The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-22
AUTO TRIP TO HoNEsDALE.
Some of the Things Correspondent
Saw on Way to Maple City.

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| Citizens Dreher correspondent is all
| right:
Did you ever have an automobile
ride or a ride in an automobile-it
means about one and the same? AS
a rule, the class of people who own
autos and travel for pleasure, make
an effort to get on good, smooth,
solid roads, where they speed along,
regardless of speed limits or dis
comfort to anyone who must follow
! in their wake, especially in dust and
heat and the auto really is a dust
| slinger-possibly a mud singer, too.
But it is a humane invention, for
you don't have to stop going up
! hills to rest,-that is, provided you
have an auto that don't get balky-
and you don't need anything to keep
the flies away that are such an awful
pest in fly time.
To insure against any mishaps in
pleasure riding, get an auto of re-
! liable make, get well posted in the
use of the various levers that con-
| troll the power and steering gear,
learn how to oil her and where to
apply water in case she gets hot
and, above all, don't learn to run
the thing so dangerously fast that
you will be a menace to the public
in general and able to do damage
to the highways.
Three things are essential for a
good chauffeur-a steady hand, a
good eye and level head.
One commandment in the super
visor's code is not duly observed
that is for the travellers benefit every
where, and that is the removal of
the loose stones from the public
highways. This law should be en-
forced, for it means a whole lot for
the good of the road and is not a
big expense to the township.
In a Buick auto, owned and oper-
ated by Ivison Gilpin of Laanna,
Pike county. Mr.. Ernest McRostie
and lady friend, Miss Cameron, both
of Philadelphia, Mr.. Emile Buille of
Greentown. Pike county, and Me
started from Newfoundland at a.
m. July Is and in two hours we
landed in Honesdale, and in the hot
sun and on dusty roads we suffered
no discomfort.
This Buick machine is certainly a
hill climber, for anyone who has
made the trip aforesaid via Bidwell
hill, Cadjaw Pond and so on, either
on foot, by horse power or auto, will
know the public road is far from
level and enough solid boulders and
loose stones to keep the driver on
the alert to miss them all. Such is
the road, but the views of hill and
dale, the well-kept farms and the
fine weather on that day, helped
make a very pleasant trip, and al
most before we knew it we were in
the Maple City.
Our objective point was the state
road being built about a mile west
of Honesdale by the contractors,
Messrs. Seaman, Irwin and Brenne-
man, and we want to say right here
that building state road is not all
nice, clean work. Where the work
is in progress there is inconven-
ience and discomfort to those who
must travel that particular highway.
The part of road already completed
is in fine condition and a great i'm
provement over the has-been road of
the. past, but why in the world
didn't the state road reach into
Honesdale? No doubt someone can
tell why.
The retaining wall near the en-
trance to the Wayne county fair
grounds is quite an undertaking, but
the contractors have the work under
control and have the push in them
to master the job. They are a gen.
ial trio to meet with, and with Mr.. j.
NJ. Hale, the inspector, to complete
the quartet, they are well qualified
to do the county good road service.
By the way, Mr.. Hale is native
; of Jenkinstown, Bucks county, and
may be a legal descendent of Matthew
Hale, who was a chief justice in ''ye
olden time" and noted as an expert
it,
We were pleasantly entertained
at the Wayne County house, and
were Shown some fine cut glass in
the Herbeck-Demer glass cutting es'
tablishment We shook hands with
the manager of the Citizen and the
editor of the Independent, ate dish
of fine cream, and were soon home
ward bound. On the way going and
; coming we noticed only a very few
5 apples and the amount of cider and
apple sass" made in Wayne county
this season will be very limited in
supply and there's a chance of iii
: being cornered in the market.
The hay crop is yielding much
better than last year, while the fields
of corn, oats and rye in nearly every
section we passed through are look
ing finely. Some fine patches of po
tatoes, too. by the way, We saw. Or
the home trip we stopped to shake
hands with Mine Host Nicholson a
Salem and had drink of his gooC
water. Thus ended our trip.
j. w. HAUSE.