Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-03-05

nobody undertake such a trip unless
they was he blooded red Americans
with a whole lot of spare time on
their hands to say nothing about a
passion for misery.>
Now days, however, the roads amt
impossible no more, but just plain
rotten and the result of same is that
the sunshine state is infested with
FordS that is too old to stand the
ringers of a northern winter though
if a machine can go through some of
them shell holes in Georgia without
a general nervous break down, it is
could do to it. To hear some of the
boys tell it. Dempsey's sparring part
ner has a light occupation compared
with marching through Georgia in a
f1ivver.
In most states where they have got
rough roads, why, once in awhile you
come to a bridge made out of wood
or something smooth, and while you
are going across it. why, you get a
though they have got as many rivers
| in Georgia as anywhere else. why
Gen. Sherman blowed up all the
bridges. and they haven't had time
yet to get to work replacing them. SO
automobile has to be ferried, and they
say that after you have been ferried
across one Of them rivers in Georgia
you begin to think that the three lost
balloonists were just joy riding.
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pUT what / was going to say was
- that a few years, ago, when au.
tomobile tourists from the north was
still scarce in Florida, why the ma
| tive Florida motorists began making !
/ drive for good roads, and they go,
| them; and brick roads was built all
| over Florida, which is as smooth and
! nice as any roads anywhere, but the
people that built them had the idea
that they wouldn't be nobody to use
| them only the Florida people, and
| Florida people is generally always sc
stuck on their home town that they
! don't never go nowheres else only
when they have to. So it was nat.
ural to figure that they wouldn't never
| be more than one motorist using the
roads the same day. So the roads was
built for this one guy, and he had
| them all to himself. that is, until the
birds.
= Now days motoring in Florida is q
| different game, and people with chick.
+; en- hearts is advised to stay out of it
i The nine foot boulevards is o. K. az
| long as you don't meet nobody. hui
when you do you have got to do one
! of three things-either run into then
and take a chance that they will ge,
| the worse of it or else move off OF
! the road or else cancel your arrange.
| ments for the day and back up tc
wherever you started from.
Florida automobiles has all. most al
| of them, got plate inscribed with the
| name of the town where they come
from, SO if they happen to meet an.
| other car that won't give ground, VIII!
| the survivor will know where to mai
| the parts. They have also got theil
; weight stamped on their license plate
! which is done as kind of a alibi fol
| whatever happens to them in a col
/
| was a big car from Philadelphia met
a little car from Florida, and they
wouldn't neither of them jump off OF
j the road or back up, and the little
| Florida car got all smashed up. why
| the man that owned it could show you
the license plate where it tells wha'
| the cars weighs and then he could say
! no wonder he licked me, as he out
weighed me 1900 pounds.
X X X X
A FLORIDA man told me a vile
ago that the state was jam full
of automobile tourists clubs which
| suppose corresponds to our suicide
clubs up north. Jokeing to 1 side i
takes a good game guy to go touring
i in Florida let alone make a habit O.
/ 1t and personly / got pretty neal
| enough of same on short trips one o
| which was on a Sunday P. NJ. which
they's no reason for thS northern
tourists to gum up the rds. on Sun
day any more than any other day a
they are down here on their vacation
and all days is alike. But suppos
habit is as strong with Fords as any
body else and if you leave them shu
I'D in the barn on a Sunday they ge
restless and raise he'll.
| Well the trip I took on Sunda,
was from Belleair to Tarpon Spring
which somebody told us We shoul'
ought to go there and see the sponG
lay out 1t seems that Tarpon Spring
is the biggest sponge fisherys in tn
world which as far as am concerne'
!; they's no argument. but anyway tn
l sponge fishermans is all greeks and I