New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
HOW THE WILD CALLS TO THE
LOVER OF AUTO TOURING
Delights of SIashing Spins Through the Open
Country. Free from the Mandates of
Time Tables and Beaten Paths.
MAN IN THE CAR GETS CLOSE TO NATURE.
7rro of the Road Pass Apay wth Grooming Warness of
Automobiles and Their Greater Number.

chooses, will he find himself spinning toward
Connecticut and through its villages and towns
toward Boston, with glimpse now and then Of
the silver Sound and occasionally stretch
that is right upon the waters edge, or running
up in Westchester. through Yonkers and Tarry-
town, PeekskU and Poughkeepsie toward Al
bany with scarcely minute when the Hudson.
with its changing scenery. is out Of sight.
Suppose the man with the car wants more
than a days run. Suppose he wants to cut
loose from the world for a time. and forget
hotels and places were one eats what French
cook has decided upon. Let him look about him.
then at the cars he may see this week and next.
Here is one that will suit him. perhaps. 1t has
room for a pair of berths better than he Will
find in most Pullman cars, These fold into
seats by day. precisely as a sleeping car.
Here is a stove. a folding Misunderstanding,
in a word, one needs. A trunk. or two or three
will find ample room about the car and the
owner Of such palace on wheels need concern
himself not at aIl as TO where he shall sleep or
eat when night draws and no town is in
sight
Men have started on a tour in such a car with
gasolene enough to carry them a good many
hundred miles. They take a tent along, and their
life is the apotheosis of the camping out that
seems TO appeal to something in the nature OF
every American 1t is glorious enhaHcti'i'''iA
Of the pleasures Of camping out TO be able 70
break camp at VIII and to rest one night a hun
dred miles from the place where the breakfast
bacon was cooked with the trout that stream
Yielded iust after sunset the night before.
Touring does not demand such luxurious
equipment however. A man may own a run
about and travel for weeks for less than II would
cost him to stay at home There is the beauty
OF the sport There never such an instru-
ment TO promote democracy One might look
for exclusiveness on the part Of a man VIII"
shares the road in his $4,000 car with run
about but one would be disappointed. Let the
man in the rlnabout be In distress. and he viii
find his richer brother cheerfully pausing to give
him the help Of his high priced chauffeur and
glad enough TO accept the cheerful return Of
the favor the next day or the next week So it
goes All good automobilists become brothers
of the road when once the longing for the road
has seized them and there is no escape from the
microbe and no cure for its ravages.
WHAT TOURING MEANS TO MANY.
Touring can be made easy by the selection of
routes that have been mapped out and charted
and covered with signposts by the clubs and
: the associations. But il hold adventure
even so and it cen he made to hold much more
bv the simple expedent of plunging off into
nowhere and taking up trip uncharted and IN
tried The man whose time Is his own can md
new country in that way. Now and then he
/ will take the wrong road, and then backward ne
must turn But what a Joy there is in the turn