Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-10
WHEN YOU MOTOR
ON WILLIAM PENN
Casper Dull Tells AutoiSts
What They'll See on Motor
Clubs Great Run

by CaSpar Dull, member OF tne cluo'
at a joint gathering of the local and
Carlisle motorists
Most of the trip from here to Johns
town follows the route of the William
Penn highway. Tho return, via Bed
ford Springs, will follow a portion OF
the Lincoln highway.
Mr.. Dull, who is thoroughly familiar
with the country, told the story as II
pointing out places of interest along
the route. He said in part;
The Run
Pennsylvania in which every turn OF
the road will suggest some history -
beautiful, interesting and instructive;
telling a little here and a little there
of our forefathers; of the toll and suf-
fering they sustained that We might
have civil and religious liberty.
Let US start at the Juniata Mar
south. or river side of the road.
stonewall extending the length of the
'Narrows.' That you will recall is the
monument left to old canal days Did
you ever know that the State, when
considering the public improvements,
sent to New York for the same engi-
neer, or his son, who had planned the
Erie, canal? All canals were alike to
him. so he recommended a ditch. Had
he grasped the resources at hand he
could have built a slack water chan
branches of the Susquehanna and per-
haps from Havre de Grace to Williams
by in automobiles on this run we would
see powerboats running on the river
by our side. Yet that stonewan tells
US that while 1t withstood for nigh
century the ice and floods and made
good it's promise to keep the river on
one side and the ditch on the other,
had the river been fretted with dams
the question of cheap transportation
would have been solved for the farmer
and small manufacturer. But this is
drive over the central part of our
State, not soliloquy.
Out of the "NarrOws"
Emerging, how the word fits the
description, from the 'Narrows' we run
istown and on to Reedsvilie. Between
these places is Logan's Spring. where
the great Mingo chief had his wigwam
m @ tod to e py the erH late eead Rndrem
Reed. from whose family ReedsvilIe
got its name. Reeds great great
grand6afhieg 0ns Of the rst settlers tb
of drinking when he saw the reflec-
tion OF an Indian. AS he snatched up
his rifle he was met by the'calm' dig
upside down and poured the powder
from the pan of the flintlock into the
palm of his hand and tossed it into
ship to Reed. That friendly feeling
lasted as long to Reed and family as
Longan remained in that section.
Kishhacoquillas Valley. a hard word to
Standing stone Xalley.' il is a valley
Big Valley to distinguish it from Fur
gerson's or Little Valley to south, over
the left hand mountain.
On the Way
Then after twenty-odd miles we run
into Huntingdon, Standing Stone. There
you may see in an open space as your
car speeds along a tall shaft about
eighteen feet high by three by nine
or ten inches at the base. This stone
placed there by nature, was the great
rendezvous. or camping place of the
Indians.
Then we go on to Hollidaysburg
and thence to Johnstown where the
night will be passed. The next day we
Lincoln highway
The Lincoln Highway
We reach the Lincoln highway, the
burgh; We travel the old turnpike
from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and
shortly after we get on that highway
we see ahead of us what is said to be
the longht 'straight-away' in the State
a little over seven miles. 1t seems i'm
the vista to narrow to a thread and to
be climbing long. hill, but it is not
Its width doesn't change, neither does
Its grade, and presently we are on the
eastern face of the Alleghenies. Here
is a lookout, and we might anticipate
few miles to tell now what McMas-
ter told in his history of the American
People of that view.
Describing what the soldiers of
Washington Izasi say saw on their march in
rection, he said: Never before had
they been so far from home. They had
grown up in a country where nothing
and now they beheld that wild region
set off with all its splendors.'
The beauty of the little town of
filled them with amazement. But it
was not until they. reached the east
ern slopes OF the Alleghenies that their
surprise was the greatest
On the Lookout
AT the Lookout for a few minutes
try to take in the beautiful, wide, extern
sive view. We then start our cars
breaks. keep your eye on the 'emer1
gency, for ahead is a coast of four
and a-half miles into the town of Bed
teresting in highest degree to a Penn
sylvanian. In 1775 Major-General Brad
dock was Joined here by Colonel Wash
ington. 1t was fort, and the troops
We're assembled to march on Fort Du
Quesne, to capture the fort at that
time in the hands of the French and
Colonel Washington's advice lost the
victory and his life. At the turn of
| the road TO the famous Bedford
Springs, is the location of the old Fort
TN 1885, Washington visited Bed
ford. Times had changed and we chang
eu with the them, our country had de-
ciared and established its independence
since his last visit and now as Presi-
dent of the United States of America
commander and chief of it's army, he
was in Bedford a scond time. II some
OF the members of the club whose fam
lily comes from Bedford were with us
we might see the furniture used by
| Washington on his second visit. This
second coming was to put down the
whisky insurrection.' Washington
| left Philadelphia. stopped over night
at Harrisburg, and Joined the army
part OF which had crossed the river
south of Columbia, at Carlisle.
Coming Home
Leaving Bedford, the afternoon run
or ITO miles to Harrisburg, you will
see along the road many good-sized
old-fas hioned houses and many OF them
were, in ye olden times, road houses
where the teamsters put up for the
| night. You will see off to the left or
north the old line of the South Penn
Railroad, and from the deep cuts and
the high nils we can readily believe
that S5,O0O.000 was sunk in that enter
prise. Then into Chambersburg, and
at the Square we turn east, recall
that at that same turn Lee turned
south to meet Meade in Gettysburg
many years ago.
And then to Harrisburg So we see
that this ride is over a part of our
grand odl Commonwealth filled with
interest, instruction and beauty. sec
ond to none in our great country"