Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-17
HIGHWAY
BOOSTERS
TALK HERE
Red Trail Officials Give Interest
ing Talk at Commercial
Club.
BISMARCK DELEGATION
MEETS THE TOURISTS
Good Roads Generally Met With,
and Tour Is on Schedule
Time.

AN enthusiastic audience at the
Commercial club last night heard the
Red Trail officials on tour from Chi
cago to Tacoma explain the advantag-
es of this great national highway.
Slides were shown of many views of
universal interest, including several
OF Bismarck and Burleigh county.
l.. Fl. Brown, well known Spokane
attorney and secretary of the Wash
ington State Good Roads association.
was the official pilot on the pictorial
tour and he gave an entertaining,
running descriptive talk as scene af-
ter scene, each surprising the last in
point OF beauty, was flashed upon the
screen. -,-.-.-----. --.. -. ......
Yellowstone, Rainier and Glacier
parks were visited; a jaunt was tax
en- through the Bad Lands: a peek
was taken into the vitals of a great
glacier; pleasant moment was spent
at the Minneapolis Country club, and
mile after mile of wonderfully good
road was hastily traversed.
Explains Washington's Plan.
Mr.. Brown explained what Wash.
ington is doing in the interests Of
good roads. No highway accepted by
that state may contain grade Of
more than per cent. This is true Of
the roads crossing the mountains,
where ofttimes great difficulties must
be surmounted and heavy expense in.
Cured in order to maintain the stand.
ard grade. He showed how beautiful,
permanent concrete bridges and cul-
yerts are replacing makeshift affairs;
how the road is protected where pro.
lection is necessary; how everything
is made as easy and as attractive as
possible for the tourist. .
Mr.. Brown described the autOmO-
bile car as the vacation vehicle.'
He told how the automobile has come
into it's own in Yellowstone and other
great national parks, where it is now
admitted on the same terms as horse
drawn vehicles. He explained how
the improvement of highways short
ems distances and makes the route
more attractive, and he declared that
North Dakota, as a halfway station
on the greatest Of all transcontinent-
al trails, enjoys marked advantage
in it's ability to attract tourists from
the west, as we'll as those from the
east. ,l#4 ,dHt
North Dakota, he asserted, has an al
most ideal road-making soil. 1t should
have the best roads on the trail at
the least cost. To date it's roads are
not good. North Dakota, he felt, is,
not yet fully alive to the Importance
of the Red Trail. He advocated a
gravel dressing for the Trail through
out the state, in order that it might
be a good bad-weather road, as we'll
as fair-weather road.
The speaker was introduced by
President C. l.. Young of the Com.
mercial club, who explained the at.
tendance had suffered from the exc
dus Of the BEST People on Earth
to Dickinson. He commended the OF.
ficial touring party upon it's enterprise
and assured the visitors that Bis
marck appreciated their coming.
The journey westward will be re-
sumed this morning, and this evening
the tourists will meet the good roads
boosters at Dickinson.
Governor L. B. Hanna received the
members of the National Parks high
way touring party at the state capi-
tol yesterday afternoon and gave
hearty endorsement to the plan of
transcontinental highway from Chi.
cago by way of the Twin Cities, Bis
marck and Spokane to Seattle and Ia
coma.
81 wish it understood that heartily
approve of this step to open high
way to the tourist; from Chicago to
Puget Sound, connecting the three ma
tional parks,". said the governor, "and
you can rest assured that the state
of North Dakota, will do its part to
aid the movement The subject of
good roads is one in which l am deep
ly interested and the entire country
is rapidly awakening to the social
and economic advantages of improv-
ed highways"
J. W. Bliss, state highway commits
sioner, joined the governor in welcnm-
ing the party and with the governor,
and tourist visitors, posed for pic
ture in front Of the two big Mitchell
Skies which are conveying the trail
blazers across the continent.
! The party is travelling on sched-
ule Of 33 days from Chicago to Seat
tie and Tocomo, giving illustrated
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