Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-05
HIGHWAY TOURISTS
HERE THURSDAY
Great Motorcade Is Starting
From Jacksonville, Florida
This Morning


sponsoring, and in which every
city, town and county along the
Dixie Highway i'll the South is in
vited to join, will take place this
week. The motorists are expect
ed here Thursday.
The start will be made from
Jacksonville and Gainesville, Fla,
at g a. M. Monday, September 5,
with arrival in Cincinnati the
morning of Friday, September 9,
in time for the opening session of
the Dixie Highway Association
meeting to 4e held Friday and
Saturday in the Ohio city.
The first days run for florida
and South Georgia cars will be to
aeon, Ga, via Waycross or Thom-
lsvilie, and for Southeast Georgia
cars, including Brunswick. Savan-
nah and Augusta to Millcdgeville.
Lunch stops will be at Waycross,
ThOmasville and Savannah.
Tuesdays run will be from Mill
>dgeville and Macon via Atlanta
20 Chattanooga with Atlanta as
the lunch stop. At the same time
I Carolina division will leave
Ireenville for Knoxville via
Asheville, and Newport, Tenn,
With lunch at Ashevillc and New
port the night stop.
Wednesday will be given for
the drive across Tennessee from
Chattanooga and Newport to Jel-
leo via Knoxville, which will be
the lunch stop.
Thursdays drive will be from
Jellico to Lexington, through the
Kentucky mountains. a section of
scenic beauty, with lunch at Lon
don.
The final leg into Cincinnati
will be made Friday morning
from Lexington.
Elaborate preparations are be-
ing made along the route and in
Cincinnati for the entertainment
of the tourists. The Atlanta
+Chamber of Commerce, Georgia
Automobile Association and At
iauta Automobile Association will
extend joint reception to the
visitors stopping there The
Chattanooga Automobile Club
will greet them with hearty wei
come at Chattanooga. At Knox
vile the Automobile Club and
Board of Commerce will be hosts
at a luncheon at the Cherokee
Country Club, which is OH the
highway entering that city. The
Chamber of Commerce at Jellico
will look after the comfort of the
tourists spending the night there.
At Lexington the Board of Com
merce and Automobile Club joint
ly will entertain the visitors at
the Blue Grass Fair, which will be
i'll progress.
In Cincinnati special entertain
ment features will include a trip
to the famous Cincinnati Zoo, a
sight t-seeing trip over the city "a
dinner and drive over the con
crete: Dixie Highway to Dayton
Ohio, with a visit to the. Natio1ia
Cash Register factories.
! St. Elmo w. Acosta, City Com
missioner of Jacksonville, will
head the tourists from that city
, to Macon. w. T., Anderson, ed
/; itor of the Macon Telegraph, and
director of the Dixie Highway AS
sociation, will be. in charge from
, Macon to Chattanooga. From
Chattanooga to Cincinnati, Judge
NJ. M. Allison, president of the
Dixie Highway Association, and
President Mark K. Wilson, of the
Chattanooga Automobile Club
will blaze the trail The Caroline
division will be piloted mot Knox
Vile by N. Buckner, Secretary ot
Asheville Board of Trade. and 9
director of the Dixie Highway
Association.
/ Advance registrations indicate
the tour will roll into Cincinnati
with 135 or more cars and 5O(
persons in line. Florida will have
!. five to ten cars and perhaps more
Macon five, Atlanta Is to Is, ter
to fifteen from other Georgis
!, points, Chattanooga ten to fifteer
Knoxville ten to fifteen, othel
East Tennessee points fifteen, fvs
or more from the Carloinas, Ken
lucky points south of Lexington
ten, Lexington fifteen and point!
above Lexington fifteen.
I This tour will mark the forrna
opening of the 44O mile section 0
the Dixie Highway. Eastern Divi
)! sion, between Chattanooga AM
II Cincinnati. Through tours
/ travel has been using this rout
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