Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-08

| In forty years 1t has never been tree
| from mud and dust. despite the fact tina
/ during the season extreme weather con
/ ditionS have prevailed.
A township in Iowa had been making
! an investigation of the split-log drag anG
had been experimenting with 1t for yeal
on twenty-eight miles of highway. Ar
/ agent was sent to secure Information anc
1t was reported that, although the towr
| board had paid the cost of making the
drags and of hiring men to operate them
/ the total expense for one year averaged
| but $40 mile. and the roads were re-
ported to have been like race track
the greater portion of the year.
| Mr. and Mrs. William D. West and
daughter. Miss Katharine West. returned
| last Sunday in Mr. Vests Maryland
found the roads In a very heavy condi-
ton as result of the rain, and presented
the appearance of a path-finding party
when they reached this city.
~
Spinning along in automobiles through
a gigantic tube under the ground, and
guided only by the powerful searchlight
lamps on the machines, the Governor of
Maryland, the mayor and members of
the city council, expert engineers and
other Baltimore city officials made one
of the most unique automobile trips "a
few days ago ever taken. 1t was the
sewerage system, covering over six
miles.
One of the features of the Labor day
program of the Central Labor Union will
be the motor cycle races. The races will
start at O'Clock in the afternoon and
will include three-mile novice five-mile
scratch, ten-mile scratch, fifteen-mile
handicap and twenty-mile open. A num-
Der of handsome cups and merchan-
disc prizes have been donated for the
events, and some exciting finishes are ex-
pected that day.
That all the national highways should
lead to the capital of the nation is the
opinion of Representative Harry Maynard
of Virginia, who has introduced a bill in
the House authorizing the preliminary
survey under the auspices of the federal
government to determine the approximate
cost of several great national highways
The sum of s1,OOO,OOO has been asked to
cover the cost of the survey. Inc bill
also provides for the appointment of a
commission, to be appointed by the Pres
ident. The commission is to be known
as the Washington national highway
commission, and the highway is to begin
at Washington and proceed by the most
direct route practicable via the corporate
limits of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadel-
phia, Trenton. New York, Hartford, Bos-
ton, Concord and on to Portland, Me-
The other proposed highways to be sur
to Buffalo and Niagara Falls; Lincoln
national highway, to Seattle. Wash; JEFF
ferson national highway, to San Fran
CISCO; Grant national highway, to San
Diego, Cal; Monroe national highway, to
New Orleans and Austin, Tex, and Lee
national highway, to Jacksonville and
Miami, Fla.
The village Of Los Angeles, Cal. is
not to be outdone on the speed and
light regulation question In order to
protect the life and limb of Califor
mans from the fast speeding carriages
in which the babies are conveyed over
the thoroughfares by their relentless
nurse girls. the city council has taken
ambulator of the infant must carry red
and white signal lights to warn citizens
against the approach of their 'chauv-
vers; Even the wheelbarrow of. the
humble workman must carry lights and
other implements of warming
througs the sands Of the California des-
ert, three Apperson cars and White
steamer are carrying the United States
mails from Glamis to Blythe, a dis
lance of sixty-five miles, over the worst
roads in the world, on schedule time.
With an hour and thirty minutes lee
way the cars have chugged through day
after day for the last few months with
out missing a train. AS the stage fail
ed time ard again to make connections,
the government contract fell to the au-
tomobile owners and the letters and
packages which Uncle Sam undertakes
to send out into the world from the
sandlocked cities of the desert are now
making schedule time, thanks to the
motor car.
An EMF touring car has been de-
livered to Frederick Stitt, who plans
TO do considerable touring at his leis-
ure during the next few months.
y
The action of Bicycle Policeman Lau-
ten, who arrested two autoists for
speeding and later discovered that his
speedometer was wrong, in reopening
the cases and refunding the fines, caused
much favorable comment in automobile
has existed a good feeling between the
autoists and the authorities. it is bound
to improve that feeling when cases like
this are brought to light All the auto
lists ask is square DEAL
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The first lot of fifty 1910 Washington
cars are being delivered. A number Of
these cars are to go to residents in this
city. The balance will go to the va
rious agencies.
!
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Spence and Mrs
Lee, who have been sojourning at
turned in their Pope-Hartford last week
They were accompanied by w. B. Nc
Burney and John Curtis. Mr.. Spence
spent a few days during the past week
in Philadelphia on a business trip.
Charles ]. Butler has been spending
his leisure time in his Washington tour
about in near trips to Great Falls and
Baltimore, Md, by way of the Wash
ington boulevard.
Messrs. F. L. Carter and ]. E. Welsh
made a test trip in a 1910 Washington
was over the Baltimore-Washingto
boulevard to Baltimore, thence by the
Hartford pike to Havre de Grace. Stops
were made at Bel Air, Aberdeen and
North East. The return trip was made
over the Philadelphia pike. the party re-
turning to this city the evening of the