Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-20
Thirty-fivc Autos and 80
Delegates Storm the
Convention.
PLAN TO BRING BACK
NEXT ANNUAL MEET
This City Is Recognized as
Leading All Good Roads
Movements.

ID ROFUSELY decorated with Tulsa
L and Ozark Trails pennants 35
automobiles led hy the seven passen-
ger Case car recently purchased by the
Chamber OF Commerce to be used by
the good roads branch of the COM
mcrcial body In organizing formid-
able following to combat all opposing
forces and bring the Ozark Trail
through Tulsa, got under way at
o'clock Sunday afternoon bound for
Chandler. Okla, whore the cars re-
main Sunday night awaiting the ar
rival of the Tulsa delegation by rail
Monday morning.
Owing to the extremely bad stretch
of road from Sapulpa west To Chandler
II was deemed advisable to run the
cars light from Tulsa to Chandler
that the wear and tear that would be
sustained by the automobiles in pass
ing through these bad roads With
heavy loads would be avoided.
To Make Fight
II was stated by f.. Bee Guthrey.
good roads organizer of the Chamber
Of Commerce, under whose guidance
the cars will make the trip to Okla
homa city. that sufficient good roads
enthusiasts had sgnified their inten-
tion Of Joining the Chamber of Com
mcrcc and Tulsa Automobile Dealers
association in their fight for the June
convention, to fill all cars and insure
larger delegation than any other
contender for next years convention
hOnors.
Intense rivalry will be in evidence
when the hour for balloting on the
1917 convention city as it has been
announced that at the meeting to be
held next June the official route for
the Ozark Trail will be announced and
with the convention held in Tulsa
there is very little possibility of Tulsa
failing to secure recognition of the
route that passes this way.
At oklahoma City all hotel accom-
modations have been reserved and the
daily papers of the capital city have
been calling upon the citizens to throw
open their private homes that the
many thousand delegates may be as
surcd sleeping accommodations
Estimates of the convention man
ayers who have headquarters at Okla
homa city place the number of auto
mobiles that will be in the capital at
four thousand and the number of
delegates in attendance at twelve
thousand. The Oklahoma City cham
Der of commerce has advertised the
convention of the good roads en-
thusiasts as the largest in matter OF
attendance and importance that has
ever been held in that city and SO
enthused with the spirit of the work
before the delegates have the business
men Of that city become, that several
of the larger institutions have de-
clarcd half holidays and many of the
state offices, especially that of the
executive, the state highway depart
meut and the state engineer. have been
closed. that all connected with these
branches OF the states government
might attend all of the sessions.
Williams for Is.
During recent visit to Tulsa. Gov
ernor Williams stated in an address
before the Tulsa Chamber of Com
mcrce that he believed the road and
highway question in the state was one
of the biggest problems that the pco-
pie of oklahoma had to face, and that
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