Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-08-23
AN AUTOMOBILE TRIP.

aNfSAs~s -" Ney ~ es~~t $50 @Ns
lowing details of a trip to Car
thage, Mo-, made on Thursday of
last week in company with Mr..
S. L. Adams of Joplin, Mo-, in
Reliable CADILLAC automobile:
I'VE left Baxter at $50 a. m,
passed through Lowell, Galena,
Central City, and arrived in Jop-
lin at l0:45. Leaving Joplin at
11:30 we arrived in Duenweg at
1900; Prosperity at 1915 and
Carthage at 12:45, where we had
dinner; after which, we took a
spin on the principal drives in
that beautiful Missouri city; with
with its many shady streets and
stately homes, stopping for a few
moments at the Carthage garage,
where we compared steeds, made
notes, and grasped new ideas.
We left feeling inwardly better
satisfied than ever with our car
which has been in commission
only one year and has 1000 miles
of Missouri and Kansas roads to
her credit; all without material
repair, excepting a new set OF
tires. On our return Mr.. Adams
chose the north route which af-
fords a fine view of surrounding
mining camps and farming coun-
try. We crossed many little
streams of clear water hidden in
deep shady lanes, all so refresh
ing in the midst of an August
day.
Leaving Carthage at 1:20, we
arrived in Carterville at 200
o'clock, when loss of five min
utes occurred owing to a bug in
my eye.
I'VE passed through Webb
City at 2:15, where, with a short
run of bad south road, we swung
into a fine piece of road running
due west from Webb to Belleville,
leaving Joplin off two miles to
the south of us, and here occurred
the most laughable incident OF
the trip. A farm dog (yellow
shepherd stood ready at the gate
to give us a ruu for our money;
evidently it was his intention to
try us out. The road was a
gradual incline and in fine shape;
as we broke even with him he
swung into line and the race was
on. No body said a word, not
even the dog, whose face seemed
wreathed in smiles. He stayed
with us for three -eourths of a
mile; by this time he had been
ably shown and slowly returned
home. The evidence of his sat
isfaction at the outcome of the
race was most gratifying. Il in
tend to see that dog again.
Stopping short of Belleville
we took a cut. Of and intercepted
the Empire and Badger road ar
irving in Empire at 800 p. M,
and in Galena at 3:15; leaving
Galena at 800 we reached Baxter
at 3:55, being out of my office
six hours and five minutes and
covering 70 miles of road with an
actual running time of four hours
and five minutes, and requiring
the consumption of three gallons
of gasoline. The entire run was
made without a stop for attention
to the machine, with the excep-
tion of pumping up one tire at
Galena. We found the roads
variable but generally good; billy,
of course, but the culverts at the
bottom of the hills were general
ly in good shape, making possi-
bic the indulgence of the autoists'
delight-to coast down one hill
and negotiate the other from the
momentum attained. A few Mis-
souri, mule teams stubbornly tried
to mar the pleasure of the trip,
but failed. The route is an ideal
one for a nice spin and also for
testing the reliability of your
machine under variable road con-
ditions; hills extra good, medium,
and very bad; roads, gravel or
dirt, smooth as a house floor or
rough as River street, straight
away or serpentine. There is
nothing monotonous about the
trip; the changes ring in on one
in such profusion and in so many