The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-31
GLIDDEN TOURISTS
END ANNUAL TOUR
Chairman Hover and Donor OF
Trophy First to Cross
Finishing Line
Both Pilot Cars Give Out on the
Last Day of Grueling
Journey

KANSAS CITY, July s0.-The Amer
lean automobile associations sixth an
nual tour, and its most successful. was
officially completed at 5:o7 this after
noon, when Chairman Frank B. Howe's
car. Premier, bearing two pilots, three
other members of the contest board and
Charles j. Glidden, donor of the Gid
den trophy, dashed across the state line
into Kansas City.
Nine minutes later the first of the
contestants. a Pierce. entered the city.
and the others followed in rapid sue
cession.. On today's trip between Salina
and Kansas City both pilot cars gave
out.
The tourists were cheered by great
crowds as they drove through the
streets OF the city.
At the state line. where the cars were
checked in, nearly 500 automobiles wers
waiting to greet the tourists. Many
Kansas City enthusiasts drove to
points as far out as 20 and 80 miles
TO meet the sun burned, mud bespat-
tered tourists
All the cars will be carefully exam
ined by the technical committee Of the
must be considered before the winner
can be announced. It likely will be
several days before this work will be
completed.
AT a meeting of the city council of
Los Angeles held recently IL was de-
%--------------1 clded TO build
Big Road to road, in the shape
SANTA Monlca boulevard. to ex-
-. tend from the city
limits of Los Angeles at Pico street to
santa Monica by the Sea. The distance,
actually. is but a fraction over eight
miles. The route to be taken is in a
straight line over Fremont avenue,
Formerly Front street. 1t is proposed
that the boulevard be so feet wide
within the city limits, and even wider
when these confines are left behind.
The work will commence within the
next two or three weeks, and when
completed will greatly shorten the dis
lance between Los Angeles and Santa
Monica, as it is now travelled on ac-
count of being straight, while at pres
ent IL is one series of turns and crooks.
NOTES of THE AUTO
All the details for the first big ex-
nlDition OF motor cars to take place in
the south have been completed. and
the application blanks for the National
automobile show, as the exhibition is
called, will be issued in a few days
The event will take place in Atlanta
Georgia, from November s to Is. Coinci-
dent with the holding of the show will
be the opening of the new automobile
track, now being constructed. A pro
gram has been arranged, including a
track meet, endurance contests through
the various counties of Georgia, and a
reliability trip from New York to At
lanta. Handsome prizes will be
awarded TO the winners of these events
M. P. WEIGH. agent for the White
motor cars at Central Point, Oregon
takes his prospects on some strenuous
demonstrations One of his Iatest
stunts is to drive the 20 horsepower
White steam car up TO Crater lake
over the worst hills in southern Oregon
The highway experts of the office Of
public roads in the department of agri-
culture in Washington have estimated
that the direct saving TO the farmers
or this country from properly CON
structed roads will amount 10
$250,000.000 annually.