Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-10

| Appia. or App:an Way, was celebrate
for the beautiful monuments, the ma z.
| nificent temples and the sumptuous vii
| las that arose on either side of it
| Cicero, Horace and others were in the
! habit of calling this the queen of roads.
The temples have fallen. the moni;,
ments have been destroyed, the villas
| are in -lins. but today, twenty-five cen
turtles after Appius Ciaudius built it, the
road is still in use. bearing the burdens
/ uf commerce and the name of it's founder
What a memorial! Appius CEaudius was
one Of Rome's greatest generals. wis,
ruler and a foremost writer. Hence the
suS gestion for great highway. which
would be most suitable memorial fol
President Lincoln.
From the White House to Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln journeyed to deliver a
speech which will be recited thousand
years from now. and which will stand as
classic as long as the English language
is spoken. A broad and splendid highway,
the best in the world from the grounds
Of the White House to the battlefield OF
Gettysburg. to be called the Lincoln
road" or 1.-The Lincoln way will. it is
predicted. stand the test as the most ap-
Irorria e memorial that could be con-
structed to show respect and affection
for Abraham Lincoln.
Gettysburg is itself a memorial. elo-
fought the most important battle of the
greatest of wars. Here was exhibited
valor' unsurpassed in the annals of mill
tary prowess. The men who wore the
, blue and the men who wore the gray,
| their descendants and their countrymen.
can all properly eyult as Americans in
the valiant deeds that were there per-
formed. There. too, was pronounced
Lincoln's matchless speech. which ''crys-
taliized the spirit of the republic into
paragraph
To those who have never visited the
battlefield at Gettysburg there is in store
for them the greatest treat of their lives.
The writer has several times been over
the battlefield, and each time has been
more and more impressed with the scenes
which met his vision. Many motoring
parties from Washington visit the scene
of the greatest strife in history and pilot
their cars over the beautiful. smooth
roadways and view the monuments and
scenery. Not only do they go from the
National Capital, but from all parts of
the country. whenever they happen to be
motoring in that vicinity.
The battlefield of Gettysburg is only
IN very small part a cemetery. In the
main it is magnificent park, on the
adornment of which over seven millions
of dollars have been expendcd-'and the
end Is not yet. No one who has not seen
this richly endowed place can have any
idea how wonderfully interesting and at
tractive 1t is. 1t is by far the finest bat
tlef1eld-park in the world.
Though money has thus been generous
ly expended in identifying the battlefield
of Gettysburg and in suitably marking
Its scenes of heroic deeds. it is so in
accessible that comparatively few people
visit 1t. Gettysburg lies almost due
north of Washington. about seventy-fve
miles distant The proposed road would
probably be about seventy-two miles in
length. What fitting memorial to Lin
coin would be a fine highway. splen-
did boulevard from the White House to
Gettysburg, from the house where his
record for craftsmanship was achieved to
the spot where he struck the highest
note of human eloquence! The seventy
two miles would give sufficient length
to the highway to justify its use as a
national memorial. The country to be
traversed offers no special engineering
difficulties. 1t is just about sufficiently
rolling to afford fine landscape effects
and to furnish opportunity for hand