Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06
CLASSIC CITY
EXTENDS ARMS
To TRAVELLERS
POPE TWIN MOTORCYCLES FOR. COUNTY POLICE
Atlanta Autoists Assured of Good
Roads on Athens Tirp-Historic
and Commercial Center,

ATHENS, GA, July 5.-The auto
mobile log Of the local Chamber If
Commerce, showing turns and dips in
the road from Atlanta to Athens. is
complete, and is at the disposal IF
Atlantans who contemplate week end
trips to the Classic City and Of
Athenians who desire to spend Sat
urday and Sunday in the Gate City.
The log was made up this week by
Andrew c. Erwin, president of the
Athens Chamber of Commerce; Mar
tin j. Abney vice president; c. D.
Heidler, director, and c. C. Galloway,
secretary, who toured to Atlanta and
back to Athens.
The trip out was through Winder,
Duluth. Norcross and Buckhead. and
back through Decatur. Stone Noun
tain, Snellville and Monroe, with log
glng the entire way. The party re-
ported unusually good roads most OF
the way, with convict gangs working
out the bad places in Clarke, Oconee,
jackson, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Full
ton Counties. Clarke County claims
to have the best roads in the State.
but the Chamber of Commerce scouts
were free to admit that the highways
OF Fulton and DeKalb were unusu-
ally good on the average.
Atlantans Going on Trips.
For quite while Atlanta people
and Athens people have been ex-
changing visits by way of the auto
mobile routes between the two cities.
Young couples frequently come to
GeOrgta-Tech athletic contests by
the use of the automobile and go back
the same day, a total distance of $50
miles. Similarly, WELT o-do Athe-
mans are accustomed to tour through
the country to Atlanta to visit friends
and relatives.
Now all this visiting will be much
more simple, and the local Chamber
of Commerce has made it so. Anna
teur automobiles need not lose their
way and people TO whom the trip
is not new can get valuable pointers
on various turns in the road and the
general condition of the same.
The chambers information is con-
tanned in a handsome booklet that Is
being distributed The information
will be supplied alike to individuals
and to touring bureaus Trips can
be made in about four hours easy
sailing.
Historic Charm of Athens.
Athens is one of the Oldest cities in
the State, the home during college
days of hundreds of history making
Georgians, a section where the intel
lectual and social spirit finds unique
expression. Situated on the banks of
the Oconee River and on the undulat-
ing stretches which slough off from
the Blue Ridge mountain chain, it
has inspired many a university poet
to sing. Its hospitality is famed
throughout the State, and its social
conventions have weathered most OF
the industrial storms
Apart from sentiment however,
Athens is noted for its steady COM
mercial progress Once considered a
town which grew up around the State
University, it is now regarded as
quite an entity. Civic activities and
academic activities are not out of
harmony yet the two operate more
independently now than ever before
The growth of Athens In population
and in public buildings and fine COM
mercial spirit has excited general ad-
miration. About six years ago Ath-
ems first office building was erected,
and since then the city's business
leaders have been busy making two
grow where but one grew before.