Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-30
SEE THOSE IN
CLIDDEN TOUR
Cars Making Historic Trip
Flash Through City Early
This Morning.
IN DAVENPORT OVER Nlc.iT
Weary, Dust Covered Travellers in
Their Battered Machines Attract
Much Attention.

Rock Island had a glimpse of the
Glidden tourists this morning They
flashed across the Twenty-fourth street
bridge, up to Fifth avenue, ON Fifth to
Thirty-eighth street, thence to Seventh
avenue and on into Moline So early
was the hour that there were few up
to see the surviving contestants in
the greatest automobile endurance run
ever undertaken.
The pilot car left Davenport at 4:30
a. m. and first of the others followed
two hours later, stringing out for an
hour or more so that they would not
get in each others dust.
The route in this county lay through
Moline, East Moline, WATERFOWL, Rap
ids City, Port Byron and Cordova, pass
ing across into Whiteside near the
river. At Albany they left the river,
cutting across to Morrison and thence
to Sterling. The noon control was at
Rochelle, and the leaders are expected
to reach Chicago between and
o'clock this afternoon, this being the
end of the 2,S50-mile trip.
See Them I'm Davenport.
Most Rock Islanders who were inter
ested in the Glidden tour took advan-
tage of the opportunity to see the tour
lists in Davenport yesterday afternoon
and last evening. A number went out
on the Wilton road to see the travellers
come in. Henry w. Tremann thought
fully providing transportation in his
new Maxwell touring car for the rep
resentatives of the local press.
Seeing the Gliddenites careening
! along pellmell is an experience that
one will not soon forget. Had they
Travelled any road in the country 90
| yes, 10 years ago, they would have
been hailed as visitors from another
planet, probably Mars, so little did
! they, both as individuals and in tho
vehicles, resemble anything that
world had known. Even the ave, -
mortal of the present stared when he
saw the grimy, dust-covered machines
with their loads of tan-cIad, begoggled,
sun-blisteded and tired and dusty men.
| A wave of the hand was an effort for
them. Several appeared in the last
/ stages of WEAKNESS. and even the
/ drivers of two o. three of the cars APP
! peared to dnze ali ilA--ugheel. AT the
same time they sped oil at a terrify-
ing clip, mufflers cut out to warn of
their approach when they came near
groups of spectators.
Mark Way Wath Confetti.
First came the pilot car, dropping
| great handouts of confetti TO mark the
turns in the way. Then, at intervals
| OF a mile or more, came the others
| scattering, six contestants for the
Glidden trophy, five for the Chicago
trophy, press car, extra car for the
! judges, cadets with cars equipped with
rapid-hring guns to show the utility of
| the automobile in time of war, and
non-contestants. % cars in all Along
| with the travellers were as many cars
from the three cities that went out
yesterday afternoon to meet the party
and accompany them in.
There were no formalities in this
welcoming of the Glidden tourists. 1t
was a wave of the hand and a cheer.
and then fall in behind a cloud of dust
and go like sixty. The tourists had no
time to waste in stopping along the
way AOA AOi AhAi OOuNiAOhS anu
! speeches by the mayor.
Parked In street.
When the cars arrived at the nights
stopping place in Davenport there was
chance to get in personal touch with
the men who have been making this
| historical tour The contesting ma
Chimes were parked on East Fifth
street, between Rock Island and Perry,
and carefully guarded throughout the
night so that there could be no tam
pering with them.
The occupants hied themselves to