Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17
ALTERNATELY BOYS
TOURING IN AUTO
Western Lads Abandon Br0nCoS
for Runabout on Their
Trip Home
9-YEAR-OLD SITS AT WHEEL
Father Sets 100 Miles a Day as
Limit for the Tour to
Oklahoma City
s-YEAR-0LD SITS AT WHEEL

NEW YORK, July 16.-Completing
the first 100 miles of their 24SO mile
trip from New York to Oklahoma city,
tie tiny ronco-bustng sons of eat
em-alive" Jack Abornathy United
States marshal from Oklahoma, are
now speeding through the MohaWk
valley in their Brush runabout with as
mach delight as they took in their
horseback ride to New York to greet
Col Roosevelt. Louis, the 9-year-old
boy, drove the car and he is quite Ger
tain that the overland trip in an au-
tomobile is equally as interesting as
a ride astride his country pony.
The strenuous time that COnfronts
the boys was forceibly impressed upon
them on their first days run, when
t,ouis. forgetting that he was not rid
ing a mustang, made his car clear
curb and go up on the sidewalk IN
front of a Poughkeepsie hotel without
notifying his 6-year-Old brother OF the
stunt he intended doing, and before
Temple could get out of the way he
9.as knocked sprawling into the gut
Ter dazed but not hurt The incident
did not increase Temples love of the
"confounded critter' but he resumed
the tourney the following morning with
as much enthusiasm as ever, and Louis
realized that he had learned the first
lesson in motoring.
FATHER PILOTS THEM
The father, who preceded the young
sters in his Maxwell touring car pi-
loted them over a predetermined road
that will carry them through Syracuse,
Rochester, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo. De
tfoit, Chicago, st. Louis ana kansas
City to Oklahoma City.
Ever since the two boys saw Theo-
dore Roosevelt switch from carriage
in the middle Of the homecoming pro
cession to an auto, they have besOught
their father to buy them a car. Now
that they have one, the question Will
shortly arise as to ownership; and as
Temple has a temper there is likely
to be trouble. although there is mu-
tuaI understanding that the Brush
riInabout belongs to the two boys Tenn
ule cannot run the auto yet. as his legs
are not Song enough to reach the
brake. and Louis is only just big
enough.
WANTED AN AUTO
The Abernathy boys have been lion
lied during their stay in New York.
have met former President Roosevelt,
+; Iden by his side in the procession
that welcomed him home; have greeted
President Taft in the White House.
spoken to Mayor Gaynor. and yet they
were Indifferent to all this as long as
they had no automobile.
1T was then that Marshal Abernathy
decided that he would have to buy
those kids an auto or there would be
trouble in the Abernathy family.
"Ship the horses back suggested
Louis. who is usually the spokesman
for the boys. "and let's go back I'm an
automobile. and we would like to have
you come, too.
Abernathy thereupon went uptown in
search of an auto, small and of simple
construction, that his son could drive,
Louis found it first and dragged his
father into tho store by the coat. 1t
was not long before the bargain was
completed.
Before leaving New York. the kids
were given a farewell luncheon at the
Hotel Astor by some of their friends.
They were much bored by formality
and were impatient to start the run
THEY ARE OFF
clad in new blue suits and wide SOM
brero hats they fairly flew out of the
hotel, and Louis sprang to the steering
wheel while the diminutive Temple
tried to crank the motor In an instant
they were off amid the cheers of thou
sands who lined Broadway. Before they
had gone a block through congested
traffic Louis showed himself to be a
masterhand in running the car al
though he had been given only three
actual lessons.
In the stops that will be made at the
different big towns the boys will pay
visit with their father to the mayor,
and in the state capitols to the COVER
nor. They will look over the brink of
the famous Niagara Falls, and then
speed on to Chicago, with intermediate
stops. As their father must be i'm his
home town within certain time, the
bargain he has made with the boys
is that the machine must make more
than 100 miles a day, and Louis has
hopes of far exceeding that distance.
On their arrival in Oklahoma City
the boys will be the guests of honor
at a dinner given by the chamber of
commerce. Each boy viii he put UP to
make a speech and tell whether he
liked the horseback trip east or the
automobile trip west, best.