The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-16
AN App1AN WAY FOR THE MO-

FOREST.
 Long Island, lige the Empire of an- cient Rome, is to have it's Appian Way "a great, wide-stretching parkway, lined by miles of sea and Sound coast, by numerous spring-fed lakes, by an- cient hills and waving trees, and beau tiful vistas of wood and water Romes great highway was conceived for mili- tary and utilitarian purposes; Long Islands parkway to serve pleasure loving classes only. Unlike the road from Rome to Brindisi, no domestic animals nor commercial vehicles will travel along it's way. Motor-cars, de- signed and built for speed and pleas ure, will be its sole travellers. Speed unrestricted, save that necessary to in- sure the safety of all users, will be permitted and urged Police traps will be but memory Straight east to Riverhead and beyond-sixty, eighty or ninety miles out-this parkway will be the embodiment of the new era. A railroad without rails, and the users supplying the rolling stock-a smooth, dustfess roadbed hills, grades, and stretches of level-a perfect chute, if you will, with nothing in this country or Europe that can approach 1t.
 Think of the time 1t will save the busy man of affairs, who likes to crowd into eacGl day bit of relaxation! He will leave down town at three o'clock in the afternoon, take the Subway to a garage within striking distance of the new Blackwell's Island East River Bridge. In twenty minutes 60-horse- power car will have him at the west i ern terminus of the motor parkway. Here card of admission passes him trough the gates, speed limits are left behind, the great white way is before him, and with throttle open he can go go, go. and keep on going fifty, sixty, or ninety miles an hour, until River head or Southampton is reached in time for a Scotch at the Meadow Club, a round of golf, and refreshing dip i in the surf-and all before dinner is served or the electric lights begin to twinkle.(
 Possible? Yes, and sure to be an everyday occurrence, a common one for many. Think, again, what 1t means, if you live at Great Neck or Oyster Bay or Nassau, to take cup of coffee and roll step into your Eligh-powered runabout, open the throt- tie, and drive to Riverhead, sixty miles away, and back in time for an early breakfast with your family at seven or seven-thirty, depending on whether you leave home at five or f1ve-thirty Can 1t be done ?Surely. I know scores of men who are counting the days before they can do this thing lido it regularly-and be "ht" when they take up their duties at the down. town exchanges. Think of the greater mental capacity, after two hours in fresh air, driving at top speed, with no thought but to go, go faster, and a thought for the car. There will be no grade crossings along this new Appian Way; every intersecting highway, rtol- ley or steam railroad is to be passed either above or below grade, and each bridge to be constructed of reinfirced concrete, thus eliminating repairs and vibration. #e
 This magnificent pleasure boulevard, of sort and for purpose never be- 1 fore constructed, will be of varying ] widths-from noe hundred to two hun dred feet-and with a roadway approx imately fifty feet wide An artistic steel fence-and there will be no less than one hundred and twenty miles of twill protect the racingman and tourist from the careless pedestrian, the predatory domestic animal and drawn pleasure carriages.-A. R. Par dington, in Harper's Weekly.