The Washington herald., 1918-03-24
Beautiful Route Passes
Through Historic Towns
Auto Trail from New York to Virginia Can,
tonments Leads by Shrines Dear
to American Patriots

The following travel route Is spon-
sored for by no less than Edward
Hungerford. the noted writer and
traveller. We present II to our read
ers with the hope that they may learn
as well as find pleasure In this
writer's outline.
To outline a trip to the cantonments,
suppose We begin at New York-at
the tall red-and-white hotel in upper
Broadway, which seasoned folk long
ago began to call the Forty-second
street Country Club. The Amiable
Lady, who long ago appointed herself
as official pilot Of all expeditions, Is
fumbling with brand-new Blue Book.
IL - volume six, which gives minute
touring directions, covering 24,OoO miles
of Southern roads. and describes hun
dreds OF side trips on the way to the
Southern Nirvana.
We shall need the faithful Blue
Book to keep US out Of the worst roads
and into the better ones. We shall
need some good road before we strike
that overworked thoroughfare that
links Trenton with Wrightstown-that
hamlet that today is known through
the land as the site Of Camp Dix-one
OF the largest cantonments.
Camp Dix. like Camp Upton. Is sit
uated in a sand waste. Indeed you
will begin to feel II you visit many
OF the cantonments that the army
engineers who located them had a
pendant for sandlots.
South to Washington.
II you have no desire to visit Camp
Dix, you can cross the Delaware at
Trenton and continue toward the
South on the main road to Washing
ton through Philadelphia and Will
mington. But we have that desire.
We regain that Washington main
road at Wilmington ferrying across
the Delaware. which here begins to be
real estuary Of the sea, at Penns
Grove. And il we keep our eyes
sharply open We shall see great ship
building along the Delaware. 1t is al
most a continuous shipyard on one
bank OF the river or the other all the
Swenty-five miles from Philadelphia
10 Wilmington, and already it is be-
ginning to be known as the American
CLYDE
Wilmington and the short stretch of
a dozen miles or more through Della
ware does little to remove the impress
sion that the truck-tOrn and neglected
road Of the Jersey shore gave us; but
Maryland, She is not a rich State
these ancient lands OF old Lord BaIti-
mOre-but she has builded high-rOads
with an all but prodigaI Iiberality.
Even the short stretch of worn-out
and much abused dirt road which YOU
VIII have to traverse TO reach Camp
Meade from the fine boulevard which
connects Baltimore and Washington,
cannot rid you of the memories of the
Maryland roads. At Havre de Grace
We cross the most important of those
headwaters, the Susquehanna. which
formerly was used by tho tracks Of a
nearby railroad-and which was given
by 1t when outgrown and superseded
10 the town.
Perfect Road In Maryland.
Maryland and its seventy miles of
perfect highway leads the notorisr
from afar up to its chief city. To my
mind d-BslttaoFe-Ss - one Of -tire- feast ap--
preciated. but one Of the Iovelfest of
all American cities. OF her. / never
tire. She has the charms Of variety.
In her the old and the new are blend
cd.
You are in the South already-north
OF the Potomac, but south of the Ma
son and Dixon line. Ever since you
crossed Wilmington and then through
Delaware into Maryland you have
been passing through rich country-a
rolling, well-wooded land. with here
and there a fine manor-hOuse set upon
a slightly commanding eminence. with