Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-12-03
STOPPED
 AUTOMOB|L|STS Ohio Mules and Kentucky Mud Failed to Check Au- to Party in Their Tour From Detroit to Dallas
PEN BOARD MEETING
Kirby May Have Proxy-State Will
 Hold It's Cotton For Fifteen Cent
 Prices--Suit Against Railroad-B. (. Triee in Trouble.

. Little Rock, Dec. 3,-tSpeclal.)- Ohio mules and Kentucky mud could not stop Fred Crebbin, William Rod- gers and w. H. Workman, Yho saff touring from Detroit to Dallas, Texas, in Billy Bounce the 1903 thiEty horsepower Packard touring car, but an Arkansas stump most effectively did the work. The journey had to be temporarily stopped after collis- ion between automobile and stump and the car shipped to Little Rock for re- pairs, which were made in local garage. The young men left Detroit on the evening of November IA, for mileage test of the car, which had already, since February 1st, covered
 37,O0 miles. Their trip has been an adventurous one, but mishap was avoided until the car passed within the borders of Arkansas. Leaving the Packard factory in Detroit, where all three of the travellers are employed, the tourists went direct south to To- ledo, Ohio. This piece of road, they say, is the worst they have ever en- countered in their record establishing Down through Ohio to Cincinnati thence to Louisville, Ky, and on to Nashville, Tenn, went the tourists with elysian dreams of prairie roads the balance of the way to Dallas. At Nashville the tales told of the lofty peaks of the Tennessee mountains, lucky, where they expected to find nothing but turnpike road They found anything but macadamized road in the state of the thoroughbred. For several days they iourneyed- through mountain passes, where the road was so narrow that to attempt to pass a horse and buggy would have meant the leaping of the horse oyer the side of the mountain. They were thus forced to stop every time a vehicle was met, assist in unhitching the horses, leading them out of sight in the woods, then backing the wagon out of the road by the eXertion Of much muscular power, run the touring car past and then assist in the hitch ing of the horses in the wagon and getting it out Of the way before again starting the horseless vehicles thus was made the journey through Ken tucky back into Tennessee into the vicinity of POrtageville, where they expected TO strike the levees and have an uninterrupted run on them into Memphis. They found the levees all right-at intervals. Several days were spent in foundering in the mud
 when Memphis was finally reached
 Here the tourists rested for day,
 cleaned up their car and started on
 into Arkansas. They crossed the Mississippi river at 10:30 Tuesday
 morning. finding little difficulty until
 they entered the woods. Chains were
 put over the tires so there was little | i heavy mud of the bottom until the
 car was near Short Bend, logging
 camp, forty-tive miles from Memphis. Here a stump in the road was en-
 countered, but being covered with
 mud, was not noticed and the car was
 driven onto it. The fly wheel was
 caught by the hidden stump and
 broken. Mules were secured to tow
 the heavy car to the terminus Of the 1 logging railroad of the Grandchildren
 ger Lumber Company where itl was
 loaded on a car and taken to Round
 pond, from which place it was ship ped 10 Little Rock, car and attend Lants arriving here Sunday night. The
 repairs were completed this morning
 and the tourists continued on their 1 journey to Texas, going in the direc- < tion iok-Foss< Smith ;andl on through Oklahoma At Dallas instructions are kexpected to tour through the prin-
 cipal cities of that state and then pro-
 ceed to San Francisco. .. When it ar
 rived at Little Rock the meter on the
 car showed that 1t had travelled l.
 O50 miles since leaving Detroit.
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