The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-16
GLIDDENITES GLIDE.
-Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth
Of big Cars Pass Over Turnpike
Last Monday
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WITNESS KUN.

Association, covers run Of near
ly 1,700 miles,. and was begun at
Buffalo, N. Y. last Thursday
morning, and will end at Sarato
ga Springs on the 23rd inst.
AS was announced III the News
last week, the tourists passed
over the turnpike through this
county last Monday forenoon,
and along the road hundreds of
persons witnessed the great cav
alcade. The werther was hot
and dry, the roads dusty, and as
the huge machines went bound
ing along, they threw up cloud
of dust that must have been
stlh ing to all except those in the
front car. OF course, the drivers
of the respective cars aimed to
keep sufficiently far apart to get
as little dust as possible, but 1t
frequently happened that a half
dozen car or more, were running
-one Immediately after the 9TH
er.
The two pilot cars left Bedford
Springs at five O'Clock Monday
morning, and reached McCon-
nellsburg at seven. These cars
carried large quantity of white
paper cut III small stllps. which
was strewn along the road when
they came to a forks or cross
road to keep those who were fcl-
lowing from getting off the right
road.
The pacemaker car left Bed
ford an hour later than the pilots,
and at seven o'clock, the contest
ants-numbering forty nine cars
left Bedford one minute apart,
and made the run across the
mountains to McConnellsburg,
the distance being 35 miles from
the Sprlngs), in about two hours.
Some of them came in, IN a little
less than two hours and some
were two hours and half.
In addition to the cars run by
the contestants were about a
dozen others In the procession,
making Gotal of about seventy
cars.
Two of the cars were driven by
ladies-one by Mrs. Andrew Gu.
neo, who was driving a car in the
tour last year, and the other by
Mrs. E. w. Shirley. 1t may be
remembered by our readers that
Mrs. Cuneo had the misfortune
last year to run her car into q
telegraph pole at Mercersburg,
by which she was delayed. This
year, up to this time, she has a
perfect score. and when Harris
burg was reached Monday, she
was second 10 swing her car past
the checking.in station. Mrs.
Cupeo IS, perhaps, thirty five
years of age, and weighs about
l2O. Her face, hands, and arms
are burned brown as a berry;
her face was covered with Fulton
county real estate, and her fin
gers with diamond rings that
were dong their best to dazzle
your eyes through the dust and
grease on Mrs. Cuneo's hands.
Most of the cars stopped here for
gasoline and OILS, and when Mrs.
Cuneo's car stopped. she sprang
from her seat, removed the cush
ION that covered the gasoline tank
opened the tank, swung up a five
gallon can OF gasoline with all the
ease OF an athlete, and emptied
Its contents into her ear. after
which she opened the hood, ex-
amined the engine, and carefully
oiled every part of the machin-
cry needing attention, not trust
ing the slightest detail of lnspec-
ton to any one else. OF course,
her husband was with her, but
ne was practically guest Of hon
or as far As this trip was con-
cerned, for If there was to be any
winning done by that car, Mrs.
Ouneo proposed TO have the cred.
it-all to herself. Mrs. Cuneo
drove Rainier, and her home 10
In New York.
Mrs. Shirley lives IN James
town, n. r., and is doing her first
driving in the Gldden tour this