The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
Alabama and Mississippi Delegations Settle Differ ences-Board of Directors Meets November 10
ROUTE OF HIGHWAY IS SELECTED AS
 FAR AS NASHVILLE
Choice Between the Three Southern Routes Will Re- main Open Until Next Executive Session

Nashville. September o4-Thc adoption highway from Chicago as far south as Nashville and the selection of a path finding committee 10 go over all the routes offered for the southern stretches of the
 highway marked the close late today of the first convention of the Jackson Highway association The permanent or ganxation was completed earlier in tho day with Peter Lee Atherton of Kentucky as president
 E. c. Dent of Bowling Green. Ky: Wal ter H. Grim. Salem. Ind. and W. l.. Brown, Lafayette. Ind, were appointed pathficnders. An executive committee to be composed of President Atherton, Vice President Crcveling Edmund Taylor of Frankfort. Ind: W, H. Grim of Salem. and another member from Ohio. to bs named later. also was decided on. Notice was served on all the counties interested in proposed routes for the high way south of Nashville to send all avail able data roads to tho office Of the l association by october 30. Robert E. Woods of Kentucky was selected as tenn porary secretary of the association. The board of directors will hold its next meeting at Nashville November 10. at which time they will receive the re- l ports of the pathflnders and decide on tho
 complete route for the Highway. Differences Settled
 | and Mississippi delegations were settled when an agreement was reached to in- crease the numher of executive commit
 tee members for each state from two to
 three This was done to give tho north- west counties In Alabama representation on the Alabama delegation. although this l section opposed the central route sought by the balance of the state. On tho other hand the Alabamians ss- cured q vote on the Mississippi delega- ton when a member was added to repre- sent the gulf coast counties which fav- ored the central route of the AlabamianA An effort to strengthen the forces of the Alabama contestants was made today when Delegate Phillips of Florida asked for representation for his state in the aSSoclaUon.
 A motion to include Florida was de- feated by a decisive vota With the election of officers out of the way. the convention settled itself to hear the claims of the various routes suggested for the Jackson highway. The principal speaker was Emmet ONeal of Alabama. He advocated the Jackson Military road as the only feasible route. He reviewed the history Of Jackson's movements throughout Tennessee and northern Ala bama, and concluded by stating that no matter which way the pathfinders of the association planned the road the people of northwest Alabama would lend their active co-operation
 Three Routes Described
 The three routes branching out from Nashville. in Tennessee. were described by A. J. Brandon for the Murfreesboro- Fay yettevlle route: ". B. Lamb. for the Fayetteville- Huntsville route. and F. E. Eslick for the Pulaski Decatur section: Travis Williams of Florence and M. q. Nelson for Decatur's route.
 Other sepakers included J. NJ. Webb,
 (COntfnued on Pare TwoN