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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1912)
THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEEt JULY 14, 1912. Omaha Commercial Club Active in Good Roads Work . 'J. -Ill I IJ 1 1 WAiViiki.iWimmmmimm!mapmmmm iiiiiihiu i ill I i .111 in. u fiiittii ; fr . - ... 1 tfi m MnwiiJhn iiiiiiw iiiu.ja.,?i. A Step ctl the tray o ChepreJXtxe i:;, ls til I 1 1 TTeM wmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmKf Arrival at- Kansas City, Ho . At C22eyc2i2je,"02ain BY WARD C. GIFFORD. "It Is far better to be able to get to market when the market Is right than it Is to wait until the roads are right." The preaching of the gospel of good '.roads is an easy task compared to the actual puilding,f iubstantlal hjhways. Good roads the kind that the farmer ,may travel at any time are valuable ' commercial assets. The above slogan, fit is far better to be able to get to ' market when the market Is right than 'it la to wait until the roads are right," adopted by the Commercial club of ' Omaha states succinctly "why they are valuable to the farmer and to the busi ness man who is the ultimate consumer iof the farm produces. So widespread , has become the good jroads movement in the United States that not only automobile clube but com mercial and civic organizations as well have taken up the task of making batter Interurban highways. The up-to-date politician in running for office has adopted the good roads pledge as one of the most imDortant , clanks nf hia nlat- 'form. Definition of Good Roads. What are good roads? Literally speak ing the expression might mean a well kept highway to accommodate vehicle Itravel. The literal., acceptance of . the expression Is not the practical one, how lever. Today when a thoroughfare Is 'spoken of as a good road, it means that jit is a highway that has been graded, .turnplked and the proper drainage pro vided for. It means also that this same .turnpike Is properly marked showing the 'directions and distances to nearby towns. The city, county and state organiza tions have for several years past come to ja knowledge of the fact that money put Into good roads Is a dividend paying in vestment - Even the more remote by ways now know the King drag and road grader. In some states, more advanced than others, soli specialists have takeu up the work of building roads on a scientific basis. They have determined upon the proper sort of soil to be used for .a foundation for a road, and also the proper sort of surfacing to make a good road, but it is only recently that the work of "signing" the roads so gen erally has been taken up. Good roads are time savers and as the trite old ad age has It. "Time is Money." One of the things then that is absolutely neces sary before a road can become a good road la that the same shall be unmis takably marked. The making of good roads appeals as much to the farmer as it does to the city man and the one must work hand in hand with the other In order that the results desired may be accomplished. The one can do nothing without the aid of the other, but the result of honest efforts on the part of both will directly benefit each. Omaha Club Pioneer. The Commercial club of Omaha, through Its good roads committee, is a pioneer In the work of road building. Whenever called upon the club has fur nished speakers to good roads meetings. In every way it has used its influence and its members have been active not only to bring about the improvement of Nebraska roads, but to build through this state substantial recognized cross-continental highways. Already this year the work car of the Commercial club, which Is a big six-cylinder Chalmers, has mad three overland trips which have been mis sionary tours for good roads. The meet ings might be compared to revivals, hav ing been neld at every town enroute, and talks have been made from the tonneau of the car to the farmers, telling them how to keep their roads in good condition and asking them to aid In the work of marking the thoroughfares that they may become recognized as a fart of estab lished transcontinental highways. One trip of the Commercial club car was to Sioux City and return. Direct results of the efforts of the good roads enthusiasts were evident on the return trip from Iowa. Seven gangs of road workers were counted by the Omaha party arid the presence of the majority of these was In direct response to the appeals of the Commercial club on the down trip that the roads be kept in good shape. , ' The second trip of the Commercial club good roads car was made to Kansas City. Unfortunately, it cannot be denied that many Kansas roads are better than Nebraska roads. This fact was brought home to the Nebraska farmer and citizen on the Knsas City trip and their state pride appealed to in an effort to bring about some Improvement. It has been reported to the club since that time that this road, has been marked , a greater part of the way between Omaha and the Nebraska-Kansas line; that drags have straightened out many of the kinks; that the high spots have been reduced and the holes have been filled, showing that the work of the club Is having Its