The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
WILL KEEP EN- BUSY
AUTOISTS ON THE TOUR WILL
NOT LACK FOR PLEASURE.
Minneapolis Has Arranged a Handsome
Reception for the Gliddenites; Sew
eral Thousand Dollars Have Been
Raised for the Entertainment
Fund; Jamb0ree Of Enthusiastic
Welcome for Visitors.

| welcome for Visitors.
Since the Giidden tourists traversed
French Canada and drove down through
Maine, in 1906, and found everywhere
along the route the countryside alive
with the populace from fifty miles
around to welcome them, there has
not been in the conditions so much
invitation for non cOntesting cars to
join this annual classic, just for the
sport of it, as there is this year.
Almost it wonld be worth while going
along for the sake of participating
in the festivities being arranged at
Minneapolis, where two days are to be
/ spent. AT Denver, where two days
more are to be put in, there will be
another iamboree of enthusiastic well
come, alone worth the price of admis-
| sion.
Fine Doings in Minneapolis.
The citizens or Minneapolis, headed
by the Minneapolis Automobile club,
have raised fund of several thousand
dollars and appointed committee of
entertainment, headed by Colonel F.
M. Joyce, president of the state as
ISOLATION, to give the tourists large
time. 1t will astonish some eastern
motorists to learn that the Mime
sofa A. A. A. is now the second larg-
est state organization in the country.
At Denver the same preparatory con-
ditions prevail as at Minneapolis and
at every night stop along the route
! there is promised a rousing welcome.
as follows:
Program in Minneapolis.
Friday, July l6-Reception of tour
lists and escort to hotels.
Saturday, July l7-Forenoon-Trip
in chartered trolley cars to Minnehaha
Falls and Fort Smelling, where spec
ial dress parade and guard mount will
be held. Afternoon-Special train leav-
ing Union station at two o'clock for
Savage, Mimi, where special matt
nee race will be held between Dan
Patch and Minor Heir, the two fastest
|
these champions, the International
Stock Food Farm. Evening, eight
o'clock, illuminated automobile parade
for the visitors through the city and
over the parkways and boulevards
Governor John A. Johnson, Charles J..
Glidden and Frank B. Hover will act
as judges to award the prizes to the
contestants in the parade.
/ The Sunday Plans
Sunday, July Is, 9 a. m.-Automo.
bile trip to Lake Minnetonka; 10 a..
M, cruise around upper lakes in char
tered steamer; l p. M, dinner at
Ionka Bay hotel; 2 p. M, automobile
trip through the country near Lake
Mlnnetonka; p. M, automobile Coun-
try club, where buffet lunch will be
served and band concert by the Fort
Smelling band enjoyed.
Monday, July l9-Escort by club
members of the tourists on the road
to Mankato.
Secretary E. L. Ferguson of the
A. A. A. contest board will be on the
tour and will have charge, under
Chairman Hover, of the arrangements
for the tourists.
The local auto club will give the
tourists a hearty welcome ON their
arrival here
Will Scatter Confetti
Rochester Post and Record: Georoe
{. Phillips has received two barrels of
confetti or about 500 pounds to be kept
IN his custody until needed. 1t is for
the use of the Glidden tour which will
pass through Rochester on the 10th of
this month. There will be over a hum
bred automobiles in the procession which
will travel from Detroit to Denver. A
pilot car will go out ahead of the 9th.
ers and it will follow the path decided
upon last spring by the pathfinder car
which went through here when the
roads were in pretty bad condition.
From the pilt car will be scattered
the confetti which is of the stringy kind
in order that it may not blow away
or get covered up with dust. The au-
tomobiles which follow can keep to the
| right road by following the confetti.