Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1921, Page 43

HINTS FOR CAPITAL MOTORISTS WHO PLAN BOSTON AUTO TRIP Roads in First-Class Condition All the Way—Trafhe Officers Also Right on Their Jobs. BY THEODORE'P. NOYES. A brief summary of a Philadelphia, New York .and Boston trip recently taken by the writer might be'of bene- fit to local motorists who have planned late vacations taking in these citie First of all the road. taking all in all, is. good. From Washington. to Baitimore the i ad needs no descrip- tion, as probably -iost of the local car owners have driven over it at one time or another. From Baltimore to Philadelphia, by way of Conniwingo, the traveler will have no complaint for the lack of good macadam and concrete roads, except that some stretches in the Be-| ve recently been tarred. . lair district h: This is particularly discouraging to owners driving new cabs. How to Cross Philadelphia. The best way to get through Phila- delphia on the way to New York is as fonowe Srtering Philadelphia on Eqltimore aven.e Arive through to Bith street. Turn ler. and across the ci.y to Chesnut street. Drive down Chasnut to Broad and turn left around cit. “all. Keep on out Broad until yYou come to Roosevelt. boulevard. That's all there is to it. g Reaching the end of Roosevelt boulevard you come to the only bad detour encountersd in the 500-mile run. Entering Busileton. you are shunted off the main road to Trento: and your troubles begin. While nof the w—.. catour the writer has ever seen, it compares fayvor.bly to some of our nearby Virginia roads, which are the bugbear of every motor! Tough and tumble voyage of twelve miles into Trenton you will be so pleased that you will forget your own discomfort and everything ~will be vell. The detour is well marked and aa trouble will be experienced losing the way. There is no chance what- ever of driving more than eight imiles an hour over this dctour, so that the speed regulation of fifteen miles an hour. frequently encoun- tered en route, need cause you no con- cern. 2 Route Beyond Trenton. Entering Trenton over the free bridge, turn to_the left around one of the new traffic beacons, the same type as in Washington, and follow car track through « outo ‘lhe Lawrenceville-Princeton road. When you reach Princeto which will be over a somewhat worn-out macadam road, you will be delighted to find a wide ncrete highwav running from there to New Brunswick. N. J. You will soon forget the bad detour as you apeed this most modern thoroughfare into New Brunswick. Drive straight through this city over the bridge and up a long bill bearing left onto New York road. The signs will keep you posted on the proper route until you reach Eliza- beth, seventeen miles away. Now you are entering the heavy traffic area, so watch your step. Turn sharp left onto double car tracks street as you come off the New Brunswick road. Drive straight through to Newark on Frelinheisent avenue, following sign: Reaching ark. turn onto Broad street and drive through to Market. Turn to right on the latter street and stay on it until you reach the Hudson boulevard. Don’t be, canfused when Market street changes its name to Ferry street—you are still on Market. Reaching the Hudson _boulevard through a small park. turn left and drive about five miles before turninr~ Tight on 3d street down to the 42d street ferry for New York. So much for that. Way Out of New York. Now for the best way to get out of New York. You are coming off the 42d street ferry. Drive straizht out 424 street and take either 10th, Sth or 8th avenue up town—that is, turn- ing to the left. When you come onto Broadway, which you will by follow- ing one of these sirects, follow it out to 181st street. Turn sharp right ento this street and over the bridge. Turn sharp left on University avenue on the other end and c nue out to Fordham road. Turn right and drive out Fordkam road to the Boston Post road. You are now on a- well-marked highway leading through such towns as Greenwich, Stanford, Norwalk, Bridgeport. New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester to Boston, Stay on the Boston Post road and you will have no trouble whatever in making the remainder of the trip to the ‘Massachusetts metropolis. 