Arizona republican., 1910-11-08
Touring Club of America Sends Rep resentative to Select Course
 of Travel.

dccOmpanleQ by ms Wlle, Jne puTpOSC
 being to lay out a desirable route
 for autoists desiring to make such a
 trip.
 MT Westguard left New York
 sometime ago and his route, as map
 ped out before starting lays through Prescott and Phoenix. Upon his ar
 rival here, Mr Westguard will de-
 liver a message to Governor Sloan
 from Governor Horace White, of New
 York state.
 Heretofore more than one route has
 been followed, each differing as to
 details, mainly west of the Missis- sippi Besides collecting data useful
 in deciding upon the best route, it is
 hoped that from MT. Westguard's trip
 will come a stronger national senti-
 ment for the maintenance of a con tinuous automobile road from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Already a semiofficial character has been giv- en to the trip by the appointment of Mir Westguard as a special officer of the department of public roads.
 MT. Westguard has had wide expe- rience in laying out routes and col lecting information as to good and bad roads. Director Page of the pub lie roads offices of the federal gov ernment was present when MT West guard left New York the word to start being given by Governor White.
 Mir Westguard has been asked by Director Page to take photographs of good and bad roads on his route, col | lect data as to various types of roads, .and their methods of con struction, as well as notes concern ing bad turns, steep hills, the condi- tion of bridges. etc.
 From New York MT Westguard proceeded up the west bank of the Hudson to Kingston, and thence along the foothills of the Catslills to Delhi in the Delaware valley, whence he proceeded over hills to the Susquehanna at Unadila. going thence to Binghamton Watkins. Rochester. and Buffalo. From Buff falo he was to proceed to Chicago by way of Cleveland and from Chi cago to Kansas City by way of Day cnport and Omaha. The remainder of the route follows the old Santa Fe trail. which is the only feasible route during the latter part of the year. It was his intention to make the trip in a leisurely manner, in order to have time for the collection of data It is expected that he will be at least sixty days on the road. ! A writer in the New York Evening | Post says of the purpose of the trip:
 The time for making the present trip has been selectedso as to appeal | to the great army of enthusiastic motorists who spend part of the win ter on the California coast. With a route carefully mapped out with the | latest information concerning hotel and other accommodations. combined with the assurance of an equable eli mate during the autumn months all i the way to Los Angels, what better method of travelling to the delightful resorts of the Pacific coast could be ! presented than a pleasure trip across the continent in good car. offer | ing exceptional facilities for seeing many of the wonderful and interest ! ing parts of the country? It is con fidently believed that the time is coming when hundreds of motorists will prefer an automobile trip to Cal ffOrnia to any other way, and an ticipating this fact. the club has planned the present trip so that ex- act information of every mile on the 40OO-mile journey may be ready the i instant it is wanted.
 The trip will also, it is believed. result in creating a greater recogni tfon for better roads in the distant parts of the country. The good roads movement has already per meated the south and many sections of the southwest and northwest, but with the knowledge that a represen- tative of the governments office of public roads is making notes by the way for a report to the department of agriculture, a wider influence can hardly fail to be eXerted for inn proved highways.
 Letters will be carried by MT Westguard from Governor White to the governors of all the states through which he will pass. He will make special point of visiting the automobile clubs along the route. and delegates will be appointed who will be the accredited representatives in 1 their localities for the club. and un- der their auspices plans will be per fected whereby the most important places on the highway may be prop erly marked Additional information will also be sent to the New York offices of the Touring club by the delegates of all road changes and inn provements.
 "To travel by motor across the American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific no longer is an i'm possible task Within the last seven years more than thirty different cars have carried passengers from coast to coast. and one of them, with the drivers reiaying at the wheel and travelling night and day, established transcontinental record of little more than ten days"
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