The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-19
GREATEST OF ALL
MOTOR RUNS
WILL BE THAT TO ST. LOUIS
ONE ROUTE rs VIA
RICHMOND.
PEOPLE ALONG ROUTE
Are Alarmed by Demand for Food,
Etc.-Richmond Autos Will
Join Here.
PEOPLE ALONG ROUTE

On August 8 the world s fair at St.
Louis will have to be satisfied with
second honors. for on that date mo-
torists from almost everywhere will
pour into the Mound City upon the
completion of the first big automobile
tour ever held in America. And the
size and character of the pageant
will be such that even the Louisiana
Purchase exhibition can not hope to
attract more attention in opposition.
The big run will be conducted un-
der the patronage and direction OF
the American Automobile Association
There are two routes for the East
ern motorists, one via Buffalo, Cleve-
land and Chicago. and the other via
Pittsburg. Columbus, Richmond and
indianapolis. The latter route will
probably be taken by more motorists
on account of the shortness Of it en-
pared with the northern route.
The pilgrimage of autoists to st.
Louis the coming summer is viewed
with almost as much alarm by resi-
dents along the route as if the cru
saders of Peter the Hermit or Cox
ey's army were coming.
AS the stream of vehicles begins to
unite, west of Buffalo. the demand
for food, gasoline, drink and sleeping
quarters will reach tremendous pro-
portions All sorts of suggestions
are being made to obviate the diff
culties.
One of the most practical is that
trains of dining, frbricating and sleep
ing cars shall be run, stopping at
fixed points, along the way, for the
sole accommodation of those who
scorn to confine their wanderings to
the beaten paths mapped out for hu
manity by the first, second and third
rails.
Richmond will in all probability
have to take care of this army of au-
tomobilists over one night but it has
ample room and accommodation for
both drivers and cars Henley's new
garage is expected to be completed by
the time of the run and Willle will
= probably build a machine shop on
south sixth street. The Automobile
Club will have a goodly number of its
members join the army of motorists
! at this point and Richmond will be
we'll represented in the run. New
members of the club are being re-
ceived every day and the number Of
cars in Richmond is rapidly increas-
ing.
And the trail Of the serpent that
snakeology has ever insisted was Gov
er all won't be a marker to the scat
ter of confetti and streamers that the
benzine buggy folk are buying by the
bale as they would hay. 1t will be
worse for the natives to clear up than
the average front stoop on the 5th Of
July. And think of those steps
drawn out ! 500 miles long and mud
dy, too.
Considering the amount of gasoline
to be used it is likely that John D.
Rockefeller will join President Roose-
welt in welcoming the tourists to the
City, where the mound will
Fbe the only thing not high the coming
summer. Now Job had his troubles,
but every sore he possessed wasn't Of
a different kind.
Every state and about half the cit
les, towns, and hamlts to be trav-
ersed have an auto law, and no two
are alike as to speed and penalty.
Some of the older autoists do not
care so much about these ordinances.
because if they should be "pinched''
for violation in a quarter of the
places, the remainder of their days
would not be half long enough for
them to serve out their sentences.
TO drivers in pin feathers, however
such prospects are appalling. Already
The country constables along the line