Governor Rollins made excellent choice when he selected Sheriff John Pender, of Portsmouth, Albert Bachelder, Esq., of Little Boar's Head, and Engineer Arthur W. Dudley, of Brentwood, to be the commission to lay out the Ocean Boulevard, a road destined to be New Hampshire's most famous highway. These gentlemen are each intensely interested in the enterprise, and they were among its earliest promoters. Although the state's first appropriation is but $3,300, ere long the national government may lend its aid, and the state, assisted by the towns through which it passes, will rapidly push to completion an enterprise that will prove of inestimable value to our state. The commission will lay out the Boulevard by Engineer Dudley in 1897 and 1898, and they have all the powers for acquiring right of way possessed by the county commissioners in laying out highways.

The route of the Boulevard as described in the law authorizing its construction, passed at the last session, stipulates that it will begin at the boundary line between the state of Massachusetts and the state of New Hampshire at a point between the towns of Salisbury and Seabrook and following the coast line in the town of Seabrook to Hampton river, which part of said highway shall be laid out to a width of one hundred feet and shall be wrought for travel to a width of thirty feet, thence across Hampton river to Hampton Beach, thence following the coast line along Hampton beach to highway laid out by Hampton Beach Improvement company; thence by Hampton Beach road so called, in Hampton and North Hampton, past Great Boar's Head, the junction of the main road to Hampton and Exeter, the North Beach, where the life-saving station is located, to Little Boar's Head, thence along and over Beach hill, so called, thence along and over the existing highway around Little Boar's Head to the Farragut house in Rye, thence following the coast line to Philbrick Locke's Beach, thence following the coast line to existing highway at Straw's Point, thence along said existing highway to Rye harbor, which part of said road shall be laid out to a width of one hundred feet and wrought for travel to a width of thirty feet; thence across Rye harbor, thence following coast line to Foss' Beach, thence by existing highway to a point near the life-saving station at Wallis' Sands, thence following coast line to the property of Prof. James Parsons, thence across the land of said Parsons, in full view of the ocean, to Odiorne's Point, thence by widening existing highway to a width of one hundred feet by taking property of Charles F. Eastman, Martha Moran Jones, W. Duncan McKim and others to the property of J. W. Foye, thence across the property of J. W. Foye to an arm of Little Harbor, which part of said highway shall be laid out to a width of one hundred feet and wrought for travel to a width of thirty feet, thence across said arm of Little Harbor to the property of Frank Jones, Orin L. Foye and Samuel Odiorne to Wentworth House road, thence along said Wentworth House road to the bridge, which part of said road shall he laid out to a width of one hundred feet and wrought for travel to a width of thirty feet, thence across said bridge past Hotel Wentworth to a point opposite the Wentworth cottage, thence to and across land belonging to estates of True M. Ball, George W. Haven, Jacob Wendell and others to a point on the coast, thence along the coast to Fort Point in Newcastle. The lines as laid down in this as to the width of road and width to be wrought for travel are subject to such modifications as exigencies at particular places may require.