The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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about tliat. And they are turn-
*"R the old Boono trail into a highway,
a great transcontinental route through
the Southern states. It combines im
ini'ii:.e practical m-efulne.-.- with high
sentiment. It is a me. us t>f opening to
civilization a rich baekwood: country;
It la a means of returning to their
state certain long-cherished “hist
provinces.’’ and it is a means of teach-
ing In school children the lessons of
tho early pioneer day s of America and
the meaning of 100 i>< r cent Ameri-
canism.
In addition to all these unusual fea-
tures. th<i lloonc Trail highway has
services and features of more cus-
tomary type which are deserving of
notice. It form the most direct of
our coast-to-eoast routes, and it Is of
service not only as a highway route,
but also as an aero pathway
Children KnlbtpA
It would seem only natural that ex-
ceptional sentiment should be asso-
ciated with a highway bearing the
name of Daniel Boone. At the verv
mention of the name of that great
character in the pioneer day s of Amer-
ica there is a quickening of interest.
\nd such a quickening of Interest is
but natural. For over 100 years the
he.irt of every schoolboy has leaped
1 ’■ “‘1. or perhaps two beats, as he
le:imod with an almost worshipful
mu. ,| the exploits of the great fron-
tiersman The boy of today feels tho
•a;ne old thrill as he reads of those
exploits, and he is perhaps prone to
gi/u up from the narrative and to ox-
pr. ;s Ills sentiments in no uncertain
way with: “Aw, gee! Why couldn't I
have lived then?”
'1 his schoolboy enthusiasm and np-
preclaiion of the pioneer Is not rtiisdi
rected. Daniel Boone stands out as
one of tho truly heroic figures of the
great pioneer days of America; as the
man who played the leading role in
the development of the western half
of this continent.
Represents Pioneer Type.
He is representative of the typical
American pioneer, or the rugged, cour-
ageous explorer who feared neither
man nor beast. As such, mention of
the name of Boone stir* a responsive
Path 1 raveled hy the Famous Explorer to
Be Made Into Main Artery of Travel—But
fr ith All Its Historic Features Preserved
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M M ORF and more people are com
inz to understand that Chris-
topher Columbus was not the
discoverer of America that he may
bare bivn a rediscovoror j far as the
people of Central and Southern F rope
were concerned, or course, our eon
tinont may have been discovered be-
fore l.eif Frierson discovered it. but
Leif was here over 4 0 years ahead of
Columbus. It has been established to
the satisfaction of all scholars who
themselves with this
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that he re-
his discov-
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turer. though he might have been
alt that and also the discoverer of
America. It is maintained that Leif
repr sented the highest type 0f Scandi-
navian civilization of that time, which
had risen above the decadent Roman
culture of Southern Europe. The
Sagas say that Leif "as a large,
powerful man of most imposing bear-
ing. ’ a man of sagacity and just in all
things. Before his discovery of
Ame-ica he had been converted to the
Christian faith and had been commis
sioned by King Olaf to proclaim the
faiih to the people of Greenland,
which the Scandinavians had settled
a considerable period before that time.
It Is quite reasonable to believe that
the Norsemen who had settled in
Greenland had made voyages to Amer-
ica iii advance ot t,oif Ericsson, hut
that Leif was here r. 1000. or nearly
fiOO years before Columbus, there is no
aouot
chord of appreciation in the heart of
every American.
Col. J. Hampton Rich, of Winston-
Salem. North Carolina, had the idea-
tin' Colonel calls it the “dream" that
led to the building of a great trans-
continental highway as a memorial to
Daniel Boone. Colonel Rich first ex-
plained his plan to such men as Judge
T. U. Finley, ex-Congri ssmau "Dick”
Maokett, Lynn Vine. C. C. Smoot and
Charles Cowles in 1913. Out of that
meeting was formed the Boone Trail
Highway Association, which later was
incorporated under the laws of the
. 'Utc of North Carolina, to make pos-
sible the realization of th« "dream” for
a fitting memorial to the greatest of
American pioneers.
From its very beginning the associ-
ation set itself to a higher and a larger
task than merely the building of til?
highway. Under the headship of
Colonel Rich as Its managing director,
it has aimed to teach patriotism and
100 per cent Americanism at the same
time that it opened up the backwoods
country and preserved the name and
traditions of Daniel Boone.
Weather Helped.
In Us early efforts to arouse inter-
est in the project in the states and
counties traversed by the new route,
the very elements co-operated with
the association. Heavy floods swept
the mountain country of weMern
North t aioiina and eastern Tennes.-oe.
Existing bridges were .-wept away; the
rough and poorly-constructed trails
through the forest were turned into
nd the whole coun-
devasfated.
T, of North Carolina,
much damage had
flood nr! n , . «« «
Trail highway was made the chief fea-
ture in the county highway system,
and the actual moving of earth for the
new road was begun. Other counties
in both North Carolina and Tennessee
soon followed the example of Vv illies,
and through all the Bine Ridge moun-
tain country the work was started.
Having thus succeeded in getting
the actual construction under way. the
Boone Trail Highway Association
turned to (he sentiment involved.
Monument Marks Road.
It was determined that a suitable
"hall-mark” or monument should be
Hen 7urns Into
Rooster
swirling gullie-. r
try was generally
In Wilkes count
a county in which
been dene by the
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cult and most ext
work for the ne
bond issue was an
.borized;
Boone
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^TLI.IAM 11. GATES, pro lessor
of zoology in the Louisiana
State University, sends to
the Journal of Heredity an account of
a hen ihat seemed to be turning into
a rooster. She was a White Wyan-
dotte, of good stock. She proved to be
ail extra good layer.
