Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 29

UNRIVALED AUTO TOURS YIELD HEALTH AND JOY Roads North, East Teeming W ith Ha in Good Old BY WILLIA Summertime to some people to others tl pur or the waters where t 1e cry of purling str and play while § inde of spiritual re tion typitied To sull others there is the | 1 t for exc lerful days life ceason b me drinking aken on which enjoy day ith overhanging tr ha what sssor of a1 an mid Auto T To con impossib d be the de It is a - w car m: 1t « eftects who has Ldvant the race it n on an in With Wadswe v ear is possible Leed ome forth et nature is the | are at is re- mprove- and con mountain fields vi the kaleidoscopic tkened the w d road that e plac propagandafo do in other direc ere can be no question but - movement would never have present large proportic universal use of motor is the season of the year country ix at its thing is fresh and inspiring. A of a few hours will make | zet his business worries. ’ till new life and act the body and mind. There is optimisti nature in | There is nothing that dis- | 3 Summer’s d; pent | country. It instills new and awakens the in 1t has av the nay att th a diff howeve seenery nature nsible for the notoring over the hills his is demonstrated t the roads which lead through a monotonous country are littie used Stimulates Car Demand. h the coming of Summer-time desire for an automobile itself in no uncertain measu safe to that if every one Wi the fest were to h : roads not accommodate great number ¢f machines that would be tn use It 1s the family aspect of the auto moble that has caused it to be an ns- stitution that ranks next to the home itself fn importance. The cool evening spin, the Sunday country, and the convelence and privacy which the car affords make it as much of u necessary luxury as the bath, the ica hox, the piano, the radio, or any of the other institutions of a well-ordered ho To those who automobile brings a wealth of happi ness, and satisfaction. It instills in the little ones love for the country. 5 r way to impress upon storienl events than h object lessons. Automobile tours can be follow the S visiting places of ic interest, im- upon the young mind, throug! associated with them, t fer events in the history of the United States Point out the man of family who can afford a motor car, no matter how unpretentions the machine he able to buy. but who does not posses one, and vou can mark him down as a man who is selfish in the extreme and unpossessed of those sentiments which al to character and real human worth such a man offer? Do that knows nothing about operation of motor cars and n mechanical knowledge? ‘wxcuse is invalid because @ most cas- ual investigation will prove to the most 1imid that the operation of the up-to-date motor car requires no apti- tude for 1 things. have children P'b‘in.u ind. a he contend the cking Such an of Many. “I can’t afford it,” 1s the most fre- ently heard pretext offered by the who would rather have his money drawing € per cent interest through a stock bond investment than to have it earning health and happiness for those who ought to be his tirst con- sideration. ‘Thera are cars—and very gnod cars—that come within the limi- tations ¢ almost eve one's bank account. Well might the poet's words be altered to read Breathes there dead Who never to himself hath said This is my gwn, my family’s car! “Ho car and the green places is the cry of every red-hlooded man, and child in the glorious days amer. h the development of the motor car to its present high state of effi- ciency and reliability and the buflding of miles and miles of fine highway Jeaching to every section of the United States. long-distance touring has be- come the rule rather than the excep- tion. Of course, the established seaside and mountain resorts will get their regu- lar tronage, and more. Those in 1he stern part of the country will be wislted by more Westerners than o a man with soul so r reams where the bl: sions to near and distant bea 1d over the days one brig t | phrates with its magnificence ar | improved | S. | dom! { best. f ; | the mani- | excursion into the ! the | What excuse can | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G OTORS and and Wesl ppy Excursionists oulh Summertime. M ULLMAN. means the call of the bleachers, k bass leap | he elusive perch flits to and fro.