Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-24
TO ELECT PENN
ROAD GOVERNORS
Pixies Peak Highway President
to Attend Meeting at
Reading

President Charles f. Adams of the
Pixies Peak Ocean to Ocean High
way, who lives at Chillocothe, No.,
and Secretary A. W. Henderson of
that highway, from Colorado Springs,
Will attend the January meeting of
the William Penn Highway Associa-
ton at Reading next Monday. The
Reading Chamber of Commerce will
be hosts to the Highway Association
at luncheon to be served at the
Hotel Berkshire. The members OF
the William Penn legislative commit
tees from counties along the road will
also meet in Reading next Monday to
make plans for the coming year.
At the Reading meeting road gov
ernors and deputies are to be elected
for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; also
for Washington. Lebanon, Berks and
Montgomery counties. In all prob
ability the governor for Washington
county will be Edward Mcdonald,
president of the First National Bank
OF Washington. George +. Eisen-
brown of Reading will likely be the
choice for Berks county, and George
Sullivan of Norristown for Mont
gomery county.
The association has pledged itself for
good roads for Pennsylvania at large
and will work in harmony with other
road organizations and the State
Highway Department.
Activity Other Places
The promoters of the proposed Sus-
quehanna trail, connecting HARRISBURG
and Elmira, y. Y, through Williams
port: propose to secure the completion
of this old highway so as to permit
travellers on the William Penn and
Lincoln Highways to reach the good
roads of New York State on a direct
north and south road through Penn
sylvania.
Residents of McConnellsburg, Full
ton county, are back of a proposition
to construct a permanent highway
from that town, on the Lincoln High
way, to Mt. Union, on the William
Penn Highway, declaring that it Is
the one logical place between Cham
bersburg and Pittsburgh to connect the
States two main highways. The route
/ is part of the Sproul system of State
roads and passes through q leve
country, touching Knobsville. Fort
Littleton, Burnt Cabins, Shade Gap
Orbisona and Shirleysburg. The road
is one of the most picturesque in the
State. McConnellsburg will send g
delegation to see the Legislature re.
garding this proposition.
Other Bodies Busy
The great success attending the eff.
forts of the William Penn Highway
boosters, as a result of whose activity
travel over the road was 60 per cent
greater in 1916 thar 1915, has in.
spired other organizations. For the
first time in its history the Lincolr
Highway Association is to hold a meet
ing in Pennsylvania, having called to.
gether it's Keystone State consuls a.
Harrisburg February 5.
The second issue of the William
Penn Highway Bulletin will be ISSUED
about February 10 and will contain Q
number of very interesting features
among them a composite effort by q
score of the most prominent humor.
lists in the United States, leading of
with Frank p. Adams of the New
| York Tribune and winding up will
| Bert Lesion Taylor of the Chicago
Tribune. Chief Engineer w. D. Uhlel
of the State Highway Department has
very interesting article, as has State
Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery
and E. Il. c. Gibbs of Huntingdon.