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PART FIVE
Lincoln Highway
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VOL. XL VI NO. 52.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1917.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
LINCOLN ROAD
MEANS MUCH TO
HUSKER STATE
Highway Across Continent
Brings Many Motor Touring
Parties and Their Dol
lars to Nebraska.
It was a fortunate day for Nebraska
when the promoters and directors of
the Lincoln H.ghway chose to route
the great transcontinental road
througfi the heart of Nebraska.
The Lincoln Highway has meant
much to the Cornhusker state. It
was only three years ago that this
ocean-to-ocean thoroughfare was
mapped out, but it already has be
come the moit popular automobile
route in the country. Hundreds of
motor parties each year tour from
east to west and west to east along
the Lincoln Highway, and many more
hundreds traverse it tor shorter cro9s
:ountry runs.
Records of Nebraska automobile
clubs show that since the Lincoln
Highway opened the number of auto
mobile tourists traveling in Nebraska
lias multipled many fold. Tourists
mean much to a state, and especially
so do automobile tourists. The mo
tor tourist travels in a leisurely fash
ion. He seldom is in a hurry to ar
rive at his destination. He stops at
points he likes and he takes time to
see and enjoy the country through
which he is traveling.
Brings Money to State.
The Lincoln Highway thus has at
tracted to Nebraska many who other
wise probably would not have come
by lie way of the Golden Rod state.
It has called the attention of the mo
toring" world to the great resources
and the impor;ance of Nebraska, and
it has brought money into the state
through expenditures made by those
tourists passing through.
The Lincoln Highway will prove of
more and more importance to Ne
braska as future years arrive. For
the Lincoln nay will become more
and more popular. Cross-country
touring is relatively new. It lias been
only in the last year or so that meas
ures have been taken to make cross
country travel a pleasure. Further
improvements in roads and in auto
mobiles are bound to cottie, and as a
New Allen Classic Roadster
result riding in the open country for
longer distances still more pleasure
able. And that means more tourists
to pass through Nebraska in tlieir
journeys along the Lincoln road.
Over one-tenth of the entire dis
tance of the Lincoln Highway is in
Nebraska. The Lincoln way is about
3,500 miles long. Of tins over 450
miles are in Nebraska.
The road cuts Nebraska in the very
heart, traveling the entire distance in
the middle of the state.
The Lincoln Highway strikes Ne
braska at Omaha. From the Gate
City it proceeds directly west until it
meets -the Platte river at Vallcv,
twenty-four miles out of Omaha.
llien it tollows the J'latte stream all
the way to Big Springs, located at the
very border of the state where Colo
rado touches. The distance between
Big Springs and Omaha is 392.1 miles.
from tiie springs the Highway-cuts
into the corner of Colorado, passing
through) Julesburg and then west and
north until it re-enters Nebraska, this
time at Chappell. From Chappell it
travels to Bushnell. which is iust
across the Wyoming border. The dis
tance trom Lhappell to Bushnell is
77.1 miles. Adding the two stretches
the total of Lincoln Highway in Ne
braska is 469.2 miles. Nebraska has
more Lincoln Highway to keep upN
than any other state in the union.
Nebraska need have no misgivings
over its share ot the Lincoln way.
The 469-mile stretch in this 9tate
takes nothing from any of the other
states along the way.
Fight Rain and Wind.
It is something of a task to maim
tain roads in Nebraska. Rains in the
summer and storms m the winter are
frequent and often severe in this part
of the country and in .almost every
case damage the roads to some extent.
It's an odds-on bet that at least half
a dozen times a year storms will be
so severe as to wash out or submerge
the roads.
But for all this Nebraska keeps its
roads in pretty good condition and
seldom it is that the Lincoln Highway
is not traversable even by automobiles
which have difficulty in moving unless
road conditions arc the best.
So while other states have an ad
vantage over Nebraska in that they
do not have to contend with the ele
ments so often or so desperate, Ne
braska does not have to concede to
them any superiority in the matter of
roads.
Many Points of Interest.
There are a number of points of in
terest along the Lincoln road. Very
excellent camp sites are numerous.
One of the prettiest is just outside of
Omaha at Waterloo. Near the river
at Waterloo are a number of locations
excellent for motor parties to stop and
camp.
Fremont has a novel camp site. It
is on Bis Island in the Platte river.
Columbus, Grand Island, Lexington,'!
