Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-25
WARM WELCOME
GIVEN TOURISTS.
GLIDDENlTES ARE PLEASED AT
WESTERN RECEPTION
. TALK OF BOSTON TO FRISCO FOR
NEXT ANNUAL RUN
First Trip West of the Mississippi
River Has Been to Date
an Unqualified
Success

Chairman Frank b. Hover Of the con-
test board of the American Automobile
association is satisfied that one perfect
score will be made in this years an
nual Glidden tour. Mr.. Hover has
already given the west clean score
for the cordial and hospitable manner in
which it has accepted and aided the
conduct of the biggest automobile tour
ing event in the history Of the country.
Everywhere along the 27O0-mile route
a. hearty reception will be accorded the
contestants if the welcome of the past
few days of the trip may be taken as
a. criterion. There is no diiiidence IN
the matter, no forced applause Dut
real genuine enthusiasm that greetS
the contestants at every village. nam
lei town CITY and cross road. The
farmers. with their open hearted inter-
est and support, have been the surprise
of the tour.
Western Tour Success
It was not without some apprehen-
sion from this quarter that the l9O9
GIidden tour was awarded to the west
So much had been said about the I'M
friendliness of the granger in the past
that Chairman Hover and his asso-
ciates at first thought the tour TINS
wear would be more or less of an eX-
pertinent to be tried on the western
farmer.
They learned, however, that the auto
mobile had already been adopted by
him, and that he is perhaps the most
enthusiastic witness of the event
which trayerses the highway running
along ths front or through his acreage.
Il am pleased and vindicated,' said
Mr. Hover, in speaking of the tour.
'There are those who scored AT the
idea of conducting a Glidden tour west
of the Mississippi river Some thought
the contestants would be the laughing
stock of a lot of agriculturists. or
would never get through the so-called
impossible roads of clay, sand and dirt
Ask any of the contestants or non
contestants how they have enjoyed the
trip.
They will uphold me in the statement
that never before has the annual tour
developed into such a pleasant under
taking. The tourists have found roads
that are bad in spots, to be sure, but
these rough conditions only add to the
strenuosity of the test and make the
event what it is meant to be-a relia-
bility run with the best cars MAIN
tanning the most likely chance of reg |
istering perfect scores"
Next Tour to Be Longer
Charles ]. Glidden, donor Of the tro-
ply, expressed the same sentiment as
the chairman of the tour. Mr.. Glidden,
in fact is so we'll pleased with the
progress of this years tour that he has
announced he win recommend to the
American Automobile association that
the contest next year be over a trans
continental route from Boston to san
Francisco.
The fact that this years Glidden is
qnT1rlptn TpfpptC n1III N
credit on the work of the Studebaker
EMF cars, which have played most
conspicuous part in the tour. Tt was
an EMF 30-horse power machine that
was adopted to lay out the route last
spring. This same make of car was
selected as the pilot and confetti ma |
chimes for the tour proper
The work of the EMF pathfndng
car is now matter of history but the
performance of the Studebaker EMF
pilot and confetti cars and the three
other machines. which are making the
tour from Detroit TO Kansas City as
non-contesting cars is of present mo-
ment.
Dai Lewis the official scout of the
A. A. A, laid out the route for the
present tour, as he did for the six pre-
ceding events. He is also acting in
the same capacity as pilot, as hereto
fore. No one is better able to judge
the merits of car than the pilot of a
Glidden tour. Mr.. Lewis is enthusiast
tic about the work Of the pilot and
confetti cars. the first named of which
he and Driver George Meinzinger oC-
cupies, and the other, which trails i'm
rnediately behind with M G. Reeves.
who scatters the confetti, as the chief
passenger.
Light Car Shows Well
II have been taught that the lighter
car, with medium horse power, is the
proper machine for pathtinding and
plotting" said Mr.. Lewis. with roads
in such execrable shape as during May
and June, I speak advisedly when l
say that no high-powered heavy ma
chine would ever have accomplished
what the EMF did in Michigan. Wis
consin, Iowa, Colorado and Missouri
There was never a road too deep in
mud sand, clay or gumbo that we
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