The Washington herald., 1921-07-03
SENSIBLE OAKLAND
ADDS To JOYS OF.
TRIP TO MARYLAND
Sidelights of Herald Tour
To Busy Town on Hot
- Afternoon.
: FIND POPULAR ROAD
Smooth Working Machine
Averages 80 Miles an Hour
On Pleasure Jaunt.
FIND POPULAR ROAD


on our return trip. The big drops,
.gfistening, splashed down on the
windshield, out of a sunny sky.
This necessitated the explanation to
Leslie Elwood Wight that ''the
devil was beating his wife" If
that quaint saying be true, Mr..
! Satan gave Mrs. Satan a mighty
, walloping, because the rain fell
: steadily from an almost cloudless
SKY for full five minutes.
: Leonardtown n Busy Place.
Leonardtown was doing very
! nicely thank you, about 1 p. m.
= "Wednesday. Its citizens moved
: Resut hither and yon, seemingly
Mnmindful of the heat. One Of Mr..
. Aays' star route" postoff1ce trucks
! on big pneumatics unloaded its
. cargo at the postoffice-goods from
"a Washington stores. presumably.
And it took on pouches, packages
and crates, presumably fresh eggs.
presumably addressed to Washing
tonians of discriminating taste.
The First National Banks new
building is now occupied by that
f., financial institution and the old
E bank building is being made ready
" to house the postoff1ce, which is
being removed from the lower floor
. OF St Mary's Hotel.
o. The threshing season is on just
- now. We saw two crews busy at
what. II we remember correctly, is
the hottest job in the world-feed-
ing wheat separator. Wednesday
was a great day for it.
On the road to Frederick we no.
ttced that nearly every farm has a
big red barn, and every barn is
adorned with neat white spots that
resemble windows. On the road to
. Leonardtown there are no such
. barns The prevailing fashion
seems to be big. two-story houses
with porches in front and extend
ING to the rear on each side. These,
aud unpainted tobacco sheds.
- Signs Contradict Mileage.
We also noted a strange form
Of competition between the govern
nsnt of the sovereign State of
Maryland and the manufacturers of
various types of motor oil, gaso-
line, tires ard such touring neces-
stiles. The State official sign in
dtcated that Leonardtown is fifty
four miles from Washington. A
big advertising sign contradicted
thezondcial sign fatty. "Fifty-eight
miles to Washington" it declared
stabbornly.
This quarrel is Interestingly kept
up. coming and going.
One Of the timid persons on the
back seat kept his eye on the
speedometer pretty closely, and he
found that 1t was almost steadily
on 30 miles per hour-up hill and
down There are some decidedly
stiH hills on that road, with many
a twist and turn. but the Oakland
went along without a protest, slow
ing down only to avoid possible
danger and with never a gear shift.
- The new Sensible Six. by the wav
has longer wheel base than Oak
lands of yore This years iA lis
inches long. permitting longer
- springs and consequent easy-riding
qualities.
shower Brings Relief.
coming in, Elwood got tired Of
looking at the pleasant country-
sfde-and II was considerably more
Pheasant TO the eye, coming in, by
reason of Mr.. Satan's domestic dis
turbance and a subsequent shower
which cooled things off consider
aoly-and went to sleep. Even the
bumpiest part of the road failed to
disturb his gentle slumbers.
1t was. We believe, a mention of
lice cream cones that brought him
Divide awake. Elwood, the speed
demon, will be 5 years old next
Sent n1
nVely interest in ice cream cones
- -eakland's Satisfactory Performance.
The oaklandHerald party left
aLeonardtown at 2:2O D. m, or there
.asouts, and finished at Eleventh and
FE-streets a few minutes before 4:30
ciock- This was a thoroughly
convincing and satisfactory per
-tornance- lnasmuch as the gravel
sections OF the road were somewhat
soft, a car, to entirely avoid side
ivy ana skldding' must be decid-
.edly well balanced.
81 Some of the light cars We passed
seTrt the road, in places. were SWAY
ing In a mildly, at least. alarming
fashion at rs miles per hour. Such
side motion was pleasingly absent
In the akland-even at a burst of
speed of-wen, we do not care to
get into difficulties with the Mary
1And road folk, but it was right
last and brought forth the protest
sfrem the back seat that provoked
Hl~ood to call for more speed. He
had- a taste Of 1t. and apparently
wanted his daddy to show him what
The Oakland could do II daddy really
stepped on IL.
What II could do, the chronicler
.of-ehis is not prepared to say-but
hecan imagine. And he is most
emphatically not in that big
-hury-ever.
- - Trip Totals 124.4 Miles.
Dfsregarding the quarrel between
the Maryland road commissioners
and-the bill posters, and depending
upon the speedometer. which we are
quite certain tells the bald, unvar-
nished truth about the matt IT, we
found that the trip-to Leonard
town and return. including backing,
hilfrg. turning and all such capers
4totals 1914 miles
Measurement Of the gasoline con-
spmed shows 1914 gallons: one
quart of oil used. and the radiator,
at the end of the trip was far from
ehirsty. 1t gingerly slipped a half
Pint Of water.
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