Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-07-20
MEETING OF
EAST MICHIGAN
PIKE ASSOCIATION.
(By VAN PELT.)

second annual meeting OF the East
Michigan Pike Association. We re-
turned the same evening, having had a
good time generally, the usual fine fish
dinner for which Mackinaw City is so
Justly noted on these occasions. OF
course, the big man of the OCCASION was
Mr.. Frank j. Rogers, Michigan State
Highway Commissioner, who gave us a
fine address and urged the necessity of
building good roads. Mr.. VIM. Snydor
Galbreath gave wonderful talk on the
great beauty OF the Dixie Highway. He
is the father OF this Highway and has
made many trips over this wonderful
National route extending from Miami,
Florida north to Chattanooga where it
branches off northwest to Chicago and
extending through Michigan via Grand
Rapids and Holland where it follows
the West Michigan Pike to Mackinaw
City and from Mackinaw City it follows
the East Michigan Pike to Detroit,
Toledo add Cincinnati and on to Chatta-
nooga, making without doubt 1000
miles OF the most beautiful highway in
the world, with its 800 miles of water
washed air around the East and West
coasts of Michigan. Harry j. Board
man, connected with the Michigan
Concrete Road Association, and also a
large farmer and raiser of Holstein
cattle, gave us good talk. j. w. Han
non, editor OF "Roads and Forests at
Detroit, Michigan, monthly paper de-
voted entirely to good roads, and
which every man, woman and child
who are interested in the greatest work
OF the nation, that is, road building,
ought to be subscriber to, the Mayor
OF Cheboygan, and Mr.. Geo. V. Hoff-
man, a taXIdermist of national reputa-
ton, and many others were present.
OF course, no meeting OF this kind
would be complete without the presence
of Michigan's father of good roads,
Horatio S. Earle, the handsomest man
man in Michigan. Nothing can be said
that the people do not already know
about this great man. His monument
erected last year in honor of the great
work he has done stands in the public
square, and while it is very beautiful,
it really does not do the man Justice,
but he is very modest and well pleased
and justly proud as he has reason to be,
that the people built this monument to
perpetuate his memory. One of the
good things about it is, that they did
not wait until after he died to either
send flowers or say good words, but
they did il while he was living This
letter would not be complete without
an extra reference to the Chairman Of
the Committee being made. The Honor
able Mr.. Baker, ex-member of the
legislature of the great state OF Michi-
gan, but no relation to the baker, the
butcher or the candlestick maker. He
did himself proud in all Of his intro
ductions and proved himself a true
patriot and American in urging Ameri-
cans to be Americans, and those that
were not Americans to shut up and get
out Of the country. His talk was a
corker. think we could afford to give
Mr.. Baker good salary to come down
here and live with us. Ii is really too
bad that more people are not interested
in attending these meetings. 1t was
the best one | ever attended, and we
bring you greetings from the people
there assembled and the great news
that Supt. Rogers will recommend to
the u. S. Government that they grant
Charlevoix County Federal Aid on
National roads. This means that a mile
of concrete road which can be built for
approximately $1,000, that Uncle Sam
will pay 81, 500, the state 81, $50, leaving
Charleyoix County to pay only s., $50
for a concrete road 16 feet wide, and
the only expense that We can be to will
be per cent interest on the bonds for
s5, $50 or a little over 500 per year per
mile, which will be reduced year by
JCdi IL W hC
amount allowed by the state for the up
keep will be more than it will cost to
keep this road up judging from the fact
that the large traffic over the two
pieces of concrete road we have here,
one of which has been built eight
years and the other seven years with
out one dollar OF expense having been
put on either: Supt. Rogers also SAID
that he would recommend state aid on
some other roads which is 1900 for a
l6 foot concrete road.
feel that vote of thanks should be
rendered Mr.. Rogers for the efficient
manner in which he is conducting thi S,
the most important and one of the
greatest interest to our state. He has
nearly sixty people employed in his de-
partment and all necessarily must be
hiUh GRADE DeODlq