Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
CARS AWAIT FINAL
TECHNICAL TEST
MECHANICAL EXPERTS TO Ex-
ANIME CONTRASTING MACHINES
AND AWARD SCORES.
AuToIsTs ENTHUSIASTICALLY
RECEIVED ON ARRIVAL IN
KANSAS CITY.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 31.-Tht
Glidden tour was officially completed
at 5:07 yesterday afternoon, wher
the pilot car dashed across The state
line into Kansas City. Nine minutes
later the first of the contestants, 8
Pierce, entered the city and Others
followed in rapid succession.
The tourists were cheered by great
crowds as they drove through
streets of the city. 1t is likely sew
eral days will elapse before calcula
tions are completed so that the win
ner can be announced.
Mayor Welcomes Tourists.
Kansas City was officially yesterday
in the hands of the Glidden tourists
Amid the honking of 500 cars that
assembled late in the afternoon at
the Kansas state line, Mayor Thomas
T. Crittenden of Kansas City, Mo-,
met the incoming tourists and ex-
tended an official welcome. Follow
ing these ceremonies and escorted by
practically every motor car in the
city, the Gliddenites paraded through
the principal streets and officially
ended their tour by checking in at
the Coates house. The Kansas City
Automobile club, the Commercial club
and other organizations provided an
extensive program of entertainment
Last night the tourists were guests
of the automobile club at number
Of receptions and entertainments, and
today at Elm Ridge racetrack the
automobile club will provide special
motor car meet.
Examine Cars Thoroughly.
The cars were taken to Convention
hall last night, where they will be
held until the technical committee
completes an examination. The mem
bers Of the committee are Henry
Souther of the Association of Ii.
censed Automobile Manufacturers
Thomas Tracey, mechanical engineer
and we'll known racing driver, and Z.
s., Kicker. Every part of each car
will be taken out and examined. Meas
urements will be made for spring and
frame sagging and the result of the
examination will then be compared
with the measurements at the start of
the tour.
Chairman Hover states that while
there are still five perfect score cars
competing for the Glidden trophy, anu
five for the Hover, he believed every
car on the tour would be given some
penalties at the last test
Wherever the examiners find the
cars to be out of order, the drivers
and mechanics will be instructed to
make all repairs necessary to put
the machines in firstclass running
condition and penalties will be lev
led according to the material and Ia
Dor called for.
Technical Test Important
The reckoning when the technical
experts apply their micrometers to
the mechanism of the perfect score
cars will be harvest of petty penal
izations for springs that have sprung,
frames that have been partially
twisted, wheels that have been put
into poor condition and says, buckles
and findings may not be to the liking
of some of the makers of the cars,
but they will have learned more about
the needs of automobiles for the va
riety of roads provided by Michigan
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and
Kansas than they could learn in years
of less extensive roadibility tests. 1t
may be that an infinitesimal part of
point will be the margin of TORY OF
some one car when the experts have
finished their mechanical survey. The
rules are SO framed that a winner
must be evolved as the trophy is an
individual one this time instead of
team event