Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-15

At an epoch when the automobile is
assuming something of the Importance
for long-distance travel that formerly
belonged to the post-chaise and the
stage-coach, there seems no doubt that
great highways, for the increasing traf-
fic Of this nature, such as existed until
long past the middle of the last cen
fury, stretching across hundreds Of
miles OF territory, will again be estab-
lished or will be restored throughout TO
serviceable condition. Tours in motor
cars extending across a dozen States,
and In Europe across several independ-
ent countries, are not unusual. There
is plenty of reason to believe that they
will grow more and more matter Of
course. Now is mooted, also, the run
ming of public motor coaches over pOpu-
! lar scenic routes and meanwhile in
vention is constantly raising the maxi
mum of speed of auto vehicles.
A macadam highway across the
American continent, and one length
wise of 1t, too, will be constructed
sooner or later. A strong movement
toward an initial step in this direction
specially well built road from the At
lantic seacoast to the Ohio River or
even to Chicago, has attracted much
attention. At a banquet given in Phila-
delphia, under the auspices of the Good
Roads League, a project was unfolded
for such a road, beginning at the
Schuylkill, passing through Lancaster.
Getty sburg and Bedford, and terminal.
ing Professionally at Pittsburg. The
distance is 29T miles, the proposed
width of the roadway is 100 feet and
the estimated cost, utilizing of course.
existing routes, is between 100000
and $3,500,000
The old 'NationaI Road."
scheme however, of much greater
t magnitude and of better promise is the
; restoration and improvement Of the old
! National road officially ana historic.
< ally known also as the Cumberland
! road built by the United States govern
:. ment between the years 1906 and 1899
This Is work which in excellence Is
IN some degree comparable to those
splendid military thoroughfares created
by the Romans, not only throuqhout
. ltaIy' but in practically every country
OF Europe In which they set foot rs
4 conquerorS' Even in England to-day
- 1he nnest roads are those that are
chiehy composed of the old Roman
- foundations, upon which MacAdam him.
+, SELF that exceedingly useful SCOTCH
man. does not appear to have been able
:, 10 improve
' The Cumberland road. althouph h,i,+
under contract and with Congressional
. appropriations-facts which now would
~, make an Investigator doubly inouisi-
tlVe-ls said to have been thorough
" honest piece Of work. 1t was the
- first and greatest highway of its kind
-, constructed by the United States r,v-
eFh"ehi; Is zoo miles in length, reach
ing as laid out from the Potomac ot
-, NumbeTiand to the Mississippi at Fast
80 81 Louis. and it cost S6.s24,91A.3S, Ger
,'e tam portions of II have been maintain
1' ca Ia good condition to the present
Is DAY, IT. spite oI he fact that tha r,il.
=, way train more than forty years aao
''o entirely superseded the stage cooo,,
oh ana che mountain ship" as the freight
DID WATSON WAS called. which carried tho
cary commerce across the Allegbenjas
'u' oetWeen tile utW Middle Wesf and tho
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