Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-07-30
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 90
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-oId 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 go miles from here. we turned
oil down a side road to camp by Lake
Llie, There was an outfit down by
tue lake which claimed they had had
lot of hard luck. They dished a
wheel; they tore up a tire; they lost
tent off the back end of the load j;
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
zone 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
eangh, the weight of the car on the
right rear wheel, and smashed it all
a-bllm.
This was on a strange road out in
indiana, he said, and it sure did look
all right. But it smashed him. and
II was pure tuck that he didn't roll
over asked him about the kind Of
road, and he couldn't tell me; said
i was pretty muddy. but had gravel
on it too.
There YOU are! He smashed up
ana was taught a lesson, and didn't
Know what the lesson was. The fact
Is there are more than 200 different
ENDS Of good roads in the United
states. I've been on most kinds. I'll
feclte few of theni-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"
40 two good roads are alike.
Good and careful driver as | am.
Darn near rolled over out west Of
ea} Lake City last summer, skid
o.hg In the dust--dry, fluffy dust.
"Ay if I'd been driving 20 miles
instead Of careful 10 miles an hour,
Iea rolled end over applicant, and
vas a good road, If you knew how
~ af've IL. Yes, sir. There is not
road in all this United States, not
&c best widest, finest. smoothest
''71 that isn't treacherous IL mans
lo' used to it. ! don't mean Wild
~, sSe1 aummers, but just common folks
like me.
4 you don't believe IT, you study
'Ae road accidents you come upon as
s'u ride across the country. Half
.-e SAldding IS done where the road
we changes. where a man leaves
t'''efete and hits oil surface or WI ere
caves the wateTbound stone Tor
a car doesn't drive twice alike on
-E roadway from New York to San
'aacisoo. ! know. because I've made
-7 Tip Where do tourists coming
"sl hang up with troubies IT'S when
Try come OF bad roads into GOOD
Ton take the western part OF
York state. and people leaving
N'e good roads Of Ohio after crossing