The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-22
Praises OUR ROADS
"a CoSNEcTlcuT MAN PASSES
THROUGH oKANGEBCRG.
Nowhere On His Long Journey .Haa
He Found Roads Any Better Than

5l he EOunQ hoauS ANY heIteH AA A1'@AA
In Orangcb:rE :
s3 ..lf you will improve the lad
places in your roads. adtomobilists
In hundreds will come to Charleston
from the Norta every spring. Caar-
lesion is just. the sort OF place that
these men are looking for and all
that she needs in orier to get the au-
/ tomo ohiI!sts is a system Of good roads
leading to Columbia. Orangeburg,
Aiken. Camden ami Augusta. Tals
5 is the opinion OF Mr. Seymour Gun
ningham, OF Litch6eld, Conn.,, who
passed through Orangeburg some
!. days ago, and is now in Charleston
Eor vicinity.
4 His opinion ought to carry con-
Tiction in We've Of the fact that Mir.
Cunningham bas just made one OF
tie Ion. .est automobile trips on rec
ord. With his wife and baby, a
nurse, chauffeur and something
Ike 500 pounds Of baggage. he has
lust made the rul from his New
England home 10 Charleston In his
motor car. He says in all the 1.1O0
miles OF his journey the worst stretch
OF road that he found is that between
Summerville and Otranto-a stretch
that has been Il bugbear to local au-
tomobilIsts ever since the automo-
bile-cam into being. -
@ Mr., Cunningham was enthusiastic
about the journey that he has just
made. In general. he said. the roads
were good ana the party had met
with no serious mishars in all the
<1,100y miles. They left Litchfield on
November; .r6 and on the way down
visited the iuray caverns, the Nat
ural Bridge. Roanoke, Winston-oa-
lem and Charlotte. spending some
time at each roint.
5}s In South Carolina they passed
throu?h Columbia. Camden and Or
angeburg. Mr.. Cunningham was
warmth his praise Of the roads in
the neighborhood OF this city, stat
Ing that Supervisor Fielder had done
splendid work. Nowhere in the
course OF his journey. said Mr.. Cum
ningham, had he found roads that
were more uniformly excellent than
those about the city on the Edisto.
4 Mr.. Cunningham was very posi-
tive. in speaking OF the matter Of
Charlestor's opportunity to become
great raliylng point for the North
ern autoists !, if she can guarantee
good roads to other parts Of the
State. The roads are in good shape
right now, sad Mr.. Cunningham,
with the exception Of that obnoxious
unlmerville-Otr1nto stretch.
II. that can be gotten into good
condition, autoists can leave Char
lesion and drive without any trouble
to Oranzeburg. From Orangeburg
they can go anywhere they: wish
to Aiken. Augusta, Camden, Cclunl-
.bla. Charleston is an ideal point
for an automobilists headquarters,
because the cars can easily be
shipped to this port by water, thus
saying inng journey over the roads
from the North.
s. Road-bulld:ng. said Mr.. Cunning
ham,, should be made State
affair in South Carolina. just
as 1t is in the most progressive
Northern and Western States. II
tho work is left to the individual
counties, all sorts OF trouble results,
one county building up its roads
while the next: .one either can not
or viii. not.
In the North, he said. the license
Tees collected from automoblllsts are
added to the road funi, while other
moneys are also used for the. same
purpose. If this plan were followed
here Charleston would not now I've
bottled up, as che is 80 far as auto
mobilists are concerned. simply be-
cause OF the bad stretch between
.Eummerville and Otranto-a stretch
which couli easily be put into first
class condition. II some one would
only take hold Of 1t.
Mr.. Cunningham and his family
are stopping ct present at the Pine
Forest inn in Summerville. He said
that he would spend some time In
the pineland village. and that when
he returned to the North he would
tell everybody what fine place
Charleston was for automobilists-if
she will fix up that Summcrville-
Otranto stretch as it ought to be
fixed.