Evening star., 1926-06-12
BUS LINES RAD|ATE
TO VARIOUS POINTS
19 Fast, Safe and Easy-rid-
ing Fleets Make Daily
Trips From City. A,
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.
Automobile Editor. The Star.

Motor bus transportation, viewed
only a few short years ago as
noisy experiment having few propo-
nents. apparently today has found It.
self a secure position in the life OF
the Nation, with daily passenger
patronage that is growing amazingly
and with a list of routes and sched-
ule of trips that make it a formidable
rival of the older established electric
and steam railway lines.
Everywhere throughout the land to-
day, from the populous centers of the
East to the lonlier plains and noun
tains of the West. motor busses may be
seen gliding swiftly over the roads
from point TO point on their timer
aries, and just as they have bounded
| into popularity elsewhere as comfort
able and remarkably convenient medi-
ums of transportation so also have
| they won dominant place in the Ma
tional Capital and the contiguous
territory.
According to a detailed survey just
completed by The Star. there are at
present 19 different lines of these high
| way leviathans operating out of the
| District, their various destinations
dotting the surrounding country in
every direction. with one line main
| tanning a daily schedule between
| Washington and New York City.
| Interurban transportation by motor
bus is a phase of modern life which
has so quietly. so easily and so gradu-
ally been absored into the twentieth
century system that the people, grown
accustomed to marvelously sudden
changes in the line of progress. have
overlooked the spreading dominion OF
the bus and have paid scant attention
to its fuller significance.
| Standing on Pennsylvania avenue
and watching these huge motor We
hicleS as they come and go. one sees
| a colorful and an astonishing process
| sion. OF varying sizes and design, and
with wide curtained windows, broad,
| heavily cushioned wheels, they prompt
one to pause and ponder. They flash
by-even on city streets-well laden
with travellers bound for near or dis
tant points who travel with ease Of
mind. as carefree as in a Pullman,
certain that schedules will be kept,
routes followed precisely and safety
upheld as a paramount, obligation.
Helping Many Places.
The 10 lines which radiate from
various points within the District Of
Columbia traverse a rich. fertile and
ton. and these motored enlissaries of
progress are bringing still further ma
terial well being to the regions thrOugh
which they pass. Bus lines, with
| Washington as their hub. spread out
tenuous fingers into the North and
Northwest, into the South and South
east and Southwest. bringing in closer
proximity to the National Capital pros
porous cities and thriving farms, quiet
crossroads villages and smoke-belch-
ing industrial hamiets. All these
manifold manifestations of a complex
civilization are within an easy days
run of Washington via the luxurious
motor coach of today-a jarless, SCOT
less and eXhilarating run.
I The traveller can board a 1926 stage.
equipped with mOnstrouS tires. heavy,
restful chairs, baggage compartment
and cradling springs, and in the late
afternoon arrive in New York. cool,
refreshed and stimulated after an ap-
pealing tour over matchlesS roads.
He can obtain passage upon another
perfectly appointed vehicle plying be-
tween Washington and Hagerstown.
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