Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-26
0khH0GS ARE BES|EB
COUNCIL BLUFFS BEATS RIVAL
OUT OF oLlDpEN TOUR
HoNoRs.
SHARP CONTEST BETWEEN
CITIES FOR CONTROL STATION
F0rty-thrse Cars Enroute West Decide
to Come Thru Portion Of Iowa on
Trip-Extensive Preparation. Being
Made for Entertainment Of Tourist.
-omaha's seIfishness Loses.
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Special to Times Republican,
Council Bluffs, June 26.-An impene-
trable gloom has enveloped the auto
mobile owners and sports in Omaha.
all because that city Is not to- be a
stopping place on the tour OF the Glid-
den race from New York to the Pa
cific coast, Council Bluffs having been
named as Control No. by the officers
of the association under which the
tour is to be run. The chagrin of the
Omaha autoists Is all the moro em-
barrassing because Of the fact that
early In the game, when the Bluffs
auto enthusiasts proposed to Omaha
that Joint arrangements be made for
entertaining the Glidden tourists, the
Omaha people would not give the
Council Bluffs people pleasant look.
There are several reasons for the
defeat Of the hopes Of the Omaha peo-
pie In monopolizing the time and at.
tention of the Glidden tourists. Prin-
cipal in this is the fact that there is
no state association in Nebraska Of au-
tomobile owners and drivers. while in
Iowa there is a strong Organization,
composed Of men who are alive and on
the spot all the time Omaha had been
named as the point of control for this
section of the race. Council Bluffs had
been told that 1t was no use; that
they could not hope to get in.
6Iuffs Men Go East.
After canvassing the situation and
ascertaining that the Omahogs would
not make concessions, different mem
bers Of the Council Bluffs automobile
association made trips TO the east in
the interests of this city. George s..
Wright, C. R. Hannah and others made
personal visits to New York and Bos-
ton and altho at first the eastern
managers Of the tour pointed out OBJ
jections to making Council Bluffs a
point Of control in the race, all were
in time overcome and the name of the
Council Bluffs was substituted for that
Of Omaha.
Extensive preparations are being
made for entertaining and caring for
the occupants of the forty-three cars
which will pass thru the Bluffs on the
day and night Of July p and July %.
A dozen committees from the Council
Bluffs Automobile Club are at work
and the city officials and citizens are
cooperating. The tourists will be en-
tertained and cared for at Lake Man.
ava and In the city. The city council
donated $3.50 for police protection for
the machines Of the autoists, all OF
which will be parked on the four sides
of Bayliss park, in the center of the
city, the streets having been ordered
vacated during the time by the city
council. The parking ground will be
roped off and will not be open to the
public. The rules of the tour do not
require that the cars shall be housed,
but must be parked together each night
under an official known as the "Chief
Observer"
Expect Hundreds Of Visitors.
Already accommodations have been
secured at local hotels by automobile
owners from different sections of the
state and party from Denver, which
is to escort the Glidden tourists from
the Bluffs to that city, will also be
here. A few liberal minded Omaha
autoists who have recovered from the
sting Of defeat have been asked to join
and have accepted invitations to assist
in the entertainment here. Only a
fieeting glimpse Of Omaha will be had
by the tourists as they pass thru there.