1n this run. which takes you through six states, you will probably be im- pressed with the following factors: Maryland has the most efficient and sometimes the most troublesome state police force. They are here, there and evervwhere. no chance of escape. =o Theoniypolish in this wide world leavingadry surface that does not collect dust is Auto Polish E At dealer’s-—-drug, hardware, your auto supply---or write for frée sample. COMMON SENSE MFG. CO. 8¢t. Louis. hold the speed down to thirty-five miles an hour in the open country. In New York' city you will be stopped by traffic policemen who will want to know the idea of having two numbers on your car. They will all tell you that they are warning you that such procedure is not allowed and that you had better take them Off before some “hard guy” member of the force takes you to the station house. The writer firmly believes that on his last trip to New York he talked along these lines with at least 90 per cent of the 12,000 policemen there. Officers Very Buainesnllke. In Philadelphia you will note that wear a black shirt, no coat, black trousers and puttees, with a pistol slung around their waist. They look as if they meant business. In Trenton you will be surprised to see that the traffic policeman sits urder an umbrella while directing traffic. Very handy aud undoubtedly an easy life. In Massachusetts you will find all the turns on the main highway di lvlded by a white line. It is a good idea. If your wheels should be over this line, which cuts the road in half, and you have an accident, it is all your fault. Maine is now taking up the idea and marking her roads in a similar maner. In the bean-eating state you willalso find that all traffic poiicemen at night wear a white band around their waist and over each shoulder to enable mo- Imnsu to see their signals and to make them easily distinguishable at ia congested cornmer. Maryland . has o . | recently adopted the same system and However, if_your springs survive theithe local police would do well’to in-1 o2 011 ‘matters pertaining to sules for { vestigate, as it has many advantages. {The bands are both inexpensive and | practicable and make the life of the {motorist much easier. as he can pick out the traffic policeman at a glance. The idea also works to the benefit of the policeman, as many have had nar- row escapes from being run down, ;due to the motorist's inability to see { them. | Well, let's all stay in Boston; it's too {1até now to drive any further. NEEDLES, LAMB’S HEART, | FFAIL TO MEND TROUBLES !Colored Policewoman’s Heart Hard + So She Traps Preacher Who H Advised Her. When Policewoman Alice C. Smith, colored. went to Rev. Kile Clark Mor- rison, colored. Sixty-seven years old and living at 30 Myrtle street, the other day and recited a story of dis- appointment in love and a sweetheart who fled, the parson told her to' go {fetch him thirteen needles and a {1amb's heart and he would mend her troubles. Instead. Policewoman Smith, who was obtaining evidence against the {preacher. sent Detectives Cornwell and Flaherty to the address last night and they -arrested Rev.. Morri- sen and charged him with_being an unl’censed fortune teller. Rev. Mor- riron. who always charges a fee for his advice, is also said to have heen zsked by a colored woman the other day to locate her pocketbook, lost with $15. After rituals which in- cluded burning incense, the woman was told her pocketbook had been {burned and the money spent. | | THE SUNDAY SMALLEST . AUTO in the summer time the policemen ; Eugene Pawlowicz of Milwaukee, world. tires, wire wheelx, electric lights, upholxtery a ly difference being it has no motor, and took several months to complete. AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS. Robert W. Woodruff and Mason B. MoLaughlin were elected vice presi- dents of t... White Company of Cleve- land at a ..ceting of the board of di- rectors August These two men, with Vice Presidents George F. Rus |sell .and James A. Harris, jr. will ! constitute a committee to be in charge the whole country. THE RISING GENERATION. Father (to daughter)—“l saw you last night in the automobile of that young scoundrel 1 have so often warned you against. And he had his_arm around vou. I trust you had offered him no encouragement?" Daughter—* “Why, father, your sus- picions wrong He didn't need any 1 encouragement.”’—Detroit News. —_— PROTESTS PAY REFUND. War Will Aid Enlist- ed Men. ! iSecretary of ! According to a statement Issued by the Secretary of War, the present law affecting the pay of enlisted men of the Army. as interpreted by the con- troller of the Treasury in his decision of June 9, 1921, calling on certain sol diers to refund money to the govern- ment, Is “imposing a great hardship on many enlisted men. entirely with- out fault on their part.” It is desired that all persons con- cerned be informed that the War De- partment will present the case to Con- gress at the earliest practicable date tand request that remedial legislation be enacted. BOARD REJECTS BIDS. All bids for the fourteen ex-German vessels have been rejected by the Shipping Board. Chairman Lasker an-, nounced last night. The officar in charge of sales has been instructed to open negotiattons with th: Hidders on an all-cash basis. The ships will be sold “as is” and “where is, : We believe thatone reason