Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 31

. MOTOR TRAVEL BRINGS BETTER PARKS ROADS 2,982,500 Vi ited Western Preserves Last Year, Calli ng Attention to Poor Condition of Routes Drawn by the changeless and matchless beauty of the regions, motor tourists in ever-increasing numbers are wending their way from LEast to West, with the great national parks as their ob- jectives, and reports reaching Washington from Pacific Coast authorities indicate that the 1926 influx of travelers will outstrip all previous years. The rising popularity of the national parks is shown to go hand in hand with the incrgase vear 1916, when the National I totaled 356,097, while last yea: 2,082,500. Tt is noteworthy, acec in motor touring. During the ark Servic created, visitors r the number had advanced to rding to officials, that a majority of the 1925 travel was by automobile. Added to the natural gain in visitors this year will be a stimu- lated inrush of tourists, hecause 1926 marks the seventy-fifth anni- versary of the discovery, by the Yosemite. Plans are already in toward an impressive celebratior On March 21, 1851, Maj. John Savage, at_the head of the Mariposo Battalion, led his band of fighting farmers into a deep canvon in pursuit of a bund of Indians, known & Yosemites. Dr. Lafayette H. Bunnell, surgeon of the expedition hind, overcome with the nificance of the rocky dispute was occasioned at his sug tlon that the valley be named Yosemite, in honor of the Indians liv- ing there. In 1864 Congre Yosem- to ths lifornia, #to be preserved for all times because ef its remarkable scenic value to fu- ture posterity.” This a red creation of the The proposed cclebration - ¢ set for the early part of August, time the new highway built ear service up the Merced River Canyon will be opened. Four ooncrete bridges are now under con struction and the finishing touches are i being put to the four-mile stretch mear the El Portal end of the road. The r it w > the first paved highway in « Yosemite Valley. For road work in Yosemite $425.500 will be used during the coming year. ? As a result of the increased motor traffic to the national parks in recent years, the poor condition of the thor- ough: for modern day use within those areas has been clearly revealed Liberal appropriations under the Fed eral aid act have been made for proper onstruction throughout the coi but it was not until about a vear ago, when Congrest thorized an expenditure of $7 for national park during threeyear period, that governmental responsibilit scenic park actually realized. Changes Made in Plans. When the road budget act was passed, in_April, 1924, the roads in most of the p were in a very poor condition al changes were made in the original plans with the ct of bringing the main national park roads up to the andard of automobile thoroughfares. The plan, as recently perfected, provides that all road improvement work will be intrusted to the Bureau of Public Roads. while the National Park Serv- ice w »prove the location of all projects and the areas to be opened, protect the landscape from disfigure- ment and superintend all maintenance and repair work. Of the original $7,500,000 authorized for expenditure it is planned to ex- pend eventually $2,315,000 in_the four Calif . @ Yosemite, Sequoia, nd Lassen Volcanic t project un- o constru ay to con- ieneral Gre with the giant forest in Sequoia nal Park Wwhere stands the famo en. Sher- man tree. Another pro. is the building of the Transme n road across the Rockies to Glac tional Park, Mont, connect by motor highway the two sides of the park. Under present conditions motorists wisiting the e.st side of the park and desiring to go on the west are obliged to ship their cars by rail, outside the park, fre rance to an v, This road will ¢ 3 ns through Logan Pass tude of 6.600 feet. When completed the Transmountain road will be the mo: scenic automobile highway in Ame fea, if mot in the world. The recent appropriation allots $524,000 for the coming year. $300,000 for Crater Lake Park. 1t is planned to spend approximately +$#800,000 in Crater Lake National Park, mond Lake, lying north of *Phere are 56.6 miles of present time in the park, and 8 miles more are to be built. The road around the 7-mile crater of has been completed. During coming year $66,000 wil A In Geners : 1 Park, 13 road which wi among the Big trees. The old wa roads will be widened. The Park Service intends to complete the road from the end of the State pavement to & K, taking in the giant for and then g0 to the north boundary and across the General Grant Park, making a great loop, which tourists can use in traveling from one park to the other. At the pry from rk to the other by way ‘of the San J in Valley An expenditure of $500.01 vided for Grand Canvon National Park, but v £100,000 is available for the This park hith- erto h: tance from the Federal Gov except the ap- propriation of 3 to im- prove the surf; s running along the canyon rim which was built by the All of the other roads