Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-17
MOVING PICTURES
TO BUILD HIGHWAY
Ocean-to-O Ocean Tour Films Give
Transc0ntinentaI Road
Greatest Impetus.

The building with a moving picture
machine of a great transcontinental
highway from the Atlantic to the Paci-
| &c, suitable for the use of motorists. il
| ono Of the many wonders now to be
! found In this country. The moving
, picture machine showing pictures of
the ocean-to-ocean tour of twelve Pre-
mier para Ia now doing practically all
of the work on this great project, but
indications are that IS soon as the
rigorous weather of the winter months
has passed It's efforts will be augmented
by hundreds Of team plows, shovels
and other road building implements in
. dozen different States.
For the past several years good roads
enthusiasts have been e~ndeavoring to
arouse the interest of the nation in the
transcontinental highway project and
their efforts have met with fair sue
coss. Nothing at their command, how
ever, has had the desired good effects
or has accomplished the same great re-
suits thai have followed the exhibition
In various of the large cities Of the
moving pictures of the ocean-te-ocean
tour of twelve Premier cars, driven by
their owners and carrying families and
friends to the number of forty. women
and children. The pictures have al
ready been shown in Indianapolis. be-
fore the Press Club, of New York
city, and at the reunion Of the
oc~ean-to-ocean tourists at the VAL
dorf Astoria; before the Pen and
Pencil Club, of Philadelphia, and
before an audience composed of
motoring and good roads enthusiasts
in this city, where DR.. Hugh F.
Cook, one of the oce~an-to-ocean tour
lists, has done much to boom the trans
continental highway probject.
These wonderful films. which wildly
portray the road conditions in thir-
teen Of the States between the two
oceans will be shown in all the I'm
portant cities, including Chicago. Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati.
st. Louis, Denver, SIT Lake City. San
Francisco, Los Angeles. Portland,
Seattle, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Kansas
City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Columbus and Toledo, o.; Atlanta,
Ca: Dallas and Houston, Tex, and
others. They show the delightful
feature of transcontinenta1 touring in
a motor car. The forty men, women
aQQ cQliuTeQ Ludl ludAc tn6 t,tVU-HiiiC
Journey from Atlantic City to Los
Angeles in twelve Premiers, without
losing a passenger or car, and with
practically no mechanical trouble. as
sert that a transcontinental highway
already exists. That 1t needs many
improvements, however, they do not
gainsay.
Many of them have been abroad, and
they assert that the scenic wonders
of America in the Sierra Nevada and
Rocky mountains excel anything the
Alps countries of Europe can produce.
They are anxious to divert the vast
amount of yearly travel of Americans
from Europe to the Pacific coast, and
they are confident this can be done If
Congress and various States Interested
and vitality affected will only do their
part toward building the proposed
great transcontinetal highway. The
project is i.lready before Congress. and
the exhibition of the Premier ocean-to-
ocean films throughout the country
promises to arouse interest that will
bring big pressure to bear and result
in the completion Of this improved
road by 1916, the year Of the Panama
Pacific exposition at q Francisco.