The Holbrook news., 1921-07-08
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Auto Tourist Who Has Driven More Than 50, 0,o0o 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 5O,- 900 miles in his 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 a 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 MT. Baker. '@The result is, they have a lot of hard knocks. When we were coming into New York state, about 250 miles from here, we turned off 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 up a tire; they lost Q tent off the back end of the load; they slept cold nights, and they were just about ready to quit. But, shuclzsi they won't quit Nobody ever does quit once the family have gone to touring right-the way it 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 it all a-blim-
 'HThis was on a strange road, out in Indiana, he said, and it sure did look all right. But it smashed him, and 1t was pure luck that he didn't roll over. I asked him about the kind of road, and be couldn't tell me; said If was pretty muddy, but had gravel on 1t too.
 'AThere you areI He smashed up and was taught a lesson, and didn't know what the lesson was. The fact is there are more than POO different , kinds of good roads in the United States. I've been on most kinds. I'll recite a few of them-mOuntain contract roads. stone water-bound concrete roads, oil waste roads, gravel, sand and clay, broken down stone roads, cut and fill crushed stone surface, cinder, shell, bank gravel, beach gravel, desert two trackers, and so on.
 "No Two Good Roads Alike"
 "No two good roads are alike. Good and careful a driver as I am, I darn near rolled over out west of Salt Lake City last summer, skid ding in the dust-dry, fluffy dust. Why, if I'd been driving 20 miles instead of careful 12 miles an hour, we'd rolled end over applecart, and it was a good road, if you knew how to drive it. Yes, sir. There is not a road in all this United States, not the best, widest, finest, smoothest road, that isn't treacherous if mans not used to it. I don't mean wild eyed hummers, but just common folks like me.
 If you don't believe it, you study the road accidents you come upon as you ride across the country. Half the skidding is done where the road type changes, where a man leaves concrete and hits oil surface or where he leaves the waterbound stone for hard pan.
 "A car doesn't drive twice alike on any roadway from New York to San Francisco. know, because I've made the trip. Where do tourists coming east bang up with trouble? It's when they come off bad roads into good roads. You take the western part of New York state. and people leaving