The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-31
HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION NOW
 FULLY ORGANIZED
AthertOn Elected President and Other Officials Named at Meeting
 Yesterday

At we'll attended meeting of rep
 resentatives from several different
 states, the Jackson Highway associa-
 tion was formally organized at the
 Chamber of Commerce yesterday and was elected president.
 Vice presidents were named from six
 southern states and plans made for a great mass meeting of the association
 at some place yet to be decided and at sometime in September or October of the present year. Both Birmingham and Nashville are candidates for the place of meeting.
 Speeches were made at the meeting yesterday by Miss Alma Rittenberry
 the original worker for the Jackson highway; Commissioner P. |. Atherton
 A. O. Lane, John Craft, w. s, Keller,
 state highway engineer; H. K. Mill
 ner, Herman Beck. chairman of the Chamber of Commerce good roads com
 naittee; and Henry Ragsdale of Pu- laslSi, Tenn.
 The speeches generally were along
 the line of proposed route, finances for construction of the road and for
 maintenance of the organization. mark ings for the highway and so forth. All
 these matters were passed over to be
 decided definitely at the fall meeting
 The meeting yesterday was merely for | temporary organization and was at tended by only invited leaders of the good roads projects from Chicago to the gulf. The meeting to be held this fall will be for the purpose of com pieting the temporary organization and
 placing the association on a self-sus- | taining and permanent basis The committee named by H. Key Milner, who presided, on temporary ar
 arrangements made the following report
 or organization of the association: It Is the unanimous recommendation
 of the committee on temporary organ | nation to the National Society United States Daughters of 1872 state of Ala
 pama, as having taken the initiative in planning and launching the highway fro the lakes to the gulf, naming it | In honor of Andrew Jackson. And. further, that the minutes of this meeting shall record the fact that | Miss Alma Rittenberry of Birmingham was appointed chairman of the work | by the Daughters of 1912. state of Ala | bama, on May 25, 1911. and has dili- gently worked in the interest of its plans and purposes.
 And, further, that in the minutes of this meeting of the Jackson Highway | association shall be recorded the first I annual report made by the chairman l of the Jackson highway, Miss Alma l Rittenberry, on October 31, 1911, to the president and board of directors of the Alabama Daughters of 1872. Temporary officers recommended by
 the committee on temporary organiza- I tion and elected were as follows: President, r. L. Atherton, Louisville, Ky
 Vice Presidents Alabama, w. S. Kei | Ter. Montgomery; John Craft, Mobile. Kentucky: Emory G. Dent, Allen county and E. l.. Quarles. Lexington. Indiana: Walter H. Grim, Selma; sec ond member to be named later. Mississippi: F. F. Cottrell Gulfport and Walter Gex, Bay St. Louis. Tennessee: J. G. Creveling, Nashville.
 and Ben Childers, Pulaski. Louisiana: Leon Schwarz and C. IT.
 Ellis. New Orleans.
 Naming of the temporary secretary was left to Temporary President Ather- ton.
 Two honorary vice presidents, as fol- lc WIS: Miss Alma Rittenberry and Mrs J. Morgan Smith of Birmingham Those present included the following: Bruce Kennedy of Montgomery, John Craft of Mobile, w. E. Skeggs of Deca tur E. M. Craig of Pulaski Tenn; J. F. Phillips of Pulaski, Tenn; F. F. Cot trell of Gulfport, Miss. M. c. Skinner of Citronville, w. R. Manier of Nash vile. John T. Long of Pulaski Gordon F. White of Pulaski, Jerry Ragsdale of Pulaski, M. o. Sullivan of Pulaski. w. A. McCalla of Decatur. G. A. Nelson of New Decatur. l.. Young of Chattanooga, P. l.. Atherton of Louisville. E. B. Deason of Clanton, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith of Bir mingham. Morgan Richards of Selma. The terminals of the Jackson high way, it was decided, should be Chicago
 and Buffalo in the north and New Or
 leans in the south. The double terminal in the north is being considered on ac-
 count of request from Buffalo that a
 branch from that city be allowed to connect with the Jackson highway
 somewhere in Indiana or Kentucky.