Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-24
new YORK BOSTON
ROUTES ARE VARIED
Motorists Have Choice of
Three Historic New Eng
land Roads.

There are many and varied routes
that NAV be followed on trip from
New York to Boston, but there are four
WAYS that are to be specially recon-
mende6. three of them by land and
the fourth by water, which makes 1t
possible to visit the Hub over week
end
The routes from Washington to New
York are well known to all motorists.
The trip along the old Boston Post
road 10 New Haven is still a great
faeoriJe with motorists says the Auto
mobile Club Of America, New York.
Leaving the city via the Grand Con-
course and Pelham parkway the route
runs through New Rochelle and Rye
TO Port Chester. then over Byram
Bridge into Connecticut. Greenwich.
the first town on the route in Connecti-
cut is one Of the beauty spots of the
Nutmeg State. Next comes Stamford.
then Norwalk, with its Yankee Doodle
house out at ROTOR Point, built in
1868. and the town house built in 1885.
8 small one-story red brick building
sometimes mistaken for a little red
SchoolhouSe"
Bridgeport. fiouriShing nanufactur-
ing city. but with two beautiful parks
Seaside Park on the sound and Beard
sley Park, is next and then New Haven,
the home of Yale University. Any one
wishing to visit the college should make
inquiry at the office of the secretary in
Woodbridge Hall, and during the Sum
mer vacation at Phelps Hall, where
guides thoroughly acquainted with the
campus and buildings and their his
tory may be secured.
Follows Long Island Sound.
At New Haven. the route leaves the
Post road and follows the road along
Long Island Sound through Branford.
Guilford and Madison, Saybrook and
Lyme TO New London.
This town is the real birthplace of
the United States Navy. Its organiza-
ton resulted from visit of Gen Wash
ingfon to New London. when he was
entertained at the home of Nathaniel
Shaw on April 8 and 10. l776. In the
January preceding the first naval ex-
petition under the authority of Con-
gresS was fitted out in New London and
consisted Of four ships under the COM
mand Of Commodore Hopkins, some
times known as admiral. It was the
success Of the expeditions of this
armada that led TO the authorization
OF national navy The annual boat
races between Harvard and Yale are
held on the Thames River and the fin
Ism at the oTluge may be seen from the
Mohican Hotel.
Leaving New London We cross the
bridge to Groton, where a right-turn
OF the main read takes the motorist
down TO Eastern Point. situated right
On the sound Continuing along the
main road We pass through Mystic to
Westerly, r. !. Here again a right
turn can be made down to Watch Hill,
q lively resort with a fine sickle-shaped
beach. Watch Hill is really a PENN
sEla with the Atlantic on the south
east, Long Island Sound on the south,
and Little Narragansett Bay on the
east
Leaving Westerly, we continue on to
Wakefield. where We have a choice of
two alternate routes to Boston, One is
to continue, directly on to Wexford,
Providence. Pawtucket and walpole to
Boston The other is to go around
through Narragansett Pier to Saunders
town. where the ferry may be taken
10 jamestown, on Conanicut Island,
which splits Narragansett Bay in two
The ferry lands on the west shore and
there is mile run across the island
10 the east shore for the ferry to New
port. known the world over as one Of
Americas fashionable Summer resorts.