The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-07-07
Auto Tourist Who Has Driven
More Than $4,000 Niles Gives
Result OF Observations.
NO TWO GOOD ROADS ALIKE
"Dont Take Strange Road at Mors
Than 20 Miles an Hour" His a.
vlee--car Doesn't Drive Twice
Alike In Any Roadway.

claims TO De confirmed h0tOmODlle
tourist Of long and varied experience.
He says he has driven upward Of 90
600 miles In his 1915 seven-passenger
elk and the car looked II 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 lot OF
tourists don't know very much, and
don't stop to learn anything, either"
said Mr.. Baker. The result IL, they
have lot OF hard knocks. When we
were coming into New York state,
about $50 miles FROM here, we turned
of down q side road to camp by Lake
Erie. There was an outfit down by
the lake which claimed they had had
. lot Of hard luck. They dIshed u
wheel; they tore up tire; they lost
q tent of the back end Of the load;
they slept cold nights, and they were
Just about ready 70 quit. But,
shucksi they won't quit. Nobody
ever does quit once the family have
gone to touring right--tbe WY u
can he done. Their disbed wheel in
terested me. The man claimed he
didn't drive fast, hut he skldded.
caught the weight Of the car on the.
right rear wheel, and smashed II all
a-blim.
"This was on 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. j asked him about The kind Of
road, and he couldn't tell me; said
n was pretty muddy, but had gravel
on II too.
There you are! He smashed up
and was taught lesson, and didn't
know what the lesson was. The fact
Is there are more than 200 different
kinds OF good roads I'm the United
States. I've been on most kinds. I'll
contract roads. stone water-bound
concrete roads, oil waste roads,
gravel sand and clay, broken down
stone roads, cut and fil crushed
stone surface, clnder, SHE'LL bank
gravel, beach gravel, desert two
irackers, and so on.
mo Two Good Roads Alike"
mo two good roads are alike
Good and careful driver rs | am,
| darn near rolled over out west OF
Salt Lake City last summer, skid
ding in the dust-dry, fuzzy dust.
Why, II I'd been driving 20 miles
instead OF careful ~ miles an hour,
we'd rolled end over applicant, and
IL was good road, II you knew how
20 drive It. Yes, sir. There Is not
road In all this United States, not
the best, widest, finest, sm0Othest
road, that isn't treacherous II mans
not used to 1t. don't mean Wild
eyed hummers, but just common folks
like me.
"If you don't believe Il, you study
file road accidents You come upon as
You ride across the country. Half
the sklddlnY Is done where the road
type changes, where man leaves
concrete aud hits oil surface or where
he leaves the waterbOund stone for
bard pan.
"a ear doesn't drive twice alike On
any roadwRy from New York to San
francisco. 7 know, because I've made
the trip. Where do tourists coming
east bang up with trouble? It's when
they come 'off had roads into good
roads. You take the western part ~
New York state, and people leaving
the good roads ~ Ohio after crossing
the little neck 0f Ohio don't have half
the trouble that people coming east
have when they hit the fancy New
York brand of r0adwRys.
Job for Nearest Garage Man.
"Now It's the same way with Call.
fornIa. You take u man who's run out
Of Nevada or eastern California desert
roads over the Sierra divide into the
paved ways of California, he feels re-
lleved. He's on good roads AT last
He's been Chfelul ior %,oON ulheE' NV
wants to step on er He does. HI
hits n sharp turn, and blng0! The
nigh wheels drop into the sand, and
there's big job for the garage In tbs
nearest town.
particularly speaking, let me "a!
that the man who drives aspeedinl
over n rOud he has never driven be-
fore invites death or disaster. In
all right on my old home road. hi
M 20 miles an hour right along I
know the road My earn stand II
But On strange road, let me say In
one Of those l5-nhler boys didn'
have to have an accident to learn that
II was just looking at the accident
and figuring on them that gave M
the warning | needed.
"How loOk't! Remember during tn
days when carr were delivered b
the thousand over the highways, am