Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-28
South is A Real Wonderland
For Northern Folks

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the American Hotels Corporation,
operating chain OF modern
hotels, with Horace Leland Wig
!, gins, managing director of the
new Benjamin Franklin Hotel
III Philadelphia, who have just
returned from a ten-day auto
mobile tour of hotels III Penilsyi-
vania, Virginia and other States,
announced today that the
American Company would i'm
mediately launch campaign to
popularize the Historic Auto
Tour. covering interesting points
on both sides of the Mason and
Dixon line.
General Kincaid was SO i'm
pressed with the magnificent
roads and the sightseeing adj.
vantages of the places visited
that lie at once arranged with o.
M. Wells. publicist and genera
road man of the Automobile Club
! OF America, for the preparation
of comprehensive maps with de.
tailed information for the benefit
OF motorists Present plans in
include the preparation of I'LL
ustrated booklets showing points
OF interest, highways, hotels
with rates, etc. These booklets
will be distributed gratis through
Northern hotels and the agencies
of tile Automobile Club oil
A america.
MY trip was a delightfuaI
revelation" said General Kin i
caid at the offices of his COM
pany. No. Is West Forty-ffth
street. We visited Harrison
burg, Lancaster, York and Nor-I
ristown and then journeyed south
via Camden and Phila delphiasto
Martinsburg, Winchester. Alex
andria and Virginia Beach, iul
Virginia, and other cities wherel
we either operate hotels or IRE
Interested lii hotel PROPOSITIONS
| was amazed not only at the
fine roads (which the various
States have built, but also at the
rich treasures in scenery and
historic interest presented all
a To- The line,
G ttysburg. Of course, is WE'LL
know :. 1t occurred to me as a /
III It"rY man, after gazing att
the bewlldering maze of monu.
'nents reared to the glory of the
men who fought on this field. |
that no matter how the pro-
pae andlsts may declaim against
war such scenes as Gettysburg. |
emphasizing as they do the
glamor OF war. remain as very
significant commentary upouI
human nature. l was told |
that over 100000 people a yearI
visit Valley Forge alone, but |
Valley Forge OF course, is some
thing more than an historic
scene; it is sacred shrine.
When we reached the Shen-
andoah Valley, however, the reae
surprise of our trip came. | have
never seen ANYTHING SO beanti-
as the scenes along the famous
Virginia Pike which stretches
through this sgreat valley be-
tween 1.-THE Blue Ridge and
| Allegheny mountains. Down
this road Sheridan made his
famous dash TO turn the tide of
i battle at Cedar Creek. In VIM
leicester there stands the housl
where Sheridan was stationed
| when the news came that the
battle was on once more" 1t is
lnow used as the EIks' Clubhouse
Here in Winchester, too, is the
stone house which Washington
used in his surveying work in
that country. The town is rich
in historic interest as we'll as in
some agnificent buildings
erected through the muuifience
of Judge John Handley, who
made his money, in Peur-
fsvlvsuia coal town but left it all
10 Winchester.
Winchester, they told us. was
taken frequently during the Civil
War. Still with all this wealth of
historic material il was ana zing
to us TO note how little advan-
tage the people had taken of
sheir opportunities. There is
scarcely sign-post or placard
through the whole district which
: would tell story to the visitor.
Even Cedar Creek is hard to
/. tinsl You have passed throug Ii
i IL i. tore you know you have
as,ised, Much can be done by
proper use of directional and in.
formative signs to enhance the
sttrsctions of this historic valley,
Then there are the famous
, Irsverus- privafefv owned hu,