Evening star., 1922-08-16
ALLLEE HIGHWAY
BUILT NEXT YEAR
To Be First Completed Auto
mobile Route From At
Iantic to Pacific.
ACTIVE NEAR CAPITAL
$685. 900 Bond Issue Proposed to
Build Road From Falls Church
to Fairfax.
ACTIVE NEAR CAPITAL
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, August 16.-
Completion Of Lee highway from
Washington to the Pacific coast by
Christmas. 1923, is not only a hope
but probability. according to DR.. S.
M. johnson, director of the Lee High
way Association. He delivered this
message last night at a large and
enth usiastic road meeting held at
Merrifield and at which initial steps
were taken for a $275.000 bond issue
for building an eighteen-foot con-
crete road from Falls Church to Fair
fax. a distance of eight miles, and
now one of the worst pieces Of road
on the entire Lee highway route.
DR.. johnson recently returned from
a trip to the Pacific coast during
which he was in conference with the
governors and road officials Of all the
fifteen states through which Lee high
way passes.
Pacific to Mississippf.
A modern hard-surface roadway
has been completed. is building or
the money for its building has been
provided all the way from the Pacific
ocean to the Mississippi river. Mis-
sissippi and Alabama now are ar
ranging to raise the money to build
uncompleted sections of the road
through those states.
Tennessee will vote a big bond is
sue this fall, assuring completion of
the road from the Alabama line to the
Virginia line at Bristol. From Bristol
to where the road crosses the south
fork OF the Shenandoah the road now
Is complete. except for a few short
gaps. and the raising of money to
h,.fld fhnga To
This brings the Lee highway COM
plete, or with assurances Of compile
ton next year. to within 100 miles
of the National Capital. Every Of
fort now is being centered on assur-
ing completion of this 100 miles
motor roadway from New York to
San Diego, Calf, and will be the
first completed transcontinental high
way.
To Lend Money to State.
The meeting at Merrifield last night
was attended by representatives OF
and of the Highlands, Merrifleld, Hat
mark and Fairfax units OF the Lee
Highway Association. Col. c. A.
Seoane Of the Mortified unit presided.
Chairman George Harrison of the
Fairfax board Of supervisors and
other members Of the board also
were in attendance.
a special meeting of the Falls Church
Citizens Association last week and a
conference which followed in Wash
ington at headquarters of the Lee
Highway Association. At the Falls
Church meeting and the subsequent
that the supervisors Of Arlington county
would lend to the state, without inter-
est. the money necessary to build the
mile and a quarter Of road from
Halls Hill to East Falls Church. to
be repaid within two years from
to build the eight miles from Falls
Church to Fairfax on the same basis
was before last nights meeting at
Mortified.
Favor &c75,OOO Bond Issue.
The concrete proposition, upon
which favorable action was taken
was that at the November election
Falls Church and Providence dis
tricts of Fairfax county should vote
upon the question of issuing bonds
for $275.000. the proceeds to be
Church Fairfax road built next year
The only cost to the taxpayers of the
two districts will be the interest on
the bonds for two or three years. A
committee Of fifteen was appointed tc
adjust the question of apportionment
as between the two districts and to
circulate petitions asking the circuit
court to sanction submitting the bond
issue to the voters at the November
election.
Col. Seoane named the following
committee, of which he was made
chairman: Falls Church, John F.
Bethune, NJ E. Church and Mayor II
A. Fellows: Highlands, H. H. Mlilard
p. B. Nourse and Frank Birch; Mer-
rifield, Charles r. Moran. c. A. Seoane
and Charles Kaiser; Hallmark, ]. W.
Pobst. H. C. Weston and r. ]. Miller;
Fairfax, F. S. McClandish. S. H.
Young and ]. w. Rust.
The committee met after the public
meeting had adjourned. organized in
to sub-committees and prepared to
begin its work Immediately.