The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-18
Motoring Notes,
Good Roads News
and Trade Matters

Tale OF an inexpensive touring trip
is given in the stanton News. IL
suUnda, almost. too good to he true,
but here 1t Is:
DR.. and Mrs. II. Y. Price, Of Mar
tinsyille, accompanied By Dir. Prices
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. X. r. Price, of
Price. n. C, reached Martinsviile. last
Sunday afternoon al o'clock, after
an automobile trip of 1000 miles.
The party left Martinsvile In COM
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. b. Shumate
and MIR, and Mrs. J. r. Lewis ana
family, on the morning of Thursday.
August 18th. the com bined party sep
arating at Luray on August nth.
From Luray, the Price party travel
ed 10 Nippon. ", Va. which place
Is four miles this side OF Charlestown
There, Mr.. and Mrs. x. +. Price be-
came the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. p. W. Hairston, giving up their
places in the automobile to Misses
Elizabeth Price and Matte DeShazo.
sister and cousin of Dir. Price and
Mr. p. w Hsirston, a brother-in-
law OF DIR. Prizes.
ON Tuesday, August Goth. the
party proceeded by way of Charles
town and Harpsr4s Ferry 10 Wash
ington, ID. c., where they arrived
remained until Thursday. August 2sd
At O'Clock on the last named day
they started out again, and arrived
Baltimore Md where about All
hour and one-haif was spent, after
which they left for Gettysburg, Pa.
going by way OF Westminster, Md,
over the famous Carroll county roads.
After stopping three hours to go over
the historic Gettysburg battlefield.
which they describe as constituting
one OF the most beautiful sights they
ever behelw. the party continued on
to Hagerstown. Md, and arrived at
Chariestown, W, Va, the same af-
ternoon, after having travelled It's
miles during the day.
At Charlestown. the party was join
ed by Mr.. and Mrs r.. p Price. and
left at l o'clock on Friday, August
23d. going by way of Berryville and
Stanton. along the Valley pike to
farm house ten miles south Of Staun-
ton, where the night was spent. On
Saturday morning, August gath, at
o'clock the party started again. going
by way OF Lexington and the Natural
Bridge to farm house SIX miles south
of Bushanan. where they remained
overnight. They started on the home
stretch at o'clock on the morning
of Sunday, August 25th. and passed
through Martinsville, the same after
noon at & o'clock reaehsssg Price, NJ
c, about an hour later. where l,r.
and Mrs. Price remained as guests Tor
week.
The only mishaps We're a puncture,
the replacing OF an old with new
tire. They ran over a dog near Har-
pers Ferry, but that mishap hap
pared IN the dog
The party purposeiy avoided hotels
as stopping places for the night and
as "A result got cheaper and better
quarters. got more information ana
saw more of the county than they
otherwise would have done The ex-
penses of the trip, Or. Price states
was s42, which included gasoline and
toil-road charges. This was an aver
age expense Of only one dollar a day
per person, which takes the prize for
low score in this day Of expensive
touring.
No Comment Necessary
LONDON, Sept 1.-THE Daily
Mail today publishes a dispatch.
showing that the French automobile
trade, like the BFitish, Ia becoming
alarmed at the invasion Of cheap
American runabouts. Despite the
French tariff motor imports have ala
most doubled since 1911. The most
popular small car In the French mar
kef Is the American sixteen horse-
power model. selling at $l.100.
: English and French builders can
not compete with this American
manufacturers for cheapress Of
durable cars.
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