effect. .," ' ' Trip or Ompna Booster. The latest trip of .the good toads boost ers was to Cheyenne, and the burden resting on the shoulders of the men who took that motor car Journey was to es- tabUsha link in Jhe great trans-United States Tthoraughfare. On this Journey the club sent the mayor of the city and the president of the Commercial club. Wyo ming Joined hands with Nebraska and the president of the State Highways as sociation of that stata rod in the Omaha car. As the result of the co-operation between these two states the road from Omaha, to Cheyenne Is being marked and improved. Word recently received from Ei L. Emery, president of the Wyoming State Highways association, states that the road has been graded, dragged and marked from Pine Bluffs, Wyo., to the summit of Sherman hill. Reports from different points along the route in Ne braska from Omaha to Pine Bluffs show that the work of improving these roads and marking the same also has been vig orously pushed at the behest of the club, That the automobile has been a direct benefit to the farmer is now unques. tioned, although a few years ago it was not uncommon to hear vile epithets ap plied to the motor par by the agricultur ist. Realizing, however, that the auto mobile has brought good roads and that a good road is a blessing, the farmer of today extends the open hand of welcome to the motorist and does all in his power literally to make his path easy. If he merely goes speeding on his way he gets a cheery recognition from the members of the farmer's family, who wave god-, speed from. the doorstep. The old world has been ridiculed as a 27 New Abbott Owners in Nebraska and Western Iowa Twenty-seven more discriminating, car-wise Nebraskans and lowans have become Abbott Detroit owners in the past ten days. . . Think of that twenty-seven more with a full season's enjoyment before them for selves and their families. ... ' If you wish to know who they are we shall be glad to give you their names if you: will calL Any of these purchasers of the great them- Guaranteed for Life will he glad to tell you why they bought now why their choice of all cars at all prices was the ABBOTT. . '- . , ; . . . . ,. : , It's not hard to find out why hundreds of Nebraska and western Iowa people have put their money Into the ABBOTT. Any. of Its hundreds of users can tell you. The reason is the car itself. Just look at it. The great clean-lined Abbott "44" seven-passenger 120-inch wheel base 4,Hx5 long stroke Continental motor the famous Abbott dry-disk clutch the perfect axle construction, electric lights and a style and finish that have set a standard for cars at any price all for $1,800. Then, there is the ABBOTT-DETROIT BULLDOo "30" the 100,000 mile car, five-passenger, for $1350. We are giving demonstration every day, her ln Omaha, that no other car dare attempt Its performance that sells the ABBOTT cars and we will be glad to show you. sow is the time. it's not too late. Get your car now. Get in line for the biggest season's enjoy ment you ever had. i ...... Get your ABBOTT now. - S carloads arrive in Omaha Monday and the factory cannot promts any more shipments of these models tot at least 60 days. Zt is Impossible to satisfy the demand for these cars with s carlobdi and this shipment will last bat a short ttmi. XX you want the best oar In the world at the prtoe yon can not lose time ln placing yonr order. , W. L. HUFFMAN AUTOMOBILE CO. m-wt OMAHA: 2025 Farnam Street SIOUX CITY: Opposite Posts ffice place out of date. The country Is called antiquated and their people nonprogres sive. This all may be true In a certain sense, but the old world is as far ahead of America in some lines as America is progressive in others. It Is true that many of the hotels that are considered up-to-the-minute in Europe are without running water in the rooms. It is also true that it Is impossible for a man to obtain a ready-made suit in England. It is a well known fact that Scotland has many crudities among Its customs that have not ben ironed out, and It Is a faot that ln India wheat Is threshed on the Sands near the sea by driving hundreds they may tread out the grains with their bare feet. . . ' Any motorist abroad, however, will tell you that the roads of England, Scotland and the continent are so tar ahead of the .roads of America that they appear as boulevards; In comparison. Their roads sre also . plainly marked showing the towns and the distances. The danger of grade crossings' is practically! eliminated by national laws, but wherever there, is a dangerous turn or whore the roads cross, in an obscure place concealed by hedges or the high brick walls so com mon to the English country estate red danger signals fcre posted. ; ..The speed laws of Europe are not dras tic nor out of reason but they are' sane, considering the great amount of traffic over those roads, A part of the work taken up by the Omaha Commercial club Is not only to have all roads well marked and well kept, but also to have danger signals posted. These should be placed' 100. yards in advance of every dangerous railroad crossing, highway crossing, or Jbad turn in the road which may be hid den by trees or high banks. . . What