in the park, a total of 91 cted by the county A € roads in Gla- and it is proposed to construct 1ditional miles, Plans entail reconstruction of all of the existing roads and the completion of the Transmountain Highway, on which $365,500 has been expended. Most of the present highways were built by State or private enterprise. The Government has built practic: no road excet the one along Lake McDonald and leading up from Belton. . Road building in Mount Rainier Na- tional Park, Washington, is very ex- pensive, due to the altitude of the re- gion. The only section of road that ha3 been constructed it is the Paradise Valley Road, leading from the soutwest corner of the park to Paradise Valley. It has been finished merely as a wagon road at a cost of $240,000. 56 Miles in Yellowstone. In vellowstone there are 356 miles of road. A new road is to be built from the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake to Lake Junction at a cost of $60,000. The old Firehole Cut-Off Road 18 to be finished. A small road in the lower Geyser Basin which will open up new features in that region, costing 815,000, is also to be built. In discussing the road situation in the natfonal parks, Horace M. Al- bright, fleld assistant to Director ", 8a1d that since 1872 until the gooent act only $3,504,100 has been cler National Parl about 15 miles long and | in these | ¢ | battery just as you were putting the white man, of the Valley of the the process of formation lcoking 1 to be held during the Summer. appropriated by the Government, and {of this sum $1,482,000 was used for road development in Yellowstone Park when the War Department had con trol of it. “There have been. only two parks where Congress has authorized con- struction projects—Crater Lake and Yellowstone,” said Mr. Albright. “All | of the other park ads have been built by county or State enterprise. The park roads are In some cases dangerous, but they are being used annually by thousands of people. The roads are uncomfortable for motor use because of lack of surfacing. The motorist also finds that before he travels on these indifferent high- ways we asses a fee. We have col- lected more than $1,500,000 in auto- mobile fees since the Federal aid ap- propriations were authorized and we are collecting now in the neighbor- hood of $400,000 a year for use of | these poor roads, | $2,000,000 Tentatively Apportioned. “After satisfactory roads have been provided to the main points of in- st and brought up to the high standards set for park highways road work will then consist of main- tenance and repair work.” Tentative apportionment of $2,000,- 000 for the fiscal year of 1927 for the improvement of roads and trails in the national parks and monuments John Smith is a character whom No. 457—Care in Car Care. “You certainly do take good care " 1 told Smith as he gave d radiator shell a final rub, but aren’t you a little careless about Smith was a bit grieved to think that any one could question his work. Hadn't he spent the greater part of the morning cleaning, polishing and tinkering? Hadn't he gone at the work with the idea of making a thor- ough job of it? Hadn't he simply torn the car inside out to put it back into A-1 shape? Yes, he had done all of this, and But that was the pity of it. “You do mnot use enough care in caring for your car,” I summed up the situation. “You are helping the | car in one way and injuring it in an- other. Why dont you try to make your ez I care? “I've watched you working around the body of the car. If you've opened and slammed shut the doors once vou've done it 50 times. That's equiv- alent to about 10 rides so far as door wear goes. Why don’t you open all the doors when you start to work on the body and leave them open until vou are sure you are through, Wrong Way to Dust Car. of the things that surprised v you dusted off the outside of the car while the windows were open. The back of the car was thick with 1ed dust, and as you dusted much of this blew into the inside of the car, where it certainly couldn't be of any material help to the up holstery. “1 don’t mean to criticize, but I think a great many of your efforts are misdirected. You do not do things in the proper order. You dust the car all over and then discover that the wheels are dirty. You start to clean them, and by the time you finish shaking up the dust around the'wheels and chassis you might as well clean the body of the car again. Only this morning I saw you soil the mat in the r of the car when you stepped into it to brush a speck of dirt off a seat cushion. “Around the engine you are partic- ularly careless in trying to be careful. I don't know how many times you have lifted up the sides of the hood. It seems to me that you could have completed one side of the engine at a time instead of going from one side to the other so often. Besides, there are many things you can reach through one side while the hood is up Instead of putting down that side and lifting up the other.” Time for Best Results. Smith at