The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-15
HIGHWAY MEETING
BE WELL ATTENDED
Many Acceptances Received TO Gulf
Coast Conference to Be Held
in Mobile Soon.


At a meeting in Mobile Monday it
was reported that acceptances were
coming in large numbers to the Gulf
Coast Highway conference, March 20
and 81, the days of the meeting of the
Alabama Highway commission in Mo-
bile. The invitations to this confer
ence went out signed by the city of
Mobile, the county board, automobile
club, the chamber of commerce, and
Kiwanis and Rotary. All similar bod
les along the Old Spanish Trail from
New Orleans to Tallahassee and the
southern section Of Alabama are re-
plying with appointment of delegates
Mobile will be crowded with visitors
those days.
1t is the first meeting Of the Ala
bama Highway commission since the
passage of the road bonds for s25.-
100000 and Mobile wants the eight
mile delta of the bay bridged, and Mo-
bile not only connected with the rest
Of Alabama, but Pensacola, Mobile and
New Orleans connected by highway.
and this southern transcontinental
highway opened from Florida TO Cali
fornia.
The highway commissioners and en-
gineers Of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Florida have been invited. This will
let the highway commissioners OF four
states and their people confer, and
coordinate effort to build up the gulf
coast.
The Alabama Highway commission
viii be in session Monday afternoon;
the Mobile claims will then be pre-
scented. At six O'Clock Monday eve
ming the Automobile club win give the
visitors dinner and entertainment
Prominent highway officials and lead
ers of the four states will discuss fea-
lures of the proposed gulf coast high
way program following this dinner.
Tuesday morning the conference will
get down to work organizing con-
certed movement to hasten TO compile
ton the Gulf Coast highway from Tai
lahassee to New Orleans and the con-
Meeting highways from the north
The Battle House, Mobile, will be
headquarters. Registration clerks will
instruct all delegates as soon as they
arrive. Thousands of badges will be
supplied calling for Mobile bridge and
and an opened gulf coast highway,
and Mobile connections with Mont
gomery, Pensacola and New Orleans,
north. east and west. All merchants
are to be asked to emphasize the I'M
portance of this bridge to Alabama
and the gulf coast. Stewart Leblanc
and w. w. Milling are the committee
on this. Rotary and Kiwanis clubs in
Mobile and elsewhere are asked to
keep this question to the front. A
general holiday in Mobile has been
asked. 1t was reported the chamber
IF commerce, the city of Mobile, the
automobile club, and other organiza-
tions had sent out hundreds of spe-
cially written invitations.
The bridge committee of the cham
Der of commerce will handle all mat
ters before the highway commission.
The committee on invitation. and re-
ception consists Of the presidents of
the various organizations and the city
and county boards. The chairman of
he conference is N. E. Stallworth.
Mobile Calls this conference because
she was the banner district in voting
the $25, 1000, 900 road bond amendment,
voting so to 1. Her highway program
the bridge. The bridge IS the
key to an opened door to Mobile to
the rest of Alabama and the north;
also to an opened gulf coast boule-
yard embracing Pensacola, Mobile, the
gulf coast and New Or
eans, If the other three states will CO.
operate. The 200 miles from Pensa-
cola to New Orleans. If opened, will
connect the Old Spanish Trail from
ocean to ocean. This gathering there
'ore is one of the most important ever
by the gulf coast people.