Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 57

Central Americ;— M—age QOver By Improvement of Roads New Highway Systems Have Been Shown to Revolutionize Economic Conditipns in Hitherto Backward Santo Domingo. i BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. , American nations were regarding the motor car as a curiosity. In the light of present knowledge of | "y 5 result of its foresight, the Do- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, - Treasury WASHINGTON Sfarfi'noq- oint /ice D. ©, JUNE °f. 1925 PART 3 OTORS and B unting o Alexandria and Mount Vernon Offer Sights for Motor Trip Many Historic Bm:ldings May Be Visited on Easy Day’s Journey From Wash- ington Over Good Roads. A trip ‘into Virginia's nearby his-|ington relic toric country is well worth the while | Valuable y s. including a number of ntings. Washington's Ma- 1 d i o| Sonic regalia and the trowel with world-wide conditions the opinion is | minican Republic has not only elimi- of any Washington motorist who| yih 1o5.1q the corner stone of the becoming more general that no nation | nated the causes of national disin- would learn as he tours. he Star's| Capitol building. is any greater than its highwavs, and sultantly the entire world has em barked upon an unprecedented road building campaign waich promises to revolutionize living conditions ever where, bringing many natlons up to undreamed of heights of civilization. | from 20 to 50 cents. The prices now Car owners and good roads advo-|rangze from 10 to 30 cents. The farm- cates who witness the results of their | ers can sell their eggs at just half the efforts to improve that great avenue | former price. A basket of charcoal tegration, which occasioned revolution and revoit as a regular diet, but has literally put the highways to work for the republic. Before there was a na- tional highway system a pound of meat into Santo Domingo City cost motor tours scout today maps out i picturesque route to the South. embrac . ?“’ “‘r"’" ""‘““' £ ) et ew doors from the lodge is th {ng such tladlllnn:lnden plac 5 AT Cice Tyle tlanse Tonelor m:f“c‘m 11!: exandria, Mount Vernon and Pohick— | teresting buildings in Virginia. 1t 4 one-day tour over beautiful, smooth dates from 1752 and is in an excellant roads, flanked by appealing country- | State of preservation. Braddock, and side. after him Washington, made history The charm of these interesting sites | here | From Alexa i 5 o ndria_the best ol ~ of transportation—the modern motor | which formerly cost 25 cents can now never weakens as the vears roll by,| Mooar v =5 best ¥ "‘L‘Gr;d road—are inclined ‘to forget that the|be had fer 15 cents. and tourists find a genuine pleasure in | street. From fiowever. who road building boon is international | and that a good road “somewhere in | the world” may mean much to those | who never use it | Tt may be sald that good highway are more than a pleasure to th motorists who happen to be traveling over them and that the world is still reaping the benefits of the Roman |ernorships of the provi lingering at these landmarks of the Nation's history. Because of the im proved roads in this vicinity, visitors are being attracted to these shrines in increasing numbers each .vear. ‘The route leads by way of Four- teenth street, which has beer paved below B street, or b Fifteenth street through Roads Made Success. To their highways the people of the West Indies republi now _attribute their national progress and stability of government. When the country was roadless whoever won the presi- dency would promptly grant the gov- ces to those pre lly the byways to the highways. the oid Telegraph road, in- tersecting King street at Merchant street, offers some unusual rustic ather this road is but after rains it' offers a coc refreshing drive away from hes way of | traffic the Monu-| From the turnoff into Mount Ver- L /)}/e B Turn off g M Vernon™ roads, despite the fact that a later | who had supported him in the election. B b ment grounds to the Highway Bridge. | non the motorist travels just 2 miles civilization wasted the opportunity to|Naturally these new appointments After crossing the bridge the motorist | from the main road to the gats build promptly upon so substantial a [were distasteful to the inhabitants, < should bear to the right, following the | leading to the maneion Iiere ooy foundation. So international are the | whose needs were obviously unknown ® Woodlawn military road rather than the short ants and ample parkin % results of road building that tourists |to the new public officials, and it was ~ 000/2W! cut straight ahead. The latter, al @Hinal Shcis 1s for ok only a matter of time before the na tion would bg in revolt again. The Pan-American Confedgration reports that all this passed with the develop- ment of the roads. intercourse among the different provinces incre: ng to a point where there is & strong and pro- journeying to England and France from North or South America are finding that the foundations laid in those European countries centuries ago are Dbeing reflected in lower motor touring costs, aside from the countless other more involved advan Mansson B on hill. though mostly concrete, passes through | a manufacturing district and along railroad tracks. A short distance be hin have nians. most of visited it by description at deser it and the perhaps A justify s vond the Hume School the motorist|Mount Vernon again is confronted with an optional road, but the road to the right is pref. erable because it offers some hasty v to ling, tourist will want long where kings. potentat Hd y¥y93TIL trac-{ and diplomats 1 yurneved fro tages. gressive national consclousness. e tive scenery and avoids several dan-|time to time o f ibute to th What the world-wide good roads o i Eafibaa s ceaets el u o the Can Change Life advocates emphasize, however, is the ; 0 e father of this