The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-09-19

Then on top to Mt. Eagle They toll
us that il wasn't so bad after We 20
on top OF the mountain. but we go
out TO the worst part where car
we're hung up, stuck. had been prie'
up. pulled up. hauled out and pail
out. A man was there and said h,
had just pulled a car out. aske,
him what he charged. He said tn,
man gave him s35. I thought. well
well. what is it going to cost me {,
get pulled out2" Rogers said again
This is the worst one have tackled
yet" | was standing in front of tn,
car telling him what We had bettei
try. He said. Get out of the way:
am coming through" ] told him ht
would hang up or. break the car al
to pieces. He told me to get OFF the
rail, meaning to get out of the way
Then he backed the car a few feet
and turned on the gas Oh. boyl He
made a lunge forward into the mud
and holes, going about SO feet with
the footboards under water and mud.
I couldn't compare il to anything but
bucking broncho pmnging through
that mudhole. The people who were
in front and in the rear gave a hur-
rah and waved their hats and said,
We'll done We bade them adieu
and looked back and saw a car tight
in the mud that we had just con-
quered.
Then on down the mountain on a
good span of road into a nice valley,
passing Winchester, the town of con-
siderable fame, and then on to Nash
vile at night. Rogers drove through,
around and about in his usual way of
going through a big city at night
After getting through the city all
right We got lost on a straight road
out in the country. We got to Spring
field for the night. Then on to Frank
lin-back in Old KentuckyI-never
more to go to Florida by automobile,
Rogers said. But | told him it was
fun and that | was enjoying it. He
said, Yes, but if you had been sit
ting here holding this steering wheel
for the last ten days, as have been
doing, you wouldn't think it so much
iun." Then on to Bowling Green.
Rogers got lost, or, at least it was
some time before / found him. 4
asked him where he bad been. He
said he had been to the movies. |
said, mo, to a show where pretty
girls were dancing" well, yes, they
did move some in their dancing" he
said "One of them had on a dress
that wasn't big enough to wad shot
gun Then on to Cave City over
the cobblestone road. | guess you
have heard of that road. We heard |
a good deal of talk about it while we
were in Florida We avoided it, going
down as a sign board told us to. but |
by doing so ran into mudhole that |
was sure some mud. Then the next |
out to Mammoth Cave. 1t
Is some cave. We were under ground
three hours and travelled three miles. |
There was a party OF ten of us. Had
il not been for two chocolate-fed
girls and me, | don't believe a word
would have been spoken while in the
cave / guess the cave is so inter
esting because 1t is under the ground,
but maybe If it had beeR on top it
would have been more interesting.
They told us we would have 80 good
likety-split over, in and
Dut of chug holes, and hardly a yard
Of good road until we reached Camp
Knox. We did go over some few
miles of concrete road by leaving the
main thoroughfare. told Rogers
that we would have some good roads |
from Louisville to Lexington; that |
was over the road last September
and it was sure some road, and
often repeated that we sure would
have some good road to Lexington
from Louisville. Finally | told him
it was not like the one we were trav.
cling over then, but that 1t might be
worn out like the rest, as they build
roads now like putting jam or molas-
ses on bread, with the 1asses licked
off and then needing more 'lasses put
on; then because there was no more
'lasses, the bread would be chewed
full of holes and thrown down. Sure
enough. when we got look at the
Lexington-Louisville road, it looked
like fiapjack with the 'lasses licked
on. and the fiapjack thrown down for
the taxpayers to spread more 'lasses
on.
But let me go back TO Atlanta for
ana etuht and utouAar that v,a e,ou,