Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-24
ARMY CAMPS IN SOUTH
MECCAs OF MOTORISTS
Seasoned Automobile Tourist Tells
t.of Interesting Experiences Gained
in Swing Around Circuit.
REPRESENTS AN ACHIEVEMENT
Creation OF Cities to House Amer
ica's Fighting Forces in Space OF
Few Weeks Miracle OF PRODUCE
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Few Weeks Miracle OF Produce
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BY EDWARD HUNGER:ToRD.
With tho oncominG OF every autumn
the Northern motorists mind begins
TO turn toward thoughts CT the South
pixies. the Juniper trees and the mag
nolias. the pillarcd houscs-thc desire
10 trek warns within hio heart
Charleston. Augusta, Savannah--Flori-
ta and tho Gulf coast with their al
most endless miles OF fnc she'll roads
the Old Southland makes no ha!t-
appeal And this year there arc the
cantonments and the big camps OF the
Federalizcd National Guard. at Column
bia and Atlanta, Macon sn1 Mont
Eomery. a. circenvi1lc and Augusta, az
Charlotte and Spartanburg, nj Annis-
ton and at ChickamauSa. These arc
sights not 10 be encountered in an or
binary ycur--thc making OF great
mass of human raw material. almost
overnight IL would seem. into cont
pact fighting machine for the itnat
winning OF tho greatest Of all wars.
Any one of these cautCumcuts 10 worth
a considerable run. To soc them All
spun out upon the hishroads OF tho
Southeast Is an opportunity--an on
portunity ali too rare for the motoriSt
IN America.
, To the man who owns an automo-
bile and who lives north of the Mason
and Dixon line ana cast OF Ohio, At
least two more Of tho cautonmcntS can
he visited OH his SoUthbound path
Camp Lee. at Petersburg. Va. and
Camp Meade near Annapolis Junction.
Md. And If IL chances that he lives in
New England, New York or New Jcr-
scy, he certainly can visit camp Dix, AZ
WriGhtstowu, sixteen miles south o.
Trenton, n. J., and possibly Camp
Upton at Naphank. Long Island, sixty
six miles cast from New York.
HIGGINS TRIr ~ SHADOW
OF G0EiItN'S SUBSCRIBERS
To outline :, trip to The cantonments.
suppose we begin at New Norli-tt the
iai red and white hotel in upper
broadway, which seasoned folk long
ago began 30 call the Fortysccoud
Street Country club. The Amiahlc
Lady, who long oEo appointed herself
IS official pilot Of all expeditions, u
fumhiinS with hrand-ncw Blrc Book.
It's volume 6. which gives minute
touring directions covering $4,000 miles
Of Southern roads. and describes nun
dreds OF interesting side trims on the
way to tho southern Nirvana.
We Shall uc"d tho faithful Bluc Book
10 keep us out of She worst roads and
into the better ones. We shall nccr
some good road before We strike that
orcrworkcd thorouEhfaro that links
Trenton with Wrirhtstown--that ham
let that to-day is known through tho
land as the site OF camp DiX--onc of
Tho largest environments.
Camp Dix. like Canp Triton. is sit
uatcd in a sand wustc Indeed. sou
Viii begin to feel il YOU visit many OF
the environments that the army cu.i-
= i7cerS who located them had A pen
chant for sand lots.
If you have no desire 10 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 Wilmington.
But We have that desire. We regain
thar Washington main road at VIII
m'nston, fc"ryu;; across tho Delaware
which here begins 10 10 Il real estuary
OF the sea-, at Pcnns Grove. And If we
keep our eyes opcu sharply We shat
soc great ships building along the
Delaware 1t is almost IA continuous
shipyard on ono bank of tho river or
ihc other all the twenty-five miles from
Philadelphia TO Wilmington. and al
ready ii il beginning 10 be known As
the American clyde
MARYLAND CuMI'IINilsrrr:n
On tl~ econ ROADS
Wilmington and the shnrt stretch OF
dozen mii"s or more through lrcla-
ware does ii;'ic to remove the in,rrcs-
sion that the 'ruri,- dorm and ursic.t.6
roAd of the 1ciscAA. firrr i;:avc us; bu,
MARYLAND, She ~. r,- u rich state
these ancient lands of uli Lord r,alt,-
lnore-but sac las huiidod hignroaJs
With AN all Int rrodi-aI libcrY!ity
Even tho short str"tch of worn ,.ud
much -'tbused dirt rood wri"lI Won viii