The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-29
ONE MORE LINK IN
 HIGHWAY PROJECT
 HAS BEEN FORGED
Miss Rittenberry Active for Many Years In Securing Recognition for Bee
 Line Highway

Miss Alma Rittenberry is being con- graduated on the opening of the Bir- nningham- Montgomery highway. which Line highway.
 The North and South Bee Line high way is the original route that was suggested at a national good roads convention that was held in Birming- ham May 23. 1911, for the Jackson highway. but after four years of hard pioneer work the Jackson highway was lost to Birmingham through the rec concentrations of the state highway engineer, ". S. Keller, to the Path finder.
 At the meeting in Louisville. Ky, In 1915. the Jackson highway was sent over the old Jackson Military high way through Florence, down through Mississippi; the Alabama Jackson high way going from Nashville through Huntsville, becoming tourist route for the north and west through Gads- den over to the Dixie highway through the center of Georgia.
 Miss Rittenberry, however, an nounced from the floor in Louisville that the original route would be re- tained as a lakes to gulf highway. Later an organization was formed in Birmingham and the route named the North and South Bee Line highway. F. c. Champion of Montgomery was elected president, with Miss Ritten- berry, field manager.
 Nest of the highway is built for u goes over to the old Louisville and Nashville turnpike, which runs from Louisville to the Alabama state line. It traverses a rich agricultural and densely settled section of the county. It is route of unsurpassed beauty, coming down from Chicago with it's wonderful country clubs, golf links and driveways; through Indiana, with her corn fields, through Indianapolis, with her speedway, to Louisville, with her 14-mile boulevard connecting her three magnificent parks, Cherokee, Shawnee and Iroquois; on down through the Blue Grass section to Nashville, that has splendid turnpikes radiating in every direction; on down to old farms in scenery and history to De- catur, where it is proposed to build a mammoth bridge across the Tennessee river to Birmingham, that has hun dreds of miles of good roads leading out in every direction, with splendid hotels, beautiful country clubs and golf links surrounded by magnificent scenery, through which the newly com pleted bitulithic highway passes as it le1tRss the city. going over Red noun rGfn through Shade Cahaba valley and on up to the top of Shades mountain.
 At Montgomery the highway forks one link going through Mobile, skirt ing the gulf coast one of the most beautiful scenic highways on the con tinent, on to New Orleans.
 The Florida route is from Montgom- cry through the prosperous town of Dothan, on through the beautiful old cities of Marianna and Quincy, through Tallahassee, with her magnificent roadways bordered with tall pines and great spreading oaks draped with gray moss.
 Miss Rittenberry has had a number of articles on the old roads and trails of America, including the old Santa Fe trail old Pots road, the old Moli- chucky trail or Boones trail, old Nat chez trail, the old National turnpike, the Bardstown pike, and others of his- tory and romances.
 In October, 1917, as a delegate to the southern commercial congress, held at the Astor hotel, New York, she read a paper on Good Roads Every where," taking the slogan of the Ma tional Good Roads association for her subject, but her best and hardest work has been for national highway con- meeting the lakes and the gulf through the country she knows and loves.
 When Miss Rittenberry was appoint ed field manager she appointed Mrs. S. L. Ledbetter as chairman to beauti1y the highway running north, and Mrs. Chappell Cory was appointed chair man of the route running south.