The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-07-31
To FIND
GOOD AUTO ROAD
To SAVANNAH
PATHFlNDERs HAD NOVEL Ex-
PERIENcE TRYING TO REACH
THAT CITY.
Fell in Greeks, Got Lost in Woods,
Ran Out of Gasoline, and Had
Other Difficulties in Trying to Make
the Trip.

The Jacksonville pathfinding car,
which was in this city enroute to
Savannah Wednesday, has at last
reached Its destination, and the party
who were in charge of the car had
an experience which will likely llnger
long in their memory. The Savannah
! News of yesterday had two columns
a60ut the trip, and among other
things it said:
SWIMMING through lagoons, sink
Ing up to the tenders in mud, and
running the machine on whisky when
the gasoline gave out, are but a few
/ Incidents connected with the trip of
the pathtinding automobile sent to
/ Savannah from Jacksonville by The
Metropolis and which reached the
Morning News office last night at $50
o'clock
f Experiences that one would hardly
encounter on transcontinental trip
We're found at almost every turn. The
distance travelled by the machine,
which was operated by f. G. Miller
and E. G. Moore, totalled 22S miles
| AT the Seven mile bridge on the
! OgeecEee river party from Savan-
nan was waiting late in the afternoon
to meet the pathfinding car and es-
coct it into the city.
Runs Out of Gasoline.
Between the Ogeechee and the
/ 1 icU a nf
line gave out, the calls upon it hay-
ing been for much more than wa
anticipated because OF the slow speed
necessary in going over the bad
roads. Mr.. Miller and H. G. Norman
who accompanied the party from
Wa.thOuryille, left the machine in
care of Mr. Moore and started to walk
to Savannah for help. A passing Sea-
board freight train was hailed, and
a message brought to T. A. Bryson
that resulted in the replenishing of
the gasoline tank by 7.30 o'clock at
night. 1t was at this point that a
half-pint of whisky purchased from
an old negro along the road, was
/ emDtied into the machines tank and
used to run the motor for two miles.
The auto left Jacksonville We'd
nesday morning at 4.45 o'clock. The
first stop was made at Callahan. On
account of the muddy roads at this
point the tire chains were put on.
Between Jacksonville and Callahan no
creeks or streams of any size were
crossed, and the road is generally
, in fair condition in dry weather AT
Kings Ferry deep sand was encoun.
tered. This gave the party no trou-
BILE, but after crossing the muddy
roads made the going anything but
/ pleasant A tire chain and the rear
lamp went down in the mud between
Kings Ferry and Owens Ferry. The
( first crosses the st. Marys river and
the latter the Satilla
The Stop at Brunswick.
brunswick, 103 miles from jack
/ sonville, was reached at IL o'clock
in the morning. An hours stop was
made for lunch and taking on sup
! ply of gasoline. Much difficulty was
! found in getting directions from
Brunswick to Barringtons ferry across
| the Altamaha river. This ferry Is
said to be twenty-five miles from
Brunswick, but a mistake in roads
was made by Mr.. Miller and forty
eight were registered before the ferry
could be reached.
| "A lagoon of the Altamaha was
reached Wednesday afternoon at 2.45
o'clock. Although man living near
the lagoon told Mr.. Miller and Mr..
/ Moore that water had entered buggy
that went through the lagoon during
the morning, they plunged in any
how. This was about thirty feet
wide, and when not ten feet from the
/ far shore the water rose up into the
, engine and drowned the motor. The
men in the car stripped and tried
to push the car out OF the position
that threatened delay and inconYen-
lence. They found the mud too deep
to move the auto an inch. A &c. a.
ID" was given by the firing Of reyol-
yers. and after waiting few minutes
for help they went out on a hunt foi
someone to help. A half mile from
the lagoon three mon were employed
and tne combined efforts got the ma
chine into shallow water,
Cauoht in Second Lagoon.
"The motor started again, but onl!
to get drowned in a second lagoon
100 feet away. The same men tha
helped. get 1t from the first lagoon
came to the rescue again. For hal
mile mad that was like butter il
the summer was gone through
"a er Getting across the river
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