Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-08-10
VERMONT CAN ATTRACT SUMMER VISITORS.

The important factors of in securing summer visitors
have beautiful and varied convenient
Of good transportation facilities hotel accommodations and
publicity
vermonts scenery attractive
people persisted coming spite of the handcaps
allow remain their We talked about doing something
but remedy discussed seemed to be entirely beyond reach
Only few years considering seriously
for the construction Of two trunk lines of roadway
tending lnghwse of the State either side of the mountain
line Other states had begun the building of stone roads
extensive scale and we assumed that the only really permanent
road made Of stone like the macdam consisting of layers
binder surface teord consisting of practical paving
of placed edge with the surface broken off with
material.
The advent of the auto has demonstrated that tho best gravel
roads of Vermont standing better under the strain and
than the crushed road rule and tourists prai
ing roads accordingly while neighbors of Massachusetts and
New York and New Hampshire n a quandary.
New Hampshire recently provided for the spending of
roads but member Of the Granite States Senate informs
that the road authorities there faced by the absolute necessity
o repairing their comparatively crushed stone roads they
gared and they do know just how finish any
additional stone roads which they long
It recognized that most of the counties in Vermont have
the best road material the world right their borders
Our highways can be kept in splendid condition for fraction of
what stone highways would There remain places which
devong chief attention to methods of handling
the material which has bomtuly provided for
challenge comparison.
In the state commissioner insists upon looking
after the expenditure of the State road because Of the failure
of the people select efficient local commissioners
will rcnccd as soon as the people realize what thew are
losing When that time all will promptly
respond to the demand for roads that will
to borders numbers
In short have within reach the best kind OF roads
for the accommodation of tourists well for
by experimenting roads with electric roads good
highways there is not mountain place
body of water the state that be made reasonably
slbo and converted into a Of considerable
We have also begun to appreciate the need of publicity for
State but realize how inadequate the appropriated
for that purpose An advertisement automobile single
ssur of of the most widely circulated publications
much whole Vermont aside
all publications during the entire
We have made good beginning and tine results such
to show that attract people Vermont with comparative
if good Judgment in connection with maintenance
and individuals
Burlington is already showing what live hotel
the of
other towns profit by the example of several of the smaller
villages that have erected of the best known and profit
able hotels in Vermont.
In other words good roads, good hotel accommodations
effective publicity all easily within reach viii
uneXccd mountain views varied scenery
ing attractions readily Vermont where she will without
Il peer among the States a resort.