New-York tribune., 1911-03-02
TOLL ROAD TO PACIFIC
New Yorker Plans ''Great White
Way" Across Continent.
STOCK NOW ON THE MARKET
Promoter Says Property Owners
Are Already Fighting to Give
Company Rights of Way.

80 S@aA SoaJ w
Company Rights of Way.
II YOU have a little money TO invest IN
some beautifully embossed. regular. hon
est-to-g o-goodness bonds. in denominations of
500. $500 and s1,0oo. II. Douglas Layman,
who has a rather retiring office on the
fifteenth floor OF No. ll5 Broadway. has a
scheme which for striking grandeur has
seldom been equalled
According to his announcement made
Yesterday, the proposition is just little
matter of toll highway, width IA fest
length some 300 miles, running from
Maine TO San Francisco. with branches 10
every state capital en- route" as Mr.. Lay
man explained II. and 10 be called THE
Great White Way"
Sounds rather large" admitted Mr.. Lay
man. but when you look at our railways
YOU see it's not such an impossible thins
as it al first appears 10 be-
The first link IN this remarkable oppor-
tunltv for investment IS 10 be road run
ming from Chicago TO Milwaukee, and Mr..
L,aynan said that property owners OUT
there were almost fghting each other for
the privilege OF giving the Chicago-Mil-
waukee Road and Realty Company strips
Of their land. running from 72 feet TO l4i
feet In width.
We can start work on this section OF
IRE road this summer" said Mr.. Layman'
and later we will build the section from
New York 70 Washington"
F.fore they start, however. he said. the
oonnpanv wanted to float bond issue OF
N2ooo0oo on the Chicago Milwaukee roao.
and 10 every investor who bought one oil
the bonds the company would give pre-
r.rred stock Of half the value OF his ooAd
nurchase. The common stock, however
oornnrised in the initial issue Of @oooo
was not for sale. and the majority or IL
was now held by Mr.. Layman and his wife
The latter appears on the literature OF the
q company as T. Parpart Layman.
Mr. Layman's Office contains many beau
,ifuI drawings Of the proposed road in ITS
oonopleted state which he was willing 10
explain yesterday afternoon.
"you see the road Will be built double
IN three sections. besides the strip on when
The electric railway will run he polhteu
out. the two outer sections for south anu
north bound animal propelled trafhc' the
next sections I'm for pleasure automobiles
and the next sections in, adjoining the
tracks OF the electric railway. for WORKING
automobiles. Besides the toll on all these
together with the receipts Of the elec'ilc
railUavs. the company will own ana opet-
ate an autobus line, freight ana express
nus line. will supply electric light ana
mower and gas to patrons alons the route,
and will run restaurants, garages ana
such things.
Also we will insist that present properly
owners in that section. in order TO nave the
-oad pass through their property, snall not
on,y give Us SUFFICIENT land for the right
~ wav but also other plots edjoining the
ros6 which we will hold and sell when the
,.alpes have advanced because OF the puild-
ing Of the road.
II appeared from Mr.. Layman discourse
~, the need for such a highway In that sec
ZION that the present steam and elecu1c
railway facilities between Chicago ana
Milwaukee were almost as congeSteu a.
the Interborough subway. and as Tor au-
,omobiIes. they simply must nave more
roou for automobiles between those TWO
o,,ies he saws. because they're so thick
rou, one cannot escape the odor from the
exbaust pine Of the machine in front
As II fails from the lips Of Mr.. Layman
,be whole undertaking seems 10 be sur
rrisinglv simple The property owners ne
savs. will give the land, the public WIN III
,est in the company which VIII oulld tle
road and poof. il IS done; or, as he puts II
~ his literature: Good roads without tax
alton. How? The real estate improve
-oent and transportation earning power
vul repay construction cost"
AND 20 quote further from the same
,oYroe. "These segregated. safeguard "a
-oods for automobiles trolley and animal
dravn vehicles. will be the most comm D.
d,o,,s and beautiful driveways in the world
,rbe ground on both sides Will be exceed
,nelv desirable and valuable for residence
,,,rroses as well as for manufacturing
,,,,ck farming, fruit growing. etc. AioIs
ter the road scheme we" have formed
rational highways club. the literature IN
forrns one. membership costing $lo'
True. your $40 membership fee does no'
.o,rt for much in dollars and cents pu'
,,o,r inAuence-that is a power says the
,rosnectus on this point, with the eoui'
.,oral information that for the $40 the com,
,sny will give you so worth OF preterreo
stock as well as your membership III '"'
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