The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-25
AUTOS HELP OUT,
Live Burlingame Automobile
Club Builds Roads.
Cooperate With Farmers in
the Movement.
DONATE "JOY RIDES"
Club Entertains Farmers and
Their Families.
Other Items of General Interest
in Kansas.
SUNDAY.

Burlingame has adopted a new
method for the advancement of good
roads that undoubtedly will be taken
up by a number of Kansas towns in
the near future. Working together
with the farmers, securing their good
will and pushing the good roads idea
with their Automobile club, Burlin-
game has succeeded in constructing
and dragging within radius of their
city, almost 100 miles of faultless roads.
For town with only 1,400 people,
this successful attempt along the good
roads movement is almost marvellous.
And the people of Burlingame claim
that all of the good work is due to the
energy and push of the new Automo-
bile club which has taken great stard
in all improvements.
Topeka drivers who have taken the
"Burlingame Road" out OF the city
over the macadam and who have en-
dured the hills and rough roads just
south and west of Auburn have
brought back excellent reports of the
roads they have struck as soon as they
came within driving distance of Bur-
lingame.
After every rain the farmers within
a radius of 20 miles of the city get OUT
their road drags and hitching up their
teams they go over every bit road
bordering on their land. And they
don't stop-they keep at it until it is
finished. AS a result they have given
themselves and the people of Burlin-
game a series of roads that can not
find an equal anywhere in the state OF
Kansas.
F B. Clough, one of the enthusiastic
members of the Automobile club. and a
partner in the auto firm of King &
Clough, in speaking Of the work OF the
people, said:
I'VE have some the finest roads i'll
the state around Burlingame. Every
one of them are natural roads which
have been placed in good shape by the
cooperation of the farmers and the
people of the city. The farmers around
Rurlingame are as enthusiastic about
our automobile club as we are in town
and many Of them have secured ma
chimes You can easily see what this
means-it means that everyone Is push
Ing and working for good roads-ano
they are getting them"
The Burlingame Automobile club is a
live organization. They have organized
with so members-and there are many
more to come 1t is said that two car
loads of machines are sold there every
month The club members all carry a
large black and yellow pennant on
their machines with the initial B" on
each pennant. They frequently take
long drives through the country and do
much toward the advertising of the
city.
Following the example of the famous
Herington Commercial club. the Bur-
lingame Commercial club will take a
trip throughout the surrounding coun-
tr-- in the near future In automobiles.
Thew will visit each farmer and each
hamlet and distribute their good will
and the best wishes of the city. In this
manner they will make Burlingame a
popular trading place with the farmers
and ruralists.
In speaking of the manner in which
the Automobile club treats the farmers
Of the district one of the Burlingame
papers contained the following account
recently:
Last evening the Burlingame Auto