Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-23
Arrive at Bethlehem From
Range|ey Lakes.
Rain Spells Roads and Makes
Days Trip a Hard One.
Will Leave This Morning For Last
Run, to Saratoga.

Rangeley. Me-. July pa trying days
RIM was the lot of the participants in to-
days, the last but one, fnstalment of the
Gldden automobile tour, the course lying
over 100 miles Of irregular roads through
the Rangeley lakes and White mountain
region, with the little town of Bethlehem,
N. H., situated high among the hills, as
the destination Of the days touring. The
deeply rutted roads which made yester-
days rur the most uncomfortable of the
tour. were again among the difficulties to
be encountered, and 1t was expected that
the parts Of many automobiles would give
wav under the strain, as was the case
yesterday.
TIE running time Of 6 hours and 80 min
utes which had been allowed for covering
the l2O miles of mountain roads necessi-
tated speed of 20 miles an hour or more,
so that there might be spare time to draw
upon in the event of accidents. such as
cost the Bay State team its standing
among the leaders yesterday.
With the conclusion of today's run there
will remain but one day of touring to fin
determine the winning team. but should
the three -correred tie remain unbrokcn
the automobiles will continue around the
crcnit until an automobile in one of the
teams gives way. Tomorrow's run, which
will bring the cars to the arranged finish
at Saratoga. N. Y. is of lS5 miles, COM
pleting the total of 1870 miles for the Il
days of touring.
,S,j,, 11tp in
Ing. the first one not getting away until
73O All started but Stoddard car
which WAS found TO be unable to com
plete the course and was run seven miles
to Oquossoc station, there to be shipped
home. Another car progressed only as
far as Rangeley village. where it was
found it could not make the first big hill!
owing to the chains not fitting the tires.
A heavy shower changed the roads,
which are all clay, into the worst kind of
mud ana the hill climbing proved to be
the most trying of any on the trip Mrs
John Cnnco, the only woman driving =
car in the tour, did not put on tire chains
for this hill and nearly failed to reach
the top, the rear wheels skidding She
was successful finally. There some
talk of pushing through to Breton
Woods, N. H., tonight in order to shorten
tomorrows run.
The car to be shipped home via Oquos-
soc was the Stoddard Dayton. No. 100.
driven by A. c. Miller. The one delayed
bv trouble with tire chains was Marmon,
No. ~. which came Ina 4 few minutes late
yesterday and put the Bay State team
out of the four-cornered contest for clean
scores. The chains were spced in such
n manner th1t the car prOcpp1ea at p 20
O'Clock. The cars were in much better
condition than those in the tour two years
are. when two three were unable to
proceed beyond here. A piece of cherry
tree was serving for q broken spring in
one of the cars today.
Sinclair House. Bethlehem, n. H., July
22-Tho Glidden tourists arrived here
at 80 o'clock this afternoon headed
by Chairman B. r. Whoever. Although
the rainy day schedule governed the
runs on account of the bad roads from
the rain of the night before the going
was unusually good. and some of the
drivers made the 1870 miles in a little
over five hours.
The run was repleta with accidents
and subsequent penalizations. Over
in mud hole four miles out from
Rangeley and has not yet arrived.
Oakland car. No. 2S. broke front
and the front and rear axle truss rods
and arrived here nine minutes late.
Marmon. No. %. which became stalled
near Rangeley yesterday. smashed a
rear wheel near North Bethel and is
withdrawn from the contest. penaliZ-
ing the Bay State team 33 1-3 addi-
tional points. Studebaker car. No. Is,
coIided with a bridge rail OF Sher-
burne. but escaped serious damage.
Odsmobile No. IS. skidded into gull
ley near Rangeley and bent its rear
axle. Other minor mishaps befel REQ.
No. 4. Garford. No. 90. Studebaker.
No. "a. and Franklin. No r.
The tourists will start tomorrow
morning at o'clock instead Or I
o'clock. The cars will be checked out
in the order of their entry for the
tour. the chairman preceding them by
half an hour. but conducting them in
Saratoga.
Three teams still remain clear scores
in the Glidden contest. including the
Buffalo team of Great ArrOr cars, the
Columbus team of Fearless cars and
the Chicago team of one Oldsmobile and
two Haynes cars The five cars also
retain perfect scores in the Hover con-
test. including two Great Arrow cars.
one Premier and Stoddard Dayton.
The DeBeers Co. on July 81. iwll
ShOt down tho DeRaarS diamond mine