| r out and dream surging tlw’nnx; by the abundant hie about them. of owning an auto- | uty spots, when everything in | rotound joy of Summe @~ in such prodigal profusion. | must a-motoring go. ! wd, a balmy breeze, fields of | sunshine. and smooth road | r the course with bright ver-| to invite the fortunate| ! “ht it ination before. And Easterners will go out (o the real West—in aimost | vable numbers what a wonderful versitied attractions this country of ours holds for | have the time, money and inclination | them! | Californi: ever West wrray of di- | magnificent | those who | ‘s Big Trees. n the western slopes of the 1 imn of the Americ of all our natural won- ! in one way_ There in a zrove un 1w on earth stand the iz trees lifornia —the Requoius T we we he oldest living s upon which man today may fe eves and imagination Tnipe may be to compre- hend. we word of science for these fac the oldest among e were study saplings when | children of Isvael walked through the divided waters of the Red Already their topmost branches were communing with the stars when | | Babylon gilded the banks of the Ku-| Baby- Is have been bur reat | are | | | majestic Mosy the lon. whose vel {1ed 8,000 vears | What pile raised by human hands: | | what ruins of former. glories, however | impressive, can arouse such feelinzs as must be present when one stands in | {the shade of a llving tree that was | {older than any ruin ih Europe when | | Columbus held the glimmer of light | | which now flames in a torch of free- | | To enumerate all of the wonders to be seen in the West would require in | finite space. Between Omaha, the | zateway to the real West, and the Pacific Coast are more attractions | than could be seen in a single season, {but some of the chief wonders, situ ated far apart in that vast expanse of country, besides the great cities which have grown to large proportions in a comparatively brief space of time, are: Yellowstone National Park. Amert wonderland: Rainler National Par {and the Yosemite: the Garden of the | Gods, Pikes Peak and the balance of awe-inspiring grandeur; the nyon, and the Painted Des Shoshone Falls and Twin Falls in Idaho: Mount Rainier, monarch of the | ascades; the hewilderi Bad Lands th Dikota: the Columbia River, the side of which winds the fa mous automobile houlevard known as Columbia Highway: genuine In-| . cliff dwellings, the Petri lifornia's _celebrated | talina_TIslands, San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate and. | taking another jump, the Great Salt Lake. Hesides these there s a count. less number of other marvelous thingi to see. | aan vill fied Forest, « orange groves Attractions in East. For those motorists who will wend their wayv Fastward some of the world’s finest motor roads and a matchless ¢ of scenic and his toric attr iwait them en the Atlantic s Those ie ction hoard. who have gazed upon the majestic Rockies and have been held spellbound by the indescribable great- ness of the Grand Canyon may be a trifle disappointed when they first view the popular touring places of the E Some rugged scenery there is, of course, and Niagara, too, fut for the most part they will find no aston- ishing grandeur, no precipitous cliffs, no earthquake-rifted chasms, no thun- dering torrents. In their stead will be found endless stretches of green fields, gently rolling country, broken ascents, villages, wild glens, flower- strewn ravines and tumbling brooks that sing a song of tranquillity. Unquestionably the most delightful | touring place in the eastern half of the United States is the Berkshixe hills. The Berkshires is a picturesque re- glon of hill and valley, lake and stream, woodland and field. A motor ramble among these hills has been aptly termed the, tour idyll Cer tainly all who have toured the Berk- shires agree that, all things consid ered, its equal as a motoring place is vet unfound. In this region there are no bad roads, all of the hotels are good ones, and the entire district is dotted with clean, inviting places to stop. Baedeker's Description. In Baedeker can be found the fol- lowing prosaic description of the re. gion that has given inspiration to poets: “The district known as the Berk- shire hills, corresponding practically to Berkshire County, in the western part of Massachusetts, is 50 miles long from north to south and 20 to 25 miles wide from east to west, covering an area of about 1,300 miles. On the west it is bound by the Taconlc Moun- ate of New York the east by the Hoosac Mountain southern prolongation of the Green Mountains; on the south by Connecti- ut, and on the north by Vermont. The region