Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
BY HOWARD S. FISK.

~y1ROUGH the mountains and
| valleys of Maryland and
| West Virginia led the trail
last week of an interesting
and picturesque motor trip
including a visit to Camp Ordway' ;aSe
beyond Harpers Ferry, w. va. "ne'o
the National Guard Of the District was
in camp. The trip. which proved an
| ideal one, was made in a 1914 New hine
| touring car. with William T. barnnart
| at the wheen, and accompanied Dy Inc
stars automobile scribe
The start was made from the Natlonai
Capital at 2:0s o'clock last SUNDAY
morning the reason for the early s'ar
being due to a wild dash maze run
The Star office to Camp OrdWay Will
several hundred Sunday Stars Tor the
| suardsmen to read during their stay
in camp last Sunday. 1t was on TINS
fast run that The Star beat all OF It's
competitors in the newspaper neid ps
three and a half hours. including the
Sunday papers dispatched by train. AFTER
accomplishing this feat we spent the DAY
| and night at Harpers Ferry ana the next
day resumed our journey through west
| Virginia. returning to washington
| Tuesday evening.
The route led out Connecticut avenue
extended to Bradley lane, where we
| turned to the left in front OF the Cnevy
| Chase Club At the other END OF the
| lane we connected up with the RockViiie
nike and turning to the right, followed
| This road to Rockville. Several miles OF
the new macadam roadway have peen
| finished nOrthward from the District Hne
| and extended a considerable distance up
| the road Blockades were encountered at
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various points along the roau, anu da ay
we were compelled to accept detouI
| through the woods, which comes out just
north of where the tracks OF the ROCK
| Vile electric line cross the pike, snort
distance south of the county seat. MotoI
| ists are therefore. advised to turn ielt
| at the blacksmith shop at Bethesda A
splendid macadamized road extends some
distance I'D and then all of sudden
| the motorist is dumped Off onto q rouen
| and rugged road the remainder OF the
distance until the driver finds himsei
back on the Rockville road again. Care
| should be exercised In driving over this
mart of the road, as 1t is full OF noieS
| and dangerous to go very fast
| Rockville, which is 100 miies IRON IRON
| Washington. was reached in good time
| and turning to the right at the top or the
hill in the center of the town just beyond
| the courthouse We continued our Joul
new over a good macadamized ROADWAY
all the way to Gaithersburg. Nd, 10
crossing the railroad tracks or the BAIL
more and Ohio Railroad at this place the
macadam highway gave way TO oiI.
road of the ordinary country Var1ety.
little later we encountered MeadoWDrook
Hill. which was negotiated without any
trouble. and soon were passing through
the towns of Clarksburg and Hyatts-
town. We found the roads in good con-
dition for motoring and no time was lost
along this section Of the route.
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Urbana Next Town.
The next town on the itinerary was
rTrbana. thirty-seven miles from Wash
ington. Here we turned to the rignt ana
made our final dash into Frederick, 40
miles from Washington. which We reacn-
ed at 4:oS o'clock Turning to the lett
from South Market street into West rat
rick street, we continued on our journey
up Telegraph Hill on the outskirts OF the
CITY. again turning to the left in the
direction Of Harpers Ferry. Once outside
of the city we struck up over nne maca-
dam road and things were running along
at a lively clip when puncture In one
of the rear tires caused tWenty-minute
delay to change tires. The sun was just
peeping over the mountain tops and dis
pensing with the electric headlights We
resumed our run through the mountain
ranges 1t was the only stop up to this
point. which was fifty miles from the
National Capital
Keeling the miles off in good style