Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-04-12
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
Great Transcontineutal Drive to b,
Seen In Pictures Here.

"'eat Iranscontineuta1 Drive to be
seen In Pictures Here.
| Inc great transcontinental highway
from New York to San Francisco. known
Is the Lincoln highway, will be shown in
moving pictures at the Strand theatre
tuesday, May 30, under the auspices Of
tne Ellsworth woman's club.
Inc building Of this highway is epoch
making, the greatest educational work in
oetter roads ever undertaken in this
country.
on September 10, 1918, a small BODY Of
men announced to not too attentive ma :.
'ion their determination to promote and
establish, with the aid OF the people of the
country, continuous improved highway
from New York to San Francisco. The
men incorporated themselves as the Lin
coin Highway association.
The announcement named the exact
route OF the highway through thirteen
states, and called upon the people of
those states, and the counties and munic,-
pai'ties on the route, to rename the street
or highway the Lincoln highway, and
marx the route with an official marker for
the guidance Of tourists. This has already
been done for much OF the route, and
many OF the states and towns have made
special appropriation for the permanent
improvement.
Since 1918, when the Lincoln highway
was merely an imaginary line across the
continent, it has become permanently es-
taoiished as the main thoroughfare across
the continent, and hundreds OF auto
mobile tourists have already made the
$500 mile trip across the continent by this
highway as pleasure trip, accomplishing
the distance, many Of them, in less than q
month.
The moving picture OF the highway is a
part OF the educational campaign in the
interests OF the highway. 1t costs the
woman's club Of Ellswo rth sonnet hing like
40 to bring the picture here.
The 1900 feet OF moving picture film
taken along the 3,400- mile transcon-
| tinental road, presents one OF the most
unique educational and humanity interest
ing reel features ever attempted.
Many things combine to make the film
unusual. First, the fact that it shows the
actual conditions along the route, con-
ditions about which SO much has been
written and said during the past two
years. Ellsworth people will have an OPP
portunity to see with their own eyes the
wonderful improvements which have been
completed. Governors and mayors greeted
the hlm-taking party; great crowds con-
grega.ed in every locality while the
pictures were taken; every city put forth
an effort to present the best possible APP
pearance in the pictures which the whole
nation will see. Special 'stunts" were
inaugurated for the benefit OF the film by
automobile clubs, boards OF commerce and
civic organizations in every section.
Flashes along the roadside abound in
human interest; homesteaders seeking
new fields, Flooding along in the prairie
schooner of earlier days; the man who is
walking from New York to San Francisco
the president of the Lincoln Highway
association caught cooking hapjacks in
the Nevada desert; the armored military
cars driving the route to the coast on g
test for the government. Ten times the
length OF this film could have been taken
along the Lincoln highway and every foot
OF il be throbbing with the very life Of
the people; film which shows to millions
America as she is.