FIRST ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE DEDICATED 



rlE first Road of Remembrance has been dedicated 

 at Tampa, Florida, to "Hillsborough County's 106." 

 The memorial highway is fifteen miles long and 

 the undertaking was handled by the Rotary Club of 

 Tampa. A fine shaft, marking the start of the road, 

 was designed by Rotarian Ralph D. Martin. The speak- 

 ers were E. D. Lambright and the Rev. E. C. Patillo, 

 rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, both Rotarians. 

 The invocation was by the Rev. L. M. Broyles, of the 

 Hyde Park Methodist Church. Secretary L. P. Dickie 

 read the honor roll of those for whom trees have been 

 planted as registered on the honor roll of memorial trees 

 by the American Forestry Association. Commander J. B. 

 Gay, of the Gunboat Asheville, spoke on behalf of the 

 Navy. Lieutenant R. C. McDonald was in command of 

 the planes from Carlstrom Field that patrolled the high- 

 way during the ceremony. A telegram from the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association to the Rotarians said: "May 

 those trees you dedicate on the first Road of Remem- 

 brance in the United States live as long as the memory of 

 the 'io6' you so finely honor." Sergeant H. L. Smith, of 

 Fort Dade, and Chief Gunner's Mate F. J. Burrows, of 

 the Gunboat Asheville, pulled the ropes that freed the 

 American Flag about the shaft. Hillsborough's Gold Star 

 Mothers witnessed the ceremony, on January 2. President 

 T. F. Alexander, of the Rotary Club, presided, and Rota- 

 rian J. G. Yates has the honor of being the first to sug- 

 gest the Road of Remembrance plan to the Rotary Club. 

 This is an example of the plans afoot in many places.' 



The Lincoln Highway Memorial Association has large 

 visioned tree planting plans going. The American For- 

 estry Association's suggestion that the Roosevelt Memo- 

 rial Highway be made a Road of Remembrance met with 

 instant response. In Ohio Mrs. William D. Caldwell and 

 Mrs*. Edith F. March, of Canton, have worked out plans 

 for memorial tree planting by the General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs in that State. They have registered many 

 of the trees in Stark County on the Association's honor 

 roll. The Lincoln Highway has been projected for some 

 years but the vision of the parked environs which had 

 been developed by Jens Jensen took vital hold of and 

 dominated the minds of the group of Canton women and 

 they resolved to help make it materialize. In 1919 they 

 banded together to carry forward the work. Twenty- 

 six clubs were represented in the new one, under Mrs. 

 Caldwell's leadership, and the name chosen was the 

 Lincoln Highway Memorial Association of Stark County, 

 Ohio. The general aim is to follow the Jensen sug- 

 gestions and to promote planting the ground on both 

 sides of the Lincoln Way along the thirty-five miles 

 of its extent through Stark County. Professor R. B. 

 Cruickshank, of the Horticultural Department of the Ohio 

 State University, and Mr. Secrest, of the Government 

 Experimental Station, at Wooster, Ohio, lent co-operation 

 and in less than a year a thousand memberships were 

 taken by men, women, and children ; blue prints were 

 made ; thirty trees planted, and markers placed. 



Photograph by Burgcrt Brothers. 



IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES ATTENDED THE DEDICATION BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF TAMPA OF THE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY, 

 FIFTEEN MILES LONG THE FIRST "ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE," AT TAMPA, FLORIDA 



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