Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
GOSPEL Of
GOOD ROADS
Ohio Car Selected 10 Make
Coast TO Coast Run
BETTER HIGHWAYS URGED.
Veteran Car of Munsey
Tour Will Start Journey
of 5000 Miles From New
York to San Francisco
on First of November.
BETTER HIGHWAYS URGED


York. on Monday, November y, a par
ty of four automobiles in an Ohio
car will commence long and notable
journey to San Francisco. covering
approximately 5000 miles of the least
frequented roads of the southern and
southwestern states The trip will
take thirty-five days at an average
speed of $50 miles a day. the intention
being to reach the Golden Gate CITY
on Christmas day. The automobiles
Will convey a Christmas greeting from
Mayor Gaynor of New York to Mavor
Mccarthy Of San Francisco
Two noteworthy objects have
prompted the Ohio Motorcar company
to undertake the trip-a thorough in
vestigation of road conditions i'm the
regions traversed and an actual de
monstration of the cost Of maintaining
Il car on a coast to coast run At its
conclusion the Ohio good roads and
economy test will take equal rank in
national automobile history with the
historic Glidden and Munscy tours and
the more recent New York to Atlanta
good roads test.
piled by an expert and furnished free
to automobiles. good roads associa-
tons and others interested in the I'M
provement of the national highways
The information relative to the cost
keep of an automobile on So long a
run will be of highest value 20 auto
mobilists and manufacturers in view
of the fact that no reliable figures
covering this subject are now avail
able
The party will consist Of Ernest l.
Ferguson. representing the American
Automobile association. as official OBJ
server; Guy w. Finney. representing
the Ohio MOtorcar company: silent
Harry Mathews, driver of the official
starters car in the recent Munsev
historic tour, and mechanician. Mr.
Ferguson has been the executive Off
cial Of the successive Glidden tours
since the first year of their Inaugural
ton. the first New York to Atlanta
good roads tour and also this years
Munsey run. He will collect the road
data and those concerning the cost
keep of the automobile.
The route will be south through
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Maryland,
Virginia. North and South Carolina.
Georgia. Florida. thence north into
Alabama. Tennessee and Kentucky
and west across the Mississippi river
into Missouri and Kansas. when the
course will again be directed south
into Oklahoma and Texas. Reaching
the Rio Grande river. the route will
follow a nOrthwesterly course over the
arid plains of Texas New Mexico and
Arizona. into California. with the
Windup i'm San Francisco.
Included in the itinerary Of large
cities through which the party will
pass are Jersey City. Philadelphia.
Washington, Roanoke.
Greensboro. Charlotte. Atlanta. Savan-
nah. Jacksonville. Tallahassee. Mobile.
Montgomery, Birmingham, Chattanoo-
ga. Nashville, Memphis, Paducah. st.
Louis, Kansas CITY Topeka, Guthrie
Fort Worth, Dallas. Austin, San An
tonic. Houston, Galveston, Fl Paso,
Phoenix. Los Angeles. Pasadena. Oak
land and San Francisco. The stops
will be only long enough for sleep and
meals
Much of the territory covered will
he over the worst possible roads. their
condition in winter making it ex-
tremcly dangerous for any except the
most skiIlful automoblist This is es-
pecially true i'm the south and south
west, where many SO called roads
have no existence except i'm narrow
and at times almost impossible trails
In anticipation Of road troubles. such
as being stalled in mud or sand or be-
ing confronted by bridgeless streams
the car will be equipped with a wreck
er's complete outfit, consisting of block
and tackle. steel cable, hawser. hoist
etc. Special charcoal stoves viii be
provided for use i'm case of the neces-
sity of camping out at night
The car to make the run viii he the
famous Mud Hen. which served as the
starters car on the Munsey tour q
last summer At the conclusion of tbs
trip. which will be the first three coast
tour ever attempted in an automobile
the Mud Hen will be shipped back to
New York to be exhibited at the an
nual automobile show at Madison
Square Garden in January. Charles F.
Pratt. president of the Ohio Motorcar
company. who has long been identified
with the national good roads move
ment is a supporter and contributor,
is the protector of this good roads and
economy run.