Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-30
WORST STRETCH OF ROAD,
/ NEW YORK To BAL T|MORE
Washington-R Richmond Stretch Is M
= Longer Terror To Automobile
Tiuists.
ROAD THROUGH STATE is GOOD
Joyous Stretches 81 Concrete Take
Place az Soft Spots Which Once
Disguised Motor Travellers SUuti,
From Washington.

II unyhody tells YOU that the road
to PinCh,nst is rotten this winter put
il down tina, he went the wrong way
- is sEuply chronic kicker" do
clsrcs Henry McNair Chairman Of tho
Board Of Directors Of The Automobile
Club a New York. Who has Just -
,urned from 4 ton; OF inspection OF
unctor routes to the South ..
"Ar a matter OF fact continued IA
MeN,,ir, Tina, portion Of the trip be-
twccn Washington and Richmond.
of dcsp4 ir.nF tourists IS today il. bet
ter SHAPE thsn widest Dreams could
have faa c.,d two years ago. Concrc,c
now, ext, nct' from Nexandria TO Camp
..ancthsr concrete stretch has taken
chopsTvsi 7,ps;c swamp whcrc now. 10
ai,. 70 SOAK e S S9sc citg d G1
who has n,s learned the trick Of
s;raddIu: rnts.
-Sc~ orii-naitim"rc Link Worst.
ln6rra so long has the superior
person 4 or. Ysnkce-iand put his
thicEt 20 Shi3 nose when Virginia roads
poetic jua tine 10 be able 20 tell him
that thc DIST part of tho whole trip
baltimore. on the direct rout between
hss laid a'u,: much better route TO
Wasrinss6,t which avoids all the hig
CITIES. a1d ;.ll thc detours.
whn~ IN. suggested route il sixty
miles loaEt r than the Old way. the
differoner i: moro than offset in ?oin,
II time BY Having no delays Of traffic
~ rictours. The route rccommc ndcd is
from New Dirk 20 Easton, Alcntown,
Reading and Lancaster tho first day.
hsS piles The second day one soes
and Washing ton, l%I miles. with splcn-
did state 70 ads all the way. except
the first svs miles after leaving tho
battlefield Of Gettysburg.
This may be avoided by turning
South at .Nf'h ,ttstown over a toll road
70 Hanorer y nd Manehestcr: then over
Through SIT stminster and West
Friendship 10 Baltimore. Or II one
wants to svoi tho Monumental City
hc will run VIC - q few miles to Ridge
Don't Mare' TO Wait for wcnther.
From wash inston to Richmond is
weather. Ths hrs; twenty mi miles so could nd
not lie bcttern l. the latter half being
perfectly laid government concrctc.
After that con- es II stretch Of gravel
which Sccrus rough by comparison
reaching tc ,ccoquan Al the top
20 the left. r;isr cgardinH obsolete signs
and 20 over INC new gravel road,
.i'ist being put by fcrcibly detained
guests OF the 9 commonwealth.
Elevc Of conc retc ,ravcrscs the
marshes OF Ono pawampSic. and !arlss
Jus, . quarter ii :: mile rcachns The
county line. .whcs CO "a very good gravel
road extends 70 Frcdcr.ckSburE the
On, Sny o Hrswbae being the aGtour to
lar bridge hcins still down.
On the way to Richmond tho motor
IS; must be carer III 10 take :hc right
the railroad At tn man This new S,.te
roa;l has no bumn on the way to the
a -
necessary below f:iclrnond. where The
man road y; un der repair for ten
y eS,.i nn. While ionser; the surface
made after leaving Petersburg on the
Nay to pinWiddie, but no dctours. and
ccllcnt.
Take Left Fork nt Mcrkicnburs.
~ Mccklenbure. seventy-six miles
. ,.N1 ,1!G IGett:sterk over fine road TO
road % Iict-dcts6n ana Ra;cir me T TmiS
SAVES some twenty five mics over. ~.
on ' on r1 -cI5 and is il pcitnr
clFhty miles, the - adj Is mostly ma
spn1e forne ,S lo s., c,ehes This also
on lno "aN 10 Aucla sta. bu, East tin,a
IL i5-d nr ",anr ~ ihia 227 miles
r .,}S, ~ via Macon and Waycross
la.h4i man via Savannah. After rc;,"I.
Iii 10 "e;cE"onl,,ie tic road is practicaly
Lery tine going All In, Wv ia M lIf.. nmd
ION llartora there a.c also ..vrH,Tr,,,,'
'epS 70 TAMPA ana Bereair Hcinl,te
Irr" ' {" smaller rrur> Ini,s.
'"r nc nnlrg. tapdrur,. an,o,,
,ln."' iTJcz usors is towards sIn.rI
Units - indicated by -he irp..i, 49,
o. me third quarter o. 1914 - 60,
l.;.to by .he National Automohiio
, ,,mlI! o. comm"rce. 81 tine 42o 800
,ruthS made and sold ~ members a.
nc chambnr--w Iticn Includes Iii ~.
DIE makers cxccn; iord-orer - Gsn
Wtir rated a on" and one-half ton or
smaller. Less than half thar nggnba~
were tWo-toit or over