Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-22
FINAL LEE HIGHWAY
LINK SURVEY SOON
Maj. Brown to Go to New
market in go Days to Lay
Out Boulevard Route.

Maj. Carey II. Brown. Army engi-
neer and chairman of the co-ordinating
committee of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. win
go to Newmarket, Va, within so days
to lay out the final link in the Leo
boulevard project at the Southern
terminus of the road. Construction
work will start as soon as the route
OF the road to its connection with the
valley pike is determined by Maj.
Browne and Phineas V. Stephens,
a New York engineer.
The road will run through the prop
erty of real estate corporation. which
has initiated steps looking toward con-
struction of hotel resort in the Shen.
andoah Valley at Newmarket. Maj.
Brown was in Newmarket two days
ago inspecting the route and the road
between Warrenton and Newmarket
In connection with the annual conven-
ton of the Lee Highway Association
at Luray. The Newmarket link will
mark the end of Lee boulevard, which
will start at the west end OF the Ar
Hngton Memorial Bridge and run
through Arlington County TO con.
nection with the Fairfax road west
of Falls Church.
Extension to Maine.
In connection with the Lee Boule-
ward project 1t became known today
that an association composed OF
Washington men may be formed to
back the proposed extension of Lee
Highway from Washington north
through Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York and New
England to Portland, Me. Details OF
the plan have not been worked out,
but that the road will be constructed
as an integral part of the Lee High
way scheme Is a practical certainty.
DIR. S. NJ. Johnson, managing d.
rector of the Lee Highway Associa-
ton, has been in correspondence with
influential individuals and authorities
of the States through which the
northern road will run and has OBJ
tanned pledges for much of the pro-
posed 200-foot right of way. The
road from Washington to New Mar
ket will be the same width, with n
6O-foot speedway for fast vehicles
in the center and two 30-foot strips
on either side for the slow-moving
traffic.
Between Portland and Washington
the road will run through undeveloped
territory, avoiding all cities and
towns of much size. Only one strip
of bad road now remains between
Washington and New Market and
the Virginia State Highway Com
mission is being pressed TO repair
this section.
Difficult to Negotiate.
1t runs through the proposed Shen-
andoah National Park and is so bad in
muddy weather that automobiles nego-
tiate it only with difficulty. Between
Thorntons Gap and Luray, in Page
Valley, the road is hard surfaced Of
macadam. The improved road begins
at the top of one of the highest noun
tains in the national park area.
Between Centerville. about eight
miles west of Fairfax Courthouse, and
location a short distance beyond
Manassas, the road is still dirt, but
of hard surface and not dangerous.
The present roadway through the
Blue Ridge Mountains between War
renton and Luray is almost impas-
sable in wet weather, and is danger
Gus to automobile traffic because of
the heavy grades, unprotected curves
and unsatisfactory condition. A 10
mile strip of road, eliminating the
necessity for going through Manassas
and cutting off several miles of the
journey to that place, will be ready
for use in a few weeks, while part of
the road between Centerville and Ma
nassas is being resurfaced with ma
cadam.