Arizona republican., 1909-04-12
ROOSEVELT TRIP PROVED
 FULL OF PERTURBATION
RESUME OF vlcIssiIUoEs THAT
 HAPPENED TO AUTO PARTY.
Car Refused to Budee and Discus sion of the Dam Was
 Resumed.

| The trlp rom Mesa 10 Roosevelt
 by auto is supposed to be one of the finest four hours run that can
 be made in the United States. In l fact, the road is advertised as be- 1 ing the finest automobile road in America, and furthermore, those who | make it their business to keep track of such things state without hesita-
 tion that this is the very best time of the year to make the trip.
 It was with these ideas firmly fixed that induced H. H. Mayberry of the National Bridge company and
 H. l.. Smith of the Union Iron Works, both Los Angeles men, who are here in the interests of their companies in regard to the bridge contract, and Attorney George W. Silverthorne and Lionel B. Johnson to make the trip.
 The start was made under rather discouraging circumstances, for the party had just reached the High land canal when a spring under the car broke and they were compelled to return to Mesa for repairs II there had been ladies in the party they would have insisted that every one return to their homes, sit down and count ten, and thus remove the spell that seemed destined to entwine itself around the party of information and pleasure seekers bound for Roosevelt. At any rate the repairs were made and the trip be- gun anew: Vicissitudes filled the way. The dam was pronounced by the engineers in the party as one ot the greatest feats they had ever seen attempted, and they often had occasion to use the word on their return trip.
 One of the features of the occa- sion was that the automobile refused 10 budge. as they sometimes do, and the only thing was to unload the bal last and start it in that way. In under to better understand the pre- licament it might be well to ex- plain that none of the gentlemen, with possibly the exception of the chauffeur. are of Hambletonian or roadster stock, and Messrs. May berry and Smith are strictly in the draught class, the former gentleman weighing no less than 25o pouhds' dressed.
  for Saturday afternoon and Messrs. Mayberry and Smith were featured in do some of the important talk ing. Saturday noon arrived and the party was several miles to the east of Mesa. all afoet and alone No Pharisee even passed on the other side. Freight teams were met ana on one or two occasions 1t is said that the gentlemen threatened to gel on and ride in the other direction inst for the sake of traveling Dy means other than their own energy which was by this time becoming saRged and worn through the Inning No birds sang the tuneful melodles that were noticed on the trip up ana instead, high overhead huge black buzzards hung suspended Tn mlu-alr waiting the hour when they would foraclose Breakfast was had at 6:30 o'clock Saturday morning Walking and more especially excessive walk ing to man who never walks, creates fatigue and hunger-the hun ger that gnaws. This hunger came on. It approached as gently as pos sible. but there was not man III the gang who did not feel per sonal interest in the presence of u. The mountain streams were full or water. and the water quenched thelr thirst. but sometimes even Mo- hammed would have experienced dll- faculties in going to the mountain II he could not get it to come to hlm. Some men are not peculiarly fitted for every test that may be put up to them, and so it was with MT. Mayberry when he vainly tried to drink from a mountain stream in the only original method, that of lying on his vest front and looking down into the Iimpid waters at his like ness below.
 There is little use to dwell upon the yicfssitudes that overtake men and that men overtake. The mass meeting at the Mesa Opera house above referred to had hardly been in progress an hour when the four gentlemen walked in. Their hair hung down on their foreheads after the style of Napoleon Bonaparte or the young American late to Sunday school after trip to the "swimmin hole" Anyway, the men saw the Roosevelt dam and they got back to the meeting in plenty of time, and after all that was what they start
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