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Show I i ; . . JEECAMEHCV7 jFROM AM AUTO 7 I I Tou don't have to stay at homo next summer, even though there is a war in Europe, for if you have the money to travel in Europe you have Ju6t as much to travel in the United States. You can go by train if you are in a hurry. You can go by automobile au-tomobile If you have the money and if you want to be your own boss and see Ju6t what you like, you can go by foot Just now we will discuss the things to be seen by automobile. automo-bile. It Is now possible to travel thousands thou-sands of miles over any one of three routes and the Canadians arc building build-ing an ocean to ocean highway. Starting from Washington, D. C. one an travel 3,100 miles to Los Angeles. An-geles. Cal , along the "Old Trails Road," which is a series of highways high-ways linked together. Parts of the road have been built with stale money. Other parts have been built by local road districts and other parts have been built by individuals and by private associations. The different links of the Old Trails road represent the proceeds of ice cream socials, taxation and generous bequests. In some states dog tax has gone Into the road fund. In other states saloon tax has built the roads In still others hunters' licenses have gone inlo the payment and still in others the tax has been gotten by direct property tax. We will talk about the Old Trails road first, because it is within a day b ride of 25,000.000 citizens of the United States. In some parts the Old Trails road is well built and la good for passage in any weather. ' In other places it is only a dirt road. More than 51,500,000 were spent on various sections of the Old Trails road in 1914. From Washington the T road runs west through Marjland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Il-linois to the Mississippi river. The first part of the road is culled the Old National highway. That part waB started before the days of the steam road and Is the oldest paved road In the United States It was originally planned to build the road to the Mississippi river, but the plan was never carried out then, although al-though the paved highway reached Ohio beforo the Civil War From there short patches of road were built, at Intervals From the Mississippi river west the road was formerly the trail of Daniel Boono and was known as the Houne Llek Trail It was a trail pure and simple and was used by the early time mule freighters in getting their product, across the country Krom the junction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers another trail branches out toward the Southwest South-west known as the Santa Pe Trail. While only parts of the Santa Pe Trail arc paved the soil Is sandy for a large part of its course and travelers trav-elers fiud good dry roads most of the year. Travelers can find pavc- ment from Washington cleat lo the m Mississippi river and Crom the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river i the Kansas river there are good rock roads most of tho way. Through Mexico and Arizona good rock roads and good din highways have hern built. When the tourist reaches California he can find good roads until he is at last in Los Angeles, An-geles, the end of the Old Trails road. The Old Trails road is known also as the Lincoln Highway, named In honor of President Lincoln Through Kansas it is called the Old Santa Fe Trail In time it probably will assume some definite name ail along the route. CANADA LINE WILL COMPLETE LOOP. When the Canada route is completed com-pleted a four-sided loop will bo finished, fin-ished, making it possible for a motor mo-tor tourist to travel 8,000 miles along a fairly good road almost the entire distance and a first-class road most of the distance. It will be the longest long-est highway in the world. The Canadian Ca-nadian highway will reach from tho Atlantic to the Pacific. Several sections of the route already are computed Another road across the United States is the Atlantic Coast highway, reaching from Florida Flo-rida along the coast to Montreal where it will link with the Canadian Cana-dian highway. It crosses the Old Trails road at the Washington monument. On the Pacific coast is a highway reaching from San Diego to Vancouver in British Columbia. It is planned to extend that road through Canada down tho Yukon to tho sea. With these four roads a traveler will be able to visit nearly all the beauty spots in America without crossing his tracks twice. But we aro concerned chiefly with the travel this summer. If a motor enthusiast happens to live In the East and wants to go to the fair in San Francisco by the motor route tho wa 1b open. If he lives in the West and wishes to go cast the way is open just as well. The roads take ono through the most picturesque scenes of New England and take him in striking d'stance of the beau-iv beau-iv .spots of the Rockies The Old Trails road is so situated that a traveler can put up at a good hotel every night he is on the path. He can take time off in Colorado to spin up mountains. Ho can visit the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Ho can ride along the foot of the Sierras and cross north across tho beautiful California valleys into Oregon Tho road is near enough to Crater Lako in Oregon so machines can go there for a night's camping party. For old castles and historic battlefields bat-tlefields America probably cannot compete with Ehirope, but we do have historic battlefields. These aro easily acccssable by motor, although one has to leave tho main traveled road sometimes to reach that spot. For historic and inspiring battlefields battle-fields ono should not miss Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Motor cars can get lo that point. A wonderful view is to be had from the top of Lookout Mountain. How tho Union soldiers ever got to tho top is a marvel to the visitors, until un-til II is explained that the cannon uf that day could not be depressed. The very steepness of the hill was an asset. The soldiers charged tho heights below tho fire of the cannon and the infantry fire was not heavy enough to stop the gallant chargers. P rhaps tin European war will be the means of teaching Americans to seo their own country first. America Ameri-ca has been passed by for so long that we know little about it. Our art is from Europe. Steamship companies com-panies have advertised Europe and it is fashionable to go "abroud." It isn't the pleasuro of the trip that takes the crowds so much as It is tho fasblonableness of it. Europe has nothing to equal our Yellowstone National Park and our Qhv icr National Park. If ono were to go to Iceland ho could see something some-thing like the geysers of Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park, but he could not seo them anywhere else on the other side of tho Atlantic. Then there is the yOsentfte Valley. Switzerland has no falls like Multnomah. Bridal Veil nor Snoqualmle Falls. One has to go to