The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-30
PATHF|NDERS LEAVE
 HUNTSVILLE ONLAST
 STAGE 0F JOURNEY
Enthusiastic Welcome and Brilliant Entertainment Accorded Visitors
 by Citizens

Huntsville. october 29.-tSpeeial )-After making a trip through Merrimack mills when many of them saw for the first time a big cotton mill in full operation. the Jackson highway pathfinders left this morning on their last trip of inspection of a route proposed for the highway. They are going by way of Guntersvile, Albert vile, Boaz and Gadsden and are accom- panied by a delegation of Huntsville road enthusiasts. A large crowd accompanied the party to the Marshall county border line. where a crowd from Guntersville and Albertville met them. The pathhnd- CTS shipped their cars back to Nashville from here, and are making their last trip in Huntsville cars.
 The banquet which was given at The Hotel Twiclxenham last night by the good reads boosters in compliment to the path finders was attended by a crowd that filed every table and the affair was an elaborate one.
 Joseph J. Bradley, general agent of the Merrimack Manufacturing company, pre- sided as toastmaster Jokingly he called
  all in the house wanted the Jackson high way to come by Huntsville, and there was an enthusiastic viva voce for aye. Not a no was heard. The toastmaster then addressed the pathfinding party and in- formed them that they had their instruc- tions and must act accordingly in mak- ing choice of route.
 Support of Huntsville Pledged
 Mayor Milton Lanier delivered an ad- dress of welcome and pledged the sup port of Huntsville for the highway. Chair man Robert E. Spragns of the Alabama highway commission welcomed the path finders to Alabama. He said the highway should be built over the route that "Old Hickory himself chose. He said the counties along this route already had good roads and would all build accord ing to specifications.
 w. s. Keller. state highway engineer. who has accompanied the pathfinders On their trip through Alabama. told of road conditions in the southern part of the state. which are not so good. He said however, that Mobile had agreed to build over its long mileage of 66 miles, and that Clarke county would do the same as soon as possible. In the counties of the northern part of the state, he said, only a few gaps need to be filled in.
 The Madison county commissioners, who were present in a body. stated that they had adopted a resolution to build through Madison county according to gov ernment specifications. The mileage in Madison county is about 90 miles.
 Toasts were responded to by W. H. Grim of Salem, Ind; J. G. Craveling of Nashville, E. G. Dent of Bowling Green Ky: R. E. Toms of Washington and w. L. Brown of Frankfort. Each of the pathfinders was seated between a pretty maid or matron of Huntsville. and if they did not make up their minds in favor of the Huntsville route it was not the fault of their fair companions. A flashlight photograph was made of the pathfinders and their companions and then the toast master said:
 Now we've got you. If you don't vote Tor us this photograph will be sent to your wives.''~
 Mrs. Felix Baldridge presented the path- finders with walking canes made of chit tim wood, which is said to grow only in Madison county and the Holy Land. As snffragist MT Baldridge said the wom- en pledged themselves to vote to main tain the Jackson highway when they get vote.
 z. D. Dunlap of Nashville, a government engineer, was called upon for a toa st