The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-06
|'aj'EEDD ||'aa9'ED HIGHWAYS
REUNION Travels
Jacksonville Has Many High
Class Reads to Points
~of interest
Trips to Sc Taken Over Them In A.
tenobiIes During the Reunion e'
Confecerates May 8, z, 8.

ton,obiles During the Reunion o.
confeoerates May s, 2, 8.
Jacksonville, Fla, April.-lt IS sale
to say that hundreds. and possibly
thousands, of visitors to JacksonVilie
during the week of the great Reunion
OF Confederate Veterans and Sons OF
Veterans, will make the trip IRON
their homes in automobiles. Numer-
Gus inquiries have been received from
ali parts of the country concerning
road conditions. and especially IN re-
gard to the practcability OF reaching
other points in.Florida by automooiie
e.ips from Jacksonville.
For the information Of auto owners
desirous OF bringing their cars 70
jacksonville at the time OF the Re-
union, attention IS called to the ract
that the city license books show that
there are over 1000 licensed automo-
biles in the city OF Jacksonville alone
and during the past winter season
more than $500 motor-driven vehicles
have passed through Jacksonville en-
route to various places on the Florioa
peninsula. Unless there were fairly
good roads. leading from JacksonVliie
to other sections OF the State, there
would not have been one-tenth as
many cars in Florida this season. anc
the home people OF Jacksonville would
no: have invested so heavily IN motor
vehicles.
Duval county, Of which Jacksonville
Is the county seat, was among the nTst-
OF the Florida counties to Issue road
Improvement bonds and to begin the
paving of its highways with vitrihed
paving brick and concrete. With
population Of cnly $4,000 in 1909, this
county issued road Improvement bonds
that year 70 the amount Of S1,Ooe,o0o,
and 1t was provided that not more
than $250.eo0 was to be expended in
road construction each year for four
years. The bonds were sold at
handsome premium and the money
has all been expended on the roads OF
the county, with result that this
county now has some Of the very best
sn the South, and these roads are
10Y to the joyrider and to all persons
who use them.
Tut this is rot all; for the Board OF
County Commissioners Is at the pres
ent time working up interest In
proposition to issue from 100000 to
8 s5,eoo,0oo additional road improve
nent bonds and construct system OF
paved roads and highways throughout
, the county Of Duval that Will be
model for ali sections Of the country.
Jacksonville is only seventeen miles
In e direct line from the Atlantic
Ocean, where there Is one Of the finest
beaches in the world, afordtng speed
way cour hundred feet in width and
\ twenty miles In length. Here IS the
ideal automobile course and It Is vis-
( tied by thousands Of cars every year.
From the city to the seashore the
county has constructed a. magnificent
boulevard, paved with ~vitrided brick
and with concrete for the entire dis
tance hundreds of cars traverse this
Atlantic Bu-.cvard, as it IS known.
daily, and during the Reunion many
thousands Of visitors will make the
tip by auto to the beach. Once On
the seashore they will find much to
interest them. Surf bathing will be
at It's best during the Reunion week
and many visitors from interior points,
who have never before had the oppor'
trrity to plunge into the big breakers
of Old Ocean, will find the experience
q novel and delightful one.
From Jacksonville to St Augustine
the distance by AUTO IS 3S miles and
the TIP is easily made. in two hours.
In fact, the record for the trip Is one
hour and nine minutes, but that Is al.
most too fast Ior trip to the Oldest
city in the United States
The road from South Jacksonville,
on the opposite side OF the majestic
St Johns river from the Reunion city.
"a paved with shell for nine miles and
the going Is good. Then comes six
miles Of brick paving over which the
cars fairly skim along. The next four
miles, to the Duval county line; have
not yet been paved. but temporary
surface Of shavings has been provid-
ed. From the county line to st. Au-
gustine, a distance Of 1S miles, the
road is not yet paved but she'll has
been placed in the wheel ruts and good
time can be made by the average car.
Still another attractive trip, on the
south side Of the St Johns river. is
that to Mandarin. pretty little VII
lace on the banks Of the river, about
fifteen miles from the city. This road
Is well paved with shell for the entire
distance and passes through some
very pretty orange groves, WHICH in
themselves are an attraction to sll
1t Mandarin there are q number Of
attractive homes. surrounded by pret-
ty gardens, groves and farms. This
village is the site Of the former home
Of the late Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe. the author Of Uncle Toms
Cabin"
The city Of Jacksonville has sixty
miles OF paved streets and contracts
are now outstanding for several addi-
tional miles, work ca which will start
Immediately after the reu:.:on, as it IS
the desire Of the city authorities not
to have the streets torn up while the
visitors are here.
Sightseeing automobiles are nu.ae-.
Gus in Jacksonville eve:y ria;er ;nG
this year several Of the IA = i;:.: !. =:
remain over unit! after =. ".;a:ca.