Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-07-28
Mr.. AND MRS. c. c. wADE's TRIP
BY Mr.. C. C. Wade
Continued from last week)

Continued from last week.
If you have any misgivings about
being able to negotiate the congested
districts of New York, Boston, or
Philadelphia, try it out in the loop
district of Chicago. If successful
there, you are past master Of the
art and need have no dread. 1t is
much easier to get lost in Pittsburgh
with its many contiguous suburbs
than in Boston. We were frequently
asked in New England, what we
thought of their good roads. If we
were specially DESTROYS of being polite
we answered the question by telling
about getting stuck in Ohio and
failed to mention that it was on de-
tour. Once my brutal desire for cam
dor got the better of my sense of
propriety, when a friend asked if we
had any roads like theirs, in Wiscon-
sin, and / said: my dear sir, we
have enough miles of concrete high
way in Wisconsin to reach from there
to Boston, without mentioning our
good second class roads at all. The
first one hundred and forty miles
from my house was over paved road,
mostly concrete, and since then / have
found concrete in little stretches of
one to ten miles, merely indicating
that some supervisor had been out
west and gotten an idea admit that
your roads are good second class
roads. They are good because you have
the patrol system and are everlasting
ly patching with pitch and gravel, to
the discontinue of the autoist; but
real first class roads are native in
Wisconsin. They are spreading in all
directions and will get here eventual
ly. Thirty years ago we were agitating
for good roads and contrasting our
unimproved roads with your excellent
roads; but now we have gone you
one better. Your improved roads
have not improved at all in quality,
and comparatively little in quantity
Many miles of streets that you paved
a quarter of a century ago with
granite blocks have worn down so
that to all intents and purposes they
are now cobble stone payements."
COST OF TRIP
Two hundred twenty-seven gallons
of gasoline, $62.65 Total mileage,
1886. Miles Per gallon, 16. Oil,
brake bands, tubes and incidental
maintenance of auto, $47.90. Esti-
mated deterioration of tires at $4.00
each, $1,000. Food, $3425. Aside
from about dozen restaurant meals,
| this item was for such stuff as we
bought by the way, from day to day,
at groceries, generally in small towns,
in the late afternoon preparatory to
camping for the night, and covers
about twenty days living, though dis
/ tributed intermittently over the sixty
days trip, between times when we
were living on our friends. Miscel-
laneous, clothing, laundry, barber,
ETC., S3097. Total expenditure on trip,
$191.77. 1t is not fair, however, to
say we spent $191.77 on our trip with
out considering the credit side of the
account also. Credits as follows: We
rented our house furnished for $780,
co. Renter paid gas bill, electric light
and telephone for the two months,
| $24.50. Coal saved by being away May
and June, $500. House laundrying s
weeks estimated $500. Our auto
maintenance, had we not taken our
eastern trip, would have been Zone
sixth of 1921 maintenance $4,000.
The item of miscellaneous in the debit
side of this account given above as
| S30.97, we would have incurred the
same had we stayed at home. More
ever, our food bill, had we remained at
home, would have been $S8.22 (based
on previous year,. All these credits
amounting to $313.69. The difference
between the debit and credit sides of
this account is $21.92. That is to say
it cost US twenty-one dollars ana
ninety-two cents less to make our auto
trip than it would have cost to stay
| at home.
!. Conclusion reached: If you are out
| of work and have to economic, take
an extended auto trip and recuperate
your bank balance at the rate OF
eleven dollars per month.
Resolved, That when we take our
southern trip, we will blow in eleven
dollars more per month and break
even.
ITO be continued)