Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-23
{. M. F. IS NOW
ON RETURN TRIP
DENVER GIVES PATHFINDERS
HEARTY WELCOME
Driver Meinzinger Tells of Remark
able Work Done by Car on Its
Equally Remarkable
Trip

! DENVER, Colo, May 22.-E. M. F
! Glidden pathfinder and Denver Motor
| club Studebaker escort car arrived al
| Denver in splendid condition. Ten cars
| carrying party of enthusiasts met the
| pathfinder party forty miles out and
escorted them into the city, where the
! Denver Motor club, $50 cars strong
greeted them with a band. There was
great enthusiasm over the completion
of the main portion of the Glidden
| pathfnding tour, and the car and occu-
pants were the heroes of the hour. In
order to make Denver in good time for
the reception they knew was awaiting
them, the pathfinder and its escort tore
off the miles between Fort Morgan and
Denver at fast clip. Starting at in
the morning, POS miles were covered by
! 2 o'clock-pretty good going for car
! that has been through four weeks of as
| hard work as the e. Nj. F.-30 has just
undergone. The roads from Fort Nor
gan were fairly good, with heavy sand
in places and heavy grades all the way
| to the Mile High City.
That night the pathfinders were en-
tertained at a banquet at the Albany
hotel. Two hundred covers were laid
| and there was a hot time, for all Dem
yer is overjoyed at being on the Glidden
route and at having the heroic path
| finder in the city.
Dd1 Lewis anu MS party SIiJOS GU Ollc
| day of rest and started on the last leg
of the course to Kansas City, Friday
morning.
Driver Meinzinger said: 81 wish I
could express in words what the car
| has gone through in the fuor weeks
since she started from Detroit For
two weeks we ran in rain and snow
| storms, and we happened to be right in
| the gumbo district. over 500 miles
were made on low gear and another 300
miles on intermediate. BY the time we
| reached Fort Dodge / had almost for
gotten I had a third speed in the
| transmission, I had used it so seldom
! From Fort Dodge to Denver, however
I the trip has been a Joy by comparison
with thet journey through Wisconsin
and Iowa.
ITO our surprise, the car does not APP
pear to have suffered at all from the
severe low gear work in the clay and
| gumbo. on successive days since leav-
ing Fort Dodge we have made SO, 100
lac, 1876, las and 2O5 miles.
| Il haven't had a spark plug out
haven't ground a valve or frightened a
bearing since leaving Detroit. One
drive pinion was replaced at Winona
| having been stripped in trying to jumI
the car a foot at time out of a quick
sand hole we sot into We didn't
change a tire till we got to Omaha, anc
| Llen we replaced the Two rear ones fis
a matter of precaution. We wanted t.
make time to Denver and didn't take
chances of a worn tire bursting. Al
Mankato, Mimi, we weighed the car
when she came in, covered with mud
and found that we were carrying 110(
pounds of gumbo. AS we have 50(
pounds of baggage and supplies. it vii
be seen we were carrying three-quar'
tiers of a ton besides the five passen-
bers-mysef, Mr.. Lewis. Photographer
Krohn and local pilot, which we always
picked up and carried from point tc
point. At times it made my heart ache
to nut the car into places Mr.. Levi:
ordered me to, but of course there was
nothing else for it, Every yard of the
road had to be traversed, and We
couldn't lie over for better weather OF
roads The work had to be finished ii
time to get the guide books printed fol
the tourists. Now | am glad we wen
through all we did. The car has proved
itself as no other ever has, for Mr.
Lewis says this trip was incompara
bly, worse than any other he has evel
been on, and he has been on them ALL