Show ot L' L i h IJ t A Automobile mob le Panhandling Newest Game Gaine for Brake- Brake beam eam Tourists 5 Iw t w I Motored 1000 Miles for fT Eight wenty-Eight Thank Y 00 s I Iw h w ew w York i l Tells ells of J Pleasant Profitable am Til T il n Days Days' In In usines Flivvers m j 1 i a ng gang gango n o i Charles Brown Jr is the originator of automobile r panhandling the newest nevest game for brake beam tourists remained for C Charles arl Brown Browna a a. young Californian who is he course ourse In magazine e writ writ- New York University to rate orate ate practically in n mileage yelling telling i ing value of t a good ap ap- 3 polite manners and faith n nature Mr Dir Brown has recco re- re cco a necessary jo journ jour jour- r- r mort n Fort Wayne Ind to New f distance of nearly 1000 vc thc r the Lincoln Highway rid- rid the whole distance in Ile lies Ues at a total money ex- ex Courtesy carried him n n n- just seven days This rIp as so interesting and in- in th that at t this magazine has ine in- in e author of ot the idea to write story of it for the edification rs ra who appreciate resource- resource V and nd originality BROWN JEn JE JR t n n the freight yards at Fort Ind on Wednesday morn- morn 4 that t I conceived the idea t sing g the Lincoln Highway in 1 ito to to New York City I was wasand wasand i. i an and almost without mone money several Beveral days had been con- con ig the chance of beating my myon myon myona on on-a on a freight railroad runs New York City Weight e hundred miles mlles distant t Wayne New York jre re I am an evening student n seven days and an editor editor- to keep at the same was ws iWas a a. certainty that I must I ig v h at once or fall faU to conI conas con- con I as sitting near a water yaw an automobile speeding Ie e road that paralleled the thet Iam t as a a. big touring car with Sa nd looking comfortable scat coat m tr I r I could not take my eyes aft gray cushions I 1 watched pass out of ot sight eight then my myn n D came ame came I Ith ft th hV 0 freight yards I count count- I oney ney I had I to a barber shop and got a ajila a aa jila io a shave and a haircut I Icle Iclean I cle clean n shirt and a collar r also a clothes brush and a can of ot shoe polish I had m my mx hat cleaned and blocked and a new band put on on Then Thea I r found a tailor While I sat witha with a blanket wrapped around me he sponged and pressed my clothes l I X Inow XI now had I I asked a policeman the way to tho automobile road Toad running to New York City He Hc told told-me-to go out Ea tJ Street until until I c came me to the Lincoln Highway As the Lincoln Highway runs it is almost a thousand miles to New York City I decided to keep to that roal road and try my luck at securing rides Tides from passing motorists About noon after walking to th the outskirts of Fort Wayne I saw my first first chance coming dO down l the high high- way way At t the e. e steering wheel of the I 4 Theold The man and ard his wife looked at me No we donut dont want to ride yer over them mountains Yer Ver might be be a a highwayman ly an I interrupted I car carr was a huge hugo bulk of a man with tortoise shell spectacles and coarse black wh whiskers Hardly knowing how I would stop him I r stepped into the centre of tho the highway The next ne minute afraid that he would Ignore me I stepped back bach to let him pass then suddenly ran forward and threw my hands up as a a. signal for him to stop Are you going down the Lincoln Highway Yes down a a. piece he replied d stopping his carMay car caT May I ride with you until you jou turn turnoff oft off Where are you going I moved closer to the car which which was one of those democratic Fords New York City His Jis face registered Interest as he swung open the door nearest nearest me We struck out Into the rural section He was a physician rushing to a girl patient patient patient pa pa- tient whose con condition had changed for the worse The inter interest st Increased as 03 I ex- ex Af d c J When it grew too dark to travel I stopped at a farmhouse for the night nighta I p a a helped ed to husk corn my theory that a aman man with courtesy and good clothes could start at any point on the LIncoln Highway and get through to New New Y York York City rk City within a comparatively short time by riding in different automobiles People People People Peo Peo- would enjoy giving him rides As AsI I was explaining the third time why a man need not carry any baggage on such a I trip he slapped on the emergency brake and told me to climb out as his his' interest In my mode of travelling had caused him to run ten miles bey beyond nd his patient That night I slept in a barn The next morning after I had groomed two horses a far farmhand hand brought me mea a plate of fried ham hani and potatoes By 6 o'clock ck I was riding Tiding on a milk truck At 9 o o'clock lock an Insurance agent in invited invited invited in- in me to ride with him until noon Doon In th the afternoon I rode in a flivver with a school teacher whose machine machiner I r had cranked When it grew tOo too dark to travel I r stopped at a farmhouse farmhouse farmhouse farm farm- house for lor the night and helped to husk tarn corn Until I had ridden on the Lincoln Highway I did not really know what beautiful country scenery was Cornfields Cornfields