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Show Ex-Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis In-dianapolis Makes Eloquent Plea for Unity of Factions Regarding Highway. TOURISTS BANQUET AT SALTAIR BEACH Prominent Utahns Entertain Indiana Manufacturers and Hear Impressive Speeches on Good Roads. Long before the Indiana-to-the-coast tourists reached Salt Lake the word came that there was a real "spoil-binder" "spoil-binder" in the part' Ex-Mayor C. A. Bookwalter of Indianapolis. Last night at a banquet tendered to the Hoosier automobile manufacturers at Saltair, Salt Lakers had an opportunity to judge for themselves. And the unanimous unani-mous opinion was that Mr. Bookwalter was one of the most eloquent speakers ever heard here. It would bo interesting to bo able to estimate the number of miles of good roads that will result directly from the tour of tho Indiana party and it would bo just as interesting to be able to solve the question of how many miles of road will be built from the inspiration inspira-tion given by Mr. Bookwalter 's speeches on good roads. Before the party from the Hoosier capital began their present tour, the Midland trail, and particularly the Lincoln Lin-coln memorial -highway, which is to be a concrete road from ocean to ocean, was more or less of a vagary. No one who attended the banquet last night and heard from members of the touring party of the remarkable road building that has been dono to make tho way passable for them could doubt that the Midland trail is already a reality. And it is just as doubtful if ono could bo found who wouldn't declare that the Lincoln memorial highway will be finished fin-ished on scheduled time in 1915. Pushing Needed. The good roads movement la fairly launched; it is only a matter of pushing It Tho enthusiasm of many of Utah's most prominent citizens for helping- the cause was amply shown by the applause and Interest taken In the addresses at tho banquet last nlg-ht. Tho fact that the motor car manufacturers of Indianapolis Indianap-olis alono, at the first meeting: to discuss dis-cuss the Lincoln highway Idea, sub-ecribed sub-ecribed 5800,000 toward tho project Is sufficient to testify to the sincerity of tho visitors. Tho predominant argument In the eloquent elo-quent speech of Mayor Bookwalter was that "where the road goes, through this town or that, Is not tho important factor rlglit now the mattor to be settled is that the road must ba built somewhere, and at once." Discussing this phase of tho question, Mr. Bookwalter said in part: It doesn't make any dlffercnco whether the road goes north of Great Salt lake or south of It. It wouldn't mattor if it wont through Ogden and didn't touch Salt Lake at all. For no one can say that he has seen America until he has seen Salt Lake. It is one of the wonders of tho continent, conti-nent, No tourist on a transcontinental transconti-nental road would think of passing Salt Lako without stopping, oven if he had to go a considerable distance out of the way. Dissention Heard. We began to hear this dissention over the location of tho road when wo struck Colorado. We've been hearing hear-ing it ever since. A Colorado Springs man advised us that Denver shouldn't bo on tho trail. At Denver they asked why wo wanted to bother about Colorado Springs, that it wasn't on tho map. And they arc so busy knocking each other that neither of thorn havo had time to see what kind of roads they have betweon the two cities. As a rosult, they havo some of tho poorest road I over traveled ovor between Denver and Colorado Springs. I've always maintained that the man who la busy digging graves for his enemies hasn't time enough to erect monumontu for himself. Do you suppose that If tho Midland trail touched Colorado Springs and didn't run to Denver that Denver wouldn't build a connecting link? And with that connecting link, do you suppose that any tourist would miss Beelng Donver Just because it wasn't directly on tho trail? The people of Indianapolis have subsorlbed 300,000 toward the building build-ing of a transcontinental higthway that will only come to within I3S miles of Indianapolis. The peoplo of Detroit havo subscribed half a million, mil-lion, and tho road will run ninety miles from Detroit. But both thoBe towns will connect up with It. Lot's build the road and these factors of connecting up with it will adjust themselves after the road Is built. It will be the trunk of a system of roads that will spread In every direction di-rection from It, making a splendid system of highways for the tourist who is ready and anxious to see the , (Continued on Pago Four.) t -S Ex-Mavor Bookwalter of In- ! i ' " f i dianapolis Makes Eloquent f .' ' Plea for Unity of Factions j: 1? 