Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-11-01
TRAVELS FROM WISCONSIN
OVER NOW FAMOUS ROUTE
Expresses Disgust at Toll Roads En-.
COunteTed Where Tourists Must
Pay for Use of Roads All
But impossible.


huge joke, according to M. o. Hill,
a former Chattanooga, who for two
years has been living at his old home,
Veroqua, Wis. Mr., Hill, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Hill, arrived in Chatta-
nooga late yesterday to make their
future residence, having driven all
the way from Veroqua in their Ford
car, following the Dixie highway the
entire distance.
Especially severe was Mr.. Hills
arraignment of Tennessee, basing his
structures upon what he encountered
between Nashville and Chattanooga.
Bad roads was not the only thing to
the disaster of the tourists. They
especially deemed it to the discredit
of the state and of the south, for that
matter, that autoists from a long dis
lance, coming into the south to spend
their money and to secure an impress.
sion of new country should have to
pay out considerable sums in tolls for
the privilege of travelling the excra-
bic roads that exist between Nash
vile and the summit of Cumberland
mountain.
eve were kept plugging along
over cobblestones and thru sticky
mud, mile after mile, the only relief
to the monotony being when we
would run against a tollgate and a
very obliging keeper would take our
money, which was to pay for the
privilege of travelling a few more
miles over more stones and through
some more mud until we would come
to another tollgate where, in like
manner, another obliging individual
would for fee permit us to pillow
through still more mud and up i'm
possible grades, until finally we came
TO the Sequatchie valley, where again
we found modern-day people who
maintain free public roads"
Mr.. Hill said it was a wonder to
him that any travel came this way,
unless everybody from the north had
the same impression he had-that
the Dixie highway, SO thoroughly ad-
vertised-was reality instead of
dream. When he was told that
within very short time there would
be completed through state and fed
eral aid short route to Nashville via
Signal mountain that would be free,
of modern construction and of easy
grade the entire distance, he said he
wished Tennessee had awakened be-
fore he attempted the long drive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill left Veroqua
last Saturday a week, Chattanooga
their objective, They some years
ago built them a lodge on Missionary
heights which they call "White Oak
Lodge" They had property inter
ests which took them back to Wiscon-
sin two years ago and they have heard
from that distance of the birth and
growth of the Dixie highway, never
dreaming that an important part of
that project existed yet only on pa
per. They have returned to Chatta-
nooga permanently.
Their trip took them to Chicago
for their first stop. From there
they journeyed to Danville, ILL.,,
thence to Columbus, Ind, thence to
KY, thence to Bowling
Green, thence to Nashville, where ar
rived Saturday night. Sunday they
made short drive to Manchester 1t
was on this first stage of the final
ap to Chattanooga that they encount-
red the tollgates. Three times be-
wee Nashyille and MurfreesborO |
hey had to pay tolls. Mr.. Hill said
his was not SO bad, considering that
hey had good roads all the way.
But from Manchester on the travel
vas over the worst roads of the en-
ire trip, often encountering mud
oles that tested the endurance of