The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-22
JACKSONVILLE HAS
"DONE" WOKE UP.

Holy Moses and the Angels! Like
vie, Holy Smoke!
Jacksonville has "done" woke up to
the Importance of Central Florida
Highway leading from that city down
through the State to Tampa Presl-
dent C. H. Mann of the Jacksonville
= Bed Room of Commerce, after a long
sleep, perchance dream, has had an
IDEA. 1t is to call a convention In
jacksonville to take steps to build this
road. He is going to put this IDEA
of his I'D to the Governors and Good
Roads Committee of his organization,
and "they will probably soon call
convention of County Commissioners
and Enthusiasts to discuss the mat
ter" All this we learn from last
Sundays Metropolis, mother wide
awake" of Jacksonville.
Now what do you think of that?
This is the Mann Idea" one that
struck him amidships only after the
balance of the State, and particular
" the counties through which the pro-
posed highway is to run, have, at great
conventions held in Orlando, Kissim-
NEE and Lakeland routed the pro-
posed highway, and twothirds of the
interested counties have already held
elections and voted bonds for its build
ing!
WHY. that Lakeland convention
alone was made up of fully 4,OOO Ell
thusiasts," and more than 1000 OF
them applied for membership IN TINS
Central Florida Highway Association,
the legitimate daddy of the idea
of constructing this Central Florida
Highway from Jacksonville to Tampa.
At a recent banquet in Jacksonville,
piven in honor of the F. n. e., one OF
the speakers referred to Palatka and
other cities down the line of this pro-
posed Central Florida Highway, as
the "backwoods cities and towns" "a
latka doesn't object to the appelatlon
when applied from Jacksonville. But
it might be to the advantage OF the
CITY with the swelled head If the
President of its Bed Room Of Com
merce would quit his dreaming for a
time and get out in these "backwoods"
districts of, the State and see some
thing Gliding"
When we have built this great
highway of which, by common con-
sent of the association, Jacksonville
was made the northern terminus, 1t Is
hoped that the inhabitants of the city
of booze and bluff and mortgages ami
three-ball signs will be able to get
down the line and see something OF
Florida and the activities of the back
woods"
In a letter to the president of the
Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce
our Secretary Elliott has recited the
history of the Central Florida High
way Association, and also reclteo
somewhat of other good road activities
in Florida; this coupled with a whole
some amount of advice concerning
his organizations treatment OF GER
tain Florida interests not centered If
Jacksonville. Among other gooo
things he said: Il find in my travels
through the State that it would be-
hoove the citizens of Jacksonville tc
cultivate a feeling of fellowship and
good will, and to show by their con-
duct that they have naught but CON-
mendation for the efforts OF all sec
tions of the Florida peninsular, thai
thew are willing to commend and CO.
operate in all things that are for the
welfare of the State at large, and tha'
the selfishness that is thought to b'
prevalent in that city by all sections
does not exist"