The Washington times., 1923-02-11

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Hiram. Brownfield and 81 Frye
burg to the white Mountains.
There has. been a wonderful
Improvement in the trunk lines
radiating from Portland through
White Mountains through Craw-
ford and Franconia Notches are
in excellent condition, and the
same applies to the Green Noun.
tains. Vermont is building roads
very fast, connecting up their
trunk lines with hard surface
land has become such a famous
touring ground for motorists
coming from the far and Middle
West and Southern States.
Most every road through !. the
Berkshires is improved, hard-sur-
faced and all Of the trunk Lines
tering the Berkshires are in ex-
ceIlent condition. There are a
great many fine roads through
Massachusetts,; from Boston over
the famous Mohawk Trail to Troy
and the well known Jacobs Lad
der route which goes from Spring
turesque valleys, entering the
Berkshires at Lenox.
Probably the greatest improve
ment in hard-surfaced roads, dur
ing the last five years, has been
River through New York State,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
known as THE Scenic Wonder
land" Just recently the road
around the face of Storm King
Mountain was opened. This is
part of the Hendrick Hudson
Boulevard and the most expen-
sive highway ever built for the
distance; costing 81 .OO0, 900 a mile:
and considered one of the great
est engineering feats ever at
tempted.
Good roads cross the State of
New Jersey to the Delaware Water
Gap, then through the Pocono
Mountains in Pennsylvania, con-
wanna Trail that will soon be
as famous, from a scenic view
point, as the Mohawk Trail and
the Columbia River Highway
There is hard-surfaced road rIin-
west across Sullivan county
through Liberty, Binghamton, FL
mira, Jamestown, connecting with
the lake shore trunk line that
runs between Buffalo and Cleve-
land at Westfield. All the roads
through the Finger Lakes Sec
ton skirting the shores of some
Of our beautiful lakes in south
western New York, such as Seneca
and Cayuga, are in good condition
We now have good roads
through the Catskills, known as
"the Land of Rip Van .WinlIe,"
and as to the Adirondacks,, where
can you find a more wonderful
playground in AMERICA?
There is a practically all hard
surfaced road in almost excellent
condition surrounding the Adiron-
dacks, which goes through the
heart Of the mountains, running
from east to west through Lake
Placid and Saranac, and when
they finish all of the stretches
now under construction or to be
constructed very shortly, be-
tween Long Lake and Topper
Lake and from Spectator through
Long Lake, also from Old Forge
along the Fulton Chain and
Raquette Lake, every trunk line
in the Adirondacks will be hard
surfaced.
Hard-surfaced roads are being
built very rapidly through the
beautiful Susquehanna Valley and
when the connecting links are
completed, which should be by the
touring season of 1923, motorists
will have an all hard-surfaced
road connecting with the we'll
paved highways of southwestern,
New York, also with Harrisburg,
Gettysburg, Washington and
points south. 1t will he one or
the most scenic highways in the
world.
Over the Lincoln Highway,
good hard-surfaced roads are also
rapidly being built.
I would like to say few
words on marring the scenic beau
ties of our picturesque and his
torical highways.
BY the looks of the individual
parties now riding over the high
WAYS. loaded down with tents,
cooking utensils and tent poles,
it seems as if about so per cent
of the tourists have become
gypsies, migrating like birds
according to the season and going
as far south as Florida and west
into southwestern California.
Many auto campers pay no at
tention whatever to the game laws
of the region or States through
which they journey, seldom tax
ing out a license; catch fish,
shoot game an opportunity offers
and then whine dolefully should
it prove impossible to evade pun
ishment for the violation OF the
laws.