The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-11
Big SCENIC
SECTION OPENED
BY new ROADS
(By Associated Press.)

Milwaukee, Wis.,, April 11.--Good
roads enthusiasts in three states are
seeking extension of the present Sher-
idan road between Chicago and Mil
walkee so that at least two and pos
sibly three automobile boulevards,
hard surfaced and improved would af-
ford ready access to Wisconsin cities
and through the upper Michigan Pc
ninsula. extending to Duluth and I'LL
timately taking in the circuit the east
shore Of Lake Michigan. This, II Is
pointed out, would open up the lake
and woods resorts Of northern Wis
consin and upper Michigan to automo-
bile tourists from all sections Of the
country. Access to the system would
be had from Chicago connections with
the Dixie and Lincoln highways.
The plan first advanced thirty years
ago in a less ambitious form-that of
boulevard from Chicago to Green
Bay, Wis.,-has grown with the years
and the advent Of automobiles until
its ultimate achievement is now be-
lieyed possible.
Impetus to the project has been Civ
en- by the approaching completion of
Sheridan road from Chicago to Mil
waukee. much of the distance now be-
ing surfaced with concrete with a
width OF forty feet. Most of the road
on the Illinois end has been finished
under the supervision of the commits
sioners Of Lincoln park aided by the
activities of the Sheridan road i'm
provement association. The Wisconsin
portion extending to the southern lin
its of Milwaukee county has been
finished and considerable stretches in
Racine and Kenosha counties. Wis,
are completed.
The proposal for the Sheridan drive
generally is credited to Gen. Phil
Sheridan when he was stationed at
Fort Sheridan as department COM
mander in the late eighties. For a
time the enterprise was pushed. Then
1t languished and has been reviyihed
by various organizations and indi-
viduals at intervals. The then Green
Bay, (Wis), Gazette-now The Press
Gazette-in its issue Of March 30, 1897,
said:
1T is proposed to make Green Bay
the northern terminus of the magnifl-
cent driveway, the Sheridan drive now
partially completed, between Chicago
and Milwaukee. A meeting of those
interested in the scheme was held at
Racine Saturday and a committee ap-
pointed to secure the passage OF bill
now before the legislature providing
that the expense OF constructing and
maintaining the drive is to be met by
PNDGN@s
THE construction of a boulevard
along the lake shore from Chicago to
Milwaukee was undertaken about ten
years ago. Since then eighty miles OF
driveway have been completed extend
ing north from Chicago to the state
line, and two miles have been built
south from Milwaukee.
Now IL is proposed to continue the
road north from Milwaukee to Port
Washington, Sheboygan and Manito-
woe and then strike across country to
Green Bay"
Formal openings of various complet-
ed sections have been held from time
TO time. The latest ceremony Is plan
ned for April "a, when citizens Of VIII
mette, Kenilworth and New Trier
township in Illinois, win celebrate the
opening Of a new stretch through those
towns.
Two organizations OF business men.
one In Illinois and the other in Wis
consin, are trying to further the work.