Cornfields Corn Corn- fields yellowing In the early arly October sunshine stretched across Indiana Ohio and the we western tern sections of Pennsylvania Beyond came the Pennsylvania mountains and then the Cumberland valley rich in her robe of autumnal coloring New Jersey was a series of panoramas each more wonderful than the one ne preceding The longest ride I had in one car i was was wasa a a hundred and twenty five miles miles- The shortest ride was less than a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and twenty-five twenty feet This was wasat wasat wasat at a time when I I felt very much in inn n need cd of a ride Tide The Pennsylvania mountains loomed ahead of me ane I Iwas Iwas Iwas was afraid to cross them alone as asa asa asa a practical joker In Pittsburgh had j warned me that the mountains s were swarming with who might think me a Government tor tor torand and plug me full of lead the first time I turned turned my back bacR I had just put more shine on my shoes and brushed my clothes when a machine stopped at the the roadside An Ac old farmer and his wife asked me mo meto meto moto to ride Tide with them I Be yer goin to Bedford Springs neighbor he inquired as we got under under under un un- un- un der way No New York City The old man started and turned half around with a look of suspicion His fingers closed tightly on n the steering steering steering steer steer- ing wheel The machine swayed once or twice then slowed down until it dt came to a stop The old ld man and his wife wile looked at me The color had gone from their faces It was evident that they they thought me a doubtful character The Theman Theman Theman man fumbled at the door nearest me mo until it opened i No we dont don't want to ride yer per over lver them mountains Yer might ight ba be a highwayman I 1 Interrupted I I am am-a am a Lincoln Highwayman During seven days I secured rides in twenty-eight twenty automobiles walking I but but a few miles Some of tho the people who obligingly responded were A baker who bought a new car when whon he tho price of bread was raised a a. I Pittsburgh steel manufacturer r who will not fill orders for the allies or for Germany a music agent who In order to his goods asked I me to give an evening lecture on my travels at his place of f business a I general merchant who let me sleep I above his store four ministers mare malc their parish calls in automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles several Ohio farmers a I automo-I county newspaper correspondent who I ted that If it the price of f print paper continued to advance the Banner would have to suspend publication three physicians a farm demonstrator and two jitney drivers Democratic people as a a. rule drive Inexpensive cars Those rho who ho buy a anew anew anew new car each year Invariably trade In their old one I saw more flivvers and low priced d machines In Indiana and Ohio than in Pennsylvania and New Jersey In no instance was I refused a ride by a business or professional man A physician straining all speed laws lawsto to reach a a. dying patient or a banker burning up the road to make a directors directors' directors directors' tors' tors meeting ting by 10 o'clock ere here not not In such a hurry hurry hury that they co could ld not stop for me People riding for pleasure or on Sunday had no time or r no room for tor forme forme torme me in their cars I consoled myself with the reflection that in going after pl pleasure asure they lost it in that they missed the pleasure which comes from conversing with a Highwayman In Indiana and Ohio the people seemed glad to give away rides In re Te return return re- re turn I assisted In small ways wars by watching the highway signs along the road reading disfigured directions on In Insign sign 1 posts at crossroads running across a field to inquire of a a. farmer j I how to get back bac on the Highway after af- af ter a detour helping repair tuned tires pouring oil and water into the machine and tightening loose brakes Some day I am going to apply for fora a strip of f the Lincoln Highway I Ishall Ishall shall shaH put in in an elaborate system of tollgates and appoint my friends as toll collectors Part of the money willbo will willbe willbo bo be used for the upkeep of f the strip the remainder we shall keep for our Dur own WD The rhe above Idea came to me while riding through Pennsylvania from rom Lancaster to Philadelphia I give up counting tollgates long before the last one was reached The tolls amounted to about 2 for a little less than seventy miles A road rod association r collects these tolls for the up upkeep ee of f i ithe the Lincoln Highway between Lancater Lancaster Lancaster Lan- Lan caster cater and Philadelphia When I alighted from an automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile at the doorstep of the New York University No 32 Waverley at o'clock Wednesday evening Oct 11 the suspense was over Great w was s the satisfaction of having accomplished pushed what I set out to do In no other way could I have gained sucha such uch ucha a knowledge of the country and thop tho the p people ople who have made mad It and are making It Best Dest of all It gave me a deeper understanding of t human nature nature and and Incidentally incidental two note noto noo books of good story material rF F r |