CUPPING SUPPLIED BY The Thomas Advertising Service Jacksonville, Florida
Dale----C C
Subject _
GOOD ROADS BUILDERS WILL ATTEND MEETING i OF OLD SPANISR TRAIL
Convention to Be Held in Tallahassee May 18 and 19.
Tallahassee, April *17.—The Old Spanish Trail convention will be held In Tallahassee May IS and 19. Good roads builders and enthusiasts are expected from many states. Several prominent men and officials have been Invited, in addition t the two thousand Invitations that will be sent out to other cities along the route of the trail from Florida to California. Those especially invited are President Woodrow Wilson, David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture; Gov. Sidney J. Catts; W. A. McRae, commissioner of agriculture of Florida; Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama; W. S. Keller, state highway engineer of Alabama; W. F. Cocke, state highway commissioner of Florida; Logan Waller Page, United States department of roads and engineering; Charles Henry Davis, president of National Highway Association; Henry Ford, Detroit.
'The Old Spanish Trail highway, being on the southern border of the United States, from ocean to ocean, is likely to be one of the most Important military highways of the country, and it is the desire to make the Old Spanish Trail convention ever held in the South to stimulate interest in hastening the com-
Elation of the highway and necessary ridges along the route. It is expected that President Wilson will send a personal representative. The scout car boosting and advertising the convention and the Old Spanish Trail will start westward on the trip to Houston, Tex..' April 23, stopping at principal cities and towns for meetings In the Interest of the