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In addition the wax map signed by John J. Pershing, Chief of Staff, was exhibited. Also the new Old Spanish Trail map from St. Augustine to San Diego showing all cities, towns and villages, the elegations, the distances reading both from St. Augustine and from San Diego, the important tributaries, etc. This map shows the declaration signed by congressman and senators, and the statement signed by the Secretary of War; the list of military, naval and air establishments along the highway, and also that it is a highway advocated by the National Highways Association "to be built and forever maintained by the United States government." This map has already been classed as the most complete highway map yet issued in the United States, and subsequent editions will show not only the Old Spanish Trail as the basic trunkline across the southern borderlands, but will show the national trunklines that feed into it from the North that are now rated for prompt completion.
The exhibit also showed the Service Maps issued by the organization, and blue print maps issued for garage and hotel members, and other publications of the organization. Photographs were shown illustrating the tremendous engineering and construction works in progress in the East. The map of the Southern Trunkline System was also displayed which shows the Old Spanish Trail as the southern trunkline, and the main trunkline roads from the North which have been adopted as the southern system for immediate completion.	Jfl
There were present as appointees of the foregoing organizations Geo. F. Wroten, W. N. Beckmann, Dr. J. H. Reagan, Philip Coldwell, Porter Loring, R. C. Jones, N. H. Whits, Herbert J- Hayes, W. H. Furlong, R. W. Patton, P„ E. Gragg, A. A. Clarke, Frank M. Lewis,
H. A. Hirshberg, 0. W. Johnson, N. S. Dickinson, W. H. Hearne,
Frank Orr, Tout Ethridge, Jr., Leon N. Walthall, Kenneth Wimer,
0. C. Hammon, Frank E. Beatty, Percy Tyrrell, Judge E. D. Henry and Harral B. Ayres.
It was shown that Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Automobile and other clubs in other cities were making the-Old Spanish Trail development one of their primary activities.
The Lincoln Highway was referred to as having been an organized work for ten years, and that the big men of the automotive industries were directors, like J. N. Gunn, Henry B. Joy, F. A. Seiberling, R. D. Chapin, Carl G. Fisher, Alvan Macauley, John N. Willys, W. C. Durant-, Col. Sidney D. Waldon, A. Y. Gowen, W. 0. Rutherford, Edsel B. Ford, G. M. Stadelman and C. S. Mott.
It was admitted that with such outside, interest shown without prompting from the Headquarters office there was no limit to the interest to be fostered if Headquarters were organized equal to carrying a national work, and that the support of the civic cl along the OST should make it a great civic undertaking and bring prestige and value to San Antonio and its sister cities if carried to success.
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