New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Road Conditions to Madison
Barracks Are Reported
Fairly Good

There are several routes by which
the motorst may reach Madison Camp
at Sackett's Harbor, on the shore OF
Lake Ontario. about $50 miles from
New York. The Albany Post Road
from New York. on the east side Of the
Hudson, which will be found con-
venient route for motorists from New
York City and the New England States,
is, on the whole, in satisfactory condi-
ton. though a rather rough bit of road
is found on the detour between Dobbs
Ferry and Tarrytown by way of Ards
ley Village and Elmsford.
A similar detour exists at Wappin-
gers Falls, just south of Poughkecpsie.
From there TO Albany, however, the
main road is in good shape practically
all the way. The Mohawk Valley route
from Albany, via Schenectady, Amster-
dam. Fonda and lion TO Utica, is not
only in very fair condition, but ira
verses some extremely fine country
scenically. At Utica the route turns
north across the Mohawk River and
runs through Marcy, Barneveld, Boon
Vile. Talcottville, Martinsburg and
Burr's Mills to Watertown, from which
A direct road leads TO Sackett's Har-
Dor, on the lake shore.
New Jersey motorists will probably
prefer to use the west side of the Hud-
son, travelling by way of Newburgh,
from which a good road leads north to
Kingston and Saugerties. At that point
the route turns west to Woodstock, the
main road direct from Kingston round
the Ashokan Dam to Woodstock being
closed between Stony Hollow and West
Hurley. From Wood stock via Phpnicia,
Arkville and Stamford to Cooperstown
the road through the Catskill foothills
is good and the scenery Of very at
tractive character.
North of Cooperstown the road skirts
the picturesque shore Of Otsego Lake
TO Springfield Centre and turns west
over short stretch of rather rough
surface to Warren and Richfeld
Springs. From there conditions i'm
prove en- route TO Mohawk, where the
main route to Watertown is Joined.
From Pennsylvania points and West
ern New Jersey a satisfactory route
leads through the Pocono Mountains
and Scranton TO Binghsmton, and
thence via Unadills and Oneonta to
Cooperstown, continuing northward, as
before, by way of Richfeld Springs
and Utica to Watertown.
Western Automobiles coming in via
Buffalo will find the main road through
Batavia, Canandaigus, Geneva and Au-
burn TO Syracuse in very satisfactory
condition, the only portion of this route
that may be somewhat rough lying be-
tween Caledonia and Canandaigua. AZ
Syracuse the route turns north over
good state road through Cicero, Hast
inqs and Pulaski to Adams, where
left turn is made for Henderson Har-
bor and Sackett's Harbor, by way OF
one of the prettiest drives in the whole
of New York State.
The road connecting Plattsburg with
the camp at Sackett's Harbor, by way
of Malone, Ogdensburg and Alexandria
Bay. is in splendid condition and runs
through exceptionally fine scenery 70
the north of the Adirondacks. This ls
the route that motorists would use
coming down from Montreal and from
noints in Northern New England,
crossing over from Burlington, VI, via
the Hero Islands and the Chazy ferry
TO Chazy Landing from Isle la Motto.