confined hetween the two mountain ranges is broken up into a number of smaller valleys, inter- spersed with isolated hills. “And for the gentle loveliness of a hill country, | as contrasted with mountain countr: it is unsurpassed in the Unit 1s elsewhere. More satisfying descriptions of the Berkshires may be found in the poems of Willlam Cullen Bryant and the s of Catherine Sedgwick, in the | writings of Ollver Wendell Holmes, | Longfellow, Hawthorne, Herman Mel- ville, Fanny Kemble and Henry Tho- reau, all of whom lived among the Berkshire hills and loved them, and all of whom invested the hills with the halo of their genius. | All the north Atlantic country is full of charm for the motor tourist. Again lack of space prohibits enumer- ating all the beautiful and interesting places one may see in this section. Suffice to say that once here the tourist finds 1t difficult to shake off the charm of the region and say farewell. A tour up the Hudson, through the (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) | viduals, ndscape are scattered || Here is the monster Philadelphia- ground is the end whi span, that of the Williamsburg Bri Pedestrians m curves into Camd e across the East River, t cross on elevated walks. mden suspension bridge across the Delaware river, which was opened to traffic during the past week. In the fore- | while beyond the river is the city of P fargest suspension {spe bridge in the world. it is nearly two miles long and has a suspension span of 1,130 feet, surpas Six thousand automobiles an ladelphia. Erected a cost of hour can use JULY 4, 1926—PART 2. $10,000,000, the new structure is the crowding. {Quick Releasing Of Throttle Sends Oil Into Cylinder That puff of blue smoke from the exhaust just as the speed of the car slackens and the foot is taken off the accelerator has a meaning all its own When an engine is running fast and the throttle is suddenly closed the suction within the cylinders is great enough to suck oil up past the piston rings. This, in burning, causes the bluixh smoke from the -xhaust rdden s may be wasteful acceleration it s equally true of sudden on, even if the brakes are not applied. One wastes gas, the other oil 'MOTORISTS GAINING PARKING PRIVILEGES ! i Co-operation Securing Better Con- ditions in Many Places, Says, A. A. A General Manager. Majorities in a republic, If they are right, have an unquestioned right to rule. This principle, according to Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the American Automoblile Association. is being applied successfully in many parts of the country by motor groups in obtaining less restrictive parking regulations. ““Clubs that have taken up this ques. tion have found officials are heartily inclined to co.operate,” says M. Smith “Parking regulations, in thousands of cases, judgment of one individual and the better judgment of hundreds of indi once it is marshaled on a particular point, usually prevails. “There are certaln principles that naturally govern the restriction of automobile parking. and these should find the ready support of dom. There are many violations of these principles, however, that are constantly and unfairly limiting the range of automobiles in urban center “These should be and can be r moved if the problem is tackled in the right way. It is not a matter of criticizing, so much as marshaling justifiable criticism. The motorist is inclined to be an individualist in mat- ters of this kind, at a sacrifice to him- self. The argument of one motorist, however logical and fair, has only the earmarks of selfishness. It is vastly different if the argument is backed by numbers. “Clubs that have entered upon so- lution of this problem have taken reg- ular polis of sentiment and with defi- nite facts and figures have been emi. nently successful in obtaining justice from officials. “It is proving a real service to offl- cials as well as to automobile owners.' Best R.;)ute to Frederick. Because of the congestion caused by road construction work in Gaithers Burg, motorists driving to Frederick are advised by the Maryland State Roads Commission to go by way of Buckeystown, Dickerson, Beallsville and Darnestow: are no more than the best | 'INCHERS AT CORNER DANGEROUS TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS Branding drivers and who “inch” intn the [traffic at intersections | nals are ; st then | themselves and othe veteran local aute pioneer motorist ment the aflic safety Be cureful pedestrians line of when the