Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — PRETZEL HIGHWAY INSTEAD OF DIXIE [ARTICLE]

PRETZEL HIGHWAY INSTEAD OF DIXIE

Great Artery That Was Proposed Has Resolved Itself Into a Hither and Thither Route. The Rensselaer delegates to Chattanooga returned home Sunday. They brought disappointment with them, for the route they went to boost for the Dixie Highway was given a cold turn down and two other routes were chosen neither of which has the prospect of ever becoming the main traveled avenues between Chicago and the south. The convention at Chattanooga became a log-rolling affair and ther ewere all sorts of double crosses handed out. The air line delegates were lqd to believe up to the very last minute that they were going to get the highway and then along came the Illinois fellows with another proposition and this part of Indiana was turned down flat and cold. The Dixie Highway seems to have retrograded from a plan for a great north and south highway to two routes that start out of Chicago, travel away in different directions and converge down in Tennessee and that resemble a pretzel so much in construction that the disappointed delegates have selected the name of the “pretzel highway.” The delegates from along the air line route, however, came home determined to establish the route from Chicago to Indianapolis as they had proposed and to proceed with the development of the highway by grading the road, oiling it, painting telephone poles and planning for still greater improvement in the future. The Chicago Tribune of Sunday gave a picture of King’s officia lautomobile guide of Indiana and an article by L. M. Steffins routing persons to the races through Rensselaer. Every turn in the road is reported in the schedule from Jackson street and Michigan avenue, Chicago, to Indianapolis. The route in Rensselaer is to turn west at the north entrance of town and then turn south o Forest street and come across the railroad by the new depot and down Forest and Cullen streets to the Makeever hotel, thence .west. The routes established at Chattanooga are as follows: Western Route —From Chicago, Momence, Watseka, Hoopeston, Danville, (Illinois), Cnawfordsville, Lebanon, Indianapolis, Martinsville, Bloomington, Bedford, Orleans, New Albany, (Indiana), Louisville, Bowling Green, Russellville, (Kentucky), Nashville, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Rome, (Tennessee), Atlanta, Macon, (Georgia), Tallahassee, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Palm Beach and Miami, Florida. Eastern Route —Joining the western route at Indianapolis, Richmond, (Indiana), Dayton, Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington, Georgetown, Eevington, Cumberland, Ketucky, Koxville, Dayton, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Dalton, Calhoun, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Macon, Georgia. Eastern route from Macon to Jacksonville to be selected later. Elmer Gwin made a trip to Chicago today. Mrs. Willis Poole made a visit to Lafayette today.