In ail ways she was a nice, ladylike,
motherly hen, never guilty of the
8 ightest impropriety. Then suddenly
the whole character of the tun
changed. She lost all her feminine
characteristics and assumed those of
the opposite sex. Her comb and wat-
Fes grew to the size of those of aver-
age fancy stock roosters; both the
hackle and saddle feathers took on the
narrow, pointed style affected by Wy-
andotte roosters. She started crowing,
and in a short time developed a full,
prolonged now. which she used regu-
lar!;. cv; ;y .Yu rta W«. of So
he (“re daybreak. When given grain,
she called tho other hens with the
'"•“vi v aun iei iauc ot a rooster sum-
mon: ng his harem to cat v th him.
placed along the highway to perpetu-
ate the memory of the pioneer for
whom the highway was named. Ac-
cordingly. Sculptor Henly, of Wash-
in,-ton, was secured to design a rnark-
• r. The marker thus developed con-
sists of a bas relief of Daniel Boone,
seated on a rough mountain boulder,
with his dog and his gun by bis side,
looking West. Above the figure are
the words, ”Bonne Trail Highway.” Be-
neath the figure is a facsimile signa-
ture- of Daniel Boone, taken from old
court records’at Salisbury, N. C., espe-
cially for this purpose.
The tablet is set in a rude pyramid
of native boulders, making a fitting
background for the figure of tbc pio-
neer. To many of these boulders the
mountain moss still clings.
in the bas relief tablet is a happy
blending of worthy American tradi-
tions. Each one contains a fragment
of no tal from th battleship Maine, of
which metal four hundred pounds were
given to the Boone Trail Highway As-
s' elation by tho United States Navy
for this purpose. The presence of this
metal is not- I at the bottom of tho
tobM, just above the signature of
Dan!' ! Boone. Tbc tablet thus sym-
both the rugged, teriing char-
acter or the frontiersman and the hero-
ism and courage of a later day.
Presented to School Children.
Seventy three of these markers have
been placed along the route, extending
all the way from the forks of the Yad-
k.n riv'r in North Carolina to Kansas
(Vy. Mi ’ ouri. Each marker has been
prc.--e.ited officially to the school chil-
d en of the vicinity in which it is
placed. \t each placing and unveiling
a ceremony ha.- been held, participated
in i>y iiie . ini urn to whom the marker
P’cse- ted. Tablets have also been
I ’c-'Utcd and accepted ofthially by
uie i natures ot five states.
In many ca=cs there ts plaerd on
the marker some additional facts re-
garding the relation of the locality to
the exploits and travels of Daniel
Boone, or stating gome facts of local
history having to do with the revolu-
tionary war. Thus an additional ele-
ment of value is given to the monu-
ment as a means of impressing on the
minds of the school children the ideals
and the heroism of their forefathers.
This additional information is placed
on a tablet of stone beneath the bas
relief of Boone. On the marker at
Farmington, N. C.. near which place
Daniel Boone first settled with his
family when he came to that part of
the country, is such a tablet, on which
is inscribed:
Daniel Boone lived 2 miles S. E.
Here passed tho armies of Greene
and Cornwallis to Guilford C. II.
This memorial ercctel hy
The village improvement society.
Exhibits Made,
Exhibits have been made by the
Boone Trail Highway Association at
D
URING the year Calbert, in Eng-
land. has developed a process
for the direct synthetic pro-
duction of alcohol from water gas
and producer gas by catalysis. It
Is claimed that ethyl alcohol of !)9.2
per cent purity, says the Scientific
American, has been obtained from or-
dinary water gag with a yield of 90
per cent
Already research Is in procres
looking to the synthesis of methanol,
which Is almost as important as ethyl
alcohol, being the principal raw ma-
terial in the manufacture of formalin,
although the quantity used annually is
not so great as for the other alcohol,
with which it is often confused by the
layman. With ethyl alcohol now being
made successfully from a variety of
raw materials, as well as synthotioal-
ly. there ought to be no difficulty in
meeting the world’s demands at a m,.
sonablc price.
the Automobile Show in New York
City, and at the convention of the
United Slates Good Roads Association.
It has received the support of a large
group of prominent men from every
section of the country. Among its
members arc such men as Champ
Clark, Nicholas Longworth, George
Gordon Battle, David Abercrombie and
Bird Grinncll. Other organizations,
including tho American Automobile
Association, tho Automobile Club of
America and several state automobile
associations, have joined in and have
cooperated with the Boono Trail High-
way Association to help in the accom-
plishment of the task to which it has
set itself.
With the co-operation of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association a route
for the highway was laid out that is
arranged to secure the greatest possi-
ble usefulness. Starting with various
roads from the coast leading to Ra-
N. C., the main branch of the
highway leads west to the Yadkin riv-
cr country, where Boone set out in
l.ti't to take up his permanent resi-
dence in the great West,
to operate trains on the shgar pota-
tions with alcohol produced from tho
molasses tailings, this alcohol being
produced for less than 20 cents per
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methanol, and with the rate at which
our hard wood is being used we should
already have increased interest in the
po sihillty of developing laboratory
m> thods for the production of this im-
portant solvent.
Grandpa, did God make you and
grandma?”
“Yea, of course. He did.”
"Did God make pap* and mamma-
"Yes. certainly He did. But why do
y^i ask?”
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odd questions?”
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a Hes do.ng lots better work iat:-
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The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1922, newspaper, March 17, 1922; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth570365/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.