Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-04
LETTER SENT To
MAYOR BY AUTO
Well Known Abbott Detroit Bull
Dog Bears Message from
Detroit Mayor
PURE WHITE CANINE A MASCOT
Car to Travel 100000 Miles Be-
fore Its Return to
~. the Factory
PURE WHITE CANINE A MASCOT

Carrying letters from Mayor Brett
meyer of Detroit to the mayors of
fifty cities in the United States, Mex
leo and Canada, there left Detroit on
Sunday. November Is, the Abbott
Detroit Bulldog" on the second month
of its 100, 000-mile journey, with Mon
tague Roberts, who drove the winning
car in the New York to Paris race,
at the wheel. Roberts was accompa-
ciate editor of the Health magazine
of New York city and a noted long
distance automobilist. The two men
propose to go into every state in the
Union and to visit the large cities in
Canada and Mexico before the 100000
miles are finished. In covering what
bids fair to be the longest automobile
trim ever attempted the two men will
cover the borders of the United States
and cross the continent twice and go
into parts of the United States where
an automobile has never before tray
eIed. So far this car has covered
fourteen states and the present trip
covers the territory lying between De-
troit and Portland, Me, which was
reached on Thanksgiving day, when
16. 900 miles had been covered. From
the Piue Tree state the Abbott-Detroit
drivers went to Washington, passing
through Providence, Hartford, New
Haven, and Bridgeport New York
CITY Newark and Trenton, Philadel-
phia. Wilmington and Baltimore
From washington the Alleghenles
will lbe crossed to Pittsburg, and from
the smoky city the Bulldog will go to
louisville by way of Columbus, Day.
ton and Cincinnati. Lexington and
Bowling Green and other points in
Kentucky will be visited, and Ten
nessee will lbe crossed on the way to
Atlanta, stopping at Nashville ana
Chattanooga. From Atlanta the trip
will go across Georgia to Jacksonville,
Fla. from which place the tourists
will head for New York city again,
touching at all the cities along the
famous Good Roads tour of last year,
arriving at the Grand Central palace
on New Years evening in time for
the opening of the Automoplle snow.
Leaving New York again on January
10, the Bulldog and its plucky crew
will go to Buffalo via Binghamton,
Flnira and Hornellsville, crossing
into Canada, and to Chicago for the
auto show there, after which New
Orleans will be- the objective point and
its Mardi Gras carnival. From New
Orleans the entire state of Texas VIII
be Travelled and old Mexico visited
From Mexico the route will wend
through Southern California to Los
Angeles, up the Pacific coast to Brit
ish Columbia and back across the con-
tinent to Detroit, making $4,000 miles,
and but half of it's journey completed.
The car will be equipped with Vac
uum Cup tread tires and Splitdorf
magnetic. A complete outfit of sleep
ing bags, camping and cooking uten-
sils and a supply of Vacuum carafes
capable of keeping water and liquid
refreshments hot or cold for an indefi-
mite period will be carried for use on
the plains and desert lands of Old
Mexico and the western country Isl
beria," the pure white bulldog for
which the car is named will accom-
pany the party as mascot and guardian
of tonneau and its supplies: siberia
of the appraiser of the port of New
York by DR.. Percival, after he had
slowed himself away on the French
liner Madonna from Marseilles,
France, on September 6, 1910, and the
dog has had a varied and troubled
career