why Peerless owners _are such “long friends” is that from the very beginning T they have found a“firmbargainand a right reckoning.” Softly, gently, drifting with the zephyr and holding it PROUD LITTLE OWNER AND DRIVER OF in the exnct duplicate of modern automobile: 'STAR, COUPE IN THE WORLD j thirty-seven miles an hour going up Wix., owns the smallest coupe in the It h neumatic plate-glass windows, the The tiny car was made by his . “CANNONBALL” BAKER MAKES NEW RECORD Runs 99 Miles, From Cleveland to Dayton and Return, at Rate of 52 Miles an Hour. Another remarkable speed record was made August 16 when “Cannon- | all” Baker, famous transcontinental racer, in a Templar, made the run from Cincinnati to Dayton and return, a distance pf 99.9 miles, in 115 1. minutes. This is an average of fifty- two miles per hour for the entire trip. Those who have done much driving over country roads and through towns and cities will realize that this is a high average for such a run. Baker had to drive his car over fifty-four railroad crossings, negotiate 222 turns and go through the heart of Hamilton, Miamisburg, Franklin and Carrollton, The run was under the direction of | the Automobile Association of Amer- ica, represented by James J. Fitzpat- rick of the Cincinnati Motor Club and | Paul Ackerman of the Montgomery Auto Club. SPEED LIMITS REMOVED. France Will Hold Drivers Responsi- ble for All Accidents. PARIS, August 26.—All speed limits have been removed from French roads. In compliance with the demand of public sentiment, the French govern- ment has recognized that arbitrary speed limits are mo protection to users of the road, but are often a legal club with which motorists may be persecuted. Automobile drivers are held strict- ly responsible for any accidents which they may cause, but other- wise, no limits are imposed, except on commercial and passenger-carrying vehicles weighing more than three tons. For these a speed limit is main- ght-hand rule of the road tained despite some agitation to 81 1 adopt the English, or left-hand rule. WASHINGTON/ D, C., AUGUST 928, Tricked Automobilists on pressible record-breaker with motor car on motor cycle, covered the route of 153 ‘miles over Jacobs Ladder in “|'Massachusetts, and also the Mohawk old-timers of the earlier days of the | 1921_PART 3. CARRIES RADIO PHONE IN REAR OF MOTOR CAR Hartford Fire Chief First to Test New Aild in Fighting Fires. It has remained for Hartford, Conn., to come through with what is be- lieved to be the first practical appli- cation of the portable wireless tele- 'phone as an aid to fire-fighting. Chief John C. Moran of the Hartford fire department, in order to bring this about has placed a full-fledged wire- less telephone outfit in the rear of his Marmon touring car. In recent tests Chief Moran was {able to talk from different parts of the city to the central station, lo- cated at the home of C. D. Tuska. Through the use of a portable wire- less telephone outfit rigged up by Mr. ‘Tuska, I possible to reach the chies FARMER THRIVED ONAUTOITS TOLL Steep Grade and Pulled Them Out. - ‘When “Cannon Ball” Baker, irre- trail, he brought back memories to automobile industry. Baker averaged one grade 1,400 feet elevation in four miles and around 966 turns in all Elevation along the Mohawk trail reaches 2,261 fect. Edward Spooner, secretary of the | Old-Timers' Club, and pathfinder for a majority of the earlier tours, lie' the route over the ladder and trail| Several times when the difficulties | overcome were 80 many that the jour- ney became famous throughout the country as a result. Mr. Spooner tells of the days when a farmer at the foot of Jacobs Ladder stopped tilling the soil for years to make money hauling motorists out of their diffi-| culties on this stretch of four miles with its 1,400-foot rise. « Covered Road With Dirt. “Thé farmer lost out when cars im- proved,” said Mr. Spooner to a group of members of the Old-Ttimers' Club at the offices, 420 Book building, “and he had to do something to enabie him to continue the business of hauling or &0 back to just plain farming. So he hauled soft ‘black dirt in and covered the bottom of the hill. His business improved and again he made money. Motor cars continued to improve and they overcame even this difficulty, | and then he used sawdust, which was | laid under the dirt. For a time we new_the hill by the common term of Sawdust Hill’ The authorities be? came wise to what the farmer was oing and he served time. “When the Glidden tour of 1905 came long that route, returning from | Mount Washington to New York via |5 Poughkeepsie, that farmer was out with his horses hidden in the bushes half way up the hill at a point where we estimated the grade at as high as 28 per cent. With Charles J. Glid- den 1 watched the cars ascend and was photographing them. In the | &5 course of our conversation I told Mr. [E Glidden of the earlier days and the farmer, and the man sitting beside the road arose to a height - which eenied to me seven feet, and he said ‘Yes, I am that man.’ Dificulties Overcome. “Now the grade was severe and the camera heavy, but the dash to the top might have placed me in the 100- yard-run record breaking class had there been any one to time me. Im provement in cars overcame the orig- inal difficulties of this route and the building of state roads did the rest. Today instead of Jacobs Ladder being a road to fear it is one of America's most scenic routes and may be climbed by any automobile in good condition. | The route followed by ‘Cannon Ball Baker with its many turns is not | dangerous at all for an average driver who exercises care. —_— Harry Spicer, service manager of the Maryland Battery Service, Inc., distributors of Westinghouse bat- teries, has just returned from a va- cation at Atlantic City. Over o dozen prices that will astonish running condstion. responsible parties. < venience—9 to 3. o THE UNIVERSAL CAR One Ton Truck OTORING used cars at Newver before have we been able to offer so wmany cars of standard makes in such good Extremely Liberal Terms to Open Sunday for your con- by wireless in any part of the city, notifying him at once of a fire or any other urgent call. While the details have not been perfected, arrange- ments are being made for a sending outfit to be attached to the automo- bile, enabling the chief to communi- cate with the Tuska station by wire- less, they to transmit the message to fire headlquarters. Numerous tests have been made to determine the feasibility of the scheme. Driving twenty-five miles an hour it was possible for persons in the car to hear a Victrola record at Mr. Tuska’'s home. The portable in strument worked perfectly, despite the fact that the aar was in motion. A VANISHING RACE. Jones—*Scientists are now trying to explain their theories so that the man in_the street can understand them. Bones (dodging an automobile)— “Well, they’ll have to hurry up. The man in the street is soon going to be extinet.”—Chicago Tribune. This Sale Of USED CARS you. thing very used car, Harper-Overland Co ‘INCORPORATED 1128-30 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Phone Franklin 4307 -has demonstrated one that, when selecting a buy is fully as important as WHAT you buy. TO HOLD SALES PARLEY. Automotive Trade Association Se- cures 0. H. Chamberlain. The Washington Automotive Trade Association, at a special meeting held Thursday evening at the City Club, voted to have Mr. O. H. Chamberlain conduct a number of sales conferences on “Meeting Sales Resistance in the Automotive Industry.” Mr. Chamberlain has had wide expe- rience in sales and sales management The local association has arranged for the five courses for the benefit of its members, their sales and service organizations and other employes, and all are urged to attend. The lectures will last an hour, and will be held Monday. Tuesda ‘Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock and Friday morning at 10 o'clock, at the Buick Motor Company building, 14th and L street conclusively---- WHERE you A hd - back—that is Peerless in its Loafing Range. Rushing, an airplane for swiftness, racing with the gale and - beatt:ng it—that, too, is Peerless,/in its Sporting Range. - threamgnfifinecarscanyoufindvaluecompa-' rable to that offered by Peerless? Compare perform- Peerless VALUE lfld.l. . " ' * NEW PRICES or a small one*is proven by the great number of concerns that use them—from one truck to a fleet. That it does this at less cost is proven by the actual figures—a smaller first cost and a much lower expense for operation and upkeep. For years the Ford One-Ton Truck, with its splendid manganese bronze worm-drive powerful Ford Model T Motor, strong Vana- dium steel frame, has been serving in every line of business THATtheFord One-Ton Truck does more for a big business § { ] - e : o ) special truck worms and gears activity, and we have yet to hear of an instance where the rear i became effective August 19,1921 ineresse the wrdoary drisg 8Xlé OF mofof have not performed satisfactorlly. - e : EeEs = 2 S ?-‘::l:-fi—finum_nz Now is the time to figure on your truck needs. Let’s talk it over. : 'RI_BPEBRLESSMQTORCA._RCOM‘PANY;MOH- e | v - goars will be supplied by us at i 3 t.nSedan.» Coupe, Truck or Chassis. Reasonable deliveries ou'l'onrmg/' or Runabout : . Authorized Washington Ford Dealers - HILL & TIBBITTS, igh St. and Ohio Ave. N.W. R. L. TAYLOR COMPANY, 1840 14th St. N.W. PR A O O MDA orlner Wisconsin Ave.. UNIVERSAL AUTO COMPANY (INC), 1529-31 M St. NW. .MOTOR COMPANY, 1429 L St. N.W. 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