rous to Iph Jo: der and curtail to warns that ot is essential and don't inch.” is Mr. Jose's plea. “\When you walk don't he a pedestrian-incher. If vou drive a car don't be a driver-incher, because | inchers are slowing up traffic at every business section every day. The pedestrian-inchers are costing auto mobile traffic thousands of hours snarling up the traffic lanes, causing jams. Driverinchers are getting in the way of hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, blocking the cross walks, forcing them out of their way and terrorizing them with the threat of a quick start. “The policeman blows or the traffic light turns car affected should sto within the building line- neither the front wheel, the fender nor any other part of the car projects into the cross-walks across the avenue. Then every car should stay halted, not moving an inch until the police- man blows his whistle again or the traffic light definitely goes green." What Happens Too Often. his whistle red. Every stop well what happens, according to Mr. Jose ‘At lots of corners, the first car is driven by an incher. Instead of stop- ping behind the building line, he care- lessly—though sometimes with seeming unconsciousness—moves jus a few inches too far. His bumper and walk. The even flow across the street of pedes is pa Tryin' to figure out whether the trouble I'm called upon to remedy is the owner's grouch or somethin’ the matter with his car is no easy task. It has been my experience that in certain moods car owners have cer- tain kinds of trouble. Their moods also produce certain troubles that they would not have if they could analyze themselves a little better. Recently a chap drove in here with a worried expression on his face. He was hearing a pecullar noise down around the transmission. What on earth could it be? He wondered. Before 1 started to study the trou- ble itself I decided to study him. “Are you travelin’?” T asked. He explained that he was only out for an afternoon’'s spin with his family. “Just amblin’ along,” as he put it. Well, there was my explanation— a driver with nothing in particular on his mind. Perhaps a little tired of the scenory and bored with his pas- sengers. There was nothing for him to do but listen to the car and slip into a mood where anything would bother him That noise in the trans- jon wusS_somethin’ he - wouldn't AUTO REPAIRING ALL MAKES HUDSON and GARDNER SERVICE A SPECIALTY T. J. CAMFIELD Rear 1118 13th St. N.W. Main 5917 Tires and Accessories - . BATTERIZS Sales Service AUTO ELECTRICIANS Julius H. Rieley 656-58 Pa. Ave. S.E. Lincoln 7283 Both Motorists and Pedestrians Scored for Over- stepping Traffic Lanes—Right Method Halting and Starting D stop so that | | car. | time to_cro: the traffic | the worst type of traffic In too many cases, however, this is | only | there is sometimes his front wheel are on the | tly | manners.” THE OLD MECHANIC SAYS: a i | i of ibed. damme ther they must walk off k when they reach this congested down to three \breast instead of six It testy show that one car cuts down a signifi- | number of per- | ~treet during wen. probably also waiting in the traffic line, is another driver her of an even worse type. He is in a hurry | to get started, shifts into gear and | when he thinks the traffic light is ahodt to change, slowly lets his ge engage and begins inching forward so as to get off to a flying start when the lizht finally flashes green.'” Real Traflic Pest. About this species of motorist, Jose had this to say “He is a real traffic pest. He not only actuaily slows up the pedestrian by blocking the cross-walk, but he terrorizes every person crossing the | street who, not watching the light and not wishing to get caught stranded when traffic changes, is dismayed at he first suggestion of moving by any Many a woman who would have the street fully before hange is frightened and sent scurrying back to the curb she has just left by driver-incher who ha begun to move up too soon. This manners is the real cause of traffic delay. is an evil that only the driving public itself can correci “The policeman cannot see all the | offenders and at many_intersections no policeman. The pedestrian must depend for his peace of mind and his safety as measured by the driver. incher on the force of public opinion ind the driver's sense of motoring sons who can cross th one traffic interval across the street Mr. | be conscious of at all if he had been in a different mood. Chaps who are pugnacious often find the