The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21
CONTESTING CARS
REACH BAL TIMORE
Great Welcome Is Given
Tourists in the Monu-
mental City.
mo ACCIDENTS MAR
FIRST LAP OF TRIP
Fast Ruiz Made by Machine Delay
ed in Leaving Capital-Off
TO Philadelphia.
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went into the game when II was young.
and has stuck to Il ever since.
An advance agent left yesterday 70
complete the hotel arrangements. but
hotel arrangements are never completed.
and when the party OF Ii5 people light
into a city to spend the night Mr.. Nc
Cord Is going TO be the most sought
after man in the bunch, and IL viii be
up TO him TO act as the general fiXer
for all who have griefs.
From the Munsey Building the tourists
proceeded on = street TO Thirteenth
street, down which they turned into
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. Around the Capt.
tol they went and out Maryland avenue
10 the Bladensburg road. the honorary
escort of police tipping them of where
there were special speed regulations. a s
at Fifteenth and II streets northeast,
where four miles an hour is the limit
the route were hardly needed for AS
sistant Pilot Engle had dealt out the
confetti with excellent judgment.
Dust Is an Evil.
The Bladensburg road and the boule-
ward beyond Hyattsville almost to
Laurel proved too strong a temptation
TO the more ardent motorists, and they
hit up lively clip. The roads were
dry. and cars in the rear had to be ex-
tremely careful for fear Of running
down a rival who was buried in a cloud
Of dust caused by the passing of two
cars. No rain has fallen IN the last two
or three days around Washington, and
the Munseyites got all the dust they
could digest. Up in the hill country
where the thank zee mum gets In its
deadly work the dust Will be a more
important and dangerous FACTOR than
In any other section All the tourists
were cautioned again and again TO be
on their guard for this lurking evil in
the road. for II has caused a number of
accidents 70 Washington and Baltimore
autoists IN the past. especially in the
way OF broken springs.
Bladensburg and Hyattsville took a
keen interest in the long line of cars
that came bowling through their quiet
precincts The people are accustomed to
autos thereabOuts. for they are coming
and going all day. but when thirty or
more arrived. one almost on top OF the
other, they woke up. then remembered
that Il was the Munsey run-they read
The Times out there with commenda HE
and profitable diligence-and gave the
autoists the glad hand. The turns to
the left in Bladensburg and the fork
at the trolley crossing in Hvattsvire
were negotiated without trouble with
the aid Of the confetti, and even with
out that the official book OF the run
made Il perfectly clear in what direction
the driver should steer
Genuine Stuff.
Following the boulevard beyond Ffy-|
attsville was like taking candy from
baby. but where the boulevard ended
in the neighborhood of Contee Station,
the Munseyites hit the real, genuine
Maryland dust, and Il stuck by them
until they had finished with the cordu-
roy road that leads onto the boulevard
again ana into Laurel where more
cheers and good wishes from the natives
were received. The pilot car had hus-
tied through two hours before. causing
some comment, but the arrival Of the
main line aroused much enthusiasm.