republic. Of even greater interest is the fact|international consciousness which also Passes Braddock Cannon. ¥ | foad leads to Camp that modern nations which do not |comes with the national consciousness. This road passes the old Braddock | HEmPhreys. after ‘which there s 4 enjoy the advantage of foundations|The first thing the United States cannon, abandoned by Gen. Braddock S gra to Pohick. The Po- breceding generations | motorist wants to know when he is comparatively few }plannmg a trip, for business or pleas- their road building | Ure. to a South American country con | cerns the condition of the highwavs. laid down by n, within a vears, so intensify on his march to the Alleghenies to |} drive the Indians from the frontie Approaching Alexandria to the right George Mason, the au- 1l of rights of Virginia, also attended here. and occupied the avod campaign as t letely change ! will be seen overlooking the town the en ; n Thelr mational lite. This is conving. 18 It easy to get about? Can he g0 new Masonic Memorial Temple, now D tnE ey, RaoRT ingly demonstrated by the political, | from this place to that by motor, and under construction. This is a memo. 45 Gunston Hall social and economic revolution of one |19 the road in good condition rial of the Masonic order to Gieo SETERIIE e toule the return trip of the republics of the West Indies, | Whether or not the motorist plans Washington, who was gr include Arlington Cemetery and s Leinee | to tour by auto internationally, he is | e W e A beautiful siew ~of According to a report made to the | DeSinning to realize the effect of in the Temple the road e obtained from Pan-American Confederation for High- | ternational road (‘i‘“',‘,d‘"f‘ Sty B ihio K ateat. leading fato the he Returning by this wiy | Edncation By M. A Cocco,: | DOTIC POIC IS LANC BOcTAEIe- oL TA of Alexandria pass throug! sionary to India now in the United States on leave of absence revealed much interest in balloon tires for a mall car which he uses quite exten- sively in his territory. It served to remind several American car owners that good roads everywhere stimulate motor travel, thus stimulating the sale of everything that goes with an auto- mobile.” This, in turn, gives every one | the advantage of quantity production. Lower Costs. iiding everywhere, more- ilts in lowering the carryving cost of both raw and finished products. | Rosslyn. acros and through his Key B oric Georgetown SAVING ON ROADS. prominent civil engineer of the Do- ze minican Republic, a_complete tran: formation of that nation has been ei fected within 16 vears as a result of foresight in road building. bringing the republic_into line with modern com monwealths Mr. Cocco states that in 1908 it w: impossible to go from one provinc capital to another by automobile, whereas in 1924 three main highwa and auxiliary natural dirt roads made possible motor travel between 10 pro- | vincial capitals, leaving but two to be Before Washington. the city, was dreamed of, Alexandria was a p perous community. It was settled i 1695. and in the early da public it was a busy port a paid a ransom of $100,000 to the B ish in 1814 to avoid bombar From 1790 to 1846 part of the District of in the latter year it to Virginia. From 1863 seets oo important as the ses | Engineering study is developing of those counties of re- | lower cost methods of building high- ined within the Federal lin | ways. according to a recent report of i\ O/d Pohick Choreh New Process Cuts Cost of Concrete $3,900 Per Mile. 7o Gunston Hall, 7o Richmond and the South. connected to the national highway visitor to tf uaint city | s ‘ ystem in the road building program | Whenever the rubber of a tire, whether S AT iany thihgs there of it Highway Research Board. On now under way. The republic was|in crude form or in the latest tire est. George Washington was a ves. | instance is the use of the thickened foresighted enough to establish a de- | creation. has to meet with difficulties tryman at Christ Church. as was also | edge roads. in the design of concret F i partment of public works and appro- |in transportation, such as a bad road, |road transportation rates possible | traded on a wide margin. took advan- | were assembled. Evervbody paid for |from the report that whereas less|Gen. Robert E. Lee. The pews they | By this en a saving has been priate $3.000,000 for road construction | the cost is unnecessarily increased and | through carload lots, it was customary | tage of carload lot shipments. paid the | this uneconomic process than 5 per cent of the receipts of | occupied may be seen within this his. | made of about 330 cubic yvards of con- at a time when the 1908 models of | progress is retarded proportionally. |before the advent of good roads and |hog raiser from 75 cents to $1.25 below | Some idea of the changes brought|hogs at Indianapolis were delivered |toric edifice. At Cameron and Roval |crete per mile. At §$10 per cubic yard automobiles were still being regarded | Because farmers of the Midwest of | the motor truck to sell to a middle. | market prices and even required the |about by the building of good high-|by highways in 1913 the percentage ing of $3.900 per mile. a8 a pest by many citizens of the |‘he United States could not ays | man, who, according to the United |farmer to stand the transportation |wayg, and the use of trucks which is|— - es have adopted this United States and when many Pan-'take advantage of the decreased rail-| States Department of Agriculture, | charges to the point where carloads the natural consequence, may be had (Continued on Sixth Page.) tended. Here is 2 cc ewett Coach 1260 F.O. B. Detroit, tax extra Superb quality new beauty—flashing action! Jewett Coach is built on the time-tried prin- ciple that public recognition goes straight as an arrow to the quality product. 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