Gothenburg, Worth riatte, Kearney,
Ogallala, Brule, all have excellent
camp sites, where automobile parties
may spend a comfortable night in the
open.
North Platte is one of the most in
teresting cities along the Lincoln way.
The late Buffalo Bill's old ranch,
"Scout's Rest," where Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia was entertained on
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North Platte, as is the Fort McPher-
fifMi National cemeterv.
Brule is a very little town, but it
has a history. It is at Brule that the
old Oregon trail of the '40s crosses
the Lincoln war.
Kearney has a number of interest-
points, including Fort Kearney, the
one-mile bridge, Riverside drive, the
state normal school and the state in
dustrial school. Lake Kearney is a
pretty place where auto parties often
camp.
Big Springs is the little town which
was the scene of the notorious $o0,
000 in gold train robbery of 1873. The
prairie plateau scenes at Sidney are
interesting to tourists. Nothing like
them can be seen any place in the
country. They extend twenty miles
both east and west of Sidney.
These are only a few of the points
df interest along the route of the Lin
coln road. There are many others
just as striking, just as attractive.
Accommodations Are Good.
Because of the number of large
towns through which the tourist
passes on his way along the Lincoln
Hiehwav in Nebraska he need have no
I fear of lack of accommodations both
for himself and his car.
At no point is the distance between
towns over twenty-live miles and this
includes only the larger towns, too.
There are innumerable smaller places
wl'ere accommodations may be ob
tained in a pinch.
All of the towns have good hotels
and fully equipped garages. Going
west from Omaha, for instance, Fre
mont has a number of good hotels
and garages, Schuyler has two hotels,
Columbus two, Central City two,
Grand Island several, Kearney sev
eral, Lexington, Gothenburg, North
Platte, Ogallala and Sidney all have
at least one good hotel and several
smaller ones. ,
No Steep Grades.
One striking feature of the Lincoln
Highway in Nebraska is the absence
of bad hills. Nebraska is a pretty
level state. It, of course, has many
C uMertPi'
Riding Comfort
THE riding comfort of the Scripps-Booth will sur
prise you.
Here you find the weight above and below the springs
so well balanced, that the passenger load controls the
bouncing movement of the axle.
v Scripps-Booth performance has proved that a light car
may ride with even more comfort than is possible in a
heavy car.
The low center of gravity and the cantilever springs
also contribute to perfect readability.
Even if you have been accustomed to the relaxation
that only a heavy car affords, we are sure of your
favorable comparison after a ride in the Scripps
Booth. W. M. Clement Motors Co..
2514 Famam St., Omaha, Neb.'
Phone Douglas 5218.
Four-Cylinder Roadster $ 935
Four-Cylinder Coupe 1450
Eight-CylinderFour-Passenger 1285
Eight-Cylinder Town Car 2575
Garage on Lincoln Highway
m
THE DAHLSTROM GARAGE AT GRAND ISLAND, NEB.
ward along the rim of the country
and west to the Pacific, where it
turned north again.
At present the car is somewhere
between San Francisco and the Can
adian boundary line and is taking ad
vantage of the season to make splen
did time over the coast roadways.
Win., the trip was started at inau
guration time it was estimated that
five months would see the completion
kof the journey, and unless summer
rains impede the progress of the trail
blazer it will be able to complete the
hills, enough to relieve the monotony
of the country and add to its attrac
tiveness and beauty. But the hills all
are of the easily sloping variety.
There are no steep grades or peril
ous climbs to scale and the motorists
linds little trouble making most of
the hills on "hfgh."
Neither are there many dangerous
curves or grades crossings or other
elements which make motoring rather
tedious for the driver of the car and
sometimes dangerous for the occu
pants. The Lincoln Highway is a wide
road all the way across the state and
at no points are there narrow
stretches where it is not possible for
two cars to pass without one or the
other taking to the ditch.
There are many little streams and
many cuts in Nebraska, but these are
all crossed by sturdy bridges and
present no difficulties to the motorist.
Route Carefully Marked.
It is an easy matter to follow the
Lincoln Highway in Nebraska. From
one end of J;he state to the other it is
marked on the telephone poles by red,
white and blue signs containing the
letter "L." Almost every telephone
pole along the whole route is marked
and these signs are freshly painted
whenever they begin to fade. All
cross roads are marked so there is no
danger of taking the wrong route.
The Lincoln Highway in Nebraska
is being improved every year. The
state, the counties, the cities, the
town, the farmers along the way, all
are doing their part to make the road
better and better.
