The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
AUTO IS REALLY
DISPLAYING HORSE
Trip Through Texas Confirms
Story That Even Cowboys
Fancy Motors.
PATHFINDERS EXPERIENCES
SCOUTS LEARN MANY CURIOUS
THINGS IN LONE STAR STATE
PATHFINDERS EXPERIENCES

Not long ago there appeared IN the
news columns OF the daily papers
throughout the country an item which
told of large purchase OK automobiles
by Texas cowboys. It was stated that
the cowboy of the great southwest was
deserving his horse for the more modern
gasoline buggy Perhaps these reports
were accepted only partially at the
time that they were first made public
But they have been substantiated by
the official pathfinding crew for the
1910 Glidden tour. Throughout Texas
the passengers OF the Chalmers "3e''
have found great motoring enthusiasm.
The entrance into Texas OF the Of
ficial pathfinder was one OF triumph.
The car was met or the Red river OF
Arkansas by the representatives of the
Dallas Automobile Dealers association.
Dallas extends the glad hand" was
their message. 1t sounded to the path
finding crew pretty much like the
greeting they received all along the
line. But the Dallas enthusiasts had
come 240 miles TO deliver It, They
brought with them complete road data
from Texarkana to Dallas. They prom
ised good roads and they produced
them. The trip from Texarkana to Dali
las was a constant ovation from the
small towns along the route
Led by Mayor W. d. Davis, a big es-
cort from Fort Worth accompanied the
car to that city. A number of this es-
cort had been with the pathfinding car
all the way from Texarkana. The en-
trance into Fort Worth was one of Fri
unph- All Texas is glad the Glidden
tour is coming through that state and
all Texas doesn't care who knows it.
Horse Being Replaced
"The horse is on the downward path:
even in Texas" said Mayor Davis Of
Fort Worth at banquet rendered the
Chalmers pathfinder crew. ''The horse
was all right when Texas had few
roads, practically no fences, but ours
is no longer a wild, unsettled country.
Texas is real state with all of the in
dications OF civilization which other
states have. We have good roads and
we are constantly making them bet
ter. We are devoting ourselves to ag-
riculture and we have fenced in our
ranches. Texas IS state of great dis
tanees.
$50 the horse is no longer practical.
The automobile answers our needs. We
find that we can accomplish twice as
much with the motor car as with the
horse. That is why Texas is buying
automobiles. That is why Texas is glad
to receive the GiIdden tour"
This is the spirit which the pathfind-
ers have found throughout the south
and the southwest. Fort Worth, for
some unknown reason, marks the line
between the south and the west. As
the pathfinding car progressed in the
further west, through northern Texas.
Oklahoma and Kansas, the same enthu-
siasm was evident
From the personal point Of view of
the pathfinders, the change from the
real south to the west was a welcome
one, for the roads improved speedily
| after crossing the Mississippi. The
route making OF Scout Lewis has pro-
gressed very satisfactorily. Exhaustive
data has been supplied all along the
route, and Lewis says his information
will be more complete than that for
any other previous tour.
But things came nearly ending other
wise last Friday noon at Ringgold. Tex.
The Pathfinder had been met at Bowie
by a delegation of six automobile par
ties and they pulled into Ringgold
Joe Gardham swung the Chalmers "30''
in beside the others on Main street
Someone just behind the pathfinder IN
screwed the radiator cap Of his car and,
like a geyser long waiting its chance.
came a fountain of scalding water.
which fell gracefully on the backs Of
the Chalmers crew. Dai Lewis and his
comrades all had their coats off and
they just bent and took the shower for
second before Gardham shot the car