Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
LOCAL MOTORIST
SEESGOOD ROADS
R. T. PRossER DRIVES 5000
MILES IN THE EAST
TWO HUNDRD MILES A DAY AN
EASY RUN
Motorists Are Forced to Keep a
Lookout to Escape Speed
Traps Near Small
Towns

r. T. Prosser is here after having
completed in an Oldsmobile roadster
300O-mile tour in the east. On this trip
Mr.. Prosser drove h,7 car through New
York. Ohio Pennsylvania, part of the
New England states, and concluded the
long trip by going into Canada. snip
ming across Lake Ontario and driving
from Detroit to the Oldsmobile factory
at Lansing Mich. he was accom-
panied by Mrs. Prosser.
The tour started from Cleveland
after getting the car from the Olds FAC
tory From Cleveland he drove 10 10
Buffalo. This is a distance OF zOO
miles, and was made in a day. Inc ne
roads were fine" said Mr.. Prosser.
was able to start in the morning. take
things easy and reach Buffalo in the
early evening with over an hour Tor
luncheon. The beauty of these goou
roads is the speed man unconsclousIy
makes. With no bumps or cnucks
car glides along as thlrty-nVe any any
forty miles an hour for hours WIN
hardly a slow down excepting through
"From Buffalo I drove to Rochester
seventy-fiye miles. This was an easy
morning drive. In the afternoon we
went to Syracuse, one hundred anu
thirty miles. The roads We're good, be-
ing made of limestone. rms was
hard afternoons run. Our next drive
was to Utica. This was over the re-
Gently constructed state road.
New York is spending milliens OF
dollars on the roads, and the effect can
be plainly seen. A motorist can traVel
for days over these well made nlgh-
ways. Being interested in the problem
of good roads made study. l touno
that the best roads were made Oh lime
stone The crushed limestone was
placed in the roadbed to depth of two
feet and in some places two and a nan
feet. The smaller stones were placed
on top and rolled. This makes last-
ing road which does not become full
of ruts and chuck holes, but requires
considerable attention to prevent IL De-
coming dusty should there not be oc-
casional rains. 1t is all right for motor
ing one hour after a rain. The roads
are crowned so the water runs OH anu
mud holes are scarce on these hlgh-
ways. , 1r+ioo
we drove to Binghamton. This took us
over a rolling country for l05 mics
From there we doubled back to Char-
1otte Beach, just outside of Rochester;
From there we shipped to toronto anu
toured 300 miles in Canada.
"Road conditions are bad in Canada
yThev receive little attention from the
authorities and as result Canada is a
good place for motorists to pass up IN
planning eastern tours.
1.-THE first thing noticed by man
who has motored in the west When ne
visits the many small to rs in Penn
sylvania and some of the smaller towns
in the other states is the treatment ac-
corded motorists. If you fail to supply
yourself with a license number Tor
every state in which you travel you
are arrested and fined. For this rea-
son many motorists who travel in the
different states would like to see an
International license law with num-
bers good in every state.
"Some of the speed traps are mar
wells. For instance, the one in North
east, Pa, is widely known. Approach
ing the town is long hill with
bridge at the bottom. At the bridge
is a, sign announcing that the speed
limit on the bridge is four miles an
hour. A driver always allows his car
to drift down at about ten miles an
hour and it is almost an impossibility
TO slow down to the required speed.
An arrest with a fine of $25 and costs
follows"