The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-09-21
THE HIGHWAY Commission
WAS WELL ROASTED
Sentiment of the Good Roads Meeting Last Night Was
Strongly Expressed Against the Commission and It's Work

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lasts last night in the courthouse was
the most largely attendeee meeting yet
held. The court room was packed
downstairs and in the balcony; even
the seats inside the rail ,dinarily oc-
cupied by the members If the jury
and bar were taken and there were
many standing over the ON and out
side in the hall. 1t is estimated that
at least one thousand me and women
were at the meeting or c me to Ocala
with the intention of a ending and
failed to do so because (. the limited
space in the court room.
Jasper, Lake City, Gainesville,
Leesburg and Ocala we the most
largely represented coz. nunities in
the meeting but there were those pres
eat from many of the smaller towns
along road No. 2, Micanopy, Mcintosh,
Reddick, Lowell, Kendrick, Belleview,
Weirsdale, Summerfield and High
Springs being well represented.
The meeting was presided over by
Mr. w. T. Gary, who announced at 8
o'clock that he was going to delay
opening the meeting a short while in
order that the visitors might have
time to secure supper The Ocala
restaurants were taxed 20 capacity
and better by the sudden influx and
the service was retarded to such an
extent that many visitors were not
able to get their supper atil after 8
o'clock. In the period of Waiting Mr.
Gary called a meeting o. the chair.
men of the delegations Fl ON the va
rious counties.
The meeting was called to order at
$3.50 and after short preliminary ad
dress by Mr.. Gary and an address of
welcome by Mayor Anderson, the
meeting got down to bus ness. Mr..
Gary called on the speasers of the
evening in their geogral lhical order,
beginning at the Georgia line and
working south. In his opening talk,
MIR. Gary outlined the action taken
Z at the meeting previously held at
Lake City and also at Gainesville. In
his welcome address Mr.. Anderson
expressed his qualification in the
number present and reminded those
assembled that they represented
$4,000 people directly affected by
road No. 2. He also made the asser-
stion that road No. 2 passed through
the sections that paid the greater
part of the taxes that supported the
state highway commission.
Before calling for the speakers of
the evening Mr.. Gary read the letters
of Governor Hardee and Judge Phil
ips, chairman of the state shighway
commission, which have appeared in
the, Star. Letters and kilograms were
also read sending regrets from the
Sanford Board of Trade, the Punta
Gorda Board of Trade, ]. F. Ashley
of Valdosta, Ga, and others, which
have appeared in these columns.
Mr.. F. J. Mccall, of Jasper, Ham
ilton county, was the first regular
speaker. He said it was proof Jasper
ties were for good roads when they
drive 40 miles over such roads as
they travelled yesterday in order to
attend a road meeting. Mr.. Mccall
gave some statistics to show that
state road No. 2 as outlined by the
state highway commission was di-
rectly connected with roads that
touched more people than any other
road in the state. He showed that
where it crossed the Georgia line at
Hamilton county it made direct con-
nection with the Indian Trail, the
National Highway and the Dixie
Highway, which roads run through
states having total population OF
74,900,O 900 people, or 10 per cent OF
the population of the United States
People coming from any of these
states must come over road No. 2 tt
get into Florida. Nc Mccall showed
that No. is the logical road to follow
in entering Florida, by reason of the
fact that it is through a territory
never covered by water during f1ooC
times. Indirectly Mr.. Mccall wa.
hitting at the road from Jacksonvill,
to Savannah, which runs through tht
swamps of South Georgia and Mas
sau county, Florida Mr.. Mccall say
we will have to put up a strong fgh
If we want the road because Capt
Hillman of the high commission, op
poses road No. 2. Mr.. Hillman wa