The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-29
URGES CITY To
GO TO WORK FOR
DIXIE HIGHWAY
A. L. CHURCH, WHO HAS JUST
MADE A TRIP TO FLORIDA, is
SURE THIS ROUTE is DEClD-
EOLY THE BEST ONE.

A. l.. Church. president of the GeOr-
gia Veneer and Package company,
who has just been over the highway
between Brunswick and Jacksonville,
goes on record as favoring energetic
action on the part of the mayor and
council, the commissioners of the
county and the Board Of Trade to
have the Dixie highway commissions
ers select the coast route as the east
ern leg Of The Dixie highway.
He stated yesterday that there can
be no comparison between the coast
route and the other routes running
through the interior and which are
proposed by the local interests along
them for the eastern leg Of the new
highway. This is the scenic route. he
says, and therefore the route which a
tourist would prefer above all others.
He went into the advantages of this
route at much length. He said: "A
tourist from the north en- route to
Florida is not interested in farms and
orchards or even fine cattle when he
is touring the country for pleasure. In
The first place in the fall and winter
the farms and orchards are bare and
ii their least attractive condition. Fine
cattle, Of course, are good to look at
but it is very seldom that they are to
be seen from the roadside and who
ever heard of a tourist stopping his
car every few hours leaving it stand
ing While he goes to rubber at steers,
hogs or fields.
'As far as that goes, however many
of the finest farEls, orchards and cat
tie farms in Georgia lie along the
route by the coast What tourist is
intel ested in is the history Of the
country. and the points of interest
connected with that history. Famous
resorts, winter homes, beautiful seen
cry al these things appeal to him. No
proposed route other than the coast
route offers such points of interest as
these.
81 have within the past few days
made trip i'll my car to Jacksonville,
&oing from Brunswick southward by
way Of WOCdbine or along the Kings
land route which practically parallels
the Seaboard Air Line. | found the
road in very good condition and the
ferries in good shape to handle the
cars across the rivers at both Wood
bine and at St. Marys, though the ap-
prOaches to these ferries should be
improved and in my talks with the
pFoprletOrs of the ferries they assured
NE it is their purpose and desire to
do everything in their power to facili-
tate the traffic along the highway and
to make the route attractive to the
tourist and safe for all.
81 believe that these men mean
what they say and because of nv
great interest in the highway and
what it means to Brunswick. Sayan-
nah and Georgia | missed no ODpor-
tunity to urge upon them the necessity
for constantly improving not only the
terriers but the roads. was very
much gratified and encouraged bv the
interest they took in what | had to saw
and the spirit with which they met me
and responded
Il returned from Jacksonville to
Brunswick by way of Owens Ferry a
road which leaves the railway and
runs to the westward thereof for sew
eral miles. found that the better
route had but little more trouble
with the ferry service at the river
crossing.
} cannot urge the people Of Bruins
wick and the officials OF orr citv and
county too strongly to get after the
Dixie highway and get after it to get