Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-23
AN OVERLAND TRIP
IN .OVERLAND CAR
F. B. Campbell Of The Republican
HAS A Hundred Mile Ride In A
Fine Overland Automobile

mas - UOn0reO MILE NaOe In ~
Fine "Overland'' Automobile
BY the kind invitation OF Doctor A. L
Brooks, agent for the Overland Auto
mobile Company in this county, will
factories Ut Toledo, Ohio. and Indianapo
lis Indiana, we were invited to take
ride OH Saturday, June 10, 1910. so ahou
eight O'clcck in the morning seated il
Model Twenty Eight Baby Over
land by the side OF MIR. Brooks WI
started away over the hills that liz
between Audubon and Guthrie Center
and there many Of them and steep ones
tao, but THE Baby climbed them al
ON The High" but at an easy swing
ing gait we traversed the twenty nine
miles and reached the Center ut nine
thirty The object Of this trip was to
meet Miss Blanche Stuart Scott, the
Vassar Girl Graduate. from Rochester,
New York State. who is driving an
Overland from New York City to San
Francisco. California. and does all the
repairing of her car; Miss Gertrude Phil,
lips, from Boston, Massachusetts, her
companion and advertiser for the Over
land people; Mr., Harry Tuttle, Of New
York City, representative of the Assoc
ciated Press and general manager OF the
expeditions: who left Des MOines that
morning their stopping place for the
night being Council Bluffs. At Guthrie
Center we found Mr.. Brooks Master
Mechanic G. A. Petty with a Forty
Overland Roadster and Arthur Faruuhar
and Fred Campbell seated in the car, T..
N. Taggart with his car. his wife, Mrs.
A, G. Harmon, Miss Cora woodward, of
The Advocate, John Naylor. his car,
his SON, who were joined by Roy Nc
Dermott and wife of the Center, L. l..
Finch, his wife, Miss Hazel Bartlett,
Clyde Cunningham, OF Des Moines, all
driving Overlands and from Audubon,
and just then Doctor j. G. Newton
arrived from Extra with his Overland
gaily decorated, his wife, his sister Mrs.
NOla Hamler, of Atlantic, and Miss Lou
Knox seated in the car. Soon the word
came over the telephone wire, She 3
left Montieth, four miles away then
all was excitement and in q brief space
ct time Miss Scott dashed around the
corner and halted i'm front of Captain
]. w. Fosters bank where she was very
warmly greeted by the populace. AS
soon as Mr.. Brooks could make a path
way he and Mr.. Tuttle started ahead for
Audubon followed by seven other cars
and the run was made i'm one hour and
thirteen minutes which, considering the
hills, was pretty good time. arriving at
Audubon just about the noon hour
Here Mine Host CT. f. Gutenberg and
his good wife had prepared an elegant
dinner for all The Overland Folks, !"
and 1t was our good fortune to be seated
at the same table with Miss Scott, Miss
Phillips, Mr.. Tuttle, Doctor Brooks, his
wife, Doctor Newton, his wife, and we
thoroughly enjoyed that social half of
an hour; also our dinner. Miss Scott Is
q brunette, of medium height, il very
pleasing in manner and conversation
and thoroughly tanned by the wind and
sun. Her companion, Miss Phillips, is
somewhat taller and also Of very pleas
ing manners; Mr.. Tuttle is a highly
cultured gentleman; and the trio are
people whom it is indeed pleasure to
meet. When dinner was over and the
ladies had appeared a large number of
AudubOn's citizens had assembled in
front of the Park Hotel and then ensued
Q real old fashioned down east hand
shaking and it was with difficulty that
the tourists could disengage themselves
and wheel over to The Frick Corner /"
where the automobiles were lined mp
for Mr.. G. G. Harper and others to take
their pictures. which are as big as life
and twice as natural. That done Mr..
Petty, with his wife and baby and Mrs.
McDermott in the Forty Overland Road
ster took the lead, while we were seated
in the Baby Thirty Eight with Ray
Green hold Of the wheel and Roy Nc
DermOtt and typewriter as ballast we
tore loose for Extra, ten miles below us,
and the way he made that car to spin
caused ms to sit mp and take notice, the
run being made in about twenty min
uteS; Ed Finch, his wife, Miss Cora
Layland and Miss Ella Hurd as passen-
gers was the other car to go down, Mr..
Finch and Doctor Newton dropping out
when Extra was reached. The party
ran their car far up the Main Street of
Extra as they could for automobiles and
the admiring throng which surrounded
them SO that the k0dakers had difficulty
in getting snap shots of the party. After
short stay Mr.. Petty informed Miss
Scott that they were now at The Elbow
of The River to River Road and that
he would show her some going. He
had been setting pretty good clip all
day, but now he fairly few and all we
could do was to hold our breath and our
hat and all of the beautiful River to
River Road we saw was around the rim
Of that same hat as we caught occasional
glimpses Of Miss Scott and Miss Phillips
as they went fitting hither and yon like
q veritable Will O. The Wisp. We are
quite sure the sixteen mile run from
Extra to Atlantic did not take more than
Thirty live Minutes. They tarried for a
short time In Atlantic and then piloted
by Mr.. Harry Van Brunt. from Council
Blufls, the Overland dealer there who
had come down to meet them they went
spinning away for The Bluffs. shortly
after three O'Clock. Wkhiwe got hack
to Extra long In the Shalik Of the after
noon we were covered with dust and our
eyes felt like two burned holes In q blan-
ket. But. Gee, il was q merry chase
across two counties they led us; and we
vote that The Overland Car is like q
hard boiled egg, mighty hard to beat.
Miss SCOTS car is simply Thirty
Eight Overland and we don't believe
that many other cars can make
such trip with so much ease as The
Overland Miss Scott Is driving All along
the way OF the hundred miles we saw
hundreds Of farmers, their wives and
children, with hats tossed in air and
handkerchiefs futtering to the breeze.
waving O salute OF welcome to the
Ocean to Ocean Travellers and accom-.
panying cars. Surely Saturday, June
10, 1910, was Red Letter Day in both
Guthrie and Audubon counties.
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