The suburban citizen., 1900-03-31
/ GOOD ROADS NOTES
I,ronnaed scenIo mIEhwnr.

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4 Hampshire, Naham j. Bachel-
\ der, Secretary of the Board
of Agriculture of that State,
md DIR. John d. Quackenbos, emeri.
us professor of rhetoric in Columbia,
,re engaged in tie planning and con.
Itruction OF scenic road, 500 miles
ong, mostly in New Hampshire. A
society is being formed, of which Pro.
lessor Quackenbos will be President,
aud as soon as company has been in-
,orporated stock will be issued.
Others who are working for the road
are Col.nel John Hay, Federal Secre-
tary of State; Colonel Haskell, Of
Newton, and General Crufts, OF Beth
lehem. The Governors OF Massachu-
Setts, Connecticut and Vermont have
expressed their friendliness toward
the project as q benefit to the whole
New England mountain country.
1.-THE scenic road" said Professor
Quackenbos, "will be an outgrowth OF
the general movement for good roads
in that section. The roads are no
worse than those in any other mount.
ainous region in this country, and
some OF them are away above the aver
age; but it is notorious thatfew Amer.
lean roads, judged, say, by European
standards, comport with our develop.
menb in other directions. Our road
will be o macadamized turnpike with
toll-gates at frequent intervals.
"The best macadRmized roads cost
between $4,000 and $4,000 a mile; we
estimate that our 500 mile road will
cost S2, 900, 900, This figure may be
exceeded or reduced, according to the
extent to which we deem it expedient
and consistent to avail ourselves of
roadHa ays already laid. We shall prob
ably avoid existing thoroughfares more
often than might be imagined, far Of
tener than ordinary road-makers would
consider necessary. Roads are usually
built nearly in straight line, but our
road will be unique in that it will have
noreference to commercial convenience
or economy of time. 1t will wind in
and out of woods and fields, up and
down hills and slopes, skirting lakes
and crossing streams, and past historic
spots"
"Automobilists using it can carry
with them provisions, golf-clubs, fish
ing-rods, shot-guns, and what moi
without impairing the mobility which
they share in almost equal measure
with the wheelmen. To them the
long, scenic road will offer attractions
not to be found elsewhere. II is In
tended mainly for automobiles, bi
cycles and horses. A New Yorker
with his family, could set out in hi
automobile to spend his vacation along
the scenic road. He would proceed
to New Rochelle, Stamford ant
Bridgeport through the Berkshire
Hills aud the Hoosac Mountains, tC
Bennington, Vt, thence through a gaI
in the Green Mountains, to Bratte
boro, and on to Keene, N H.. tapping
she scenic road there.
"The road will start from Boston
and proceed diagonally to the Con
necticut River, thence up the Con
necticut Valley, With O wide cuFv,
around the eastern beach of LAX,
Sunapee, on up almost to the head
waters of the Connecticut, back again
past the foot of Mounts Washington
and Adams, and through the rest o
the White Mountains, along the righ
shore of Lake Winnipiseogee, acros
to the sea, through Portsmouth an,
Gloucester, and so on back to Boston
Thus. the tourist will traverse mount
aims, forests, lakes, rivers, seashor
d settlements.