Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-11
ALL ASK FOR TOUR
Managers of the Glidden Auto
Run Pressed With Invi-
tations.
WILL VISIT ROCK ISLAND
Route Has Been Tentatively Selected
With View of Greatest Good
for Industry.

Thousands of letters from all parts
of the IL states which will be travers-
ed by the "Glidden tourists" this year
have reached the contest board OF the
American Automobile association.
Nearly every important town and city
within the 2,5OO-mile loop, which has
been tentatively decided upon, want
the reliability tour to come their
way" and all manner of inducements
are offered.
The contest board wishes it distinct
ly understood that the precise route
cannot be given out for publication I'M
til after the pathhnding car has re-
ported to the New York Office of the
board. Points have been selected, how
ever. after much careful deliberation,
with a view to introducing the motor
car in its present state Of perfec ion
to a mammoth section of the Un,Ied
States, where the people are prosper
GUS but where they have not been
awakened to the benefits which fol-
low in the wake of the good road and
the good car.
The Probable Route.
Starting at Cincinnati, in the south
west corner of Ohio, about the middle
of June, much earlier than the Glidden
tour usually starts, the first city of i'm
portance to be visited will be Louis
vile, Ky. The run to Louisville will
probably not follow down the Ohio
valley, but rather via Lexington.
From Louisville the route now sug-
gested is via Bowling Green to Nash
Vile, Tenn. From the capital of Ten
nessee the tentative route is TO Flor
ence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia, Ala,
the tri-cities of the south, along the
'Natchez Trace" an old military road
which was built by General Andrew
Jackson in 1912. This is through the
valley of the Tennessee. Crossing that
river, the cars will head almost direct
ly west, across the top of the state of
Mississippi. the fifth state to be touch
ed, and then back across the Tennes-
see line to the city of Memphis on
the Mississippi river. Going south
from Memphis, the caravan will prob
ably cross the Mississippi by ferry at
Trotter's Point to Helena, Ark, and
run westward TO the Arkansas river to
Little Rock. From Little Rock the
tour may go to Texarkana via Hot
Springs. From Dallas the route will
likely be to Fort Worth over an ex
cellent pike. From Fort Worth the
cars will go north via GAINESVILLE to
the Red river, crossing into Oklahoma.
1t is approximately 1900 miles via
the tentative route from Cincinnati to
Fort Worth. The road is both interest
ing and difficult, but the second lap of
the long journey from Fort Worth back
to Lake Michigan is probably more /
difficult and probably more interesting
than the run down toward the south
west.
Through Eastern Kansas.
The first place of any considerable
size encountered on the return run is
Oklahoma City, then Guthrie, in the |
center of Oklahoma. Leaving Guthrie, !
the cars head for Kansas, probably
touching Arkansas City on the way to
They cross the Missouri |
river at Atchison and run up the east |
side Of the river to st. Joseph From |
st. Joe to Des Moines, Iowa, the roads |
are said to be good if the weather has /
been fair, otherwise they are gumbo |
up to the car hubs. Tuning east at |
Des MONIES the tourists head for Dav- |
export, Iowa. possibly visiting Cedar |
Rapids, recross the Mississippi at Rock
Island. The finish is at Chicago, and |
2 500 miles.