The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-12
SEC. GILBREATH
SHOWS GAIN GOOD
ROADS WILL BRING
INTERESTING ADDRESS WAS
MADE LAST NIGHT AT
CITY HALL.
DELAYED SEVERAL HOURS
ON ACCOUNT OF DETOUR
The South Offers Historic Inter-
est, Scenic Interest and In
vestment Opportunity Small
Crowd Was Present.

At the instance of Field Secretary
w. 5. Gilbreath, of the Dixie Highway
ascsCication, Glynn county council of
the Dixie highway was formed at a
meeting in the city hall last night with
Mayor j. Hunterf Hopkins, president;
f. &. Twitty, vice president; R. V.
Richard, secretary and treasurer; n.
Emanuel and A. l.. Church directors,
with the former three as ex-officio di-
rectOrs.
There was a membership card pass
ed around and the following subscrib-
ed to an annual membership of five
dollars each: l.. S. Robb, A. M Ross,
A. M. Smith. C. D. Parker, A. l..
Church, G. w. Harper G. A. Faber.
N Emanuel, F. E. Twitty, w. H. Wood,
r. r. Hopkins, Sr., and j. Hunter Hop
kins These members get a Dixie
highway badge to be placed on their
cars and years subscription to the
Dixie highway, the journal published
by the association
Secretary Gilbreath arrived from
Jacksonville in the city last night at
7:30 o'clock, delayed five and a half
hours on account of bridge that was
being built Is miles this side of Jack
sonville. requiring a long detour in
coming to Brunswick. AS a conse-
quence of his not arriving at the stat
ed time and no explanation being fur
nished during the afternoon, the as
sembly at the city hall to hear the ad-
dress was much smaller than would
otherwise have been.
Mr. Gilbreath was introduced by
Mayor Hopkins and the we'll known
tourist and road man began with an
intensely interesting lot of figures and
facts that should make every Georgian
living on the Dixie highway feel opti-
mistic. Mr.. Gilbreath has been in tour
list road work for Is years and knows
the details of every highway in the
United States, having been one of the
leaders in securing the Lincoln high
way from New York to San Francisco
For the past few years he has been
secretary of an Indiana Motor club and
he says that innumerable inquiries
came to him from tourists about a
good road } tour the south. Being un-
able to offer the right kind of propo-
sition, they ahve invariably said that
they would go east or west where they
hight have good roads. He gave actual
figures that 100000 were registered
as taking the American highway west
cfo 10
urally spending millions of dollars on
the trips.
"The three principles for which peo-
pie travel" said Mr.. Gilbreath, ARE
seeing places of historic and scenic in
terest and making investments. Practi-
cally all American historic interests
are along the Atlantic seaboard. From
Indiana a tourist must travel 1900
miles over monotonous prairies abso-
lu ,ely without scenery or history, the
Rocky mountains being the first seen
cry. while there is practically no mo-
notony in the Dixie highway, being
mountains and then the seacoast, all
studded with historic interests. The
east and west have become so intense
" populated until real estate can't be
bought and the south offers practically
all the present investment opportunity
in the United States, when property
advertised.
THE cities of Minneapolis and St.
Paul conducted Investigations through
their civic bodies several years ago
and published its findings in pamph-
let called The Burdens of Bad Roads.
1t was discovered that from the replies
received from over 1000 farmers their
own estimate of losses accruing from
their inability TO reach their legitimate
market totalled $747,149s0 for a given
period. On the other hand. the bust
ness mems estimate for the same Pc