LINCOLN HIGHWAY 



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cess of the enterprise. The Lincoln Highway, 

 as marked for its entire length, is 3,331 miles 

 long, and is the longest connecting roadway in 

 the world. It has been 

 marked for practically its 

 entire length with con- 

 spicuous red, 'white and 

 blue signs. Many towns 



Land cities have renamed 

 the local street through 

 which this road passes, 

 now calling it "Lincoln 

 Highway." 



From Jersey City the 

 road extends almost 

 straight southwest to 

 Philadelphia, then west 

 across Pennsylvania, 

 Northern Ohio and In- 

 diana, passes twenty-five 

 miles south of Chicago, 

 west through Northern 

 Illinois and Central Iowa, 

 with an abrupt turn to 

 Council Bluffs, thence due 

 west through Nebraska 

 and Wyoming, with a tri- 

 angular loop to Denver, 

 then southwest through 

 Northern Utah, west and 

 south through Nevada, 

 and thence to San Fran- 

 cisco (see map, in panel at 

 the head of this article). 



At the Panama-Pacific 

 International Exposition in 

 San Francisco in 1916 

 there was a remarkable 

 statue of a Plains Indian 

 on horseback, horse and 

 rider wearied to the point 

 of exhaustion. This 



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Some of the thir- 

 teen states traversed 

 by the Lincoln 

 Highway are al- 

 ready marked from 

 end to end. The 

 official marker, 

 copyrighted, stands 

 twenty-one inches 

 high and consists of 

 a strip of red three 

 inches high at the 

 top, a white band 

 twenty-one inches 

 wide and a strip of 

 blue three inches 

 below. On the 

 white background in 

 blue there is a large 

 letter "L" and the 

 words "Lincoln 

 Highway" in small- 

 er type. This mark- 

 er is painted on 

 telegraph poles, 

 barns, fences or 

 whatever is avail- 

 able, and can be 

 seen readily by the 

 tourist. There will 

 be a marker every 

 200 feet in addition 

 to those placed at 

 railroad crossings 

 and sharp corners 

 on the highway. 



statue, called "The End of the Trail," will be 

 erected at the western terminus of the Highway, 

 on the San Francisco Bay shore. 



As expected, the publicity given the Lincoln 

 Highway, and the enthusiasm with which the 

 project was received throughout the entire 

 route, has inspired many other large road-build- 

 ing projects. The most conspicuous of these 

 is the Dixie Highway, originally designed to 

 extend from Chicago to Southern Florida, but 

 later extended into Northern Michigan. The 

 South has been earnest in the development of 

 this road. It is described in full under its own 

 title in these volumes. 



Possibly the next in importance among the 

 long routes, either proposed or under construc- 

 tion, is the Jackson Highway, extending from 

 Minneapolis through the states of Iowa, Mis- 

 souri, Arkansas and Louisiana, with its southern 

 terminus at New Orleans; 

 a branch will reach Dallas, 

 Texas. A dozen other pro- 

 jects, somewhat less ambi- 



"THE END 

 OF THE 

 TRAIL" 



tious but fully as important to the sectioi 

 affected, may all be said to be the result of the 

 original agitation in connection with the Lin- 

 coln Highway. E.D.F. 

 LIND, JENNY (1820-1887), known in privat 

 life as MADAME OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT, was a fa- 

 mous soprano, "one of the finest pearls in the 

 world's chaplet of song," in the words of Mey- 

 erbeer. Jenny Lind was born in Stockholm, 

 Sweden; studied in Paris under Signer Garcia; 

 subsequently became a member of the Royal 

 Swedish Academy of Music in her native city, 

 and in 1840 was appointed court-singer. Her 

 first appearance as an opera singer was made 

 as Norma, in which part she electrified her 

 audience. In 1845 she sang before Queen Vic- 

 toria of England, who was visiting at Bonn. 

 The following year, when she sang in Vienna, 

 her popularity increased. On the last ever 

 ing of her engagement thousands of people 

 thronged beside her carriage and escorted hei 

 home, and she was obliged to appear at her 

 window thirty times to acknowledge the ap- 

 plause of the crowds. In 1847 she made her 

 first London appearance, at Covent Garden, 

 where she was received with enthusiasm. The 



