Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1929 — Page 20

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STATE FORESTS OFFER LURE TO MANY CAMPERS Tenth of Indiana’s Landed Area Is in Heavy Timber Growth. Ten per cent of the total land area of Indiana is in native woodland. This fact is one point which has made Hoosier trails popular with motorists from throughout the land and this state a playground for the camper. Every effort is being made by State Forester Ralph F. Wilcox to add an additional 5 per cent to this wooded area by urging the reforestation of that much of the land that has been cut over and now lies fallow. This effort is being aided greatly by the 5,000-acre forest preserve of the state conservation department in Clarke county near Henryville. Here is the largest experimental station in the United States dealing exclusively with scientific research of hardwoods. Forest Carefully Tended From this forestry tract silvicultural methods of handling native stands are demonstrated to obtain the maximum yield in the minimum time. Wilcox says. Each year the forest is inspected carefully and trees of marketable size cut and sold. The department operates portable sawmills in the great woods, which is the mecca of many out-of-door lovers during the summer. Two million seedlings are growing there, to be distributed at cost to private owners for timb r r and windbreaking planting. The place also is a wild life preserve. Since 1920 the forest nursery has supplied 425.000 trees for planting on state land and 1,000,000 were sold to private planters. 2,500.000 Trees There From a capacity of 24,000 trees in 1922, the present inventory is 2.soo,ooo—enough to reforest 2,000 acres of land, according to Wilcox. Since the forest was purchased in 1903, more than 1,000,000 persons have visited it. Fire is the outstanding danger in the great forest and all who visit there are urged to be careful in using matches or smoking. Fire towers have been erected and guards constantly are on the alert for the first faint wisp of smoke, which may mean the loss of hundreds of acres of trees which time alone can replace. Last year two serious fires broke out on the reservation, but great loss was prevented by the fire crews, Wilcox says. Produces Good Revenue Director Richard Lieber of the conservation department estimates that the 5.000-acre forest produces a revenue of $35,000 a year over a long period, and that were it not for the tree crop, this land would be aboslutely idle and useless. "Stretch your legs and enrich your mind.” is the inviting slogan that the state forest offers visitors. Here there is ample room to return to the primitive, with trails through tall timber, several hundred acres of which was old before the first white man set fqot in this state. Massive, "slow-growing oaks and pines invite the city-weary seeker tor solitude, and last year more than 50.000 accepted that invitation, Wilcox reports. TREAT ROADS FOR OUST OLYMPIA, Wash., May 25.—This state by late summer will have a dustless highway system by which time 800 miles of roads will have been treated with oil at a cost of from $1,700 to $2,000 a mile. Roads oiled last year stood up well during the severe winter weather and were the first to be in condition this spring. An extra cent tax a gallon on gasoline is expected to produce the 52.400.000 needed for this project.

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PREDICT GOOD YEAR Northeast State Resorts Expect Brisk Trade. Predictions of a banner year for lake resorts of northeastern Indiana are being expressed. This optimism seems to be based on the fact that the last five years have been only fair or unfavorable, and that by the law of averages we are entitled to one good old-fashioned hot summer in a half-dozen seasons. Roads leading to the resort district to the north and west of Ft. Wayne are also in better shape than they have been for many seasons. These week-end highways have been brought up to all-weather standards and it is possible now for the first time to jump out of the city to the lakes near Angola or Warsaw without the menace of mud or dust. The paved Lincoln highway and the Yellowstone trail (State road 2 and United States 301 penetrate +he lake district west of Ft. Wayne ana United States Road 27 extends northward. More work is being done on United States Road 27 this summer. The state of Michigan has paved he road as far south as the Indiana line and this state is building a hard surface road from Garrett, Ind., north to Michigan. This highway is now closed north from Pleasant lake for a couple weeks while repair work is in progress; however, a good detcur has been established. BILLBOARDS UNSIGHTLY, A. A. A. OFFICERS SAY Point Out That No Curb Is Made On Them by Authorities. Supporting vigorously the contention of Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States bureau of public roads, that the plethora of billboards on the nation's highways is a disgraceful condition which should be overcome without delay, the American Automobile Association points out that while most states have some sort of billboard regulations. America's choice vistas continue to be marred by unsightly outdoor advertisements. According to the American Automobile Association, which has conducted a survey of the present situation. the billboard “evil runs rampant almost universally over the country, and save in isolated instances relatively little is being done by the authorities to halt the defacement of the countryside.” IMPROVEMENTS AT INN Many Changes Are Made at Bethel (Me.) Pleasure Resort. Bu Times Special BETHEL. Me . May 25 —Guests of Bethel inn at Bethel. Me., will be agreeably surprised this coming season at the many changes which have been made at the inn during the winter. An exterior change is an annex with eighteen rooms and baths and eight fireplaces. New porches have been added overlooking the golf links and mountains. The golf links have been improved and a golf locker room with showers added in the new pan of the inn directly under the dining-room. The dinner-room has been remodeled and enlarged and its capacity has been more than doubled.

