Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-01-18
GREAT lee HIGHWAY
| STARTED TOMORROW
Will Parallel Llnqoln Trail Pass
Ing Through the South
land.

DIR. 8. nj. Johnson In New York Times.
Tomorrow will mark the annivers-
airy OF the birth Of General Robert u.
Ice. On that day an important step
will be taken for a great memorial to
Lee IN the form OF n transcontinental
highway extending from New York to
San Francisco by way OF Washington,
Memphis and San Diego. In n way the
Lee Highway will parallel the Lincoln
Highway, and ms one road now runs
through the land OF Lincoln, the other
will run through the land OF Lee. To-
gethcr they will practically encIrclc
the national domain binding together
North, South, East and West.
on the anniversary of General Lees
birth the Lee Highway Association,
the organization behind the building
OF this great pavement from one coast
10 the other, Will hold n celebration In
Richmond as part OF the meeting OF
the Virginia Good Roads Convention.
Although only twenty months old the
work OF the Lee Highway Association
has already progressed SO steadily
that completion OF the transcontinen-
tai route Is anticipated within three
years. The response from the yari-
| GUS communities through which the
road will pass has been splendid, and
we feel repaid for the labor we have
expended on tho project.
The Eastern section OF the highway
will lead from New York to Memphis.
passing out Of Washington over the
great bridge TO be erected from the
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former house at Arlington. and thence
by historic Falls Church. Va; Fair
fax Court House, through Manassas
Battlefield, Wairenton, tho heart oil
the fox-hunting country; over tho
crest OF the Blue Ridge by way OF
Massanutten Mountain and LuraS
Cave and on into the famous Shen'
andoah Valley of Virginia Mt New
! market.
BY Wilson's Birthplace.
Thence the road turns southwest Il
Stnunton, the former home OF ex
President Wilson. and proceeds 4
Lexington and on TO the majestic Nat
, ural Brige. From this celebrated spo
the highway progresses thr6gl
, Roanoke. Va, to Bristol. just on tn
. line between Virginia and TENNESSEE
j. From Bristol. superb mountain coiin
try Is traversed all the way 70 Chat
, tanooga. as the road trails throug
. the Southern Appalachians. The dis
. lance from Washington 20 Chatta
: nooga is Gao miles. Two routes ar
: under consideration from Chattanoog
). 10 Memphis. One which goes by wa
OF the now famous Muscle Shoals
ass miles long. the other by way
!. | Nashville is 500 miles.
; The next step IL 10 fix the rout
n from Chattanooga 70 San Diego and o
= 10 San Francisco. On Nov. ~, &C
: e0mpa MED by NJ o. Eldridga OF Wash
: lngton, representing the America
a Automobile Associatio and sewers
government officials. | went by auto
mobile TO the Pacific Coast, reachin
. San Diego Nov. 80 The ropte IN
!, spected was through Little Rock, He
: Springs and DE Queen, ARR; Duran
$ Iawton and Altus. Okla; Childres
!, land Plainview, Texas: Clovis. Roswe
; and Alamogordo. y. NJ; FL Pas
Texas: Las Cruces. Deniing an
4 I.ordsburg. n. M: Duncan. Saffor
: Globe, Roosevelt Dam. Phoenix, Gil
y Bend and Yuma. Ariz.; thence to Sa
Diego, Cal. Returning by train / he
<. conferences at Amarillo. Texas: DIX
d homa City, Okla, and Little Rock. Ar
J. The itinerary OF this trip was MAD
= cut in advance in Washington. and Il
e present condition OF the road may
k inferred from the fact that the sches
: ule was maintained throughout, bl
n there were no roadside delays excel
II twice when a nail picked up on eli
E. street necessitated a change OF tires
Of that not a serious hill was found b.
lie tween the Mississippi and the Pacifi
s. ard thatsthe average running time W.
es twenty miles an hour.
re Each state has offered US line TO
designated as Lee Highway and W
IN cooperate with US and the FEEDER
H. government in its construction as
" Interstate highway. II is the expe
tuition that within three years of le
la all unfinished sections Will be compile
IN ID and our road viii be reality fro
Fl. Washington TO San Diego. disable 3
j. days in the year and shorter by ma
as hundreds OF miles than any other TO
IL likely to be built within the next SIEVE
e- "a years. Over the routes surveyed I
IL distance from the Zero milestone
er Washington to San Francisco, is 3,4
IN. miles, from Washington to L
nd Angeles, $3.50 mics.
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