Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-04-28
DIXIE HIGHWAY ROUTE
WILL Be DECIDED
MAY 70.
ALL ROUTES TO HAVE HEARING
BEFORE THE DIRECTRS
Chattanooga gets Next Meeting---Call
Issued for Meeting at Crossville Sat-
urday Of All Short Route Counties
to Perfect Arrangements for Present.
ing Its Many Strong Points.

The meeting of the fourteen directors
appointed by the seven governors OF
the states interested in the Dixie
Highway, met in Louisville, KY, Fri
day. &. E. James and others from
Chattanooga were there and after dis
cussion committee of twenty-one was
formed, composed of the fourteen ap-
pointees of the governors and the seven
incorporators in this state of the Dixie
Highway Association. and agreed to
meet in Chattanooga May 20 to locate
the road.
It was agreed that the charter for
the highway should be turned over to
the governors appointees and they are
to locate the road at that time.
At the Chattanooga meeting repre-
sentatives of the delegations seeking
to have the road located through the
several sections of the country now
contesting for the road are to be heard
and after all have had full hearing
the location will be decided by the
fourteen men appointed by the gov
ernors.
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
The conditions in Kentucky and Ten
nessee are somewhat complicated. In
Kentucky the Louisville people have
Joined forces with the Nashville people
and are making a hard fight to prevent
il going via Cincinnati. The Clncin-
natl people are favorable to the Short
Route via Crossvllle, but the Louisville
people are trying to take it one hun
dred miles out OF direct route around
nv Nashville. The Short Route as first
designated would take the road direct
ly north from Crossville via James,
town, Albany, KY, and on to Louis
vile and Indianapolis and to Chicago.
That would leave out both Nashville
and Cincinnati and would almost sure
ly result in a road being built from
Cincinnati south to tap the highway at
Albany. KY, and another built from
I Louisville to Nashville and on through |
the state to Chattanooga. That being |
the case it is very probable that the
middle route in Kentucky will be
chosen. which will mean that the road
will come via Crossville.
MEETING CALLED.
A meeting has been called by Ward
K. Case, Of Fentress county. of the
counties of Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Cum
berlapd and Fentress to meet in Cross
vile next Saturday at ten in the MORN
ing to perfect closer and more per-
feet organization and to take such
steps as seem best to strengthen our
position in making pull for the road.
The call follows IN full:
Jamestown, Tenn, April 19, 1915.
"To Geo. 2. Burnett, Chairman,
Cumberland County Dixie
Highway Association:
"A Joint meeting of the various
Iounty Associations along'the Short ,
Route of the Dixie Highway is hereby
alleed to meet at the court house in
;rossville, Tennessee. on Saturday,
day 1st, 1915, at 10 o'clock, a. m., for
he purpose of furthering the joint as
ociation organized at Chattanooga on
april Bird, 1915, and to adopt such !
measures as may be deemed necessary !
r advisable to carry out the plan of 9
uildlng said 'Short Route Dixie High t
vay and generally to transact all such !
usiness as may properly come before !
he association.
please notify your organization at n
nee and send representatives,. Q
Respectfully. c
Ward X. Case, Chairman, 9
"The Short Route Dixie Highway :
o
HORT ROUTE MOST LOGICAL. 9
The general situation is this: As all G
ill admit, any person living in the
tates north of the Ohio river will nat
rally wish to reach Florida as quickly
) possible and by the shortest and
uickest route when wishing to 70 =
outh for the winter. The same con- 3
itions apply when they wish to return =
ONE in the spring. !,
LIMOS AND INDIANA WANT I,
SHORT ROUTE. a
That condition being understood 1t is 8
very way natural that the directors 9
,om Illinois, Indiana and Ohio would II
lvor the Short Route. The director v
'om eastern Kentucky will naturally ~
lvor the Short Route. Two from each 7!
: the three states named and one u
ON eastern Kentucky gives seven out "