Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12

Billy Knipper will act as relief driver
for Gill Anderson and Len Zengle on the
Stutz cars: Caleb Bragg for Teddy Tetz-
lah. the Fiat: Eddie Hearne for Louis
Disbrow and Harvey Herrick of the Case
team, and Rickenbacher for Prayer in the
Ffrestone- columbus. These are the only
relief drivers who have been named up
to last night.
H. A. Woman. formerly advertising
manager of the National Carbon COM
pany, Cleveland. became associated In
the same capacity May ] with the
Baker Motor Vehicle Company of Cieve-
land. Mr.. Norman Is well known both
by his magazine articles on advertising
and selling and for his constructive work
in those lines with the Addressograph
and International Harvester companies
Of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Stewart and Mrs A.
w. Gregory accompanied Frank c. Stew
art last Sunday on "trip to the Gettys-
burg battlefield I'm his REQ touring car.
ing Sunday on the field. The return trip
was made Sunday evening. Mr.. Stewart
reports the road in places between EN-
mitsburg and Gettysburg in an unsafe
condition, owing. to the repairs being
made to the roadway. Contractors are
engaged in building a macadamized road
and the work of grading is also in prog
ress. In order to get by some of the
bad stretches 1t is necessary to drive of
to one side of the road, which is danger
Gus by reason of the deep bitches on the
sides. He says that at night it would
be almost impossible for a motorist to
pick his way, owing to the numerous
Washouts and bad condition of the road
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Two transcontinental motorists passed
through the National Capital last week
on the last leg of their journey from
Los Angeles to New York city. They
were Chester Lawrence and Harvey Her
rick, the latter a speed merchant and
holder of many worlds automobile rec
ords.- They were engaged in blazing
trail for transcontinental highway be
tween the two cities mentioned. The
trip was made under the auspices of the
Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association.
During their brief stay in this city they
met officials of the Office of public roads
Department of Agriculture and senators
and representatives of several of the
southern states through which the trail
blazers motored They covered about
3.572 miles. but the highway which is
planned will require about 1900 miles.
They found the roads in bad shape on
account of the severe floods in the south.
while in the west they encountered the
worst rains in any spring in the history
of that part of the country.
Picking out Individual states, each in
its turn. and covering them from end
to end with local associations dedicated
to the movement for the Improvement of
the public highways. is the method that
is being. pursued by the American Asso-
citation for Highway Improvement In its
campaign to coordinate and, crystalline
the road movement in the United States.
Fred S. Smith. the special representative
of the American Association for Highway
Improvement, has just reported to j. f.
Pennybacker jr., executive secretary of
the association, that the state of Florida
has been covered from end to end with
local road improvement associations.
Mr.. Smith has been travelling in Florida
for the past twelve weeks and his results
give fair indication of what the Ameri-
can Association for Highway Improve
ment, which was formed by leading Off
Gals, railroad men. professional men and
others for the purpose of establishing
clearing house for the road movement,
expects to accomplish. in every state in
the Union. In the twelve weeks in which
Mr.. Smith worked in Florida he covered
3 200 miles in an automobile. traversing
twenty-four counties and thirty-seven
towns.
None of the representatives of the
American association is of the dilettante
type. and in his trip Mr.. Smith never
hesitated to get down off the platform
from which he was speaking in order to
show the farmers just how to construct
certain types of road. While Mr.. Smiths
work is largely along the lines of orga nj
zation, he actually aided in the work of
connecting the good roads of one county
with those of another county. bringing
the whole state into closer and quicker
communication. Many miles of road were
actually constructed as a result of Mr..
Smiths tour of the state. and he had an
opportunity to witness some of the re-
suits of his own missionary work.
The representative of the American AS
ISOLATION for Highway Improvement adj
dressed sixty meetings in the various
counties, in some of which bonds have
since been issued for the purpose of in
vesting in improved public highways,
which Mr.. Smith assured them was the
best investment on earth. The American
association is now preparing for similar
campaigns in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and
West Virginia. Meanwhile, Field Secre-
tary Light is doing similar work in the
western states.
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Real pleasure in motoring lies in hav-
ing responsive motor with plenty Of
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