The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-06

in il. not only alons the ROC,
in all section hat can reach ~. Vlt
and the ambitious propositiore ~,
ec from n place or anoth.- -
how much the people are con-
Hundred Million sayed
| Secretary Lane in an Infer
Washington last week said Ia. n
estimated h a a hundred mill -
lars would be saved in Ame~#-
the tourists who did not "a ~ y
this year. He says the cham. "a
ticeable in Washington as tn,
travel to the capital is NOR.
nounced this year than ever :.
poets every section of the cour+-. =
see an increase of travel bee
the impossihility of travelling ah-
II the war continues another v,4-
two we may feel pretty sure tina. .
habit Of travelling in the 49,
States viii be much more ge,.--.Y1n
established. Europe after the 80
will not right away be A destst1a
place to go. Ruin and ruined her.Is
and railroads will not be parttc.tsrv
attractive. Our own country prom -
to be the object of the tourist Fron
Canada to Los Angeles is a g..-tr,
Of an amending succession of interegr.
ing features. A railroad tourney,
from New York to Los Angeles 49,
San Francisco is better than rothipq
but as compared with a deIherate
journey along the automobile road :
is a shadow of the real possibilities.
With a good road that Will take The
traveller from New England to New
York and allow him to stay there an
hour or a week, to Trenton. to Phila-
delphia, vary the journey on any good
road he falls in with. and on down
into the South at his leisure. the road
will catch the ravel.
Years ago when the West was new
I was on a train passing through the
Indian Territory. The obhging con-
ductor stopped at a place where ducks
and allowed the men on board To
shoot awhile. 1t did not matter
much. We were due in St. Louis in
a day or two, n a little while there
in the territory was of no more con-
sequence than when the trains
stopped over in Texas and asked us
all to help get on wood. The auto
mobile can stop any time and allow
the passengers to hunt and fish. and
ramble around the town or the
country road, and hat is one reason
why it will be a vehicles Of import
ance on the great tourist routes.
Automobile Revolution.
The canals have had their day
for ordinary freight service. The
old stage routes served their purpose,
and they fixed the port of New York
as the outlet of the commercial West
/ But the automobile and the genial
/ climate of the South have started a
revolution, and within a year or two
: it is a safe guess that the New Eng
) lander and the Eastern tourist VIII
, know North Carolina. the South At
, lantic and the Gulf States better than
he knows the Mississippi Valley and
the interior States from Ohio TO the
], Rocky Mountains. When the man
; from the North gets acquainted VIII
; the interesting places he Will flnc IN
the South he will keep the dust IT,
ing on the government road an me
+ season, for in the North there are NO
such old towns as Charleston ana
New Orleans and Mobile and Ne"
!, Bern and Wilmington. There are ho
live oak forests f~estooned WITT
Spanish moss. There are no sfnool,f
sand-clay roads and piney WOODS
forests along the route, and fottof
fields and people busy in Decfmtel
, and January and February on 1ht
!. farms. The South is an any
therefore interesting country /" IN
= northern people and that IS WY 'heS
= will travel the Southern road as S"'i
= as it's opening is announced. an
: that is why every county IN N"F'l
, Carolina should be connectlng W
, with the Capital Highway IL vi,
: be a vital artery of the life q w
!. continent and lively ribbon OF t'lf
witty.