the heart of Africa to find a duplicate of Niagara Falls and Niagara Ni-agara Is right on an auto road, easy of access. If one wants the wilderness wil-derness he can find falls at Snoqualmle. Sno-qualmle. Snoqualmle is away out In the forests at the foot of the Cascades. Cas-cades. It is higher than Niagara, but not bo wide. It furnishes the water power for the. electric plants of Seattle, yet few Americans have heard about it CABC IDES GRANDER Til AX SWISS ALPS. The Cascade Mountains are grander grand-er than tho Swiss Alps, according to travelers who have been over both. Men who have climbed Baker, Rainier. Hood, Whitney and Shasta wonder why other men should cross the ocean to go up tho Matterhorn or Mt. Blanc. If the mountains of the United States are not dangerous danger-ous enough thero 1s still left Mc-Klnley, Mc-Klnley, Wrangel and St Elias in Alaska to try. But as wo are writing for tho average av-erage man who wants to have- a good FROM left to right; past Washington Monument in the National Capital; Moccasin Bend, Chattanooga; Chatta-nooga; a park scene along 'the way; in the Colorado Rockies ; Crater Lake, Oregon; Ore-gon; Monument on Missionary Mis-sionary Ridge, Chattanooga. Chatta-nooga. time and who is not hunting for dangers wo will stick to the United States. The 11 rand Canyon of Arizona Ari-zona 1b one of the beauty spots of the world Man's efforts have been puny to duplicate the effort of God when he built the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon Is a mile deep. The colors on tho banks of that mile-deep mile-deep canyon are so wonderful no painter has ever been ably to duplicate dupli-cate them. If ono wants to go Into tho tourist tour-ist business this summer it doubt-leas doubt-leas would pay him well. He would have to study the country now and organize his parties for the summer sum-mer auto hikes across America. Parties iu America, can have moro pleasure being their own guides, lu America there is no cost for Inquiring Inquir-ing the way. Tho Americans aro the most obliging people on earth and will go out of their way to direct di-rect tourists. They usually can tell the way. too. In Europe the guide has to be paid to tell the way to go. The tip habit is so strong that peasants peas-ants expect a tip to tell directions. In America tho countryfolk and mountaineers enjoy directing peo- plo and will give all information available The United States government has made maps of many of the sections in tho United States. These mapB are put out in the form of quadrangles quadran-gles and show every detail of surface sur-face and also mark the roads These maps aro good when a party is exploring ex-ploring a small section of territory. If one wishes to go over a large section sec-tion of country the auto road maps are available. They show the principal prin-cipal roads, give Information about the hotels and stopping places The United States furnishes as good summer resorts as can bo found anywhere in the world. While the Mississippi Valley is a city of hot days tho nights are invariably inva-riably cool when one gets away from the paved streets and the brick buildings. The gulf coast Is usually rather hot for several weeks each summer. But the auto tourist should not worry about tho heat, for he ran keep cool during the day by-spinning by-spinning over the roads and can keep cool at night by camping in the open. He should take a supply of mosquito bar along when traveling travel-ing near marshy or swampy laud or near any body of water. Mosquitoes Mos-quitoes arc the American night pest-In pest-In some sections of the couutry campers aro likely to be afflicted with fleas Passing by the lower Mississippi Valley, the Plains states, the desert lands and the Gulf coast any one can keep comfortable In tho Pacific Northwest the tourist tour-ist can even wear hia coal in summer sum-mer and feel comfortable in day time. The days thero seldom are hot. Temperatures In Seattlo do not exceed 70 degrees more than a dozen times a year. The same is true of other cities along Puget Sound, While as much cannot be said for New England, the Great Lakes Region, Re-gion, the Rocky Mountains and the California coast yet all have a delightful de-lightful summer climate. They compare favorably with Europe at any time It was only a score of years ago when the automobile was still iu its Infancy At first It was more of a toy than a great cross-country touring machine. Aoto enthusiasts became still more enthusiastic when one of their machines covered 100 miles of roadway. After tho machine was found to travel well on level ground a chance was given to climb hills. Short races of endurance for distance dis-tance and for hill climbing were popular a few years ago. Then came the cross-country races from ocean to ocean. These were followed by trips around tho world, with gaps only where the machine had to cross the ocean. The autu has proven to be an all around vehicle for commerce com-merce or pleasure It costs a lot of money to own one and there are al-wajs al-wajs so many uew inventions In the auto line that a car is In style for only a season or two Tho automobile has caused more people to mortgage their homes than any other luxury It has done much to change our style of living While the city dwellers used to be content in summer time to go to a summer show now they spend their evenings out on the cool country roads. So addicted have the people peo-ple become to auto ridlug that they venture forth for a pleasure ride on tho coldest days. As a good roads advocate there Is no man so good as the auto owner. own-er. He is everlastingly hammering on the good roads problem. H wants the good roads because such a heav machine as an auto cannot go rapidly over bad roads and over some roadB it cannot make any progress at all, while a raw-boned western cayuse could wend its way over the same road with case The automobile Is also the greatest great-est destroying agent of the roads. The rubber tires burn up the rock roads as It were, When men drive over the roads at a high ra'e ol j upecd the tires cut loose the rocky grains in a way a slower going tire r--B would never do. r fl The completion of the Canadian JM trans-continental highway will give Americans a gTcat horseshoe road. f It is expected the Canadian high-way . and all the links of the various WM roads will be completed by 1916 r h In time the bighwaj will he marked mark-ed from one end of the circuit to the 1 other with markers. These markers mark-ers are already being placed alon? the Old Trails road. They are large Bteel sign posts sel In concrete. which will last practically forever. The Old Trails road will be a dis- tlnct asset to the parts of the country coun-try through which the various links run as thousands of tourists will m avail themselves of the road next summer. The average tourist will spend 55 a day In every town where he stops. There are few tourists Independent enough to camp In the open and save expenses. ! |