Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 25 | Washington is Now on Lincoln Highway

WASHINGTON IS NOW ON LINCOLN HIGHWAY tVanalngton is to be placed upon the Lincoln highway. president Henry B. Jov of the Lincoln Highway association, after having turned a deaf ear to appeals mane more than a year ago by citizens of Washington and Haltlmore, by a con-rpMonal con-rpMonal delegation. and lastly by PreKkient Wiltwn, to vary the course of the highway so that it might touch the national capital, has just notified Robert N. Harper, chairman of the committee selected last year by district commissioners, commis-sioners, that he has found It possible to chanite the original plana and place both Washington and Baltimore on the route. The highway will enter the district by wav of . Maryland avenue. northeast, swing through Potomac park past the Lincoln memorial, and then proceed westward west-ward by way of the Rockvllle pike to Oettvnburg. Permission la now being sought to mark the city streets Included Includ-ed In the roadway with red. white and Wue signs, bearing the Inscription: "Lin- j coin highway."