The Washington times., 1909-08-18
HUNSEY TOURISTS
REACH BROADWAY
Pathfinder Follows Dizzy
Route Into New York
City.
LAND IN QUARRIES
FOLLOWING ADVICE
Believe Competitors Will Not Have
Any Trouble Along Long
Island.
By THOMAS S. RICE.


NEW YORK, Aug. D-New York at
last
Il has been called hard town to
break into but If you try to break into
it by the shore route from Bridgeport
you will call Il worse than that.
Whether the Munsey scouts would
have mapped the road here before next
Christmas without assistance is a ques-
ton, and also a problem. on Monday
they received the advice Of two crazy
men and the straight tip Of a son Of
Beelzebub, who had never been over
the road except in train and his mag
inatfon. They landed I'm two quarries
and a lake, as a result of following
that sort of information, and lost pa
tience and tires.
They had about decided to hire an
airship or the seventh son Of d seventh
son. when H. c Griswold. manager Of
the-stratfield Hotel in Bridgeport, came
TO the rescue with a proposition to
escort them to New York. after first
leading them backward for six miles
and kindly but firmly showing them
where they had made a bum detour IN
entering this beautiful and busy city.
II sined for forty-eight hours while the
scouts were skirmishing around Bridge
port. and it rained all the way from
that town to New York. Mr.. Grlswold
had the rheumatism, but dOnned a
poucho. left mis- crouch II his palatial
establishment. and came ali the way
through to Gotham, with an occasional
twinge.
Along Long Island
The course selected by the boniface
pathfinder was that along the Long
Island shore to a short distance beyond
Stamford. Conn, where the Boston post
road was picked Up and followed
straight into the big burg Along the
shore this is one of the dizziest routes
Imaginable. and he man who tried 10
follow il without an experienced guide
might land in a Presidential nomina-
tion or anything else he did not want
But the Munsey pathhnders jotted
down all the turns and twists and the
tourists wiz have no trouble finding
their way in September.
The reason for taking 10 the shore was
that the going Is far be ter than on the
old post road all the way from Bridge
port. That was originally a fine young
high way, but at present il is dilapidated
as a result Of the incessant and raDid
travel TO which il has been subjected
1t is worse because Ii was once good,
and where the rock founda ton poked up
through mudhQes, crafty concealed
the tire and spring makers pause every
DAY and shed tears OF JOY. At night
they burn incense TO the politicians Who
.et Il remain that way.
An Easy Stretch.
From Stamford to New York the au-
toist has a cineh, except for one or two
sharp and unexpected turns, and about
two miles of rough riding that serve to
remind him that having a motor car
does not mean unalloyed bliss.
Various speed traps are said to be
along this path to the metropolis. but
the scouts were not molested. The stat
us OF the traps seems to be that if
driver uses ordinary intelligence and
does not bowl through the villages and
small towns ike he was sent for in
hurry and had to get there, he will
have little or no trouble. The shore
route, 1t may be mentioned, lodges sew
eral places that have a grudge against
the bubble buggies, and is additionally
attractive for that reason.
When the tourists make that big hop
from Boston TO New York in OQe dav,
thew will have all they want to keep to
most expeditions path through the city
was adopted. 1t is down Seventh avenue
to Central Park. then over one block to
Central Park west, down that thorough
fare 10 Columbia circle. and around the
circle to Broadway, which viii be fol-
lowed TO whatever hotel may be Sc
lected as headquarters.
Greeted Upon Arrival
The arrival OF the Pathfinder in New
York was greeted with much interest
and many kindly expressions by the
autoists Carl Page, the Chalmers
Detroit agent. was right on the Job,
and ten minutes after the scouts had
7een chartered at the Hotel Astor had
he "BIuebird' on exhibition in the
windows of his place OF, business, Fiji
teenth street and Broadway.
The news from A. G. Newmyer, IN
Washington. that the entries now num-
Der twenty-one, which was received
here, only went 10 prove that the
Munsey tour is attracting attention
as a real test for all who enter. Some
how, the idea got abroad when the
tour was first sprung that it would
be "A mere JOY ride. That was err
roneOus, as we say on Fifth avenue
Not az all, old chap, VIII II be lead
pipe cinCh and a merry go-round. 1t
viii not be hard enough to insure the
Wrecking of every machine that starts,
but it will be a sure-enough try-Out
and the man who completes the sched-
uie ors time, as laid out by the scouts.
will be able To brag 20 his sons what
the old man died some years ago be-
fore the Youngsters vert crazy over
aerOplanes.