Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-26
AUTOMOBILES AT JAMESTOWN
Great Interest Manifest in jamestown
Exihibits-Arransements for Tours.


Exihibits-Arraneements for Tours.
Norfork, Va, Jan. 23.-The attention
of automobile manufacturers and deal.
ers over the country is being drawn
to the Jamestown exposition which
opens near Norfolk, Virginia, April
26, as valuable place of exhibit for
the products of their factories. On &C,
count of the intense interest the en-.
tire country is manifesting in this
event, an enormous attendance is an
ticipated The surroundings are SO
attractive, historical and otherwise,
the program presents such variety and
scope the exhibits are so comprehen-
sive and interesting that millions Il
visitors from our own and other lands,
will assemble at the exposition to adj
mlre, to study and, it, may be, 10
criticise. The possibility of the latter,
however, is very remote as the imper-
fections have been reduced to the min
imum. Because of this anticipated
large attendance and especially be.
cause so many visitors are expected
from foreign lands, where the United
States is developing market for
manufactured articles, the leaders in
that branch of the industries are seek
ing, by means of exhibits at the James
town exposition, to create favorable
impression.
Interest in the automobile exhibit at
this exhibition is augmented by the
fact that large number of auto en-
thusiasts and experts are planning tt,
visit the Ter-Centennial celebration in
body, as the elimination of series
of tours in which automobilists from
all the states as far west as the Mis-.
sissippi river will have part.
1t is expected that one tour will
start from Chicago and another from
st. Louis, the two uniting at a point
on the national road somewhere In
Ohio or Indiana and crossing the
mountains by way Of the Parkersburg
and Richmond road or the national
road, by way of Pittsburg. Another
tour which has been planned to cul
inmate at, the exposition is known as
the Glidden tour, embracing the New
England and middle Atlantic states
This tour will probably consist of four
or more divisions with starting points
in New England, New York, Pitts.
burg and the west. These divisions
will probably converge into the Gid
den tour proper at Hagerstown, Mary.
land. autoists from the west coming
to that point over the national road
From New York the route recommen /
ed is via Philadelphia and Gettysburg
to Hagerstown.
From Hagerstown the first days run
would be of fifty-seven miles to Win
chester, passing en- route the battle
field of Antietam. The second days
run would be Of ninety four miles to
Staunton, passing the battlefields 81
Cedar Creek and Fishers Hill. AT
New Market detour of fourteen miles
may be made to the Luray Caverps
From Staunton to Richmond is a run
of 118 miles via Basic City, Alton and
Charlottesville. Directions for this run
contain such incidental notes as "Joe
around a house in middle of road,
and turn out for pile of stones in
middle of road" Near Shadwell the
"Three Chop Road" said to have been
laid out by General Lafayette, is
taken. From Richmond to Norfolk is a
journey of 119 miles via Petersburg
Suffolk and Hodges Ferry At Nor.
folk the tour will be completed. but
several side trips are being arranged
one to Virginia Beach on the coast
nineteen miles from Norfolk, and
another to jamestown Island via York
town and Williamsburg and another
through the Carolinas.