The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-04
TOURISTS In CHARLOTTE
End the First Week With Increasing
~ Enthusiastic Receptions-Speed
Excels Schedule Time-North Caro-
Lima Wild With ,Jov

charlotte, n. c., Special.-With the
stars and Stripes ahoat on ccaseless
oreezes, emblem of the common nat
iohaEty OF TIE North and the Soutil
which their tour is destined to bind
with closer and more enduring ties.
81 automobiles of modern make
ending six-days' journay of more
than 600 miles from the metropolis of
the nation somewhat weary and worn
stopped Saturday evening in the me-
tropolis of North Carolina. The
cheers OF thousands of watching peo-
pie and the glad hand of hundreds
more bade the participants in The
New York Herald-Atlanta Journal
good roads tour, en- route from New
ork to Atlanta, welcome to Char
lotte and to Dixie
In the language of Mr.. w. T. Wa
tiers OF the staff of The Atlanta Jour
nal IN the story which he Sunday
night wired his paper:
IF the good roads tour of The At
lanta Journal and The New York
herald has been met with ovations
growing more enthusiastic with each
mile OF southward progress until Sat
urday, the receptions which were ac-
corded 1t on Saturday defy descrip-
,lon. Nothing even half so cordial
had been anticipated. Its movemert
on Saturday from Winston-Salem 20
charlotte, 13S miles, has stirred the
whole western half of North Carolina.
lis progress has been attended by
such widespread and intense welcome
that 1t seems as if nothing could equal
II. Yet so it seemed OH Friday. On
Thursday 1t looked as though the
hgh-water mar of enthusiasm hal
been reached.
'Winston-Salem babe the tourists
rousing farewell, and passed them
on through Greensboro to High Point.
where all business was supendcd
while the whole city did honor to the
Gusty visitors. Thomasville indus
tries and chair manufactures gave all
their employees holiday while the tour
lists were passing. Lexington feasted
them upon barbecue and flattered
them with an ovation that represent
cd not only the city itself but the
whole county of Davidson. Automo-
biles from Winston-Salem, thirtv-two
III number, met them again in LcXinc-
Ion. Other automobiles gathered at
Lexington from High Point and
greensboro. The way of the tour to
Salisbury was preceded and followed
by flying squadron of automobile
escorts, and still on through Sails
bury to Charlotte, where many of the
nnnt1ia1n1
Saturday night. Salisbury begged the
tour to stop a few moments and par.
take of refreshments and finally COM
promised by putting the refreshments
IN the ears. Salisbury had already
extended the courtesies of the toll
bridge over the Yadkin river to th,
tourists, every official car being pass
ed with 4 cheer by the toll keepers.
China Grove, Lands, Kannapolis,
Concord and Newell suspended every
thing to give rousing acclaim to the
passing tourists. Charlotte turned
out as never before and gave the good
roads Amy royal welcome.'
TO the Maxwell Toy Tonneau of
Marietta, Ga. belongs the distinction
OF achieving the best speed of the dav
Saturday. 1t accomplished the allot-
ted distance in = hours and 33 minucs,
or in l hour and 81 minutes less than
the time in which it was scheduled to
cover it. A close second was fur
niShed by Mr.. jacques Futrellc. the
well-known writer of Scituate. Mass.
who is driving his own car and
is accompanied by his wife ard
two children. He made the distance
in hours and 46 minutes-a differ
ence of 16 minutes.
Refreshed by the first days rest
afforded by their long itinerary and,
judging from their freely expressed
comments, entirely delighted with
Charlotte and the entertainment Of
forded them here, approximately $50
automobilists journeying in 81 cars
form the nations New York to the
New York of Dixie early Monday
morning glided out across several
leagues Of the finest roads they have
experienced since they left the valley
IF the Shenandoah. For more than
SO hours they have been in a very
real and manifest sense the guests of
the city of Charlotte and for not one
single moment has that fact been al
lowed to slip from their minds.