There may be stretches of road,
perhaps, in California, New York,
Ohio and Illinois that are a little bet
ter than anything Nebraska has to of
fer, hut taking it atl in all and con
sidering that Nebraska has the long
est stretch of highway of any state in
the country to maintain, the motor
ist must doff his hat to the Golden
Rod state for the excellence of its
469-mile strip of the great trans
continnent.il highway.
Half of Boundary Trip
Now Completed by Saxon
Practically half of the distance
around the boundary of the United
States has been completed by the
Saxon Four roadster, trail blazer for
the National Boundary highway. In
a little more than three months the
car has gone from Washington south-
Torpedo Boat Chaser Hauls
Mitchell Car Out of the Bay
A Mitchell automobile, lost in tran
sit while being ferried across Chesa
peake bay, has been recovered . bj
the torpedo boat destroyer Benham
When the torpedo destroyer lifted its
anchor, the automobile was found
caught in it
When the torpedo boat destroyer
attempted to raise one of its big
anchors a couple of miles offshore in
Chesapeake bay recently,4reparatory
to leaving its position near the sub
marine nets at the entrance of the
bay, trouble was found in raising the
starboard hoot. When the anchor
was finally hoiited on deck there.canie
along a fully equipped five-passenger
Mitchell automobile. The top was
nearly all gone but the body and
chassis were in fairly good condition
after four years in salt water and
mud.
The Mitchell Mbtors Co, Ine, at
Racine, Wis., received notice of the
find and report that the car was lost
four years ago from the ferry boat
Berkeley as it was going across the
bay. It belongs to Dr. S. W. Hob
son, Newport News.
$50,000 Owners' Contest to
Follow Maxwell's Economy
Triumph of May 23rd
Hundreds of Maxwells on May 23rd made good
our claim that a Maxwell will go further on a
gallon of gasoline than any other 5 -passenger ear
now, from June 16th to 30th, we expect 40,000
Maxwells to make as good or a bettet show
ing .than was made on historic May 23rd,
We told you to watch the Maxwells with the
one-gallon red gas tanks attached to the'
windshields.
We told you they were going to make history on
May 23rd. ,
That was Maxwell Gasoline Economy Contest
Day all over the United States and Canada.
And those Maxwells did make history
' achieved a triumph we defy the world to beat.'
fifty Maxwell cars went a total of 1,983.6 miles
on a total of 50 gallons of gasoline.
The average gallon mileage of those cars was
39.67.
And these weren't specially built cars."
They were privately owned Maxwells.
In actual daily use by the men who bought
them.
892 Maxwell Cars Prove What
Maxwell Economy Is
Those 892 cars covered 24,505.3 miles In the
aggregate on one gallon of gasoline each.
They averaged 27.47 miles each per gallon of
gasoline. More wonderful records are being
received daily.
We could rest our laurels on this great triumph
but we don't Intend to do that.
Nobody else can beat it
so we're going to beat it ourselves.
PhoiM Douflu BSS. , Phon. Tyler SSS
Omaha Garage, Inc.
City Sales anil Service.
2216-18 Famam St Salesroom
2010-16 Harney St., Sales and Service
$50,000 In U. S. Liberty Bonds
To Be Given Away Next Time
Inspired by the splendid success of the Maxwell
dealers' economy contest of May 23rd
we're offering now $25,000 In U. S. Liberty
, Bonds as prizes to the 500 Maxwell owners
who make the best mileage on one gallon of
gasoline. Every Maxwell owner has an even
' chance to win a bond.
June 16th to 30th are the opening and closing
dates of this second great Maxwell economy
contest.
The other half of the $50,000 Liberty Bonds Is to
go to dealers for helping us with this stu? ;
pendous undertaking.
Your Chance To Win a
U.S. Liberty Bond
If you own a Maxwell your chance to win 1
Liberty Bond is as good as anybody's -
no matter what State you live In. The'rules
of the contest give every owner a fair and
even chance.
The contest is open to women as well as men
Maxwell owners.
See us at once for details of the contest.
Enter this history-making competition nm
Win a Liberty Bond.
C. W. Francis Auto Co.
OMAHA, NEB.
DISTRIBUTORS
Phone Douglas SSS
Sales Rooms, 2216.18 Farnam St.
Service Station, 2212 Harney St.
TIME PAYMENTS IF DESIRED
