The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-07-22
Auto Tourist Who Has Driven
More Than $4,000 Niles Gives
Result OF Observations.
NO TWO GOOD ROADS ALIKE
Don't Take Strange Road at More
Than 20 Miles an Hour" His Ad-
vice-car Doesn't Drive Twice
Alike in Any Roadway.

Little Falls. N. Y.-Archie Baker
claims to be a confirmed automobile
tourist OF long and varied experience.
He says he has driven upward OF 3d.
OOO miles In hts 1916 seven-passenger
six and the car looked It when Archie
and his family pulled out beside the
road just west Of Small Gulf, between
Little Falls and Herkimer. to camp
In one of the most noted Of Mohawk
valley tourist parking places.
Baker and his wife and twelve
year old son and ten-year-old daughter
said that touring agrees with them.
They gave the impression Of having
an independent income.
My experience Is that a lot OF
tourists don't know very much, and
don't stop to learn anything, either"
said Mr.. Baker. The result Is. they
have a lot of hard knocks. When we
were coming into New York state,
about $50 miles from here. We turned
or down a side road to camp by Lake
Erie. There was an outfit down by
the lake which claimed they had had
a lot Of hard luck. They dished a
wheel; they tore mp tire; they lost
tent OFF the hack end of the load ;
they slept cold nights. and they were
Just about ready to quit. But,
shucks they won't quit. Nobody
ever does quit once the family have
gone to touring right--the way 1t
can be done Their dished wheel In
| terested me. The man claimed he
didn't drive fast, but he skidded.
caught the weight of the car on the
right rear wheel, and smashed IL ail
a-bNm.
This was on a strange road. out In
| indiana he said. and II sure did look
all right. But II smashed him. and
II was pure luck that he didn't roll
over. I asked him about the kind OF
road, and he couldn't tell me; said
II was pretty muddy. but had gravel
on II too.
There YOU are He smashed NJ
and was taught lesson, and didn't
know what the lesson was. The fact
is there are more than 300 different
kinds of good roads in the Unite'
states I've been ON most kinds. III
recite n few of them--inountait
contract ronds. stone wafer-boun,
concrete roads. oil waste roads
gravel. sand and clay. broken down
stone roads, cut and I'LL crushe,
stone surface. cinder. shell. banl
gravel. beach gravel. desert TIVE
truckers. and 50 on.
.No Two Good Roads Alike"
mo two good roads are alike
Good and careful a driver as | am
Ii darn near rolled over out west o
Salt Lake City last summer, skid
Hing In the dust-dry. fluffy dust
WHY. If Id been driving 70 mile
instead Of careful - miles an hour
we'd rolled end over applicant. an
/ II was a good read. II you knew hoy
to drive II. Yes. sir. There n no
road IN all this United States. no
the best. widest. finest. smoothes
road. that isn't treacherous If a man
not used TO It, don't mean wild
eyed hummers. but Just common folk
like me.
IF ron don't believe H. you stud
the road accidents you come upon a
you ride across the country. Hal
he skiihing Is done where the roa
type changes. where man leave
concrete and hits oil surface or wher
he leaves the waterbound stone "a
hard pan.
"A car doesn't drive twice alike n
| any roadway from New York TO Sa
| Francisco. I know. because I've mad
The trip. Where do tourists comm
eas, hang up with trouhief It's whe
they come of had roads into goo
rna,iS You take the western part {
New York state and people leaviu
IN. good roads Of Ohio after crossin