The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

| people of Tennessee for assistance iI the project:
 "Col. A. M Shook. Ladies Hermitage Association, to the Citizenship of Tennessee:
 T appeal to you in behalf of the | National Society United States Daugh- l ters of 1872, state of Alabama, for l your cooperation and support in the work in our effort to create the senii- ment to build a transcontinental high way from Chicago down through In dianapolis to Louisville. over the Lin coin Way link in the Jackson high way, by Mammoth Cave, on down | through the old Louisville and Nash vile turnpike to Nashville, out to the l Hermitage, back to Nashville, on down
 the Pike of Battles to Franklin There is death in every mile of this pike; it was battle-ground of the Con | federacy, a turning point in it's his- 1 tory It was on this pike and the
 Nit Pleasant pike that runs also fror, 1 Columbia through the garden spot of | the world that Buell. made LID the
 hours that saved Grants army at Pitts burg landing that Sunday night un l April 6, 1862, which made Grant d 1 President instead of prisoner, and welded two sections into one glorious
 nation. On what little things do the l destiny of men and nations seem to l hang. A pike of battles it is and
 every mile a battle-ground. Here fer
 four long days blue and gray charged and recharged, captured and recap l tured-Van Dorn. Forrest, Wheeler l Hood, Wilson, Buell. Schofield Thomas. | marching and countermarching on a long. white road of death. Here it vas 1 on that fateful November day ere night | had dropped her curtain down, tha.
 Cleburne. Strahl. Granbury, Adams and | Gist, that matchless quintet of brave I generals, lay dead around the breast
 works of Franklin, while thousands cf 1 the boys in gray, who marched that | day along the shaded avenue. and thou sands of those in blue. who fell back
 before them. gave up their lives.
 The Jackson highway passes
 through Columbia, on down to Pulashi, l the home of Sam Davis, the boy hero l of the nation; over beautiful Elk riyai, l the hunting ground of Davy Crockett,
 across the Alabama state line. through ] Athens to Decatur over the Tennessee
 river, on down to Birmingham the Magic l City of the south, to Montgomery ] where the flag of the Confederacv was first unfurled; to Mobile
 where five flags have floate ed over it. to
 New Orleans, to the battle-ground Q. l Chalmette.
 l "I appeal to you to throw your in-
 fiuence to work for this highway. to l join hands with us and the Lakes-to- l the-Gulf association, whose route is .
 north and south route, almost ident.
 cally the route of the Jackson highway from Chicago to Nashville.
 We have been engaged in this work | for four years. striving diligently 70 | ta | highway as monument to old Hick ory Eight highways were proposed l in Congress- and not one of them 10
 Andrew Jackson, nor was one proposed
 to connect the lakes and the gulf to
 come through this territory that he opened up to civilization. Of the eie ht
 national highways one was to Wash
 ington one was to Roosevelt. one was to Lincoln Jefferson. Grant. Monroe.
 Lee. These highways were propos ed
 by Congressman Maynard of Virginia.
 in 1910. During the same Congress,
 Senator Cullom of Illinois. asked fo~
 the survey of these same highways proposed by Congressman Maynard to be built at a cost of S14S,00 900 to be raised by the issuance of bonds. It
 didn't carry. Congressman Hobson sugReS,ed a highway from Niagara . Fans to New orleans to be called the Jefferson-clay highway
 Andrew Jacksons name Is identi-
 fled with more roads and trails than , any other name Tn American history, , and in planning and launching the work of the Jackson highway, it has ? been the purpose of the committee Ia , follow the old roads and trails Of 5 Jackson as far as it was practicable
 but 1t is impractical to leave out the 2 trade centers So we ask for the right way--the way of least resistance , We wrote to the commercial bodies ard good roads men along the route se- ! lected. and their responses were hearty { approvals of our plans and purposes ' We asked the Colonial Danes, tie ' Daughters of the Revolution, the Daughters of the Grand Army of the
 Republic, the Daughters of the Confed eracy to memorialize any link along Q the route that belonged to their period
 in history. We accepted the "Lncolr ' Way as a link in the Jackson high : way. and We do ncA object to Kentucky r and Tennessee from the Tennessee line [ to Nashville calling their highway the l Lincoln highway. but the whole trans continental route Is the Jackson high
 way, a monument to Andrew Jackson e the seventh President of the Unitet
 States, though it seems to the commit : tee and the chairmen that to call tn, ioute through Kentucky, down to the y Hermitage, the Lincoln highway would I conflict with the real Lincoln high Q way that runs from New York to Sal Il Francisco.
 n The Jackson highway was launched tt
 the public at national good roads meet
 ing in Birmingham, May 9. 1911. The com
 mittee of the Jackson highway has haf f no thousand dollar checks from Colone |, Du Pont, no 10 per cent of year.
 sales from the Goodyear Tire company Il and no telegram of encouragement an,
 approval from President Wilson, but the, 6 have worked diligently. persistently. un $ tiringly in their effort to create the senti D ment strong enough for the counties e through which the highway passes. tt Q issue bonds and repair the old north ant r south turnpikes and build in the missing y links until we have complete road from
 Chicago to New Orleans-a road broat
 and as low a grade as possible Nor hav'
 we working for us committee from thu , Federation of Womens 8 clubs. Three mil . lion dollars have been promised this com u mittee to beautify the roadsides of tn. d Lincoln highway We do not ask fol l. any fund to beautify the Jackson high - way for it comes down through Indiana a through her corn fields. where windint
 through is the beautiful Wabash, dowr
 over the old Louisville and Nashville : turnpike, through Kentucky, bordered or each side with My Old Kentucky Home, il fields of blue grass and wide spreading H beeches down through Tennessee, he II middle basin, the garden spot of thu III world" So you see we do not need {, Il work to beautify the roadside of the Jack Il son highway; nature has done her part Il | In north Alabama we have the Statel