Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-25

with a white band, the official emblem !
of the route.
At 1880 p. m. the cars assembled /
at the Sterling city hal, and as the
Sterling and Rock Falls Commercial
club had literally advertised the
day, there were over 100 other cars
from the different towns out through
Whiteside county on hand to paCtici-
pate in The parade. The cars left the
city hall at 1870 and arrived at the
beautiful Riverside park in Rock
Fails at =, where a speakers stand
and seats had been arranged by the
twin city boosters The parade was
50 blocks long and according % some
parties who kept c.ose count on the
number of cars in the procession it
was estimated that over 225 cars were
! in line.
ASSISTANCE ASSURED.
The good roads meeting was pre-
| sided over by Mr. Thorpe, president
of the Twin City Commercial club.
The address of welcome by ]. ]. Chap
lain, city attorney of Rock Falls, who
assured all of the good roads boosters
present that the twin-cities could be
depended on to assist any good roads
as long as they came to the twin
! cities. The response was made by
A. E. Nissen of Davenport, who in a
short talk emphasized the fact that
his main object in connection with
the campaign of the two organized
roads connecting the quad cities and
! 10 ~ 20
roads would be il such good condi-
ton at all times that the quad-cities
would get large share of the touris;
travel from Chicago westward.
c. E. Peek of Albany, president of
the Mississippi Scenic Highway asso-
citation, gave a short talk and assured
the boosters present that the citizens
along his route are determined to
: make the scenic route not only the
most popular but also the best road
5 connecting Sterling and the tri-cities.
a. B. Johnson of East Moline made
/ an urgent appeal to the members OF
the Tri-City Ocean to Ocean Official
t Highway association to vote for and
support his route in preference to the
scenic highway, when it comes to the
matter of the official route connecting
). the twin-cities and the quad-cities
4 The next speaker was Representative
s A. n. Abbott of Morrison, who was
chairman of the hard roads commit
3 tee at Springfield. He gave an ad
dress explaining in detail all of the
4 features Of the good roads bill which
l is now law in the state of Illinois.
WILL BUILD FINE ROAD.
Mr.. Sherman of Tampico, who rep
D resented the boosters from along the
l new route which has been organized
known as the Sterling, Tampico ant
l Princeton highway, gave a ginger tall
. of about three minutes, and assured
o the audience that this association in
o tended to get busy at once and builC
z the best road in the United States.
= The last speaker was Samuel Brad
o of DeKalb, who was the real author O
the Tice bill, and who also explaine,
in detail the advantages of this roa
n legislation.
E. The return trip from the twin-citie
k left the park over the scenic route a
y $3.50 and arrived at Morrison at liz
% enthusiastic scenic boosters ready t
d. welcome them. Leaving Morriso
s. the cars followed the yellow band
er along the scenic route to Garde
TT Plain, and found the roads in frs
n class condition. In fact, at Garde
lc Plain large sign was placed in
~ conspicuous manner reading, spec
IL limit 20 miles an hour" and it is b.
0f lieyed that some of the cars on thi
e. run exceeded the speed limit. Arri'
ing at Albany about 4: AS, the tourist
found the city gaily decorated, and
had the appearance of being a con
bination circus day and Fourth {
July, as the Albany brass band wa
a ready for the boosters and played
b number of good roads hymns" Ere
y pop, apples and fruit were freely gi'
en- out to the good roads boosters. Th
tour from Sterling to Albany was lie
} by the car owned and driven by G.
Peck, president of the scenic highwa
The cars left Albany at o'clock, an
at Port Byron found the town dec
rated more deliberately than any OF
a, er town along the route. lare
" welcome sign and large flags wei
strung across the street from buildiI
to building. Lemonade, waters an
cigars were freely given to all of Il
tourists. The cars left Port Byron
$50, and arrived at Waterfowl {
schedule at 6 O'Clock Rain delaye
the cars an hour at Albany; still Il
m roads were in wonderful condition.
as LOGS OF ROUTES.
ty Here is the log of the Rock Riv,
m Valley route:
(Warner Speedometer. Robert
y Carson, driver; A. Z. Nissen, checker
nc Mil
Is, Watertown Junction with scenic
routeJ ................. U
10. Hillsdale (railroad tracks, ..... Is
lis Erie (railroad tracks .........2 3
ce Denrock (raiIroad tracks, ...... %
in Lyndon (railroad tracks, 49,. 81
at Gait (railroad tracks, .....4 AZ
ar Junction with scenic route .... AZ
q Sterling (Galt house, .46