that moment was reaching into the pocket of a door for a clean cloth and in doing so got some grease from his hands on the upholstery, As he reached the bottle of clean- ing fluid my criticism began to take effect. “Another important angle to this business of caring for a car is to do the right thing at the right time,” I went on. “By giving more attention to this you can get better results from vour servicing of the car without spending so much time at it. T often have seen you adding water to the ! | car away for the night, and I remem- | ber one morning when you found it necessary to rip up the seat cushion, | zrope for the hand crank, climb over |the front bumper and scratch up the front a little in cranking the engine. | You aidn't realize that after adding | water to a battery the car should be driven a few miles if battery energy to be brought back to normai, otherwise you would have attended to this matter in the morning “Many car owners never think to note the oil level when raising the {hood to make a slight carburetor ad- | justment or to inspect the wiring, yet just one more glance, at a time when { the hood is up, saves raising it again. In my own experience I have found {that there is more sense in buying 10 gallons of gasoline at a time than five, because every time you stop at |a filling station, if for no other reason | |than that, there is danger of having the attendant spill gas over the body | {and of losing the cap of the tank.” Ineflicient Care of Car. Just at this point Smith gave an- other excellent demonstration of the {inefficiency of his method of caring for the car. After spending so much time on the radiator he proceeded to fill it up with water, spilling quite a little all over the brightly polished ¥ ALL THE WAY HOME FROM THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION REGGIE HAD BOASTED ABOUT BEING A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF A REVOLUTIONARY WARRIOR— i A Ll \773 % %, Y N/ [ AN i ¢ O i / was recently authorized by the In- terior Department. Of this amount $1,000,000 will be used to cover obligations incurred dur- ing the present year for improve- ments in _the park system. In addi- tion to the funds actually appropri- ated, authority has been granted the secretary to obligate §1,500,000 during the coming year. John Smith and His Car BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL every motorist should welcome. He is not selfish; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of the 20,000,000 or more “ther members of the motor clan. shell. Of course that required a little more rubbing and drying. “That's a fair sample of how yveu o about things” I added. “When you attach a grease gun to a spries bolt you never bother to wipe off the dirt around the nipple, but are very fussy about having everything in a ple pie order after the greasing {is over. In other words, you prefer to see the chassis clean rather than to see that dirt is kept out of the vital parts when you are greasing them.” To cap the climax, a dark cloud loomed on the_ horizon. “Hang it all!” Smith complained, “it's going to storm and I've got to take the wife to the hotel to meet friends of ours.” * “That's where you again were care- less in caring for the car,” I reminded him. “Rain was forecast by the Weather Bureau for this afternoon. Why don't you learn to make every Job you do on the car really count?” (Copyright, 1926.) Next Week, No. 158—Sizing Up Other Cars. THREE BIG MEETINGS FOR AUTO ENGINEERS Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago to Be Scenes of Summer and Autumn Sessions. Its big semi-annual Summer meet- ing just over, the program committees of the Society of Automotive Engi- neers have turned their attention to the three late Summer and Autumn national gatherings of the organiza- tion. Members of these committees are busy arranging addresses, exhibits and demonstrations which will fea- ture these later sessions. First of these is the aeronautic meeting to be held in Philadelphia on September 2 and 3 at the Bellevue- Stratford Hotel immediately preceding the opening of the national air races under the auspices of the National Aeronautic Assoclation and after the Sesquicentennial Exposition has been in_progress for three months. Next comes the annual production meeting and stag carnival of the so- clety in Chicago from September 21 to 23 at the Hotel Sherman in con- Junction with the meeting of the American Society for Steel Treating and its exhibition of machine tools and heat treating equipment. Several inspection trips to local plants are to be included in the program. The third meeting for which dates have been definitely chosen is the au- tomotive transportation and service meeting, to be held in Boston from November 16 to 18 at the Copley Plaza Hotel. Plans for this contemplate one or two sessions to be held at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, where test apparatus will be inspected, and an inspection. trip .to the motor vehicle maintenance plant