The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-04-29
SCOUT CAR
WAS SWAMPED
Never Reached Washington Went
Back 10 Richmond BY Rail
NEW ROUTE FOR ENDURANCE RUN

The route for the Virginia endurance
run has been changed, owing To the
wretched condition OF the roads in Ger
tain counties between Richmond and
Washington by way Of Frederick sbUry.
The people along the route. and especi-
ally IN fredericksburg. have been 50
earnest IN. the furtherance of this good
roads movement that every effort was
made 10 have the cars pass through
fredericksburg, and not until The
limeS-Dispatch good roads car had at
tempted to 20 over the route Was the
new route chosen.
The Times Dispatch car. with W. F..
Gordon driving. and two members of
the stan as passengers. left Richmond
at halt-past O'Clock on Friday morn
ing. The run TO Ashland was over a
good road. and as far as Hanover Court
mouse was fairly good. but from that
point ON only bad road were encounter
ed. Around Pages bridge there were
immense washes and holes that made
the going very dangerous. and for ten
miles before reaching Bowling Green
the mud was so deep that the car could
scarcely cake any Roadway, even
though the passengers got out and
walked. At certain points not more
than two miles an hour was accom-
plished. and the run of sixty-eight miles
to fredericksburg consumed eleven.
hours.
ON HIGH SPEED ONCE
After leaving Hanover Courthouse
the machine only ran on high speed
once. and that was over the roads i'm
mcdiateiy leading into and the streets
through fredericksburg. After leaving
Fredericksburg the roads were very
soft. and IL was almost impossible to
pillow through the mud.
Time and time again the machine
sunk until the axels were buried in the
ground and il was necessary to dig out
and then have mules and horses extri-
cate the car. But the car struggled on
faithfully TO point one-half mile-from
Dumfries and then when the speedom-
eter showed that eighty-five and one
half miles had been measured the axle
broke.
Twenty-one hours were consumed i'm
travelling that distance.
The breakdown occurred at 2:3O
O'Clock Saturday morning. and at day
break President John Detrick. of the
Cabin Branch Mines. learned of the
injury to The Times-Dispatch car and
not only sent over his teams to null il
into the town of Dumfries. but ordered
out an engine and fiat car of the
mines equipment and had a dozen Of
his men load the car and sent il to
Barrow's Siding. just about Quantico.
Mr. Detrick did all this on account Of
his love Of sport and his interest in the
good roads movement
The Dispatch party called up
General Traffic Manager Warren Z.
Taylor, of the K. F. & p. K. r.. and
informed him of the trouble. This was
after : O'Clock in the morning Mr.
Taylor put Capt Grady. trainmaster
of the r. +. q p. R.R., on the Job. and
told him TO get the injured car 10 Rich
mond as fast as possible.
A special engine brought a flat car
from the Potomac yards between
Washington and Alexandria. down to
Barrow Crossing. where the machine
was transferred and the run to Rich
mond was made on passenger schedule.
and the disabled car delivered at 800
O'Clock on Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Taylor declares that this is the
record time for handling freight on the
X. +. & 7. K. X. Richmond Times
Dispatch.
THE ROUTE
The new route for the run of three
days with schedule is as follows:
Miles May Thursday
o Leave Richmond 700 a. m.
% Louisa. 1890 a. m.
- Orange. 1900 m.
Leave Orange, 1910 p. m.
las Washington. 800 p. m.
Miles May q Friday.
q Leave Arlington hotel washing
toni $50 a. m.
White House president : reception
1000 a. m. -lO:30 a. m.
y Leesburg. ! 30 p. m.
80 Winchester. 3:3O y. m.
Leave Winchester, { p. m.
las Harrisonburg. 7:30 p. m.
Miles May Z Saturday
0 Leave Harrisonburg, 7:30 a. m.
80 stanton. 900 a. m
81 Charlottesville, 1900 m.
Leave Charlottesville. 1890 p. m.
l5l Richmond. Times Dispatch Build
ing, $50 p. m.