Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07

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| livered during the past week as follows:
| Torpedoes to G. A. kneessi and G. M.
| Walter. roadster to Mrs. Alice NJ Clark.
J. F. kelchner. C. Walter Hoover. DR..
| NJ. r. Evans, Straus Gunst Company, Wal
| ter Leaman and touring cars to DR.. II.
| III. Donnally, Allan F.. Walker & Co, j.
| r. kelchner. H. n. Payne. j. G. Meyer,
William H. Warner. Henry Wagner A. ].
| Hendrick. A. b. Fay, Pauline NJ. Withers,
| +. W. Grafton, John Shugrue, J. A. Bald
erson, S. Alexander and Mrs. Whitson.
| i X X
| Joseph M. Stoddard of the Cook &
Stoddard Company returned few days
| ago from a trip to his new summer home,
/ which is being completed at West Spring
! field, n. III. On the return trip he ran
| into a snowstorm, with ten inches of
| snow on the ground 1t kept up for five
| days. Previous to the New England trip
| he visited New York and Detroit. At the
| latter place he attended a five-day conven-
| ton of Cadillac representatives, which, he
said. was the most interesting and in
| structive Of any convention ever held in
| the history of the company.
A 1912 self-starting Hudson 49, tour
| ing car was delivered yesterday to F. II.
Hough, and a roadster, finished in blue,
| to John Madert
George W. Rundlett, returned from New
York yesterday. having notored to the
metropolitan city with Thomas Colbert In
i a 500 Pierce-Arrow touring car. He
reported the roads in excellent condition
| with a couple of exceptions, on the out
skirts of Baltimore.
| X X
Ted S. Johnston, manager of the
| local branch of the Buick Motor Com
| pany, left yesterday afternoon at 3
! o'clock for the factory at Flint, Mich, to
| be gone until Wednesday.
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Sales and delivery of 1912 Pullman tour
ing cars for the past week were announc-
ed as follows: Julia Atkinson. 40
| touring car. and DR.. /. w. Dennison
40 toy tonneau. both cars being fully
equipped.
| The Bowles Motor Sales Company
placed on exhibition yesterday the first
| of the 1912 Lauth-Juergens motor trucks
for which they have secured the agency
n the National Capital.
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The international highway, extending
from Quebec, Canada, to Miami, Fla,
| which for SO many years has been desired
by the thousands of tourists who annually
make their pilgrimages to and fro, is to
! become a fact. Already assurances have
| been received from the several states
which this highway will traverse that the
| work of building will begin this spring
and before the close of the year the great
road which will wind it's way along the
Atlantic seaboard will be complete.
The province of Quebec has voted $40.
100000 for roads. and a portion of this
sum has been set aside to build boule-
ward from Quebec to Rouses Point The
state of New York will build the high
way from Rouses Point to Albany Be
| tween Albany and Philadelphia there are
| splendid roads, while the stretch from
| Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania line
| Will be taken care of by the state. The
stretch from E,lkton to Baltimore will be
| built by Maryland out of special funds.
| while another stretch between Baltimore
! and Washington will be built out of the
funds available to the Maryland state
Il roads commission.
/ One of the most important links is be-
tween Washington and Richmond, and
| this has been provided for by subscrip-
ton Of $1,000 raised I'm Washington. and
d similar subscription raised in Richmond
the counties between having agreed &c
raise the remainder. The route selected
from Washington is via Alexandria. Ma
assas. Fredericksburg, Bowling Green
Hanover and Ashland.
At a meeting of the Virginia section OF
the Quebec Miami Association heN re-
Gently II developed that the Virginians
stood united for the building of the Wash
ington- Richmond highway but that il
wss a question as to routes, inasmuch as
four were offered. The selection of the
official route was difficult.
Preston Belvin. president of the Virginia
State Automobile Association, who has
taken a leading part in the InternatiOna
Highway Association work, says:
This highway is no longer d dream
but is now in tangible shape. and before
frost flies in 1912 will be completed. In
fact 1t will be passable between the Isl
and 10Th of July. Citizens of countie:
have agreed TO bond the counties ant
towns. and the bankers and merchant:
in Richmond and Washington have agreed
to raise their portion. AS 1t now stand:
we have four routes to Washington, al
or which are prepared to put up the
| money to build. Therefore. you can say
to the officers Of the Quebec Miami In
ternational Highway Association tnat the
route from Washington to Richmond Ii
| assured, absolutely
| X \
| While the Virginians. who offered the al
| ternate routes from Washington to Rich
| nIond. were naturally disappointed at not
| having their particular projects accepted
as the official route, it is understood tina
| this VIII not daunt them and that the,
| Will construct the roads for themselves
| In this case the traveller after reachin;
| Washington will have a choice Of routes
by which he may reach the capital Of tn
Old Dominion.
| South of Richmond the Quebec-Miam
| Association has been ably aided by thu
| Capital Highway Association, of which
| Leonard Tufts OF Pinehurst, n. c., Il
| president. Reports received from tn,
| Caroiinas, Georgia and Florida state tina
| the citizens are enthused over the high
| way. that state, municipal and private
| funds have been contributed, and tina
| construction on the links to make tn,
| necessary connections with the roads al
| ready built will begin during the next few
| weeks. Thus the highway is assured TO
| this year.
The building of this international high
| way which will traverse the ,entir,
| length of the Atlantic seaboard, will d.
| much for the south. Each year Their,
| will be thousands of tourists who will
| make the run by automobile, and, Will,
| many of them will no doubt confine thei
| route to the main highway, there will
| be numbers who will diverge here ant
| there wherever the roads offer, and visi
the historical sections of the country.
That touring Is on the increase and tina
| is best illustrated by the fact that las
year in the New England states NOR,
than $4,000 600 was spent by automobil,
| tourists. 1t was the good roads tina
took them into the hills of New England
II will be the good roads that will at
| tract them to DiXieland.
| A largely attended meeting of the board
i of directors of the Washington Chamber
| Of Commerce was held last week in thi
city, when the plan Of the Richmond-to