The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-27
lEE-JACkSON HIGHWAY
IS NEED OF SOUTH
Good Road From Washington TO the
Far South Would Prove of Sur
passing Benefit
PASS THROUGH RICHMOND
RALEIGH AND OOLUMBI \
Quebec and Miami Highway stlil
Lacks Many Important I1nks--Pro-
posed Road Would Honor Memory
of Great Chieftains.

In suggesting a Lee and Jackson
Highway from Washington to the
South, the Manufacturers Record of
this week says:
Across the continent from the At
lantie TO the Pacific is being de-
veloped the Lincoln Highway, and
from the West-through Central South
to Miami, Fla. the Dixie Highway
is being projected
These are great schemes worthy Of
all possible support The construction
of these reads will mean much to the
entire country; far more, indeed. than
can tpday be generally appreciated
by those who have not watched the
growing power of the automobile and
the motor truck in times os war as
well ar in the arts of peace without
the motor truck and the good roads
of central Europe the rapid movement
of tremendous armies and munitions
of war would have been impossible.
The power Of the automobile. ana
the motor truck for business and for
pleasure, for war and for peace. IS
practically limitless. We have only
seen the beginning of the develop
ment of this mighty engine for the
enlargement of human activities. 1t
is therefore. Of national Importance
that these great highways as project
ed should be built, and built solidiy
able to stand any traffic that may he
put upon them. They will help to
cement the interests of the entire
country; they will vastly increase its
prosperity; they will enlatge the ac-
quaintanceship of people of all sec
! lions with other sections; they WI
bring about increasing prosperity CT
the country through which they run
and the betterment of all farm life
/ tributary TO them. Out from these
main highways will be built an almost
! limitless number OF short roads open
ing up the whole country to the auto
mobile and the motor truck for busi-
ness and for pleasure,
( There is, however. the need for
another great highway, and, as pre-
viously suggested in the Manufacture
ers' Record. one ought tn be built
] from Washington, where II would
meet direct well-built roads running
on to New York and Boston. and
even to Canada. through the central
South. reaching Richmond. Raleigh,
and Columbia. and then on down,
with one branch passing through At
iaLta and another running into Florida
and reaching both the east coast and
I AtiH west EDdSA Oh that SAatS4 VlS
highway, passing through SO many cap
itals. from States which formed the
! Confederacy, should be known as the
Lee and Jackson Highway. 1t would
be worthy In location and worthy In
name of the other highways upon
which such energetic work is being
done. II would pass through Wash
ington. the capital of the nation. and
through Richmond, the capital of the
Confederacy, and with this joining of
these cities would typifv the union of
the whole country. The name. too.
would be worthy of the greatest high
way that could be built in this or any
other land, for among all civilized
people there are no names in human
history that for greatness and good
ness of heart outrank those of Lee
and Jackson.
ut is true that highway along
part of this line has been projected
under the title of the Quebec and
Miami Highway. Much work has
been done upon it, For a greater
part of the distance 1t is a passably
fair road. for some of the distance
1T is splendid highway of firm con-
struction. but 1t still lacks the essential
element of being one unbroken. con-
Meeting link between Washington and
the far South. There are many miss
ling links in It. A great deal of the
work has been done has been with
a view merely to building a passably
fair road without any broad plan of
making II thoroughly modern in con-
istrmetion and able to handle at all
times any amount of traffic that
might be developed. The work that
has been done in stimulating an in
terest in a highway between Canada.
through New York and Washington
to Florida is good. but this ought to
/ be regarded as merely the pioneering
work in preparing for the building of
/ a good highway. matching In construc-
| ton the best in the country in mem
| DRY of the names of Lee and Jack
SON."