Evening star., 1923-11-11
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
AN OBJECT LESSON
Held to Show Desirabi|ity of
Roads Serving Nation
as a Whole.

DETROIT, Mich, November 10.-The
cefved and has been promoted for
ten years by the Lincoln Highway
Association as an object lesson to the
nation--an object lesson in the desir-
ability and Importance of interstate
highways, of national roads which
serve the Union as n whole,
That its object lesson purpose has
been we'll served is best indicated by
the now rapidly developing system
of some 100000 miles of national
highways interstate roads, develop
ing rapidly with the stimulus of fed
eral aid under the federal highway
act passed in 1916 and Its subsequent
amendments.
Just as the Lincoln highway from
Manhattan to the Golden Gate was
intended to serve as natlon-Wlde
object lesson in stimulating the de-
velopment of interstate transport ia
cilities, so was the ideal section
constructed by the Lincoln Highway
Association in Lake County, Ind, near
Chicago. intended to serve as an OBJ
ject lesson in the design and speci-
fications of modern roads.
Rubber Company's Object.
The purpose actuating the United
States Rubber Company in making it's
large contribution to the Lincoln
Highway Association for the con-
struction of this model section of
highway and the purpose of those
nationally known highway authori-
ties who collaborated in determining
upon the design for the section, was
to endeaSor to crystalline the pest
modern't lfought available as 10 hlSh-
.T.fi ion M n
travel and. by building a section OF
such rnDdel road, stimulate construc-
tton of like adequacy and permanency
everywhere in the Union where Sucn
construction would be economical.
That the ideal section has ALREADY,
before its final completion and dedi-
cation. had its effect upon public
opinion. is best Indicated by the I'm,
mediate development contemplated
near it's location.
Town to Extend Section.
The western end of the ideal sec
tion is about a mile from the little
town Of Dyer, Ind, which is located
on the Illinois state line some thirty
five miles south of Chicago. At the
time the ideal section was paved the
state of Indiana constructed an
eighteen-foot concrete road connect
ing the western end of the ideal sec
tion with the concrete Lincoln high
way in Illinois. at the state line,
through the town Of Dyer. Now the
town board of over is advertising for
bids on two additional strips of con-
crete paving. each eleven feet wide.
10 be laid between the Illinois state
line and the west end of the ideal
section. increasing the width of the
state road to forty feet-the same
width as, the ideal section itself.
"IdenI" Gateway 10 Chicago.
The Indiana state highway COM
mission has just reached an agree
ment with Lake county. Ind. for the
construction of a paved highway to
run from the ideal section near Dyer
north TO 116th street. Chicago, at the
Indiana Illinois state line. 1t is
planned to make this road at least
sixty feet wide-it may even be wider
when the final plans have been pre-
pared. That this width Will he eS-
sential is indicated by the fact that
the road viii provide the main inlet
into Chicago for all traffic coming
from the east on the Lincoln high
way and the Dunes highway and from
indianapolis on the south. The new
road Will he sixteen miles in length
and will be built jo ntly at the ex-
pnnSe of the state and the county
Concrete construction has been de-
termined upon.
design Of tho ideal section have been
well impress edits permanency.
which mokes for economy, and its
width. which makes for safety and
facility of transportation.