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‘Land O’ Water’Dotted by Ten Thousand Lakes

Minnesota is aptly known as the “Land O’ Water.” With its ten thousand lakes dotted over a huge wooded area it offers a marvelous variety to the vacationist whether his preference be for roughing it in the wilds or for resorts with the luxury of city conveniences. There are comfortable cottages and fine hotels; there are virgin forests with ideal camping spots awaiting your arrival by canoe or overland trek. Here is a fisherman’s paradise. Swimming, sailing boating abound. Indians still hunt in the forests, paddle their canoes on the lakes, fish and hunt as did their ancestors hundreds of years ago. You may prefer the comfort of MANITOBA REGION IS POPULAR FOR VACATIONS Great Appeal Is Found in Mountains of Area. Bu Times Special WINNIPEG, May 25.—One section of Canada which is attracting much attention from the motor tourists is the Manitoba area. There is great appeal in the mountainous sections of this area. With the exception of Saskatchewan and the eastern portion of Alberta. all the main roads throughout western Canada are graveled through to the coast. Saskatchewan's road improvement program for this year calls for 1,000 miles of graveling and it will be a matter of only two or three years before there will be an all-graveled highway from Winnipeg to Vancouver. PLAN FOR BIG SEASON Long Beach, N. J„ Expects Biggest Summer of History. Bu Times Special LONG BRANCH, N. J., May 25. With the biggest improvements in | its history planned and record cot- | tage rentals this city expects 1929 j to be a banner year. | Legislation just enacted permit- | ting the city to construct a second ! Ocean boulevard to the west of the | present thoroughfare along the sea bluff Is booming the ocean front, ! and the city is negotiating for a lease of an Ocean park sit for | ninety-nine years for a year-round i modern hotel.

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the beautiful hotels on the lakes about the twin cities, among the most famous of which is Minnetonka “big water” of the Sioux. Lake Itasca —with Itasca State park, established for the protection of the headwaters of the Mississippi, is a point of much interest for tourists. The park itself is a tract of untouched forest. Here the Mississippi links up counties j small lakes—and here you may take delightful canoe trips to camping spots hid among forests of pine and spruce. Countless trips are also available here to the wilder lakes and rivers of the north and northwest.

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PLAY COSTS UP AS WORK DAY GETS SHORTER U. S. and Canada Recreation Bill Is $122,000,000 for Five Years. Bn United Preen ~ NEW YORK, May 25.— Adoption of the. shorter work day has been accomplished by growing expenditures for public recreation, according to a five-year summary' based on the Year Book of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, which has Just been published. Nearly $122,000,000 , 90 per cent of which came from tax funds, was spent in the United States and Canada for tennis, golf, water sports, competitive athletics, organized playgrounds, winter sports, dramatics, music and other recreations from 1924 to 1928. The expenditures for last year, exceeding $31,500,000, was $11,000,000 greater than the 1924 outlay. The figures show 7,186 public tennis courts, 933 swimming pools, and 26 golf courses in use last year. Growing numbers of adults are also engaged in amateur dramatics, music and art activities. Baseball fields increased from 2,522 in 1924 to 3,295 in 1928. The 1924 figure of 107,400 players was more than doubled. Baseball still leads other sports.

SCENIC ARTIST HIRED BY AUTO ASSOCIATION —— Photographer Will Take Pictures of American Beauty Spots. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, May 25.—Franklin La Varre, who was for five years with Burton Holmes, noted travel lecturer and is one of the best known photographic artists of the world, has been engaged by the American Automobile Association to i prepare one of the finest collections of outdoor and scenic pictures in the country. The national motoring body said that La Varre is now preparing for a transcontinental trip by automobile and pictures will be made in the sections traversed. Areas to be included by Mr. La Varre in his initial transcontinental trip, are: Shenandoah National park. Kentucky blue grass region, Ohio, Indiana, the Ozark mountains, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico. the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National park, Boulder dam and points along the Pacific coast.

I Monon Route first and only line between Indianapolis and Chicago to install AUTOMATIC TRAIN STOP LATEST TRAVEL SAFETY DEVICE I ill Automatic Train Stop, the latest travel safety device, has been in* jJUu stalled and is now in operation on the Monon Route over the entire TTft line between Indianapolis and Chicago, |ll\ This device, electrical in operation, is installed in track and 111\ engine, and is synchronised with the automatic block signals. II \1 Should the euginetnan, for even a “ split second/’ fail to see and |1 Nk obey the restrictive signals, the Automatic Train Stop takes the control of the train out of his hands and stops it. m\ With this device in constant operation, you ride secure m the knowledge that the possibility of human error no longer wk A constitutes an element of risk in traveling. \VA The Monon Route is the first and only line between Indianapolis and Chicago to be equipped with AutolUk k matic Train Stop. This remarkable safety system, installed at great cost, is further evidence of the high standard of service, comfort and safety which has made the Monon Route the favorite line between Indianapolis When yen trrrref <m the Monon you are protected by Automatic Block Signal* and Automatin )f flPsgflagPßHfflil Train Stop ail the way . CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS AMO LOtJUfILLS It

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The North Shore hotel at Tippecanoe lake is one of the most popular hostelries in the Indiana resort section.

LOW RATES OFFERED B. & 0. Will Sell Special Tickets to Resorts. Effective June 8, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will sell round-trip tickets to Washington. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey, Virginia and Long Island resorts, at 75 per cent of double local fare. This is the first time for many years that reduced rates have been in effect via direct routes to these commercial centers. Tickets will be on sale Saturdays only until Aug. 31, going and returning same route, and will be limited to thirty days. Stop-overs may be made within limit of tickets at Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and numerous other points. With the recently inaugurated and attractive through Pullman service in effect to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, via the Baltimore & Ohio, patrons are now

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DRAWMILLIONS 150-Mile National Reserve Created This Year. Approximately 5 per cent of tha nation’s 1929 motor touring army of forty-five million, or two and a half million people, will visit the national parks, according to the American Automobile Association. The largest single addition to the park system during the year was the creation of tire Grand Teton National park. Wyoming. This park, with an area of 150 square miles, includes the famous Teton mountains, a magnificent range that has been under consideration for a number of years for addition to the Yellowstone National park. Yellowstone itself was increased by the addition of seventy-eight square miles on its north and east boundaries, to take in the headwaters of the Lamar river.

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