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...scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike and Plainview Road for the first of the famed Vanderbilt Cup Races, the eleventh of which will take place next week at Roosevelt Raceway...
After the War, the owners of the Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed...
...view magnolias, azaleas, and other fragrant flowers. Most any Sunday afternoon the Vagabond can be seen walking, with a dark-haired lass in a lovely white frock on his arm, through the paths of the Arnold Arboretum, which is located five miles out of Boston on Jamaica Pond Parkway...
...degree in 1925. Last year Middletown, Ohio, Armco's home town, declared a "Verity Day," with parades, public banquets, and a picnic for the city's entire 30,000 population. Last January Middletown's No. 1 citizen was again honored at home by having a new parkway named after him. Verity Parkway, as a publicity release related, was a tribute to the man who had operated the country's eighth largest steel company for a third of a century without the loss of a pound of production or an hour's work from labor trouble...
Still as independent as George Norris himself, Republican Vermont went Republican Maine one better in 1936 by refusing a $10,000,000 National Parkway gift while Maine accepted Passamaquoddy. Yet to make doubly sure, the Green Mountain State still rears Vermonters as independent of her Republican traditions as Stephen A. Douglas, the Little Giant whom she bore and nursed at her Abolitionist breast to lead the last Democratic stand against Abraham Lincoln...