Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
BY w. j. N0SS.

Not every motorist is a long-distance
! tourist who delights in covering
great stretches with scarcely a stop,
nor is the average car owner likely
| to be stay-at-home who confines
his movements to the city limits.
to bring those periodical moments
when a motor car is joy forever as
well as a thing of beauty.
For the man or woman who looks
forward to the occasional journeyings
farther afield and yet does not wish
to extend the trip beyond a distance
that can be Travelled Comforta bly,
within a day. The Stars motor tours
department suggests the run outlined
on the accompanying map as an ideal
days excursion into country of
superb beauty where smooth roads
beCkon the tourist onward.
The distance covered by the sug-
gested route indicated by the heavy
black line is approximately $50 miles
for the round trip. 1t may he length
ened or shortened. of course, and 1t
may he varied at will, hut it Is offered
| to Star readers as a delightful jaunt
over roadway that is excellent from
| beginning to end. The Stars motor
tourist has travelled nearly all the
routes in nearby territory and recon-
mends the tour selected for this Sun
day as one that is especially pleasur-
able from every viewpoint.
Defense Highway Is Used.
From Washington the route begins
| by following either Maryland avenue
and Bladensburg road or Rhode Island
| avenue to it's juncture with the
| Badensburg road beyond the District
| line. Continuing to the war memorial
| cross at Bladensburg, the right fork
| is taken in the direction of Annapolis.
| This is the Defense Highway. open
| this year, with smooth pavement
| throughout it's length.
Continuing through Collington and
across the Patuxent. the Grain High
way is followed to Baltimore. There
is no difficulty with the route into
| the Monumental City, nor in fact
should there be the least trouble in
| following the entire route. 1t is
marked clearly wherever a turn Is to
| be made and for the most part the
trip is a rather direct one with no
confusing change of direction.
BY following the Grain highway
straight ahead as it nears Baltimore.
the motorist eventually runs onto
Hanover street This thoroughfare Is
| followed across the bridge and into
| the city as far as it may be seen.
It's end is at Fayette street where a
right turn is made and followed for
few blocks to Gay street.
Gay street offers the best approach
to the Bolair road. 1t is not a wide
thoroughfare and the motorist may be
| forced to lag behind a Baltimore
street car for several blocks, but
these inconvenience, if they may be
termed such, will be more than COM
pensated for by the directness of the
approach to the broad. smooth road
| leading out to Belair.
Fullerton, Perry Hall. Kingsville
and Benson are the towns passed
through en- route to Belair. The road
is fine and smooth, not overly curved
nor replete with noticeably graded
hills. AS for scenic beauty, it becomes
enriched continuously as the road
winds northward from Baltimore.
! Verdant fields flank the highway and
stretch with slight hilly Interruptions
| into the distance.
Turn Easily Identified.
Leaving Belairf, one follows the
| Philadelphia road leading to Como
wingo At point about three miles
| beyond Belair on this road turn left
is made. This may be identified easily
| by a country church whose steeple
| can be seen for some distance before
reaching the fork. A left turn is made
around this church and the road Sc
lected is followed through Forest Hill,
| Jarrettsville and Whitehall to the
York road.
Since last year the York road has
been repaired and widened and now
| is in excellent condition for enjoyable
| touring. Smooth white shoulders have
been added and it's depressions filled in
so that an even highway awaits the
motor tourist for the ride back to
Baltimore.
After leaving Belair, one gets into
definitely rolling country, where one
moment he is raised to the heights to
| view the grandeur of a landscape
! that rolls gloriously to the distant
| horizon, while the next instant he is
| Coursing down into the valley. This
| portion of the trip, then, is a contii. IL
| Gus succession of rises and dips that
present one superb panorama after an
other.
An important consideration, how
ever, is to see that the car is equipped
with efficient brakes before starting,
since this section of the ride will call
for certain braking or judicious and
timely use of first or second gear in
descending the frequent steep grades.
1t is matter for ordinary caution,
however, and should occasion no trepi-
dation on the part of any one APP
preaching this link in the tour.
The dips and rises are continued to
some extent after reaching the York
road. After turning into it, several
steep ascents and downgrades are en-
countered, and even though they in
clude rather positive curves at times,
the road is broad and smooth enough
to give the reasonably cautious mo-
torist no difficulty whatsoever.
Down the York road through pic
turesque country the tourist comes
through Hereford, Cockeysville and
Towson to Baltimore A right turn is
made at Thirty-third street onto
Charles street. Then one turns to the
right at North avenue to Monroe
street. This thoroughfare leads to
the Washington boulevard on which