The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-24
BrunwiCk Board of Trade Gets
Busy on This Important
Roadway Subject.
MANY VISITORS TO BE HERE
County Commissioners and 9th
ers Interested in the Work in
This Section Are Invited to
Attend.


Commissioners of the Dixie Highway
association, Hon. Clark Howell, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, and Hon
w. T. Anderson, editor of the Macon
Telegraph, have written the Board of
Trade that they have definitely de-
cided to hold the meeting of repre-
the Dixie Highway on September /.
President Allison and the Georgia
commissioners will attend a meeting
of representatives of the counties and
towns along the central route, at
Waycross, on August 31st, and will
come on to Brunswick that after
noon by automobile, following the
the Brunswick -Waycross road, which
just now is in the limelight because
of the bad condition of two sections
and the efforts of the Waycross
Chamber of Commerce and the Bruins
wick Board of Trade to have it i'm
proved.
The meeting at Brunswick will be
| held either in the late forenoon or
| early afternoon, in order that peo-
coast Route from Savannah to Jack
| sonville, may be able to reach Bruins
wick by either automobile or trains
! over the Seaboard Air line, in time
| for the meeting and return home the
same day.
President Allison and the commits
sioners of the Dixie Highway associa
, ton will leave Brunswick in the aft
| ernoon of Saturday, Sept. l, for Sa-
vannah, where they will meet good
! roads advocates. A large number OF
| the most prominent Savannah auto
moblists and good roads boosters will
| attend the Brunswick meeting and
| accompany President Allison and the
commissioners on the trip to Savan
nah. From Savannah the inspection
party will go to Milledgeville, where
a similar meeting will be held on
| Monday, Sept. 8, following which the
| party will inspect the remainder OF
| the Seacoast Route from Mlledge
vile, via toSne Mountain, to Atlanta
| Responses are coming in to the
| Brunswick Board of Trade by every
mail to requests for names of auto
mobile owners and other good roads
| advocates, and indications are that
! there will be very large attend
ance at the Brunswick meeting of the
people from Savannah, Jacksonville
| and intervening points.
| There is peculiar significance to the
meeting at this time, because of the
| fact that President Allison is now in
Washington making a determined eff
! by the war department and the Coun
Gil of National Defense of the prop
osition to include the Seacoast Route
and other portions of the Dixie High
way, in the proposed military high
ways to be taken over by the gov
ernment, widened where necessary
| paved with lasting materials as fast
| as possible, and made into military
| roads that will porve of incalculable
value in case of invasion by foreign
foe for moving our troops, artillery
and supplies from one coast fortifica
ton to another, as we'll as from the
| interior army camps and forts to the
! coast and from one to the other as
shifting may be necessary. The pr(
| posed military highways include 6
road following the coast from port tt
port all the way from Canada tC
Mexico. Interior roads will be con
structed to connect the cantonments
and forts with each other and, al
strategic points with the coasta
highway.
The value of such a road, after il
has been taken over by the govern
ment and improved to the sections
through which it passes for CONNER
cial purposes and touring cannot be
over-estimated. This winter there
! will be thousands upon thousands Of