Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-01-05
EX-LANCASTER MAN
SHOWING THEM HOW
Will Clark Doing Some Great
Work In Oklahoma.
Parks and Grand Boulevard Being Con-
structed in Oklahoma City That
are Marvel.

Will Clark. son of Col. and Mrs.
John G. Clark, of this city, is presi-
dent of the park commission in Okla
homa City, Okla. and in that capac-
ity is carrying out b great piece OF
work in city identifying as will be
seen from the following story. clipped
from one of the daily papers of that
city;
When the whir and whizz of aut'-
mobiles, running in the international
races on the asphalt road knowpa as
the Grand boulevard of Oklahoma
City, disturb the stiffness of 1911
then the park board may rest-and
not till then.
Such is the plan, ard the working
dream, of Clark, Brownell, Dunn anc
others, who are building the city
beautiful that is to please the eye and
make glad the hesrt of generations
yet to come.
In their dream, or rather plan-for
it is mapped out now. and grading is
under way-they have conceived a
road 200 feet wide, interlaid with
tree and flower, an endless pain of un-
INSTRUCTED ease for those who would
drive and drive and drive.
This boulevard consists of three
main roads, running side by side and
set apart by rows of parking, trees,
fiowerbeds and even fountains. In
the center the path especially for
motor cars, will be 80 feet wide,
hard surfaced, ready to take all the
speed that a course, practically
straight, may allow. To each side a
general traffic road and carriage path
respectively, each % feet in width,
will accommodate those drivers who,
loving the horse, care not for the
honk-honk.
On this primrose path there will
be- none of the grade crossings, nor the
halting unpleasantness of hucksters'
pedestrians, sand piles and street cars
that befuddle and make stuffy the
street of cities. Overhead and un-
derneath, the vehicles which pass the
course Of the boulevard will go over
viaducts and through tunnels.
On the auto-course road rules alone
governing directions will restrict
Not only will there be no limit to
speed but driving to the best power of
the machine will be encouraged.
To compare with other drives over
he nGn0
by j. W. Densford. of the Oklahoma
Automobile association in New York,
when he entered Oklahoma City s
BID for the international races, is
most effective.
At Savannah, Ga, where the last
world events were given, road 26
miles long was the limit of accom-.
mediation. The surface conditions OF
this speedway are ideal. Insofar il
compares not untavorably with the
placs of the Oklahoma park road,
But its turns and its twists, and IT.
Typographical outlines generally are
spasmodic, limited, Uncertain anC
even dangerous. Graphically, it is &
farm road, laid out like lane by the
vagarious bovine, returning home
through the sweet stiffness of country
twilight.
It is without form and void
except for a beginning and an end
Oklahoma City's road of the future,
on the other hand, if anything, il
symmetrical. Its sharpest turn il
four times the curve of a half-mile
race track. It's limit in twist is {
l,OOO-foot radius. So near to &
straight-away is all its course thai
full speed of the highest horse power
will necessitate neither halt nor turn
over. 1t will be the fastest auto
course not only in this country but il
the world. With grade crossings eli
minated, as they will be, there cal
be no possible danger of collision
How fast they will go, If thos'
coveted International auto races are
secured by the local association, Ii
startling to think. .
Everything along the road will b'
set not only for speed but for beauty
When summer comes TO the side o.
the drives. in the heat of the day o.
the cool of the night. there will b.
the sweet scent of green things ar'
flowers and undusty earth. Each O
the three roads will be surfaced witt
oil on bed of rock By the first o
january contracts for at least tifteeI
miles of the total thrifty will b
granted. and by the spring of 1911,
little over a year off, entire com
pletion is promised
For parks themselves the board i
planning that which will in no wa,