1 Regarding Highway. L, s (Continued from. Page One.) i 1 fjr-. : y : ! ' l v sreat west jusl as scon as he knows V ' I ho can do it comfortably." If' !? You people -of -Wtuh-foi'Kct one of it - voir greatest resources your scen- ft erv. It Is a rosource of untold l!jr' wealth. The people of the cast arc I't'.t. W eager to come out hero ami sec ijr' - what, you have, I was thinking ;.,) t- as J passed through your wonderful HI ' vallcvs and canvons. yeo and the til , ? desert, of how I wished I could Iff! r brlnp my wife and babies out on a Iff,' ) s trip llko this. But I wouldn't think !tj of dolns It under present conditions lb; 1 If wo had a transcontinental highlit high-lit , way I would. And uliere are thou- sands of others who would come Hj, l.wf-. they would spend money which & i m. vuitld make the investment In road- iflj, ; lalldinp reap profits that would make 'fM iho cost o; the hichwny infinitesimal ift ' V '" comparison. This. I believe. Is i ' r ont- of the ' great resources which fl,, yui still hjvc to develop. iMr We arc not here to be;; for money. fi ' l V" are hero to offer your state nnd 11 ' -t vour counties throtisSi which this v; ! Jnf-oln highway will pass $5000 ';., worth cf materials, delivered on the ;?r prround, f o - every mile of the road .y i ' In the state. AH we ask Is that ra i wo have the co-operation of your nj'j t. p'aio and county governments In A iavlnr tho foundation of this road. iI Ve will turnlsh .the materials if you ,! wilt im- ihe'v. W Put yon must have n free and open fVj'l ro'lcy about this read. This argu- (Hi 'oeni about which towns are polng to W , i;t the road must be changed to co- $f iperatlon- In putting the road some- ' - vbpie. Then these towns that want it; " I-: bonefit;: would connect, up with It, V. f. We are encouraged bv the promises s if co-opeintlu) we have received ev- '1 e;ywheie. W Hospitality Everywhere. 1 ': k' The hospitality that we have en- ' i otin'-!'ed hai; been astounding. Ev- v. I'lywhcro we have been rnclvd en- ji v Miinsiashcjillv. and the evidences of '' i'.!f cnerirv expended in preparing the $ t ' roads &g we could go through demon- ;j -tints "'hat can and will be done. 'fir I Ihlnk that the opening of Price can- f y f n Is onr of the most remarkable P ' f.amrcs of this trip. In a short three ij, . wofks this heretofore Impassable r-iitf. without even a trail for a sad- IJ ' is It- horse, was put. in shape so our jj' i machines could go through That kind Uy of energy Is what is going to make a ,J mii'cms of this great project. I t, It Ik time, too, that our national ijj r rovernment ppont some of Its millions I.I- 111 WllllUlllS MlllUil. lie jjiuiiiui: iu ll.iVU ' , ih" war department engineers plan and snneivlBe the building of the I-ln-i s 'oln hlrliwav. The federal govern-F govern-F 1'ieiU mlshi better spend some of the , " "lllions tint k Is spendln on dredg-ipe dredg-ipe Impossible streams. Goose creek . :'iid m.uff more I won't mention, in htiUdlnc roads throughout the land. The Interest of the rural population. I have alwavs maintained, would be I' ne.corsarv before any great road bulld- Inc "pmpnlsn could be successful. The , I, i".ults of this tour demonstrate that 4 1 '- r!i "rural Interests are awakened to jj ii the Importance of this subject, TJie i, J. farmer K besiinnln- to see where it Is i better to pay fi cent.s to transport a wacrn load of produce over a good ror.d than 2S to cents over a bad one. which government statistics show-is show-is the cas.. The time has come to , push this mad building campaign and V wo are here to urge the people of d ' Utah to Join In the movement. I! ; Governor Spry Speaks. 1 " Governor Srry aptly bespoke the attl- 1 i tnde cf the state In the road building I movement. lie called attention to the , facjL that Utah., with hardly more than 1 the population of Indianapolis, had spent I 52.000.000 on road building in the last bl- i cnnlum. lie announced that the present i Durposc of the state road commission . was to build either a concrete or Utah , asphalt road between Salt Lake and Og- I den. lie announced that work had al- roadv been commenced and promised the , v'.nltors that when they returned here the f'i v bo'ilevard would be a reality. )' He told of the results of convict road ) building' and .remarked thait most of the l.j good roads of the state have been built l! bv convicts. He said the reason they A were cood was because