The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-10-27
HILL-GLIMBING.
oVER THE ALPS By MOTOR
CAR.

Impressions aud Incidents of a LOnE
Mountain Trip.
THE motor car has conquered the
! Alps. The Martini has shown that
their beauties are for the motorist TO
enjoy. l should never have believed
this achievement had l not witnessed
lit with my own eyes" So, with ehar-'
acteristic enthusiasm. said NJ Georges
IPrade, the most eminent of writer's on
matters motoring, as we alighted at the
automobile club de France in the Place
de Ia Concorde this afternoon on the
completion of our tour, two days ahead
lof schedule time, writes H. NJ. BUST IN
the London Post. The start was made
from Neuehatel at twenty minutes 70
tone o'clock on Sunday, the goth 81
June, the route mapped out among ana
lover the Alps being timed to take nj
teen days to Geneva. Geneva was
reached at a quarter past nine on FRI
day night after three hundred and
three kilometer run from st. Pierre de
la Grande Chartreuse. The total
number of kilometers covered among
the Alps was thus three thousand, the
way including no fewer than nine-and-
twenty big passes. four OF which were
taken twice from opposite sides TO test
the ability OF the car to make the as
cent equally well from either approach.
The fact that many persons might
conceive the notion that the car was
special production for hill climbing
alone led to the determination that q
smart run should be made from Gene
va to Paris. AS the route mapped out,
however, included approximately one
hundred and fifty kilometers from Ge-
.neva across the Jura mountains, and
as the strain on the drivers had been
very great, suggested that in place
of our undertaking the run in single
day, it should be done in two stages,
and times taken for each to show that
the car could travel we'll under ordina-
ry running conditions. This was the
more readily agreed to in that we had
to attend certain functions organized
in honor of the signal success of the
Swiss-built car
The start was accordingly made af-
Isl IL lllOIlliUS SBGlil III dlLtIlulilS NdIl-
Gus functions In our honor, We left
Geneva at two o'clock yesterday, Di-
jon, two hundred and thirty-five kilo-
meters distant, being reached in six
hours. thirty-four minutes, the average
speed working out at 1885 miles an
hour, including frontier delays IT
should be remembered, too. that fifty
kilomtters of the journey was through
, billy country After leaving the re-
gions Of the Jura mountains the roads
proved straight and undulating, but
humpy. At half-past five o'clock this
morning Captain Deasy took his seat
at the steering wheel for the last stage
! Of this tour without precedent in mo-
: toring annals. The read followed was
by way of Vitteaux, Montbard. Tou-
nerre Joigny and Sens, where we rest.
ed during the hottest part Of the day
, So far our road had been through q
succession of straight avenues of pop
$ lars, which we found on resuming oul
journey extended the whole way t
Paris. The 1--WE hundred and forty xii.
hometers from Geneva to Paris were
covered in fourteen hours and clever
minutes actual running time, including
slow passages through towns and VII.
lagos and delays at level crossings
Thus. though no attempt was made a.
( racing, the average speed works out al
PATH moles an hour, which is an excel
! lent performance for an ordinary tour,
ing car, heavily weighted, and TO tht
i mechanical parts of which nothing has
: been done for fortnight. Great mum
! bers of people assembled at the Pari:
octroi and again at the automobile clul
de France to see the car. which hal
E caused quite sensation in continental
i motoring circles.
In order that as many passes as pos
!. ! sible might be surmounted, that TIL
: least frequented roads might be ex
4 plotted, and that we might keep al
: ways in the neighborhood of the noun
t tains, the way followed was very devil
e Gus. We have been where railways ar
g not, and we have seen the channels leal
: from point TO point on the dizz.
f heights still beyond those which W,
+ dared to climb We have rneanderet
j among the finest and highest mountain
e passes in Europe, and in the course o
e little more than twelve days hav
y neither met nor oyertaken more thai
: as many motor cars outside the grea
8 towns we have passed through. Re
gions have been traversed where n
car has been seen before, as, for in
stance, the Col de Forclaz and TIL
!. Croix de Fer, reaching out from ST
!, Jean, by the way, as we found afte
: traversing the somewhat dangerou
= track for nineteen kilometers, wa
: nothing more than narrow, unmad
mule path, eliminating in eul desat
in place of the government roa
!. marked on the map. the fact bein
!. that, though funds We're granted som
: time back for the undertaking, tn
: road is tardy in coming into being. 1
. making quite half dozen different as
), cents we were told by the astonishe
!. rustics when passing by that we wer
- the second or third party to appea
among them In motor car. Yet 70
all this, only one spare tin of petre
: was carried, and it was brought Int
- Que once. ]s v
The nature of the way among til
Is mountains caused great differences {
i, temperature to be experienced With
! remarkably brief spaces of time, fo
I, ascents must perferce be made in tur
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