Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-06
PATHFINDER
CAR DELAYED
Famous Gar Expected 10 Arrive In
Mountain Home About
Sunday

From latest reports the Thomas
Pathfinder car will not reach Noun
tain Home until about Saturday or
Sundy. Owing to the extremely bad
roads leading into the state from the
east several break downs have oc-
cured which has delayed the car con-
siderably. 1t reached Pocatello and
left there for Twin Falls. Some
where in the Twin Falls country the
steering apparatus became entirely
wrecked and new parts were decided
necessary and consequently the car
delayed awaiting their arrival. Re-
ferring to the trip of the car into
Idaho the Pocatello Tribune gives the
following interesting account:
The car is 60 horse power Thomas
Flyer, and is the one that won the
celebrated New York-to- Paris race
last year, in which marvellous journey
it was driven by the same man who
now mans the steering wheel in the
pathfinding trip across the continent.
The object of the trip at this time
is to cruise out route for the race
which has been promoted by M. Rob-
ert Guggenheim. the millionaire au-
tomobilist of New York About 25
cars have already been entered in this
race and will start from New York
City on June by signal that will
be given at the same moment the
Seattle exposition is formally opened
by the touching Of an eletcric button
at Washington by President Taft.
The ST. Louis Post Dispatch will
give $1,000 to the first car that arrives
at Seattle and other towns will also
give smaller purses, while the driver
of the first car into Seattle will be
given $500 in cash by the exposition
management
Four registration or checking sta
tions have been established in Idaho,
at Montpelier, Pocatelo. Twin Falls
and Boise.
When the Pathfinder arrived in Po-
|
a big crowd of curious people. The
car is a dilapidated looking a affair,
but it must be remembered that if it
suddenly went all to pieces in heap
like the wonderful one hoss shay, it
would still be considered one of the
finest cars ever made. considering the
many thousands of miles it has trav-
eed and the rigid tests it has been
subjected to. Attached to the ton
neau and sides of the car are scores
of labels from important towns in
this and foreign countries, and flags
decorate the rear of the car, detail
ing its mission.
The Pathfinder is about two weeks
behind its schedule. 1t arrived at
Montpelier last Tuesday, and it has
therefore required six days to make
the trip to the Gate City, a distance
of one hundred miles The first
breakdown of the entire trip from
New York occurred short distance
this side of Georgetown, at which
point the knuckle of the steering gear
gave way. Repairs were made and
and the following morning left for
Soda Springs, running into the worst
stretch of roadway on the trip. Fin
ally the car reached Soda, stopped
over night and started out on the west
bound trip. About a mile this side
of the Fizz Water town it bumped in
to washout and again broke the
steering gear. The broken part was
brought to Pocatello and repaired in
the railroad shops here and taker
back to Soda Springs. Again the
trip began and the going was gooc
until point a short distance east
of McCammon was reached, when fol
third time the steering apparatus
broke. Repairs were again made al
taken back over the route. The car
started out for Pocatello day before
yesterday. but proceed only a shorf
distance when an axle broke. Fol
another time the break was repaired
in the Pocatello shops, and q new
start taken from the Junction towr
yesterday afternoon at rs. Every
thing went lovely until bad spot ir
the road was reached and the cal
mired. 1t required two hours to ex-
tricate it and arrival in Pocatello wa.
therefore del aged until o'clock.