the convict goL ifA ten (lavs "copper" for every thirty davs I jipent in road building, giving him an in- (St ccntlve to do good work. He expressed a hone that within fix months there if would be two gangs of convicts building roads instead of one, as at present. . i Briefly, but picturesquely, he described t , th things Ttali had to ofTer. He said h d the people of the state were glad to have I'll tht; manufacturers here to show them !,' what they are trying to do, that they ISiil were "Just plain American citizens" who Above: WM. S. GIL-BREATH, GIL-BREATH, vho is representing represent-ing the Indianapolis Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce on the In-diana-to-the-Coast tour. Below: Be-low: ELWOOD HAYNES, inventor of the motor car, who is also with the tourists. jl r, n .. . (ojiTTJ Lrj . 1 - k were working hard to build up a great state. C. G. Fisher of India napolls, president of the Lincoln Memorial Highway association asso-ciation and originator of the lden, spoke briefly on the work to be done. He expressed ex-pressed gratification at the results already al-ready accomplished and pointed out the many advantages to come from such efforts. ef-forts. Mr. Flahcr. recognized as a leader in the movement, was heartily applauded ap-plauded both before and after his remarks, re-marks, "lie has been a success In his own business," said Mr. Bookwalter, "and now he wants to give something worth while back to the American people peo-ple for the success they have brought to him." Describes Resources. Dr. B. D. Woodruff, president of the commercial citio. represented tnat organization or-ganization on the speakers' list. He described de-scribed the resources of the state and expressed a hope that the manufacturers would return soon again. W. McK. White", chairman of tho tour committee, also described briefly tho trip from Indlanupolls to Salt Iako. He told of the work that had been accomplished and also called attention to tho places where more work was most needed. He announced that the tourists would leave Salt Lake at 7:30 o'clock this morning, go around the south end of the lake to Kearney's ranch, a distance of 142 miles, for today's run. He conducted the drawing draw-ing of the cars, the TCmpIre being elected to be the pilot car today. The pilot cars are changed daily in order to give each machine an opportunity to lead the party. Glen Miller acted as toastmaster. His Introductions were witty and Instructive. He caused much merriment by calling attention at-tention to the fact that In Salt Lake thero was no ordlnnnce prohibiting the "split 8klrt." The remark was quickly appreciated by the TTooslers, owing to the existence of such an ordinance in their capital city. Every speaker following fol-lowing Mr. Miller's introductory speech had something to say about tho "spilt skirt," much to the merriment of the 300 banqueters. The Midland trail spcak-or3 spcak-or3 all paid high tribute to the beauty of tho women of Utah, Mr. Bookwalter remarking re-marking that, he, as a grandfather, was too old to notice thrj "split skirt." but concluding, that "Webster never coined enough adjectives to describe the women of Utah." Called for Wcslgard. When the speaking was all over, the audience, then wrought to unusual enthusiasm enthu-siasm over the subject of good roads, demanded de-manded to hear from A. L. Westgard, who was the Midland trail pathfinder. The veteran trans-continental tourist had great praise for the work that has beon done since he logged tho route only eight months ago. He said that in his mind the opening of Price canyon was the greatest piece of work on tho trail. He said that the people of Utah deserved much credit for the work they had done since his visit and expressed a hope that they would keep It up. The party went to Saltalr at 41o o'clock vesterday afternoon. The first attraction was the bathing. Shortly after tihelr arrival nearly every one of the tourists were In the lake, most of them enjoying tho remarkable sensation of floating on the brine for tho first time. After the evening programme they went to tho big dancing pavilion. Somo stayed to dance while others, appreciating appre-ciating the fact that today they would start on the long grind across the great American desert, took the first train back to the cltv to get eomo sleep before be-fore their departure It was the unanimous opinion of all the tourists that Salt Lake City and Utah had been royal entertainers, nnd expressed a belief that all would take a lasting Impression home with them of tho marvelous empire In the mountains. |