Show COAST TO COAST TURNPIKE PLANNED American Way is Project Project Project Pro Pro- of Maryland Con Con- gressman APPROPRIATION IS URGED Old Olmi Cumberland Road Iu May lu be hc Im- Im pro cd and ammil Extended E Across CIO S Entire A national pike to run from rota the time Atlantic At- At lantic to the time PacIfic Is latest proposition proposition In this land of big schemes Time The first stop step has been heen taken akemi The Washington Post announces the fact S thus The Time creation of time the American Applan Ap- Ap plan Way ay beginning at Washington a on in Atlantic tide water following the trail of the time historic National pike through tile passes CS of or the Appalachians Inns ians and amid across the time Ohio through the great middle west to SU St Louis and amid then In two great boulevards s on to tc tolue tIme tuc Pacific one omme of which will cross Montana to Puget sound and time the other through h Denver Den and Salt Sail Lake over overtime the time Hockles and Sierras SIlIa to San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco will ill be the magnificent fruition of plans the time first tentative c steps slops of ol which have l been taken in the introduction intro intro- lUction of a bill In iii Congress by hy Representative Rep Rep- f Pearre of Maryland 1 lot for ar an appropriation for tho the restoration oi of inu lilu monuments anti and land lamiti marks and amid of Cumberland Cumberland Cum Cam the time reconstruction berland berhand road that by Its Us bull building made mad madean an empire possible Automobile associations and good good- roads folk all over time the country countr arc art pledged to time the support of the time bill Honk Honk Is the war cry of pC the time new movement I Historic Historic- I Save to the tho historian and amid those who live along alln time the dust dusty thread of macadam macadam ma ma- cadam that binds s together Washington Washing Washing- ton and St. St Louis time the story t 0 1 of the tho ol old olt National pike is an aim unknown chapter The rIte route roule is prehistoric Even before before be be- fore the time Indians Invaded America herds of buffalo roamed the continent They rimey were Americas America's first road mak mal ers They did their theil work vork so well veil that thai thata thaia a map of their tr trails and traces would duplicate the great highway ant and railway systems of loda today tolay Time The National pike or time the Cumberland Cumber Cumber- land road as It Il was popularly called calle was first a buffalo trace worn wont deep across the time Appalachians h by the thc poundIng pound pound- lug Ing ng hoofs of millions of bison hlson When tho time Indians came they this same samne trail In their hunting excursions excursion ama ind war wal expeditions retreating o el it il t to the west before the over ovet ml anc lug Ing ng relentless frontier of or tho thu white man nan f Route or of II C I Over o VOl this path came the thc An Anglo lo- lo Saxon hunter hunter b bj by time Iho homo maker until at al last the title 1 if or poured in iii in ina a a deluge c h time thc mountain passes to th lie tho tholand lieland land and of or To Io supply the trade deman demands s of tills growing Western population In iii the tin early carly days laYs lon long trains of pack ponies d their way to and fro over theold the thc theold old uld Cumberland trail to be he I hy iy the he great reat Conestoga freight wa wagons wagon ons and ind speeding mall mali coaches of time tho earl carl early lays of the time century they the In Iii turn to tt vanish when the steam stean railroad ac- ac con the time supposedly ly Impossible feat of climbing the mountains Every lively mile of the old Cumberland oud is historic ground Over It tolled Laor La- La he time oung tun surveyor Washington tei or the time British grenadiers tramped the time theIl Il ouli- ouli led lr-d i h by Braddock whose grave graves Is s still green reen beside the trail Discontent followed ell tho time settlement the time of the lie country beyond ans lans the time settlers of tho ho Western valIe val val- Ie leys eys turned to lu time the support of the time Burr conspiracy Just at this crisis there was van a n a successful demand for a great road oad which should hind bind tile the two see sec ions together Building Se en Yean In III 1802 Jefferson sl signed ned a u bill for he iii survey y of the National Pike Time The t iri-t contract was awarded In 1 1811 8 1 1 and amid he the road was completed In iSiS 1818 In was as begun hogun the extension of time the National Pike from fm Wheeling to lo St. St u L Louis Is Tho reconstruction of the tho old uhl na- na lonal road will J resurrect in a measure meas- meas ire ure time the vanished glories of the time fanous fa- fa a- a mOlls stage coach days Scattered along the time road were the time old taverns o of which only a few remain It Il Its expected that many of these will be he rebuilt thus restoring tIme tho most pic- pic UI uc feature of tho time old turnpike I J he first taverns along alom tho Ito route verc WI built of logs and anti consisted of Ol oily orly Iy two rooms room and amid a u great fireplace h itt rm e which tho time tired travelers slept lii III n I t heir blankets curled upon the time luncheon floors doors fhe They rimey sported such mines names as Sign of the time Rising Sun Sign of f tho time Orange Tree rree Temple of June Six ix Mile House Sign of the time Golden m Swan Sl Sign n of the tho Indian Queen Sign of sf tho ho Green Tree rree Sign of time tho Cross Keys Coys Around the lie blaze gathered time the and amid It was a agala merry crowd of travelers lra when the tho contral cen- cen gala ala event for the time inn ral n figure ur o of the time group ho bo Cia Clay Jackson ackson Harrison Lincoln Douglas Cass Tass Dickens ns Mrs 1 Prince Maximilian of Vied and many nany other travelers rs from morn Europe verb guests guesta of the old taverns amid ami left accounts of or their lous its Ancient J Inn At Al the side of or the old fireplace hung the he Hip Ilip iron troll and arid the huge poker long bug seven or Oi eight feet Its Is use Lise was jealously ly guarded as US a prerogative of or the thc tavern oln landlord Before tho the advent of the railroad single lc tw twenty wenty nl speeding coaches In iii a line Ime me made a 0 familiar an and amid the time each ench wagon wagon wa wa- caravan calavan of or hu huge c freighters gon gomm six to eight thousand times some numbered close to tu toa a a. hundred bundled Tho occasion when the time life lire of the hl highway hway throbbed In Its greatest intensity was when n a President or 01 a aPro Pro resident elect nt passed in triumphant u alon along Its dust dusty stretches It II was the lie gala day of oC the time pike boys boys- All the taverns ta anti and houses along alons the route oute were vete bedecked In time tho welcome welcom and cheering crowds crow s from flom miles thronged tho ito stopping slopping places anti and cloS crossroads roads The finest hors horses es find anti time Iho mOl most t gor gorgeous coach procurable were emo assigned as- as signed to the tho task asic and tho the proud position of oC if charioteer to the lie President dent was vas given en to thu tho pick of ot the the- Johns hus on lie tho line n who hmo tj ever I afterward wrt ero marked f a and nil noted minted Jackson Va Van mm nUl n. n Monroe lonroe harrison Polk Polle and amid Tyler passed over portions of oC the time old loa toad oad In dignified Presidential pageant like the Roman noman lons or of the emperors Clay the thc great grent ot of the road rond anti of nta of the was hn as policy a or of f ha- ha favorite In hamlet and In time the every records of ol old da days Hames 8 along thc lie IlIce occur time the or of Benton Cass Samia Santa San San- ta a Alla BI lck Hawk Lind John of others QUincy amid a 0 The r steps toward renewing the life of the tho old highways s 's are arc being taken S SAt At Its 8 Just adjourned time the Marland arland madl an ami approprIation for 01 the as a boulevard or of the road between Baltimore Balti- Balti moro more antI and and amid at cent a me- me con of time tho Southern Au- Au associations the plan Plait for rebUilding re- re bUilding the old pike o from ton Lon south to took shape tangible |