The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-17
AMONG THE AUTOMOBLISTS.
GLEDDEN TOURISTS EVENTFUL
AND PICTURESQUE DAY.
Detour or Seven Miles Owing to Broken
Bridge -Baggase Wagon Dftohed
SOLDIERS Encountered and Checking
Out or Gear ARMY Mules Circumyented

Out OF GeRr-Army Mules CircumVentet
EL~zABETHTows, n. Y, July le.-Almost
IL might be said that the third annual tour
OF the American Automobile Association.
which includes the Glidden contest. began to-
day 40 Q pleasure trip and as q contest II
featured and began to loom. IT grows as II
goes 1t started out to-day with more cara
than started from Buffalo. Sixty mine
started from Buffalo, on Saturday sixty-one
started from Utioasf and went TO Saratoga.
To-day seventy-two started from Saratoga.
The difference was made UP by 0 number who
entered as participants In the pleasure tour.
From Saratoga the route led to Elizabeth
town. n~inety-four miles through the sloriea
Of the great North Woods The roads gen
orally were good and every one enjoyed
the scenery and began to declare that II
was a pleasure tour after all. Then on the
latter part Of the trip they began TO find
places where cars were ditched or broken,
n then they said 1t was a real contest.
Incidentally the tour ran up against O
portion of the United States army, which
caused everybody to travel seven miles out
Of the way. The army men comprised q
regiment Of the Fifth Infantry from Platts-
burg under command Of Col. G. D. Cowles.
which was marching 200 miles to Albany
from where II Is to 60 by train to Mount
Gretna for man9u vre.
The soldiers had pitched camp six miles
north of South Screen and the wagons carry
ing the camp baggage broke a bridge a few
miles north OF the camp. All the soldiers who
marched had to travel seven miles out OF their
way to get to camp and'the automobiles had
to make q detour Of seven miles to get to
Eliza bethtown
In consequence the checking Is all out Of
gear tonight. No one arrived on time. but
the committee of the contest decided to al
low an hour and q quarter to all for the extra
milea &c. which let In a whole lot with a clean
score. II seems now that II q few more changes
are made by the committee all the cars will
finish with clean scores.
The baggage wagon Is now In the same
ditch where the bank orumbled beneath the
weight of the motor cars. and il will not get
here tonight. The car of 8. 8. Gorham,
secretary of the A. A. A., broke its oiling
mechanism and had to quit. The car of
j. NJ. Morrison OF Boston, carrying Mrs.
Morrison, her daughter and Miss Sullivan,
broke a wheel about Isixty-fve miles out.
There also were several minor m ishaps to
cars.
The accidents Of the day were both sensa-
tional and picturesque. The confetti car
Of Walter White. which lays the trail, broke a
wheel. All are agreed tonight that it was
the most enjoyable of any days run with the
natives more generous. the roads better on
the averag e, and the scenery grander than on
any previous day. The picturesqueness and
adventure of 1t all were picked up by the last
car, the big six cylinder which carries news
paper men and picks up the checkers. 1t
starts last and comes in late with a big load of
passengers. It saw the damaged goods
along the roads. picked up the checkers at
the FIRST and second stations and was carry
ing seven passengers and was doing we'll,
seventy miles out, when IL became q rescue |
car by taking on Mrs. Morrison, Miss Morri-
son and Miss Sullivan, making ten passengers.
Then 1t came up to Walter White and helped
him out of the ditch and next it dropped
two of its passengers at the third checking |
In order TO AVOID providing the ladies. Then
Il ran into the United States Army and had
troubles OF Its own. but Of a sort more inter-
Q sting than harmful.
Major W. o. Clark, commanding the, Second
Battalion OF the Fifth Infantry. came along
his men and seventeen mule teams at
to baggage wagons. He met the
waited until more than sixty cars passed
and had telephoned orders to go ahead.
His mules and horses were raw and afraid
Of automobiles. Besides there was no room
Z. l.. Ferguson. the official starter, who was
In the motor car. suggested that II the soldiers
pulled up the rocks and made room for. the
so aaHpV sRee 81 STAND nd" around aS3us amen and o Sa sa,p'e e
the mules being accustomed to
lhe soldiers. SO the army men went to work
and made a road into the woods for the motor
car. Then a company OF the men stood
around it In solid double file so that 1t could
be. seen. II. was a remarkable sight
and greatly enjoyed by the women from the
Major Clark said mis- men had been
to, rebuild two bridges and repair a
: Tonight every one is tired but happy.
only 3s miles.
Automobiles Of Detroit, whose citizens
boast that IL leads the world in the number
of automobiles manufactured, are. wrought
~ over a proposed set of new regulations
for machines within the city limits. There
10 a State law governing automobiles. which
allows a speed Of not more than twenty-five
miles an hour. except on business streets.
where, eight miles an hour must not be ex-
that no machine shall be driven
II a higher speed than Ia reasonable and
One Of the Aldermen has introduced
! measure which would compel automobilists
10 drive at a rate not exceeding four miles
In hour on all streets within a. radius Of half
! mile of the City Hall, on which there are
;rolley car tracks. On approaching any
ntersecting street where there are trolley
racks an automobilist would have to slow
to one mile an hour. and on APPROACH
any street car In service that was about
stop to let passengers on or on the ma
thine would have TO keep at least ten feet
made punishable by a fine of not more
han $500 or six months imprisonment. or
10th.