WAUPACA RECORD LEADER

May 4, 1916

 

TRAIL MUST NOT BE A MERE NAME

 

TOURISTS MUST KNOW ABOUT IT AND THE ADVANTAGES IT HAS OVER OTHER ROUTES

 

Guides in Chicago and Milwaukee Send Tourists on Transcontinental Run

Across Southern Part of State to St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Yellowstone Trail Roads Better.

 

            Mr. Whipple in his address before the Commercial Club last Friday evening covered a large number of considerations relative to roads and road building; many good suggestions indicate that he has given a great deal of time and study to the subject.

Signs of Welcome

            Beginning with the suggestion that the odious speed warnings be displaced by some well known legends directing attention to the fact that approaching tourists were welcome to Waupaca and to the departing guests that they should come again he made it clear that the town would be long remembered by such marks of good will.  At the approach to school houses, he would have the usual flaring signs implying a threat changed to read that children are ahead and extraordinary care be taken.  People know the speed laws and do not like to be constantly reminded that authorities expect them while en-tour to violate such laws.

Motorcycle Officers

            The ordinary motorcycle officer is very untidy in appearance.  Insist that he dress properly, i.e. neatly, with some sense of harmony and in a way to identify him as an officer and not as a sleuth.  Motorists would have more respect for him if he typified the duty he performs.

Band Concerts

            Having eulogized the city band and having mentioned the popularity of the summer concerts, he urged that the auditors be trained to express their appreciation of numbers rendered.  This suggestion was most excellent; but he might further have urged that people be trained to wait until a selection was concluded and not disturb the flow of music by the sound of Klaxon or whirr of the motor.  He hoped the Junior band would be given all the moral support possible.

Advertising the Trail

            In Milwaukee and Chicago the auto men and garage proprietors have a practice of routing transcontinental tourists by way of Madison, Baraboo and Winona, to Minneapolis; unless something is done to attract attention to the superiority of the Yellowstone Trail a new, although unofficial trail will be established that way to the exclusion of the Yellowstone Trail through Wisconsin. What is needed is an advertising campaign through the East, drawing attention to the advantages of the Trail; this must be done by local organizations.

Road Aid

            Although a great deal is spent on road improvement, he believes that much improvement can be made in the science of road building that would look to closer approximation to permanency.  The Shackleford bill appropriating $25,000,000 for Federal aid, will carry with it a formula which, if followed, will make for roads of a greater degree of permanency.  Such a policy worked out will have a great moral effect on the state administrations.

            In the matter of local work, if the citizens of Waupaca will cooperate with the officials of surrounding towns, they will be pleased to do their share in furnishing material and teams for all the labor we can supply; it’s merely up to us to furnish the interest and the labor.  The latter will be forthcoming at the proper time.

            Mr. Whipple is very much interested in good roads and is doing a great deal both as an individual and as state representative of the Yellowstone Trail to bring about an improvement in the condition of the roads in territory contiguous to Waupaca.  Let us give him our moral and material support.