car too slow for ‘em. I have lot of trouble with these fellows. They complain of lack of pep in the engine and froth at the mouth be- cause the car won't pick up the way it used to. The chances are that when they are annoyed the engine s doing just as good work as it always did, only they're in the wrong frame of mind to appreciate it. At the other extreme, there are the happy mood motorists who don’t seem to notice that they're burnin' their brakes or injurin’ the car by runnin’ Argentina imported 1,149 American passenger cars in May, against 85 of iropean m'\nufurturp Yes, you can buy some other gear lubricant for less, but most car owners would rather not penalize their car for a mere few pennies. At dealoms. 0 five-pound cuns: wervice stations from the Checkerboard pump only. EBONITE | (178 SHREDDED DI ) [( {one of the most Try to Forget Hill Ahead and Give Engine Fair Deal Where a hill can be seen a long way ahead and the road is straight for some distance to the bottom of the ascent the tendency is for the driver to overestimate the steepness of the grade and make certain mistakes that serve to prevent the engine from doing its best to get over in high Psychological. Try forgetting the hill until almost upon it RUBBERIZED PAINT LATEST FOR AUTO Claim Made That New Covering Is Easily Applied, Gives Gloss and Dries Quickly. Rubberized paint that plied by any novice i automobile body This produc can be ap a new note in finishes. laimed, provides ctory coatings for automobiles. 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As a construction feat world’s largest specimen | greatest city and its thriving ne can be justly proud To motorists it is somethi the National Capital and more distan the mportant significance of pro highways of the Laft at a p tremendous. X individual who revels in . the bridge is replete in di mensions in which it surpasses others of its kind. Its well known prototypes are the Brooklyn and Williamsburs bridges, but, colossal as they are, they fall short of approaching the new Philadelphia-Camden structure, which is 9.500 feet long, equivalent to |82 miles. The Williamshurg Bridge is 7.308 feet long, and the one connect ing Brooklyn with the metropolis 6,016 feet from end to end. Giant Suspension Span. In the suspension span itself new bridge excels all othe length of this great streteh, hung from steel cables. is 1 feet. Wil | liamsburg Bridge has 1.600 feet of its length suspended. and Brooklyn Bridge 1,545 feet. The new structure is 135 feet above the water, 2 feet more than the Brooklyn Bridge and the same height as Williamsburg This means that any ship that ca enter New Yorl Harbor can pass un. der the Philadeiphia-Camden Bridge Of special interest to motor s {the fact that 6,000 automobiles an hour can move across the new bridge | without ecrowding. Since from Cam | den stretches the White Horse pike. | cutting across New Jersey to Atlantic City. the bridge will conneet with one of the most heavily traveled highway |in the East | It is not unusual for 3: | cars to be ferried across the Delaware River on Sundays and holidays and | for motorists to wait in line two hourk for thelr turn on the boats. | bridge was built to cope with this tre | mendously heavy traffic. but traffic ex | perts who have studied the situation the The 000 motor |1t possible for still more thousands tc cross the river, and that the conges- tion will be as great as ever. The fact that great numbers of mo tor owners now can drive to the Jer- | sey shore resorts, which they had re- |frained from doing heretofore, is bridge decidedly The new bridge has been planned with a definite view to the future, as well as to expediting traffic movement and making the structure safe for all {users. The main roadway. 57 feet wide, will be used hy all private ve hicles and by transportation busses. This roadway is wide enough to ac commodate three lines of traffic in both directions | Provision has been made for elec. | tric lines, although the bridge is open worth while. | with none of these in use. Two lines | of the | of tracks are on either side vehicular roadway. One will carry trolley cars. the other will he used t high-speed electric trains direct from | Philadelphia to south Jersey commut | ing towns, or by an extension of the | Philadelphia subway-clevated lines to Camden. modeled on the Jersey City tubes Street Approaches Improved. The twvo cities connected by the new bridge have accepted | usefulne: on the streets which feed it with traffic. New Jersey is spending $6,000,. 