The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-07
WANT new ROADS
Need of More Touring Routes
Is Realized.
White Mountain Country Is
Made Popular.
IDEAL TOUR DID 1T
American Highway Congress
May Take Action.
News of General Interest to
Motor Car Owners.

/ Because of a belief that expensive
advertising of a single route might be
somewhat detrimen to the region
as whole, there was considerable dis
cussion at the annual meeting of the
White Mountain Board Of Trade, held
at Lake Tarleton Country Club. Pike,
N H So many motor tourists have
| chung to the enjoyable Ideal route
the roads this summer showed signs of
decid ed wear in many places, and fur
thermore there came call for addi-
ticnal routes in White Mountains ter
ritory.
Several speakers at the Board of
Trade meeting dwelt upon the many
pleasant tour routes that could be de-
vised IN order to give visiting motorists
more of the White Mountains than
they have ever seen before. 1t was
finally decided that President Bertram
1 Pike should consult with Chairman
Howard of the Touring Information
Board of the American Automobile
Association in regard to getting out
| new route maps to and in the White
Mountains country. Robert Bruce,
manager of the Touring Bureau at the
American Automobile Association ma
tionaI headquarters, who knows the
topography of New England well. has
this to say about the purpose of the
Board of Trade:
New White Mountain Route.
There is an ever-increasing call for
with the principal cities and towns
within a radius of 500 miles and much
inquiry for other lines than those prln-
cIpally followed in the past Tourists
who are accustomed to make White
Mountain trips two or three years in
succession naturally wish to enter and
leave that region by new routes; and
usually they find upon inquiry, and es-
peciaIly by careful examination of
reliable map, that this can easily be
done.
1.-THE Ideal Tour has been largely
used, particularly by tourists from the
South and West. who have desired an
itinerary laid out in advance; and
through this process it has become bet
ter known than any other one route.
However, this is in reality only one of
a dozen or more good approaches to
the White Mountains, one of which is
north via the Connecticut River valley,
another across from Lake ChampIaln
by the Winooski River valley, another
north through the Merrimac and Penn
igewasset valleys, and still others from
New Hampshire and Maine coasts via
Lake Winnipesaukee, Sebago Lake, or
Poland Spring.
Automobile touring will be given a
decided impetus at a conference of the
officials of the Eastern States having
under their jurisdiction the regulation
of motor vehicles, who have been in
vited by the secretary of state of New
on October 8. This action upon behalf
of Secretary of State Lazansky will be
commended by the entire automobile
industry as well as owners and users
the country, notwithstand-
ing that a great improveme nt has been
made in the automobile laws of many
states as a result of the agitation of
the Touring Club of America. which a
year ago called the first conference of
this character, at which ten states and |
the District of Columbia were repre- !
scented. At this meeting recommended |
tions were made providing for a uni |
form touring privilege of fifteen days
for non-residents touring in other
states. which were subsequently adopt
ed at a conference of governors.
In this respect the forthcoming Al |
banv conference will naturally call
particular attention to Road Users
Day" which will be one Of the i'm
portant features of the first American |
Road Congress to be held in Rich |
mond, Va, in November. under the I
auspices of the American Association |
for Highway Improvement, at which |
President Taft is to deliver the opening |
address. It is expected that, besides |
members of the Interstate Commerce |
Commission and Federal highway Of |
fcials, nearly every state in the Union |
Will be represented by one or more of !
It's highway or motor vehicle commits
5ioners.