The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-28
Victory Highway Manager
Meeting With Success in West.
San Francisco to Help Improve
Road Across Nevada.
RAISE $4,000 IN ONE DAY
Governors of Two States at
Luncheon Which Starts Drive.
Ben. Blow, of Topeka, Chief
Speaker at Opening Banquet.

San Francisco, Cal, Oct. 2S.-Re-
markable success, is meeting the eff
forts of Ben Blow of Topeka, Kan,
manager of the Victory Highway as
sociation, in his efforts to secure CO.
operation in the establishment of the
Victory Highway, transcontinental
memorial motor road from New York
City to San Francisco. Blow is now
in California, securing memberships
in the Victory Highway association
in San Francisco and other California
towns near the western terminus of
the road.
on Thursday, October 70. Blow was
one of the chief speakers at special
Victory Highway luncheon of the
Down Town association of San Fran
cisco. Two other speakers were Gov
ernor Charles R. Mabey of Utah, a di-
rector of the ass citation and the only
governor in he United States who is
member of the American Legion,
and Governor Emmett D. Boyle of Ne
vada.
Both the governors made the trip
to San Francisco especially to be
present at the luncheon, and to speak
in favor of the Victory Highway,
which traverses their states.
To Improve Highway Across Nevada
The meeting at San Francisco was
part of a campaign which is being
carried on in northern California, to
which is being used in the improve
ment of the Victory Highway across
Nevada.
Harvey NJ. Toy, newly appointed
director of the association for San
Francisco, where he is a millionaire
hotel owner, spoke. Marshall Hall.
one of the leading citizens of San
Francisco, presided at the meeting.
The board of directors of the Down
Town association have promised
ri ba Of he
Victory Highway. The automobile
dealers of the city have promised the
same sum, and the members Of the
Retail Merchants association will also
be asked to give $1,000.
Blows work has not been confined
to San Francisco. He has addressed
the Lions Clubs in Sacramento and
Oakland and Kiwanis Club in Sacra-
mento on the possibilities of the
Victory Highway in that country.
Raised $4,000 in One Day.
There was recently raised in San
Francisco, in one day. $4,000 for
the improvement of the Victory High
way in Utah and Nevada. 1t was a
part of the $4,000 which San Fran
cisco is to raise for that purpose,
while the remainder of the state
raised 100000 for the same purpose.
Harvey NJ. Toy, il chairman of the
Down Town associations committee
in San Francisco, which has in
augurated the campaign for the
money.
1t is probable that the pledges of
tho $4,000 from the Caliiornians
will be made conditional on the ex-
penditure of the money on the Victory
Highway only, thru the two states
named.
The Victory Highway" says a re-
cent article in a Salt Lake paper,
follows closely the line of tho West
ern Pacific railway as far as end
over, on the Nevada-Utah line. While
there are some difficulties to be Nmet
in the construction of a permanent,
all-year passable road across the
Great Salt Lake desert, they are not
insurmountable; and, on the other
hand, there are many reasons adj
vanced why that road should be
chosen in preference to the one that
turns southwark and crosses an I'M
inhabited stretch of country at
great distance from any railroad or
other means of communication"