The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-03
Girl Hikers Dot Roads
Waiting for a Lift
Office Workers Spend Vacation
Travelling West on Free
Automobile Rides.

The main arteries of automobile
traffic throughout the East. are dotted
these days with girls spending their va
cations a Ia mode. Knickered hitch
hikers'-erstwhile stenographers - In
search of adventure are finding n sTonH
the highways, where they hall passing
motorists and make their way from city
to town and village to hamlet, profitably
following advice of Horace Greeley TO
go West. t-a
These girls range in age all the way
from IA to 20 years Equipped with
flannel blouse, knickers, heavy soled
brogues and knapsack, their bobbed
locks famed by the light summer
zephyrs, the girls are enjoying this new
form of outdoor sport which affords
health and fun, despite certain amount
Of risk, more imaginary than real.
The favorite route from New York
is by ferry to Jersey City and Newark
and thence by automobile bitches to
Atlantic City, philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Harrisburg, Pa; Warren, Cleveland
and Bryan, Ohio, into Indiana and then
to Chicago. The Windy City on Lake
Michigan is the destination of the vast
majority of these girl adventurers.
day spent in the Loop, walk along
Michigan boulevard q swim In the
lake, look at the Wrigley Building
and they are ready to start back to
New York.
This route is over the Lincoln High
way.for most of the trip and insures the
girls against being stranded on some
deserted road where automobiles sell
dom pass Most of the cars on the
Lincoln Highway are bound for dis
tant points and the girls figure that
one car In every five is a safe bet for
a "hitclr" They choose their patrons
carefully. although they are very par
tial to young and handsome mon with
honest, kindly faces.
1t appears there are such men, for
the disasters are few, according to the
girls themselves. They disdain to ride
in a Ford and choose. by preference,
the red or yellow roadster that hits the
high spots in the wide open spaces.
The girls, who usually travel In pairs,
seldom or never stop a car filled with
a family. A ''one-man" car Is the
ideal hitch"
When their motorist benefactor comes
to some one of the forms Of grief with
which motorists are afflicted, the girls
are ready to do their bit and help.
They become adept at changing tire
or turning over the motor with the
crank handle when a spark or Ignition
adjustment is necessary. Many of the
girls are able to offer invaluable sug-
gestions when motor stalls, and this
wins them g. great deal Of gratitude
and frequent meals at the expense OF
the motorist.
The girls start out determined to
spend no money for railroad or other.
fare. They usually equip themselves
with a book Of travellers cheques con-
tanning five cheques Of ten dollar de-
nomination. At fixed points they cash
one of these checks, always figuring
ahead against the time they Will need
the last one on the return trip.
Some of the girls wear cardboard
signs on their knapsaclIs, bearing such
legends as New York to Chicago or
Bust" Motorists see these cards and
II is often unnecessary for the girls
to ask for a Gift" as the motoriSt
ofttimes for the sake Of the girls COM
nanionship, voluntarily offers to pick
them UP and carry them as far as no
is going.
Y. w. G. A.. headquarters In the larger
towns and stop at farm houses whom
darkness descends upon them IN the
country.