Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
WORK FOR 10000
TO BOOST HIGHWAY
William Penn Governors Have
Important Session Ahead
of Them Tuesday

When the board of governors of the
William Penn Highway Association
meets at the Bellevue -Stratford Hotel,
Philadelphia, next Tuesday morning it
will have for its consideration a num-
Der of matters of great Importance to
the highway which serves, directly and
indirectly 100000 inhabitants of
Pennsylvania.
The governors, for one thing, will
determine the route to be followed
from Norristown to City Hall, Phila-
delphia; they will discuss a member
ship campaign whereby it is hoped to
increase the highway membership
10000; they will discuss the ''Wom-
ems William Penn Highway Fed
Grafton, proposed by Mrs George w.
Dibert, of Johnstown. former State
suffrage chairman; they will hear the
report OF a committee appointed to
hear the claim sof Mount Union, Hunt
lngdon county, which demands a
place in the sun; they will determine
whether the Pixies Peak highways
from Harrisburg south through Get
tysburg to Washington and from Read
ing east through Allentown and Eas-
ton to New York shall be known as
William Penn roads or as Pixies Peak
extensions" Tney will adopt a slogan
for the ighway-somet ething, for ex-
ample, like The William Penn High
way--Pennsylvania's Greatest Market
Road and Scenic Route"
Philadelphia Interested
Philadelphia is showing an increas-
ing interest in the William Penn propo-
sition. \. B. Kelly, general secretary
of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com
merce, has assured the association that
representatives of the Chamber will
be present at Tuesdays meeting. Sew
eral other organizations will also be
present.
1t has been suggested to the associa-
ton that its route into City Hall,
Philadelphia, be over Philadelphia
proposed Parkway. The highway, in
all probability, will use Lincoln Drive
to the Green street entrance of the
park. although this has not finally
been determined. The route into the
city, however, will be chosen for actual
service; and from Berks and Mont
gomery counties comes the request
that it be laid out with the idea Of
benefiting the agriculturists, who seek
permanently improved market road.
Gets Marking Permission
The William Penn association to-day
was granted permission to mark the
highway from the Ohio state line to
Philadelphia by the State Highway De-
partment. Under a law passed several
years ago no signs OF any kind may
be placed on State highways without
permission from the Highway Depart
ment and this permission has been
conveyed to the William Penn High
way through the chief engineer, w. D.
Uhler.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, through
General Manager S. G. Long, has given
the association permission to use its
poles, wherever required, and to place
metal markers on culverts owned by
the traffic corporation.
New Governors to be Named
At Tuesdays meeting William Penn
governors for Washington and Mont
gomery counties are to be named. The
Montgomery office has been vacant
since the associations organization,
and that in Washington county was
created at the Pittsburgh meeting,
June 21. If the New York and Wash
ington roads are declared part of the
William Penn Highway, governors
may also be named Tuesday for Ad-
ans, Lehigh and Northampton counties.