The interior journal., 1915-05-14
BOONE WAY ROUTE TO BE
FINALLY CHOSEN TODAY
Delegates From All Counties Affected
Meeting At Grab Orchard To
Settle Big Question.

Five or six hundred representative
citizens from all this section of the
Blue Grass and the Mountains are
meeting at Crab Orchard today for
for the purpose Of finally settling the
official route of the Boone Way from
the Cumberland Mountains 70 Louis
Vile.
From as far as Louisville they be-
gan passing through Stanford this
morning en- route to the capital of the
East End, where all will be royalty
entertained by Col. j. b. Willis and
his staff at the famous Crab Orchard
Springs hotel. Over 400 Boone Way
Booster badges have been printed for
the delegates, and visitors, and one of
the biggest good roads meetings ever
/ held in this or any other part of the
state is now under way.
Much interest has been manifested
in all quarters in today's meeting for
the reason that "A titantic struggle is
expected to develop over the final To-
eating Of the official route. Counties
In the Blue Grass section or at least
big majority of them are dissatis-
fled with the tentative selection of
the route as made at the Mt. Vernon
meeting few weeks ago, and
concerted effort on the part of a
large number of them is being made
to dnnul the action taken there, and
make a new selection, which shall be
final at the meeting today.
For this purpose, President James
| Maret. of the Boone Way Association.
requested the Commercial Clubs of all
| the counties affected and interested
to have two delegates appointed to
the meeting today, who shall have
| plenary powers in the matter of final
settlement of the route. At a meet
| ing of the Stanford Commercial Club
last week Messrs. j. S. Hooker and
Shelton Saufley were chosen as Lin
coin county's delegates with Judge
James p. Bailey and X. S. Alcorn as
alternates.
At the Mt. Vernon meeting, the
route for the Boone Way as tentative
ly agreed upon provided for the rout-
| ing of the road from Crab Orchard to
| Stanford. thence to Lancaster, thence
to Danville, thence to Harrodsburg.
| LawTenceburg and on to Louisville
There is no controversy over the
route from Cumberland Gap to Crab
Orchard; it will follow the main piked
roads through the mountain counties
which have recently voted road bonds
and will build the pixies. At Grab Or
chard the trouble begins. though
there is said to he a disposition on the
part of Madison county enthusiasts to
seek to have the official route divert
ed near Mt. Vernon to Berea, and on
to Richmond, thence to Lexington.
This proposition, it is hardly believed.
will meet with much favor. however,
as the main pike to be built through
Rockcastle county. will not lead to
the Madison county line. and there is
said to be no assurance of a pike
through the Berea section or Boones-
foro section, anyway.
The good roads boosters of Garrard
county are understood to be making
a hard fight to have the route run
through Lancaster, but as the main
Wilderness trail did not go through
Lancaster but came direct from Crab
Orchard to Stanford, thence to Dan
vile and Harrodsburg, it is not be-
lieved that the efforts of the Garrard
county men will amount to much.
1t is expected that at the meeting
today. efforts will be made in a con-
certed way by representative Of
majority of the counties, to route
the Boone Way originally contem-
plated by James Maret. the father"
of the entire movement and who are
dissatisfied with the routing as made
at Mt. Vernon. The delegates from
most of the counties involved are un-
derstood to be now committed to a
selection which will locate the route
on to Stanford from Crab Orchard,
to Danville from Stanford, thence to
Harrodsburg; then to Lexington over
the old Shakertown pike, replete with
| historic scenes; from Lexington to
Versailles. thence to Frankfort,
where Boone is buried; from Frank
fort to Shelbyville and on to Louis
vile. This route will cover practi-
cally all of the section of the blue
grass region of Kentucky which has
! figured in historic song and story and
will afford an ideal highway for mo-
torists and others touring this state.
A big delegation of Stanford busi-
ness men and good roads boosters
went up to Crab Orchard this morn
| ing to look after Lincoln county's in
terests. Large delegations from other
counties also went through by over
| land route and he gathering today
/ promises TO be nOtable one, and at
the same time very Interesting.
At the conclusion of the Boone
Way business, It is expected that con-
siderable discussion will lee had in re-
gard to the routing of the Dixie
Highway through the Blue Grass
| section.
The delegation from Lawrenceburg
to the Boone Way meeting at Grab
Orchard was headed by Editor J. NJ.
Alverson and Tom Bond. who went
through here Thursday afternoon, in
an auto with big streamers on the
side reading "Lawrenceburg Boone
Way" Mr.. Alverson said that 25
more auto loads of boosters would be
through Stanford today on their way
to Crab Orchard. Going some.
Don't Be a Crouch"
| Many pprsons acnuire n renutation