Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-22
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straighten it. the temper Of the steel
was probably affected. 1t stood the
test over eighty-flve miles of roadwork,
between Sanford, n. c., and the point
where 1t broke down. Fortunately,
N c., last Friday. Mr.. Lamar. the
owner and driver of the Atlanta scout
car took immediate steps to have
brought to Sanford a complete new
axle, which was at Franklin Junction,
awaiting his order in case Of need.
The new axle arrived at Sanford, ".
C. by express Saturday.
AS soon as the fracture Of the weak
ened axle occurred, Sunday, the New
! York HeraIds White steamer scout
car went back over the Ave miles to
Louisburg, and Major Cohen, Of The
Atlanta Journal; Allen Potts. of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, who had
been acting as pilot from Raleigh, and
Hamilton Peltz the Herald CORE
spondent, were soon in touch by tele-
phone with Major c. H. Gattis, dis
trict passenger agent of the Seaboard
Air Line railway in Raleigh.
PUTS AXLE ON SPECIAL.
Major Gattis arranged to put the
new axle Immediately aboard a spe-
cial locomotive and to run 1t directly
through to Louisburg at Sis o'clock
last night.
The Herald's big White steamer await
ed the arrival here Of the special. The
moment the axle arrived 1t was loaded
aboard the Herald car and hurried out to
! the spot where the accident occurred.
i Within half an hour after the break
down the scouts had buckled down TO
their task, though several of them had
worked day and night almost without
sleep on a similar job last Friday, and
within two hours the entire axle and rear
wheels had been removed from the big
| machine.
+, The Oldsmobile day backed up on
frame of timbers in such\a way that not
a moment was lost in putting the new
/ axle in place after its arrival. 1t is job
that could hardly be finished in less than
| two hours.
Several automobiles which had come
down from Henderson, n. c., to escort
| the scouts into that city, stood by the
! disabled automobile which had the aid OF
their headlights to work.
! HEADED FOR RICHMOND.
Within the limitations of human endur-
ance every effort will yet be made to run
! into Richmond Va, some time late Mon
day night and into Washington, d. c.,
as nearly as possible to noon of next
Wednesday. though a stump in wretch
| ed Lee county sand trail which could cas-
| lily be made into a good level road at
+ small cost per mile, has already made the
scouts a day and half late in their
northward itinerary. Before leaving
Raleigh this morning, the scout cars took
a run about that city and photographs
were made in front of the state capitol
/ building, owing to the statue of Worth
! Bagley, the hero OF the torpedo boat
| Winslow. From Raleigh to Louisburg
the roads over most of the way were
] rough.
| At Louisburg the good roads pilglims
were received by ]. B. Yarbrough. the
mayor, and a large delegation of citi-
zens. among whom were Senator B. T.
| Holden, w. H. Yarbrough. T. W. Bick-
-. attorney general of North Carolina;
r. G. Allen, president of the First Ma
tional bank; DR.. Arthur Fleming, ]. r.
/ LOlhe, X. Z. Beck, j. A. Turner. L. L.
Joyner, W. NJ. Person. r.. B. Wilder,
j. S. Lancaster, K. K. Allen. T. w. Wat
son and NJ. s.. Clifton. During a stop o.
hotel
Five miles on the road to Henderson the
| accident occurred.
| THE HENDERSON ESCORT.
| In the Henderson escort, which Joined
the scouts where the breakdown occurred.
were ]. P. Brodie, driving his 20 horse
power Elmore, with c. H. Turner, Joseph
Kittrell Ed Lands and Clarence wiche
as passengers; S. P. Cooper, in his FL
more marchine, with Mrs. H. Turner,
Colonel Gary and Bennett Perry: W.. 5.
Burwell, in his REQ. carrying Sidney
Stevenson. George Gillian, DR.. Fenner
and Joseph Morgan; Henry Powell, the
mayor of Henderson, who had come four
teen miles down the road to welcome the
guests, was a passenger in George Coop
ers REQ, with Henry T. Powell, Lewis
| Do Toh, II
Jr.; A. c. Zollicoffer had in his 80 horse
power Elmore d. Y. Cooper, Alexander
Cooper ]. A. Zollicoffer and John Hill
lard, Scott Zollicoffer: R. II. Craig drove
his Ford runabout, with s. T. Rem as
his guest. and s. T. Pace, cashier of the
First National bank of Henderson, car
ried in his REQ Thomas T. Horner, Walter
Aston, Frank Robbards and Thomas
Bulloch; ]. S. Poythress had as his guests
| in his Gilmore 30. Perry and Charles Poy-
thress. T. NJ. Pittman, P. T. jerks and
Perry Basket. From Warrenton came the
20 horsepower. White steamer, owned and
driven by General Francis A. Macon.
quartermaster general of the staff of
Governor Kitchen. General Macon had
con, John W. Allen. the mayor of War
renton. and Howard Jones editor of the
| Record.
WARRENTON DELEGATION.
| The Warrenton delegation were diligent-
| ly praising their town and county. Some
of the claims to greatness which they ad-
vanced in conversation with the scouts,
were that their county had furnished four
governors, two United States senator's,
one speaker of the house, two members
of the state supreme court bench. that II
is the home of General Braxton Bragg, OF
Buena Vista and Confederate army fame,
that is the church in which Horace
Greedy was married. the grave Of Cen
eral Robert E. Lees favorite daughter,
Annie Carter Lee, and that it has the
prettiest girl in the state.
| In making the necessary arrangements
! for shipping the new axle for the Oldsmo-
| bile in haste the scouts were especially
placed under obligations by Frederick {.
Toepleman, Of Henderson, general man
ager of the Home Telephone and Tele-
graph company who came out to the
scene of the breakdown in an automobile
and placed the plant Of his company at
the services of the scouts, and assisted
them in getting prompt attention on long
distance calls TO Raleigh, Sanford and
other places.
| ESCORTS GAVE AID.
| The escort parties from Leesburg and
Henderson We'd with one another in offers
to run back to their town and bring all