Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20
MOTORISTS WILL
ENCIRCtE GLOBE
FIVE THOUSAND MILES AL
READY ARE TRAVELLED
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILES
AWAIT AUTOISTS
Mr.. and Mrs. n. A. Hover Expect to
Visit Nearly Every Country of
World Before Return to
California

With 5000 miles already trav-
eled, III. A. Hover and wife have
delayed their worldwide motor
trip that Mr.. Hover might re-
turn from New York to this city
on business. When he returns
the latter part of this month they
will sail for Algiers and begin the
foreign part of their travels,
which will make the total mile
age for the entire tour.
While Mr.. Hover was in Los
Angeles the past week he told the
following story of his trip across
the continent from the south to
the north and from the west to
the east, dipping the wheels OF
the automobile into the waters OF
the Pacific and the Atlantic;
BY H. A. HOVER
II was to regain my health that my
wife and I began to take automoplle
trips. and the pleasure of 1t growing
upon us, 1t did not take long to decide
a most delightful, worldwide trip
could be made that would not only pc
a great pleasure, but most instructive
trip as well from an educational stano-
point: but in addition is the ambition
on our parts to accomplish something
that never before has been attempted
on such a large scale. 1t is the desire
of accomplishment, l think, That Is our
greatest incentive in making the jour
-. in k.,Ir
for six years and lead us into strange
places and among strange people.
To make the transcontinental trip
complete, we left Los Angeles in March
and went to Tia Juana, the southwest
ernmost part of the United States, and
then began our travels north, through
this state and into oregon ana WASH
jngton.
The many beauties of our own state
are so well known / will not dwell on
them, but will say that with the ex-
ception of some steep grades in the
Sislxiyou mountains we have the best
roads to be found in any state that
lies west of Chicago.
The roads in Oregon were miserable
for many miles, but there was only one
stretch Of twenty-four miles that we
had to secure outside assistance to get
our car through. For that distance of
little more than a score of miles we
passed two days and had the car
hitched to a team of horses all of the
time.
It was not so much the car could not
get through, but the road was so rough
and full of obstacles it was easier to
use horses Even then We broke one
spring, but that was not faring as badly
as a mortorist who preceded us and
whose car had every spring broken and
an axle put out of commission.
All of that road was in Douglas coun-
ty, and the commissioners there should
be censured because OF their laxity in
repairing roads. 1t does not seem to
be on account of poverty roads are in
bad condition, but through sheer neg
lect and Incidence.
With the proper building of 300 miles
of road between here and Chicago there
would not be the slightest trouble for
any average motor car to make a trip
to New York with ease and compare
tive comfort.
Oregon Roads Are Difficult
It probably will convey an impression
of the condition of some of the roads
in Oregon when I say that it took
seven men six days to get a motor car
twenty-four miles over the strip Of