Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
SCOUTS TO MARK
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
September | Set for Placing
Of Concrete Guide Posts on
5000. mile Route.
Special Dispatch to The Star,
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 1S.--Boy Scouts
in IL States along the route Of the Lin
coin Highway will mark that famous
automobile road from the Atlantic 10
the Pacific on September /. The day
has been fixed by The national officials
Of the Boy Scouts Of America for =
simultaneous setting Of the more than
5000 new, uniform, 4-foot-hish con-
crete markers provided by the Lincoln
Highway Association at a cost Of sew
eral thousand dollars,
The markers will be set by local Boy
Scouts under the auspices Of the Scout
councils alone the Highway In Indi-
ana, one OF the States through which
the Lincoln Highway passes. a date for
the setting Of the markers will be fixed
later. since the officials of the Lincoln
Highway Association have not vet ar
rived at an arrangement for the loca-
tion Of the markers.
Scouts Adopt" Highway.
The Boy Scouts have adopted" the
Lincoln Highway in the sense that they
are 70 keep an eye on the markers and
report maintenance requirements to the
Lincoln Highway Association. Com
hine6 efforts of the two organizations.
IL is believed. will result in highway
probably as well marked as any in the
country and in line with the program
which is being slowly developed for the
adequate marking of all the great ma
tionsl roaGways Present marking of
the Lincoln Highway is VIGOROUSLY in
adequate. not so much that great effort
has not been expended in this direction
as that the markers set up have been
CT metal or wood and easily destroyed.
None has proven adequate.
Utility and beauty are combined In
the new markers On the face Of each
Is small metal has-relief Of Lincoln's
head Below this plaque, between
broad bands of red and blue, appears
the letter Il On the sides. clearly
6iscerniole 10 the passing motorist. are
broad arrows. curved or straight, 10
indicate whether the highway bends or
proceeds straightaway.
Close together in the more thickiy
settled parts of the country the mark
ers will average little more than
mile apart all the way from the East
ern terminus of the highway at Hol-
land Tunnel New York City. to Golden
Gate Park. San Francisco, 400 miles
away.
Stage Safety Demonstration.
The setting of the markers Is a Sc
cuel 70 another Boy Scout Summer ac-
tlvity In connection with the Lincoln
Highway highway safety demon
stration tour by Scouts in their own
covered wagon, which left New York
on July and was concluded on August
at San Francisco, exactly on Sched-
ule. at once a tribute to the modern
highway. 10 good driving and good au-
tomobiles. This tour was designed to
arouse interest in highway safety and
70 draw attention TO the project for
marking the highway.
Each day the covered wagon tourists.
four Boy Scouts selected for outstand-
ing abilities and qualifications, gave
demonstrations Of highway safety meth
DDS and first aid at cities. towns and
auto camps en- route. under the direc-
ton of Reno NJ. lombard. a national
Boy Scout Official The four Scouts
we're Bernard Queneau. New Rochelle.
N Y; Carl Zapffe. Brainerd, Mimi;
Edward B. Pratt of Fairfield. Conn,
and Mark NJ Hughes of Joliet, III. The