Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
HERE BY MONDAY NIGHT
Runners Reach Baltimore After Sew
eral Mishaps on Way.
MANY BOYS MAKE LONG RUNS
Gordon Leech Expected to Deliver
Missive to President by 1880
O'Clock Tomorrow Night.

The message to President Roosevelt
which 100 f1eet-footed Y. M. c. A. boys
are carrying from New York to the
White House in this city will not reach
here until tomorrow afternoon.
Owing TO delays along the route from
| New York to Wilmington the message
did not reach Baltimore until late last
evening. 1t will be kept in the Monu-
mental city over Sunday. Then the
Washington boys will take up the last
lap of the long journey.
The lads will leave Baltimore about $50
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon. 1t is ex-
pected Gordon Leech. the last message
carer. will dart up the roadway to the
front door of the White House before Z
O'Clock. The start is made at late
hour from Baltimore because the boys
department officials do not want to take
the lads from their school work.
Automobiles Are Needed.
Albert NJ. Chesey. in charge of the
Baltimore to Washington end of the
relay said last night:
with the volunteer assistance of auto
mobiles to distribute the boys along the
route Monday afternoon our Washington
fellows will cover the forty miles from
~ tilt w llTlC iiouSc III tiiltS
| hours.
Il don't know what We shall do if
some of our good friends with automo-
biles don't offer their services. We can
use AL that will help. Every additional
machine means the use of more boys.
shorter distances for the runners and
greater speed.
II hope forty will be offered by Monday
morning. We shall need them at various
hours between Il o'clock noon and S
o'clock at night.
The boys work committee of the Y
NJ. c. a. and a number of the man work
ers of the association will accompany
the groups OF runners. distribute them at
equal distances along the route, and see
that they are kept warm gathered to-
gether and brought to the city. We have
the systen-give us the automobiles.
THE following schedule will be adhered
to, and runners. automoblllsts and work.
ers are requested to join in the sport
Monday afternoon and show the cities
up the line how to carry message to
the President
twenty-five of the speedest lads will
report at the new Union station at I AZ
O clock Monday to go to Baltimore. Fifty
more will take special car at 40
o clock at 18th and G. streets for Laurel
from which point they will be sent in
automobiles to meet those coming from
Elkridge.
From AIS o'clock on the boys who
will relay the message from Laurel to
the White House will be sent out over
the electric line or in automobiles and
will be left along the roadway.
Every boy who runs the other side
Of 18th and II streets northeast is urged
to get back to town as soon as possible
after running his relay and join in the
chase down II street from 18th and III
streets northeast to the White House.
1t wouldn't be surprising if the whole
80 members handled the silver tube on
its way down II street. The message
should reach the President not later than
7:30 pm
Message Delayed on Way.
BALTIMORE, Md, November 21.-The
relayed message which is being carried
by hundreds of Y NJ G. A. boys from
New York to President Roosevelt at
Washington reached Baltimore at II 30
O'Clock tonight. 1t will be held here until
Monday morning when the run to the
destination will he resumed.
From Joppa. Md. twenty miles east
of Baltimore. the silver tube bearing the
communication from Richard c. Morse
of the International Y. NJ. c. A. in New
York to President Roosevelt was brought
to the Y. NJ. c. a. building here by Ralph
Connabe and Ferdinand Turnbuli. aged
about sixteen years, members OF Inc
junior department OF the Y. Nj. c. A. OF
Baltimore.
From Havre de Grace to Joppa. a dis
tance of twenty miles. fairly good time
was made despite the bad roads. At the
latter place the automobile bearing the
runners. who We're dropped off at every
quarter mile. broke down, and Connable
and TurnbulI volunteered to carry the
message to Baltimore. Bad roads and
darkness did not deter them.
Leaving JCpDa at 80 O'Clock, they
reached the Y. NJ. g. A. building. at
Cathedral and Franklin streets. at II: IA
O'Clock, tired and hungry. but happy over
their achievement. The distance covered
IN the four hours minus one minute was
about twenty miles, or half the distance
to Havre de Grace, for which 12f boys
had been provided.
II was expected the two plucky lads
would eventually come uo with others
who had been stationed along the route
from Baltimore eastward. But these lat
ter had evidently become tired. owing to
the long wait and the falling darkness
and had deserted. as none of them was
met with