Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-03
LETTER TO EDITOR
Motoring To The Southland. The Da-
sidvOns Reach Their Destination Al
nsy+cna Have Narroxv Fscapa

To the Editor OF the EDening Capital:
/ We have been travelling so CON
.ehfiy that have not heen able to
send The second of my series of let
ers 10 the Capital until now. We are
/ settled at last, and / am enclosing
ianotaer letter which | hope you will
find interesting enough to publish
j nope to finish up the trip in two
more letters. and will later tell YOU
how we like Florida
On our way through Virginia, we
found the roads a succession OF hills
up and down for two days We
would coast down hill and try to
Fun up the other side on high gear
The car would not always make it,
30 Mr.. Davidson stopped just after
| he got over the border of North Caro-
lima to loosen his footbrake which
helped the little car to climb the ever
Tasting hills know we have come
over thousands of them; in fact, they
made he road
While We were sitting by the road
side. an old darkey came along or
la load OF wood with a gun across his
knees. We asked him who he was
cunning for? He laughed and said q
thoaght ] mout see turkey" | said
What kind of a turke5 and he re
tplied. "a wild turkey; but they is
getting very scace." Nevertheless
we heard him shoot, not five minutes
later
We had had rain on Friday night
and the roads were very muddy and
poor little Henry Ford" who had
started away in a new coat of paint
and brightly polished brass, was soon
SO muddy no one could read the H.
cense numbers. So in Durham, n c..
/ had them wiped off. for fear the
natives would strain their eyes. in
their efforts to see from what state
we came. / fancy the District IL
cense below the Maryland license; is
what particularly attracted attention
other state but Maryland has to have
license for the District of Column
hias but because of disagreement
between some officials, we Maryland
ers are forced TO buy. District Ii
cense and people in the District have
to buy a Maryland license. which is
quite an unnecessary expense ii
seems to me.
We travelled through North Caro-
lima for hours, the, roads improving
is,,+ bod 70 nrnvc tho railroad tuaufy-
$50 times. in run of about a hun
afed miles, and it has been almost
- had all the way through the
og,h We passed Oxford. North
iCarahna. which we all agreed, to be,
lie prettiest town we came across
ana her beautiful wide entrance and
long well-paved streets Of course
pleased people. who were motoring.
We reached Durham. n. C.. about
Ii D. IN. Saturday afternoon and the
children were Immensely interested
to see drunken colored man sprawl
ing in doorway of a store on one
of the principal streets. something
they had never seen in Annapolis, in
their short lives Being Saturday the
town WAS 50 filled with colorel peo-
pie and country white people We
could MOI sec the red. white and blue
telephone posts. that we had been
following along the national highway
and our driver got SO mu6dled he
couldn't get out of the town for half
IAN hour: then construction work be-
ing in progress on the highway we
were compelled ID take a country
road in another direction with no
posting which delayed us 50 much,
il vas nearly night-fau when we
again struck the highway at Apex,
NC We ran along over a smooth
road and rolled down q Hill and in
tha dimming light, ! could see. what
locked like fresh cut green cedar
brush. lying across the unknown
road Mr. Davidson ran over it. sup
posing. it filled wash in the road,
and shot up on steep high bridge,
fifty feet atove a turbulent river. |
saw at once something must be
wrong, as my eyesighi is pretty good.
anu tI4Su 10 get MI la fiNSou 10 Stop
the car. but only succeeded in doing
so as he ran of the opposite end. and
right into a bar that was at the far
end of the bridge A laborer ap-
peared from little shanty by the
end of the bridge, and l asked him
-Wha; was wrong" and he fred back
la answer. 4 question. What did yon
come over that bridge for: cant you
see il has na piles under the side.
and is jnst hanging there p ~Coalan'i
you see the rome stretched across p
Mhen he found none was up. he de-
citled the workmen must have left the
rope down. and when demonstrated
akth hsm. be shrugged h:s shoulders
and said Il was ..up to the County,