of the
entire 2,500 miles Of the Quebec Miami
read is now finished. according to Mr..
/ Hadley's reports-about 400 miles
more are under construction, and VIII
I be completed next summer while
plans are now being made TO get 10
, work On the remaining zoo miles so
that the entire road may be com
! pieted by the fall of 1914 The stretch
! lrCC! Washington. y. c., to Montreal,
P. a.. $40 miles long, VIII be pracu-
/ cally al done. according 10 present In
dications, by the middle OF June, 1913.
/ MIR. Hadley figures that the Quebec
Miami highway viii carry a heavier
| traf fsc than any other trunk highway
in North America, for al least three
reasons!
/ 1t leads through region Of very
great historic interest.
| / leads through a section of match
less scenic beauty.
Finally. and most Important of all,
! it will form the main north and south
artery throug the most densely popu-
lated section of North America The
tar, States, together with the District
cs Columbia and the Province OF
Quebec. through which the road leads,
have total population of 1896. 9s2.
nearly one-third the population of con-
tinental United States and canada.
Nearly 100000 people, or is Of
the total population Of the United
states and Canada, live within twenty
miles Of this road.
Through Large Cities.
There are no less than twenty-one
cities OF more than $4,000 population
along the Quebec Miami read. Eleven
of them, Quebec. Canada. Schenectady
ICY and Aonkers, ". Y, Hoboken,
Gambler, Elizabeth and Trenton, n. J.,
" ilntngton, Del, Savannah, Ga. and
Jacksonville, Fla, have more than Co.,
600, but less than 100000, Eight
others, Montreal, Albany, Jersey City,
Newark, Paterson, Washington, Bal
timCre, and Richmond have more than
ioo 600, each, but less than million
while Philadelphia has 100000, AMI
New York city has 100000, and is
adding to this stupendous total at the
rate OF quarter OF 81 million annually
Inasmuch as there are 30, 100000
people, a large portion of them
wealthy or wellto-do. living on or
within easy reach OF the Quebec
Miami highway, 1t Is interesting TO
speculate on the amount Of traffie
this great artery OF trade will bear.
In this connection the figures show.
ing the growth OF the automobile in
dustry are interesting. 1t has had
an unparalleled growth. In a single
= decade from 1899 to 1909 the per
eentage OF increase in the value Of
, automobile products in the United
| States was 5.14S6, whereas the per
centage of increase over similar
period in the industry which showed
. the next largest rate of wth--that
Of copper, tin and sheet iron--was
but 156, No interest OF mankind. IL
Ia said. has ever remotely approached
tbs astonishing expansion.
In 1912 not less than 100000 auto
. mobiles exclusive of motor trucks
were produced, TIT TIT increase Ur 5o,=
! 600 over the previous year. Il is
tartllng. TO know trat 70 universal
has the automobile become that one
machine is now in use for every ITO
. persons in the United States
Complete Road Next Year
, We are planning q systematic
, campaign" said Mr., Hadley today,
, ito bring about the completion of the
international highway before the close
: Of 1914, in time for the Joint ceIe-
bration of 100 years OF peace between
English speaking peoples, and of a
haif-century or peace between the
. North and the South since the close
) OF the Civil war, for this Quebec
Miami road will form the outward
and visible bond of an inward. In
| visible feeling of peace and good
will, not only between Canada, the
, hest neighbor any country ever had,
and the United States-but also be-
tween the North and the south"
I'VE wish 10 emphasize by the com
pie.pn In 1914,of this. 0uehec- Miami
| highway on the occasion of these
great peace cefebTatiOns the strik
/ Ing and pleasing contrast between
being Mt peace. as we now are. build
} ing good roads--and being at war.
building forts as we were IN 1915"
We are very hopeful that these
great celebration of long years OF
peace and prosperity and the com
pletion of this great international
| highway In 1914 viii mark the be-
ginning of the actual reduction of war
expenditures by all the nations of the
earth"
John Sherman said that the way
10 resume specie payments was to
resume! He was right"
The way 10 reduce war expendi1
lures is to reduce"
Mr.. Hadley Is just as enthusiastic
over the construction OF the intra-
coastal canal along the Atlantic coast
from Florida to Maine as he is over
the Quebec Miami highway The two
projects 60 hand in hand for the de-
veiopment OF the Atlantic seaboard
States-the thirteen original States,
The completion ~ the Panama
canal this veat win start people tho
world over thinking about these
things"