New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
AUTO RUNS INTO MUD
nHiciaI Car for Glidden Tour
Finds Going Hard.
MANY STREAMS FoRDED
posds VIII Be Dried Out, How.
ever. When Motorists Start
South Next June.

-.be Gudeen tourists. who are scheduled
...-- from Cincinnati or a twenty-five
go nile "Trip on June =. have any
.s,,e Ike TIRE experience o. the official
...e-dinr car. they viii remember the
80 -.l,ahrt-y tour OF the American Auto
.rae Association for many years 10 come
-. -sfhfn ting party was warned. when IL
-..-.se from Cincinnati ten days ago. that
T, I. me- spring rains travelling would be
..-,ssfnle until aftcr the roads had dried
-. and the rivers had resumed their
- size stories OF this kind are com
- fn al parts OF the country in she early
---.-rtir.e. and the pathfnding party
Id Hv Dsl Lewis only smiled.
-r.e I'm through Boone. Grant and Scott
...-t,es. Ky. was as delightful as the
- c-ass state could present for mo-
.,-,e-s az any tine or TIE year until the
.s- reached Bowling Green. Al this point
-ssT 0l7-fashiored storm came out OF the
--,--.si-e and within y few hours the
-..h4-6e-s were literally floating through
s,+,ses az LIQUID mud. -Four rivers were
80 before Nashville. Tenn. was
80 AL were twice their normal size.
--5 more than once the road scouts mar
-,,.i- escaped being swept down stream
=. - rushing waters. Long before they
- Nashville they were ready 10 believe
-. the stories they had heard IN Gin
mat about motoring In Kentucky and
tennessee during the early spring were not
.-srre-ate6 ln the least Despite the clf-
sr-lt.es The party has met, however, M
s--ts SAYS BE- thinks the tourists VINO are
!, rc over the same roads between en-
-.-rst S. Louis and Nashville early n
r--e We. End most enjoyable travelling
:. &c cutie likely that the first noon con-
.-,- AFTER leaving Cincinnati, VIII be Lex
&c. XIV The first nights stop has
tas- axes f-- Louisville, Ky. This makes
-,rr -.- ~ -s6 miles For the second
saws rim ST. Butler. chairman O. the con
.-s- r-a-s has NOT decided whether the
.o,-,g.- ran make Nashville. which is 200
-,ree t--- Louisville or whether the sec
and davis PIED win Doe 20 Mammoth cave.
XIV vH.-. lis --5 miles from Louisville
- -r-a .e--a~ event Nashville win be the
.-.-s -.- g stop. Nr. Butler VIII probably
--- decide this Until the pathfinder makes
lis report and recommendauCns.
sr-l- The -s-Efr6e-s left Nashville and
tasra. PIP Alabama they encountered
more rains and cid not reach Sheffield,
sr- .-- SUNDAY night. the 18th. NJ
Lewis -a---ted 70 the New York head
.r------ ~ tie contest board that the
rs--- had been ma-o0ned in a log cabin
IN -rn Yellow River bottom. fifty miles
from Sheffield. for more than rwenry-f0ur
hours when they reached The latter place
ther learned that the weather records
showed thar such a storm as they had
passed through had not visited the South
ues-e-- country since 1ss4 The pathhnd-
!-r car frequently was buried 80 com
pie-s-~ 81 rru6roles that double yokes %
oxe- were required 20 pun r. OUT such
co-6,-t1us. 90 course. VIII not face tourists
n June ne roads VIII then have had
~ 7e1eet az the early summer suns. IN
rs-y counties they VII be prepared es-
pe-is-Iv for the GI6denites.
When the psthhnders finally reached
Memphis. Tern. last Tuesday night. after
het-E on the way for seven days, they
rs-e welcomed by the local motorists and
q delegation o. automobile enthusiasts
from Helena. Ark. who had come 20 pilot
the pathfinder fn-o Arkansas They re-
ported rhar The eighty miles - road BE-
tween Memphis and Helena were n ex-
ce-e-t shape Memphis VIII probably Be
t-e --et Sunday stop of the tour.
81 Lewis and his party ind a scarcity
of bridges on this first leE Of the long
rr--r. and -hev are Informed that on the
ze-1-E leg from Dallas. Tex. back 70 CHI
caEa. t.er VIII also find that streams are
ST. crossed iu pioneer" fashion az fords-
-f 90. ~-- re- OF streams on the second
le- .r --a --G- shows the same ratio as has
beer sound $50 Tar. % SIS probable that the
-..-.-. - FORD uor Jess than hundred
greeks and small rivers between Cincinnati,
Dallas and chicago.
."-.H -Hr purpose of the coming tour Is
-rr before the people o. the South
western country al The na-vels OF ethe
modern motor cay. g. rs also true that the
tourists -... r-rr present indications viii
number er-a-a. hundred WI learn some
KING --w a.r-t most fascinating ''EE-
11--rrze. -4-- az the United States.