The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-23
ON
LAST STAGE
OF JOURNEY
GIidden Tourists Will Pass
Through Newark TOmOr-
rOW==One Accident.

The Glidden tourists will pass through
Newark tomorrow on their last stage OF
their trying automobile journey from
Cleveland 10 New York. The autoists left
Baltimore at Z o'clock this morning for
Philadelphia, where they will quarter for
the night. Early tomorrow morning tho
final stage of the journey will be made.
The procession Of mud despatched ma
chimes will pass through Newark during
the afternoon. Plans have been made to
wind up the tour with a parade from the
ferry to Fifty-nlnth street, New York. the
terminltion point.
BALTIMORE. July 2~S.-Eighteen perfect
scores remained when the hidden tourists
reached the Hotel Belvedere last evening.
H.. G. Tillotson's car, No. IS, having lost
its clean record during the day. One ac-
cident marred the trip, when the car driy-
en- by Mrs. Andrew Cuneo burst a front
tire and went into a fence, breaking the
two front springs and the front axle. No
one In the car was injured, however. A
plan is being discussed for the other mem
beers of the party to present Mrs. Cuneo
with a cup In ommemoration of the fact
that she is the only woman driver of a
car on the tour. -Four runabouts finished
the days run will perfect scores in the
competition for the Hover trophy. The
tourists speak very highly of the Mary
land roads, except for the water-brealSs
iAiu 61Nt l1OuDlG ~ YIN
BY the efforts of the automobile club
Of Maryland members of the Glidden party
were relieved from the necessity of display
ing Maryland license numbers in the yari-
GUS counties of the State through which
they passed, and in Baltimore city.
BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pa, July "a
Speaking OF his experience on the Glidden
tour, one Of the contestants says; Sat
nrday's run was hard on brakes and
springs because OF the water bars on the
mountains, The machines had to undergo
a terrible strain, and the passengers were
treated to a series of jolts that gave
them a severe shaking up. To look down
camel humps. Nothing less than feather
beds would have been Of any use as a
protection. It was a climb all the way
over the Allegheny Mountains. The
for the 81 miles. 1t was easy for the Big
cars, but the little ones found 1t was not
too long. The reports about the road made
It appear worse than 1t really was, yet
there was enough mountain climbing to
test the abilities. of every machine. Pitts
burg was not left behind more than a
dozen miles when the first hill was found.
Up the cars went. and then down again,
and each succeeding mound grew bigger
than it's predecessor. The pitch Of some
was short and sharp, aud the drivers had
to use good Judgment to get up.
Chestnut Ridge was the first Of the
mountains to test the mettle of the cars.
but not until Laurel Ridge was reachtd.
midway between Pittsburg and here, did
the tourists really get up In the air. There
was a four-mile climb over an awfully
rocky road. Then clouds obscured tho cars
when they were a hundred feet apart, and
1t was like blowing through a fog on a
steamship In the final climb over the
mountains about twenty-five miles from
here. While It was hard getting up theirs
was more difficulty IN charging the cars
as they went down the other side; wind
ing turns on narrow roads kept the drivers
busy. The worst features. however, were
| the wafer bars. these being met S6lnfffmQl
every twenty-five feet, and the cars
bounced over them on all Sides. When
the speed was not fully checked the ma
chimes .leaped owe than like a stone glanc-
Ing OF the surface of A lake. Brakes be-
gsn to give trouble early; some Of the
cars burned their emergency brakes, and
the drivers had to Use their engines to
hold the cars back, this meaning slow
travelling, OF course. yet 1t did not pre-
vent some Of h cars from breaking the
schedule badly"