The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-23
SPEEDWAY FOR AUTOS
Great Steel Road Planned For
Long Island.
OVER ONE HUNDRED NILES LONG

OVbk ONE HUNDRED MILLS LONG,
DOnbie Track Highway to start From
Long Island city 20 siontauIs Point
ana he Enclosed by Wire Fences
aud Hedses-wouIa BE Forty Feet
wide.
A motorway across the backbone OF
Long Island. extending from Long Is
land City to Montauk Point. an min.
terrupted double trackway Of steel
plates for 112 miles. free from dust
and mud, lacking in sunlight glare
and reflected heat and ike driving over
a fine lawn
That is the entieing prospective
which General Roy Stone has outlined
at the instance Of officials Of the Ma
tional Association Of Automobile Man
ufacturers and the American Automo.
bile association. says the New York
American and Journal
a year ago there was much talk con
corning d fifty mile speedway for mo.
tor driven vehicles on Long Island
and the disappearance Of this idea
caused General Stone. who is reeog
nized as one Of the leading experts Of
the country in highway construction.
to prepare plans for an even greater
stretch Of road than that ii which
members Of the Automobile Club Of
America We're the prime movers.
a quick route from New York to
Newport is what one enthusiast de-
clared when the proposition was made
known TO him, and this phase Of the
j motorway may attract aid from infiu-
entail sources.
The suggested route starts from the
landing Of Blaekwell's island bridge in
Long Island City, thence running be-
tween Jackson avenue and the Long
Island railroad as a sunken inciosed
road and continuing nearly parallel to
the same avenue, following il practi-
cable the right Of way Of the aban-
doned Oliver Charlick railway to the
Flushing meadows. passing beneath
the North Shore railroad and the Co
roma electric road at the point where
they descend upon the meadows,
thence across the meadows along the
line Of the old Long Island Central
railroad and following that iins
through its long summit cutting &
Creedmoor and Floral Park, touching
there Beimont's new race course
thence across Hampstead plains ane
along the southern foot Of the Beth
page. Half Hollow, Brentwood, Ron
konkonaa, Coram and Dixs hills keep
ing the middle line of the island be
tween the heights and the plain as IA
dis the heights extend and then straigh
through the level pine woods to Coco
| Ground, and 50 on to M0ntauk.
i The plans for the motorway call 70
double track Of steel plates, witt
slight indentations, each track abou
five feet between centers, with tel
| feet space between the tracks and til
same outside, making tie whole road
/ way forty feet wide. Outside Of thi
| would be hedges and i wire nettin.
fence to keep out animals and beyonl
that a row Of trees on each side, d
highways e he carried over the motor
way hy raising them perhaps five fee
and depressing the motorWay to tn
same extent
The entrance TO the motorway woult
be by gates from the important high
ways. and those would be the toll
gates. Between midnight and mornins
the road could be used for matoi
freight vehicles for farm and gardeI
traffic When used for formal race
all other traffic could be shut oft
\ 1t Is estimated that the road com
plete could be constructed for $4,000
/ per mile, st.6e0.000 for the 1l2 miles
+ The cost Of operation would be ths
| taking Of tolls and the care of thu
grass and hedges, little Or no repairs
being required for many years.