The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-29
GOOD ROADS NOTES


Proposed scenic Highway.
~ OVERNOR ROLLINS, OF New
| l. Hampshire, Naham j. Bachel.
\ II der, Secretary of the Board
Of Agriculture of that State,
aud DR.. John d. Quackenbos, emeri.
Jus professor of rhetoric in Columbia,
are engaged in TIE planning aud con.
struction OF scenic road, 800 miles
long, mostly in New Hampshire. A
society is being formed, of which Pro.
lessor Quackenbos will be President,
aud as soon as n company mas been in.
corporated stock will be issued.
Others who are working for the road
are Colonel John Hay, Federal Secre,
tary of State; Colonel Haskell, OF
Newton, aud General Crufts, of Beth
lehem. The Governors OF Massachu.
setts, Connecticut and Vermont have
expressed their friendliness toward
the project as n benefit to the whole
New England mountain country.
The scenic road" said Professor
Quackenbos, Twill 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 tho aver
age; but il is notorious that few Amer.
ican roads, judged, say. by European
standards, comport with our develop
ment in other directions. Our road
will be q macadamized turnpike with
toll-gates at frequent intervals.
''The best macadamized roads cost
between $3500 and $4,000 mile; We
estimate that our 500 mile road will
cost S2,000,0 900. This figure may be
exceeded or reduced. according TO the
extent to which we deem it expedent
aud consistent to avail ourselves of
roadvays already laid. We shall prob
ably avoid existing thoroughlares more
often than might be imagined, FAR Of.
toner 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
| no reference TO commercial convenience
or economy of time. 1t will wind iu
and out of woods and fields, up and
down hills and slopes, skirting Lakes
and crossing streams, and past historic
spots.
Automobiles 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 wheelmeu. To them the
long, scenic road will offer attraction,
not to be found elsewhere. 1t is in
tended mainly for automobiles, hi
cycles and horses. A New Yorker
with his family, could set ont, in hi,
automobile to spend his vacation along
the scenic road. He would proceed
to New Rochelle, Stamford and
Bridgeport, through tho Berkshire
Hills and the Hoosac Mountains. tc
Bennington, Vt, thence through gay
in the Green Mountains, TO Brattle
boro, and on to Keene, n. H., tappiue
the scenic road there.
''The road will start from Boston
and proceed diagonally to the Con
necticut River, thence up the Con
necticut Valley, with wide curv,
around the eastern beach of LAX
Sunapee, on up almost to tho head
waters OF the Connecticut, back agair
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
and settlements