Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-09 | Page 4 | Lincoln Highway a Trial of Danger

LINCOLN HIGHWAY A TRAIL OF DANGER. More than once has The Standard charged the men who mapped out the Lincoln Highway with being guilty of a crime against the 1 American people. At one time The Standard received a bitter and abusive letter from the head of the Lincoln Highway, following an editorial in this paper pointing out the premeditated wrong perpetrated by those who threw all their influence to the directing of automobile tourist travel over the desert trail south of Great Salt Lake. The Standard had said it was an offense against the traveling public for which the authors I would have to atone. Instead of building up a highway along the great transcontinental j railroads where travelers always would be in sight of aid, the men devoted to making the Lincoln trail were induced to go down into the wilderness of sand and heat and mirages. As a result, here is a story appearing in the Associated Press dispatches dis-patches one of many similar recitals of the past six years SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 8. Lost on the desert for manv hours without water or food and at last abandoning their auto- ; mobile and walking until they collapsed in the sand, where thev were found in an unconscious condition was the experience of Ensign Lincoln Hart, United States navy, his wife and three small children, of Toledo. Ohio, who were rescued from death bv Orr brothers, owners of Orr's ranch on the Lincoln highway. The story of the rescue was brought to Salt Lake tonight by Abe Lohen, a tourist horn Washington, U. L. ihc rescue iook place at midnight. July 4. The party lost their way when thev attempted attempt-ed short cuts across the desert.