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Show THE CITIZEN mtaun NOKMOX Tim MAC TEMflX UNITED STATES ROUTE n. amrimMUwiTrsi' in the path of empire, along routes .traversed by the pioneers WESTWARD, from the Atlantic to the Goldeni Gateand including, in the Ohio Valley, the longest stretch of practically straight road in the country, United States route 40 crosses 14 States, and offers to the transcontinental moof the country and epitomizes the tor tourist a panorama of the westward expansion of the Nation from colonial days to the present. From its eastern terminus. at Atlantic City this highway follows for 3,205 miles the same . course or one closely parallel to that. of the earliest settlers of the Ohio, Mississippi, and .Missouri Valleys. From Wilmington, Del., to St. pleasure and health resort, where it mid-secti- on . Marys, Kan., the highway is paved for the full distance, 1,234 miles. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco 890 miles it is surfaced. Less than 14 per cent of its length is unimproved. This road, designated United States route 40 by State and Federal highway officials, runs a central course through the country. East of the Rockies the road is passable the year round. In the passes of the Rockies and in the Sierras it has not proved feasible to keep the road open in the winter, and the route is not to be depended on from October 15 to April or May. Federal aid has played a large part in the improvement of this road. The United States government has contributed nearly $18,000,000 to the im- provement. Federal aid projects on this route includes 700 miles of pave- ment, 725 miles of surfaced road, 132 miles of graded road, and. more than four miles of bridges. Although not yet completely improved ,the highway is everywhere in passable condition except when blocked by snows in the mountains. NEW JERSEY Beginning at Atlantic City, the nationally famous is estimated 15,000,000 vacationists annually parade the board walk, United States route 40 extends in a northwesterly direction through the practig and fruitcally level growing areas of New Jersey. Crossing the Delaware river by ferry at Penns Grove, the traveler arrives in Wilmington, where, in 1638, the Swedes made their first landing in America. The Battle of the Brandywine in the Revolutionary War was fought eight miles northwest of the city. truck-farmin- MARYLAND Passing over state boundary into the the Maryland, route proceeds westward to Elkton, 21 miles from Wilmington, where, in 1777, the British fleet under General Howe landed troops to attack General Washington in the Battle of the Brandywine. The first view of Chesapeake bay is glimpsed opposite Charleston, about ten miles further on. Traveling in comfort over the smooth pavement, the motorist arrives in the historic city of Baltimore, founded in 1732, on the banks of the Patapsco, and named after Lord Bailtimore, the first royal proprietor of Jthe Maryland colony. It is worth while to drive to L'llllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi:ill!lll!llll!lllllllllllllillllllllllllllllli;illlllllllllllllllS 1 SOCIETY BRAND 2 m at 1 I Comfortable nrm:. THE 0$ IftnONM, fWAJJ . 1917 the foot of Fort avenue and view Fort states, elevation 2,900 feet above level. 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Further over the rolling was sent to retrieve Washingtons dhills, at Frederick, is found the home efeat, and was mortally wounded in of Barbara Frietchie the aged herobattle. It was upon the Old National ine of John Greenleaf Whittiers Civil Pike between Cumberland, Maryland, War poem. Then the traveler passes and Wheeling, then in Virginia, that through Hagerstown, ten miles south the first extensive program of road of which is situated the historic improvement at the expense of the battlefield; and next arrives in Federal government was begun, in 1806. The completed road as far as Cumberland, in the heart of the Allegheny mountains. From Cumberland Wheeling, W. Va., was thrown open the junction of the Cumberland road to travel in 1818, and in that year with the Old National Pike it is United States mail coaches began oabout 31 miles to Keysers Ridge, the perating between the National Capital summit of the Allegheny mountains and the. Ohio river at Wheeling. 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