000 on roads, and Camden is widening several streets and has opened other thoroughfares. Philadelphia is mak- ing its plans, which have awaited the opening of the structure to become effective. Complete separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic marks the plan for the new structure across the Del aware. Pedestrians are not allowed lon the main roadway: instead they | must use an elevated walk over the inside trolley lines. service for pedestrigns is | by elevators in towers silated ‘OULD you believe that there comld be a shock ab- sorber that would float your caron Liquid Cushions, just as gently as a canoe rides the ripplesof a lake—a shock absorber that would ease the rebound without a jerk, and that would not let the car body hit the axle? You ride on top of the world with HOO-DYE in comfort hitherto un- known. 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'THE CLARK HOUDAILLE CO. 1625 You Street Northwest Phone Potomac 214 %WW;FMM i HOUDAILLE Spanning the Delaware River at one of i its type and gives the owners of the two cities it serves immed The | | are of the opinion that it will make ! | viewed as being enough to make the | the principle | recognized by traffic experts that the | of a bridge depends largely NEW DELAWARE RIVER BRIDGE BIGGEST OF KIND Suspension eruclure me Philadelphia n Handle 6.000 Cars an Hour. J. VOSss. he Nation’s busiest Iphia-Camden suspension bridge, at once an engineering achicvement and cause for civic pride on the part of the two cities it joins, is open for the use of innumer hail it as the year’s outstanding accomplishment for expediting automobile travel and increasing It is the Nation's third ighbor something of which the: bridge has no peer. ng more. Not to the car ely, um to those of t points as well, the structure has viding a much needed link in the int where congestion has only m by beside the anchorages. Persons on foot can be raised to the walk or low- ered to the ground. making it possibie to avold walking five to the plaza entrances A further « bridge which will he fication to motor of both long ay its termini more two cities it joins. The ,Philadelph ach has & grade of 3.17 per cent on the Camder is lon per cent blocks side Footwalks more th i per cent Built at Cost of $40,000,000. An expenditure $40.000.000 has been made in rearing the colossus now Half the cost is divided between sylvania and the cit The total Brooklyn Brid, Construction of Delaware had been for more than a ¢ not until 1914 that acti | to begin actual plans fo ture. New Jersey appointed a mission to survey sites, and Ph phia city council fell in line : | later. while in 1418 Pennsyl pointed # commission similar of New Jersey. In 1919 the two passed uniform legi ated the Deleware River mmission. Work 1922, on the Ph Dimensions bridge across the urzed and debated s an enormous str chorages on either side | are unusually massive { huge granite blocks to which | tached the steel cables suspending | main span covers three.quarters of an | acre. They rise 175 feet and are sunk feet into the earth on Philadel- feet off Camden Cables weigh uppr tely a for every foor of length. They support a load of 60,060 tons strain. Included ton can suspension span 150 trolley finely woven |inches in diameter. and « 18,666 strands each. suppc | Suspender ropes exter two main cables to the f alone The floor Is made crete Compared idge, the cet h ooklyn. feet above the r of Rrooklyn above. The Pl | bles support weight and the greater in diame new hridge Brooklyn Thus has Philadelp tance of i marked the on, anniversary of reinforced con- with the new structu h Rrooklyn towers as ‘amden ca of 14 inches 5000 tons more sater than ia. with t industrion hundred and f of the Nation's | by throwing open for use greatest span of this type the world, conferring on me s benefits which only future years can reveal. Refore starting on a tour, that vour brakes. lights. hor ;‘..mpm.m e e ‘lnb' order. be sure steerinz in efficient work “During our experience as Dodge Brothers Dealer, we have always found that Gabriel Snubbers, when attached to Dodge Broth- ers cars certainly reduced shock and rebound. We always recommend this device to promote riding comfort, especially on rough roads.” RAPHAEL SEMMES President Semmes Motor Co. 613 G St. N.W. Distributors of Dodge BrotHers Motor Cars Gabriel Snubber Sales and Service Co., Inc.’ L. S. JULLIEN, President. 1443-1445 P St. N.W.