Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-29
AUTO RECEIVES
GREAT OVATION
P0PULACE GATHER EN- MASSE
TO WATCH GLlDDENISTS
Picturesque Feature Of Famous Tour
Encountered az Cars WhIrl
Through the Canadian
Provinces

No greater tribute to the automobiles
has ever been paid by any body of peo-
pie than that accorded by the habtants
of the French Canadian province Of
Quebec In their reception to the Glid-
den trophy tourists
This may come naturally from the
fact that the French nation was the
pioneer In the automobile industry or
that the French speaking people Of
this continent have never until now
had an opportunity of seeing any great
number of motor vehicles together.
But whatever the cause, the welcome
to the tourists has been simply over
wheming to the latter. The run of one
hundred miles from Montreal to Three
Rivers was one long ovation in which
towns and villages en- route We'd with
one another in the heartiness of their
demonstration.
All work was suspended for the day
and country folk for miles around
crowded to the line of travel, carrying
their lunches with them that they
might not miss any part of the cara
van.
Banners were stretched across the
woods flags of the United States, Can
ada and France were waved from
housetops, hilltops and gateposts, while
the travellers everywhere were offered
fruit and refreshments and pelted with
wild flowers
The showers of the latter sometimes
were dangerous when they descended
around the heads of the drivers. Many
of the bouquets carried notes written
in French or both French and English,
giving the names of the young women
and young men throwing them.
Scenery Picturesque
The run was through fiat, sandy
country, giving hard pull through
deep, shifting sand for at least seventy
five miles of the journey. Fortunately
there were but few grades otherwise
penaizations on time would have been
general.
The route was dotted with picturesque
French Canadian villages, with impos-
ing churches, while shrines marked the
course at short intervals. That there is
no race suicide in fhis part of the
country was evidenced by the groups
of children in front of every house
passed, families sometimes numbering
as many as twenty persons
The larger towns passed through were
Charlemagne, st. Paul. Thermite, LAS
sumption St. Sulpice, Lanorie, Berthier
Maskanonge, Louisville, Yamachiche
and Pointe du Lao The checking points
were Assumption, Berthier and Lou
isville, and most of the tourists reached
one or another of these places in time
to obtain milk and sandwiches fol
luncheon.
After leaving Montreal the advance
guard of the travellers did not meet hal
a dozen horses on the road, but dog
were common. One of the sensational
inPidanta STONED hU tourist.
meeting a farmers wagon on a bridge
over L'Assumption river, near Charlie
magne The driveway was not suffi
ciently wide for two vehicles to pass
and the farmer twas half way acros!
when F. f. Wing, in his Mormon car
entered the bridge from the opposite
end.
Canine Killed
Mr.. Wing had just assembled steel
sand grade to the bridge and back o.
him were N. H. Van Sicklen in an Ap
person and r. H. KnoN les in a Locomo
bile. To have backed down the hill
through the sand would have been i'm
possible so Mr.. Wing continued across
the bridge until he met the wagon.
The driver of the latter insisted tina
the automobile be backed off, and whel
Mr.. Wing by motions indicated that h,
could not do so the farmer pulled out {
revolver and threatened to use it.
Just then the Van Sicklen ant
Knowles cars came along and th
farmer was induced to put away hi
weapon. His horse was unhitched ant
led past the machines, while the men ii
the cars lifted the wagon over the tri'
of autos and proceeded on their way.
Several dogs were reported to hav'
been killed. on the run and Emerson
Brooks, former treasurer Of the Auto
mobile Club of America, who was pas
tn, - I,Y1Y + Iold fosa e y
told tragic tale of the desperate effor
of fine collie to avert death unde
the wheels of the juggernaut. The dol
had misjudged the speed of the ma
chine and when he realized his DANCE
he attempted to jump to the footboarc
of the car. He was struck by the fende
and hurled into the ditch, where he la.
apparently expiring when the automo
biles left him, after doing what the.
could for the brute.