The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
PathhnderS for Historic Trip
Start June IS From
Philadelphia.
ROUTE LIES THROUGH
HISTORIC TERRITORY
Photographs of the Route to Be
Printed With Stories of
the Trip.

Suck-To-It Skeggs" and the big
EMF pathfndIng car are ready to
blaze the way for the Munsey His
toric Tour.
The great automobile event of the
East or the year will have auSpicious
beginning at Philadelphia, June Is,
when the pathfinders start out.
Skeggs and the EMF car will ar
rive in that city June II. The start
VIII be under conditions fully in keep
ING win the importance Of the occa-
sion. Arrangements are being made
by the Philadelphia Evening Times
winch will elevate the event TO the
holiday order in the Quker City.
Skeggs is national figure in auto
moblllng. What John c. Fremont was
70 the nation as a pathfinder. Tom
Skeggs IS TO the automobile world
lie mas found paths where others said
there were no paths
The big EMF car, too. Is a veteran
IN the pathhnding business. The car
Viii DE equipped with the Morgan &
wright NObby Tread Brand" tires
LhlS year SkeSgs and the car swung
t'tOush minnesota and laid out the
route Tor the little Glidden tour. Last
year the same car driver found the
way for the big Glidden tour
Route To Be Historic.
These feats were Of great conse-
quence, but the work laid out for the
car, Skeggs, and the representatives of
the Muhsey newspapers this year will
De greater. Not only will a route De
!4ld out that viii test the endurance Of
the pTides Of the automobile makers.
but these men Will find a way through
towns, cities. valleys, and mountains
tnat nave thrilled nation for four CEN
turles with their romantic and marvel
Gus history
The car will be accompanied by two
representatives of the Munsey news
papers.
LazaTnlck. What cannot be described
In print will be shown in pictures from
the excellent photographs ne will take
The car will follow a route laid out
by the Touring Club Of America There
won't be an inch Of the way that will
not be made familiar 10 the entrants in
the great double run.
As is now well known, the Munsev
historic Tour will be run under grades
z and 4 Of the American Automobile Az
sociation's 1910 rules for reliability con-
tests.
Over Revolutionary Ground.
AS the pathinding car FORCES through
New Jersey it will cover ground famed
in Revolutionary history. When Gen
erals Washington, Putnam. Ward, Lee,
and CORVALLIS fought their battles even
the steamboat and railway trains were
unheard or An automobiles These
brave old fighters would have turned
their fists on anyone mentioning such
thing.
Up the Hudson the party will keen
within sight OF Stony Point. Mad
Anthony Wayne's favOrite place for
teaching hard lessons to the British
General stark also showed bis ability
70 dare and 10 die in this section.
Through Connecticut and Massachu-
sets the car will glide over some of
the pretueSt country IN America Here
ana there viii be points sacred 10 Ameri-
can history COncOrS. and Bunker Hill
VIII be nearby. AND then 10 the scenes
Of DECENTRALIZATION and vicinity. II
any OF the pretended witches had
propheSled au automobile there might
have been more 10 the history OF that
epoch
II is proposed TO go through Ports
mouth, y. H. and Portland, Ne. and
from there through the Green and White
be rlValed in bewitching scenery only
by the AdirOndaCks. New York and
Pennsylvania, on the way back will Of
fer some fine roadways. GETTYSBURG
Frederick and Baltimore will recall the
scenes of the ValOr Of the fathers and
grandfathers Of some Of those who may
be on the tour.
Arrival In Washington.
The arrival Of the pathfinder in Wash
ington viii be the occasion for consid-
cradle enthusiasm on the part of the
Promoters Of the Munsev Historic Tour.
Immediately there will be flashed over
the country the story OF one Of the great
est route-nnding trips OF modern times.
Word will be received every day from
the pathhnlIng party and quickly dis
seminated by the Munsey Historic Tour
news department and the Munsey news
papers. Il is expected there will be live
ly stories 20 tell
1t is going to be a great pathhnding