of the Standard Oil Co. in Bast Cambridge. SQUEAK IN ONE BRAKE. Some Owners Work on All When Trouble Is in Single Drum. ‘What makes a motorist think all the brake drums are dirty when applica- tion of the brake pedal is followed by a screech? One brake will make all the noise necessary to annoy the driver, and in- variably only one brake is in need of cleaning. Careless thinking causes most car owners to wash, and some- times oil sparingly, all the brakes when but one needs attention. The efficiency of the ones not involved in the noise production may be lowered in trying to take care of the trouble- some one. gl a il dua & Done With the Head. One: car owner recently saved him- self a lot of trouble and expense by using his head in finding the cause of a strange engine click. He found out the number of clicks per revolution of the engine shaft, traced the noise to the camshaft and thence to a flat valve-lifter roller. Cost him 35 cents to remedy the trouble, " l/’l/ll‘k 1y W iz Gasket May Be Cracked. It water is disappearing mysteri- e Hudson Coach 1095 Hudson 7-Pass. Sedan 1550 Front and Rear Bum, Automatic ‘Windshield Cleaner; View Mir- ror; Traasmission Lock (built-in); Radiator Shutters; Moto-Meter; ination Stop and Tail Light ously from the radiator after the cyl- inder head has been removed and re- placed the chances are that the gasket price. The 1s cracked and the water is going into the cylinders. If this is the case there should be some oil in the radiator. Though tless Pedestrians Often Cause Auto Deaths, Safety Council Declares Pedestrians often are responsible for automobile accidents. This is the opinion of the National Bafty Counctl, which receives monthly reports from more than 100 American citles telling of crash causes. ‘Why pedestrians are injured through their own carelessness 1s indicated in & tabulated report recently compiled, which shows that the largest number of persons killed and hurt were struck while walking, running or playing in the street. Thousands of voungsters were killed and injured while romping in streets that belong to vehicles most of the time. Thousands of adults were killed last year while crossing street inter- sections where there were no signals. Untold thousands met their deaths while crossing at other than intersac- tions and crossing at intersections against traffic signals. Hundreds of children were killed while riding or “hitching” on vehicles. Hundreds of persons met death while waiting for or getting on or off street cars and even while standing within safety zones. According to the council, pedes- trians often are struck by motor ve hicles because people who are walk. ing along are careless and thought- less. Some of them are in too much of a hurry. Others are not thinking of what they are doing, and the eyes and ears are not open to warning sig- nals of traffic controls and vehicles. It is pointed out that: - “There are hundreds of thousands of cautious and courteous drivers. Most accidents that cause personal in- jury or property damage are due to a comparatively small number of driv ers. Some rastor vehicle operators, however, are repeatedly involved in smash-ups. In some States today it is fmpossible to eliminate these per- sistently reckless operators by sus- pending or revoking their licenses be- cause no permits whatsoever are nec- essary in order to drive a motor ve. hicle. ““A few cities have attempted to reg- ulate careless pedestrians by arresting them, but this is difficult in the larger cities and not a popular move in the small communities.” The council has asked the officers of 65 community safety councils throughout the country to co- with Iocal authorities in endeavoring to educate and regulate Sixteen Delinquencies Pointed Out As Cause of Many Motor Car Crashes What causes automobile accidents? How can they be prevented? These questions, widely and thor- oughly discussed by the Hoover con- ference, are at present the subject of intensive study by an important group of American cities. The National Safety Council, which recelves monthly reports from 100 communities, points out that motor- ists were guilty of the following last year when their machines became involved in accidents which caused the deaths of more than 21,000 per- sons: Contesting for the right-of-way. Exceeding the speed limit, Driving on the wrong side of the road. Failure to give the driver behind the proper signals. Cutting left corners and cutting in. Driving off the roadway. Passing trolley cars that were standing and being struck by \';,hlcles aproaching on the other side. Carg left running without drivers after being parked without the neces- sary precautions. Driving through safety zones. Passing on the wrong side and passing on a curve or hill. Driving while intoxicated Conflicting habits, confusion and fatigue, following other cars too closely, defect fn vehicles, inexperi- ence and mental and physical in- competency. First 100 Miles Har&eit. 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