Try la Dolo. : A cause that Is so worthy as to demand the attention of busy business men bankers, big wholesalers and others whose every moment is valuable Is cer taily worth consideration from theelti senry of the country, Th cry of good roads Is making popular the old trail used in days when the prairie schooner Journeyed across the "Great American desert." . That same cry la re-establishing old lines of travel marked out by ox teams and along which the early day traveler found his way by following the trail of skeletons left by both man and beast. Instead of the slow going ani mal train of yester year, the old trails are becoming acquainted, not with the tread of the cloven-hoofed oxen,' hOf the Iron shod horse and mule,, but with the tread of the pneumatic tire. ; ; " Those who have been active In the work of making good roads and estab lishing highways through .Omaha and throughout the state, as well as '.Wyo ming. Kansas and Missouri Are the fol lowing: '" ; -" James C. Dahlman, mayor it ftmaha and member of the Commercial club. George E. Ha vers tick, president of the Commercial club. - J. A. Sunderland, chnlrman Of the good roads committee of the Commercial club. H. E. Fredrlekson, chairman of the country roads committee of the Com merial club. - s , b A. 8tarlea, member ot. the . good roads commltto of the Commercial club. . J. Ed George, member of the .Commer cial club and Omaha Motor club - J. M. Guild, commissioner ot thS.Corti mercial club. . ,. , C. C. Rosewater, member of the ex ecutive committee of the s Commercial club. J. A. DeBord, member of Ihs Commer Jal club.. " Harry Lawrle, member " of .the Com mercial club and Omaha Motor club." - The burden of making new roads and maintaining them should not rest entirely Upon the shoulders of the farmer' Sdr be left to private enterprises. There seems no good reason why convict labor should not be used tor such purposes, j The whole nation might profit W the success ot Colorado along tnat nm;. - It givea ths convict open sir work, and It Is the open air he most requires.; The worn ort the roads In the Sunshine stats by the pris oners has done more to advertise it to motorists as a good roads state than any other one thing. It Is, of course, true that Wyoming and Colorado can build roads at a cost of 200 per-mHe, whereas it costs Nebraska $2,000 a mils to put a road in shaje. In consequence thereof the work ot making Nebraska a good roads stats will be more expensive and perhaps somewhat slower. The re sult must be attained nevertheless. ' Ths press of the world has proclaimed Uts popularity of the good roads move ment to the entire universe and with it tn many Instances has gone the name of Omaha on account of the activity of its Commercial club.. There Is no reason why Nebmika should not become a greater booster for good roads thin" It already Is beause here we have the feal Nebraska energy and the true western spirit which already has brought the state to the notice of the nation ln many way. AbBott Car Makes ; ra. Remarkable Run An Interesting automobile run ,.w,as mads last , week between Detroit j(8,rtd low Falls. Ia.,,. by Clare McDowell, manager of E the.. Abbott,, Motor Soles oompany, , at the. . latter , place, with.,, a thirty, roadster.. The entire distance of ,7CT miles '-was'. covered with ease the fourth day after leaving Detroit with no thought of creating a record. . Frightful road. con ditions were met in many place but .the car. pushed, through without difficulty and without a single mechanical adjust ments and. reached , its destination witu ths same air., thai was. pumped in ( the tires at .Detroit;., ;,f .; . . v.'". .Persistent Advertising Is the Road Big, Returns, to 1 A factory promise of immediate stments us to of fer cars permits for delivery NOW I s lA choice from these three lines prevenis ' Lexington "40" $1,775l?::y;S E-M-F "30$1,235 Flanders 20920 For high power six-cylinder cars these specifications proclaim the perfect1 six ihe Lwdngtoiu '.tVjJ. Model G Lexington "Six" with Demi Tonneau Body. $2500,00 Ratenber motor, 4Mx$i, 55 to 60 korsepower. Cylinders cast separately. Model F Schebler carburator. . Bosch high tension magneto. 10 inch aluminum cone clutch, leather faced. " - -i X. W. Warner transmission. Im ported annular bearings. Timken axles, rear full floating. Interlocked Schwartz wheels, 36x4, with universal rims and Timken bear ings throughout.' " ' 14 Inch brake drums. Front , springs seml-elllptlc, rear springs three-quarter elliptic. Spicer universal Joints.', , Vi - , 'J 184 inch wheel base.,., .7 Your choice of Urea. -' Equipment Includes Bosch. magneto, horn, five;, electric. lamps, pump Jack, tools, robe (rail, foot .rest, cocoa mat in tonneau, automatic gear driven electrio generator. , , ,..,. . fcl. .;. Kinwood radiator. A Derfect 6 cylinder enurlne with two exhaust manifolds, two exhaust pipes and two mufflers Lexington service may be gauged by Its construction. Every vital element that goes into the makeup of the car has re ceived the approval of automobile men who know the foremost designers and engineers have made; every part famous. 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