Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-06

Ever since early spring the public has been reading that transcontinentai tourists have found travel through the | middle western states extremely diff | hcuit in. the matter of, roads Such | statements are fiatly contradicted by | the men in the moving picture party | now filming the great cross country I route. Those in the car accompany | ing the expedition say that not once | have they. encountered roads imposst- | ole to get through Even at Marsh | alltown. Iowa. stories of stalled cars | were heard. but on going forward these reports were not verified At Omaha stories of dozens of machines mired along the road were heard. yet no difficulty at all was encountered and not single car was seen stuck
 Hearing similar reports of cars which could not get through. some motorists
 have become alarmed and shipped
 their cars by rail land probably told other people that the, roads are im-
 passable. Perhaps shortly after rain. parties might find the road slippery and soft, but in from three to six
 hours, after a storm the roads are | normal again, due to the quick k-dry- | ing qualities of the soil throughout
 the midle west
 | The party, have found that as a
 whole. the roads in Indiana, Illinois, | Iowa and Nebraska are as good as | one will usually find on a long tour.
 In many places. road improvements
 are being made and many of the dirt
 roads are easier to travel over than . those with harder surfaces for they | are kept mora easily in repair and are
 not full of unseen holes. The dirt | roads of Illinois and Iowa are usually
 a great surprise to tourists from the east. They are perfectly crowned,
 dragged. scraped. rolled and i'm many
 cases oiled. Some of them are 50 feet in width. with fences on each
 side. As an instance of the quick
 drying qualities of these roads, on the
 9th of July the Lincoln highway car aVan passed through a severe storm
 lasting for some hours; yet they did
 not stop and in less than six hours
 after the storm ceased. dust was fly
 ing and chains were no longer neces-
 sary This was due, no doubt. to the
 fact that two or three hours after the
 de1uge farmers were at work dragKing g
 the roads. Tourists who do not like to
 travel on muddy roads. need only wait
 four or five hours and the roads will
 be dry again.
 In spite of the erroneous reports as
 to road conditions many people are
 making the transsontinental trip. One |, day the official cars passed 25s trans-
 continental parties. Practically every | body who is making the trfp Is sur prised at the good roads and beautiful
 scenery. for with so much rain through the west, everything is green and the abundant crops make the countryside appear at it's best
 } The Astor Cup race was postponed } Saturday. on account of rain, unti next Saturday. and the speed maniac. will have to stay their impRtience fol a week before seeing the Ereates drivers in this country in the 35O-rnil, race on the new Sheepshead Bay Mo. tor Speedway. The diving storn l which swept over New York Fr5da- l night and Saturday morning trans . formed the course from, the safest II r the world. into slippery, slimy patl l 'of death. In the interests of safety [ then, the officials postponed the racl 5 and doomed the thousands of specta r tors to disappointment.
 ! A number of local automobilists mo ! tored to Sheepshead Bay last Saturda, 7 to see the auto races for the Astor cup 3 only to be disappointed.
 1, MT. and Mrs. George W. Carroll O . al