Show tin s Bement Calls For Help In Utah i X w. X z X W. X X 91 X X 3 X y 0 f. f X X X i Y Lincoln 1 way Highway Needs Link Li Sp E s 3 a fw W Wants ants State M Memberships r hip field s secretary tr t ry of the Lincoln highway started from N New w York City June 9 to Los Angeles where he feed ed ed August 27 Th The lie trip was m made d in m a Twin Twi Six Packard wT L rd touring car The upper left hand picture sh shows the th ca Car Ir o girt art from second Forty street and anti Broadway Mr is at the wheel and Charles M. M of Lancaster Va a. a it lit in inIe Ie esat d at Th The lower left left hand picture shows Douglas Fairbanks on on horseback Ck shaking hands with with Mr This enty miles west of LaramIe Larame the two parties pares meeting without premeditation The upper right hand pIC picture Lure shows the in F he Automobile Club of S Southern C California Mr is the thc car standing on and ground Secretary Bement Dement who ty afterwards in the car putting up a a. 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D Larsen the appeal ap ap- apI appeal ap- ap I peal for memberships Will be presented j I to the local Commercial club The officials arrived here the latter II I p part rt of the w week k fr frem n i LOs oa Angeles They placed new iron guide signs of th the Lincoln highway all along the ro route I between here and the California city They will be joined here tomorrow or I Tuesday by a number of the directors t rs of the association and several goo good r I I I j I I II I I r I I roads enthusiasts from the East when the whole party will make a final InI in inspection inspection In- In trip over over over- that part of the pr projected road across the desert lying between Granite mountain and Black Point We V want the Utah memberships not so so much for the small amount of revenue rev- rev l en e they will bring as for the influence influence influence ence the men will have in getting this j bad stretch h of rOAd roLd ro d across the desert built built said Mr Mx Bement Bement The proposed proposed pro pro- cut ct off ff between Granite i moun moun- u posed V u U ra m. m n Point foint U n posed u m. m V ra Point foint taro tain and Black has been completely completely completely com com- surveyed and our engineers are I ready to go ahead with the work as soda as the money is forthcoming We i hope that fn In the near future the first instalment of necessary to finish this strip will be contributed by some wealthy Eastern men who have havethe havethe havethe the int Interests restS Of If our great transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental highway at heart All we ask Utah people to do is Js to cooperate with us and we are earnestly endeavoring to tos to's secure memberships from tram Utah and from Nevada Our re reports otts show that 6 was spent last year vear on the highway at various points In the country and we expect that this outlay will be e ex exceeded exceeded ex- ex during the next year The state of Illinois has authorized the expenditure expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture of at out but of the ft federal deral aid fund to complete tb the present highway across the state with hard surface I Next year the people of Illinois will vote oh on ont A road bond I issue ls ue and if this thi carries as we confidently confidently confidently con con- hope it will the money will be used to construct miles mites of hard surface feeders to the highway In the state This money will all he be raised by increasing the license fees for tor auto auto- automobiles mobiles Pennsylvania this year has authorized authorized authorized author author- the spending of t for tor good roads and part of at this fund is being being- used to the Lincoln highway The money was raised by increasing auto licenses 50 per cent By the end of 1918 we will have a boulevard clear from tram New York City to tIlE the Iowa line Across Towa the highway is all aU graded g and drained However the tho Iowa law doesn't permit c counties s t to bond themselves for hard I surface roads and it Is not probable that anything more than a n gravel surface surface surface sur sur- face will be laid this year I would strongly advise tourists using the Iowa roadway to travel only during luring sunshiny sunshiny sunshiny sun sun- shiny weather as IS rain makes the dirt road a quagmire Our organization Is being supported rt rl mainly by the contributions of twenty- twenty eight men all Easterners who each give us 1000 a year vear The rest of the funds come from scattered membership memberships member member- j ships ship at 5 a year apiece Of Ot these heave contributors only one lives liven on t i f r fi k f t the Lincoln hIghway and arid all have their homes east of the Mississippi Mr Bement will accompany the in inspection in- in I patty and will then t take the train at Wendover to return to DeI De De- De- De troit trait He expects to leave September I 10 Mr end And the other members of at the party will go on to Los Angeles While waiting here tor for the Eastern directors Mr Bement and Mr Oster Oster- mann mane decided to take a fishing trip over Sunday They left leU Frid Friday y for I I Weber canyon I in n their P Packard cam camp I I car The handsome Twin Six Packard I touring car In Jn which Mr left l New York City June 9 and journeyed journeyed jour- jour I across the continent to Los I I Angeles is beautifully decorated in the national colors In spite of ot the long I trip from New York to Los Angeles I and then from there to Salt Lake the car looks as s though it had just corn come t tout out of the stockroom |