Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-25

BLAZING TRAIL OF
THE GL|DDEN ROUTE
Famous Road Driver Sets Out TO Cover
2.200 Miles In Motor
Car.

Cincinnati. o., Feb. 25.-With Frank X.
Zirbies, Americas most famous road
driver ut It's wheel the Mitchell Rang
cr, which recently acted as pacemaker in
tho national highway tour from New
York to Atlanta. after having a few
months before successfully carried war
dispatches from Major General Leonard
Wood. u S A. In New York, to Major
General Weston. u. S. A.. in command at
tho Preside. san Francisco, In the first
transcontinental war message mission
over cssaycd in this country. started
from here at noon today to cover the 1910
route OF the Glidden tour which begins
here about the middle OF June and winds
up about three weeks later In Chicago
The early start of the pathfinding au-
tomobie over the Glidden tour route
that travcrses 10 states, nearly half of
them below the Mason and Dixon line,
and much of the itinerary over territory
never before invaded by the big annual
cavalcade, is in response to an unpar-
allolcd demand from motorists all over
the country as we'll as the big manu-
facturers for data on the course
lected for the greatest reliability contest
of tho western hemisphere. That the
sixth Glidden tour Will be n supreme test
for tho mechanism of the best cars mado
In tho country is the verdict of the tech
nical automobile mon who laid out the
touring route
SUCCESS PREDICTED.
That the car that blazed the way on the
big New York-Atlanta national highway
run for a record breaking field OF con-
teStants and subsequently conquered all
manner of climatic, road and physical
difficulties In the transcontinental dis
patch mission, Will go through from the
Queen City to Chicago, via Texas. is
the firm conviction. Tho widest variety
of road conditions Is expected In Ken
y
homa, Kansas, Missouri. Iowa and Hi
nois. Advance information gathered by
Driver ZIrbes is that Hoods. Ice. snow
and deep mud may be encountered at In
tcrValS along the entire route, with a
possibility of enforced dctours in the
Mississippi river valley on account OF
inundationS
The Glidden tour annually has been in
creasinE in strenuous features, due to the
development or the cars and the Indus
try. In 1906 1t began in New York city
and terminated In tho same city after a
trip of $40 miles in the New England
district The following year the stren-
uous task from the starting point at
Buffalo led the tourists through ontario
and Quebec TO the finish at Rangeley
Lake, Nc. 1150 miles.
TOUR OF 1907.
In 1907 the start was made at Cleve-
land Chicago being the western ter
minus and New York the concluding point
a distance of $50 miles. In 1908 the tour
began at Buffalo and running through
Pennsylvania. New York and Maine, 1t
finished at Saratoga. = distance of so
miles. In 1909 the longest and scyerest
tour OF all began in Detroit and was con-
cluded on @ hard run east from Denver
to Kansas City after having touched
Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha. the
total distance having been $50 miles.
AS planned for 1910 the tour Will be
about 1900 miles Tho principal cities In
which controls may be expected after
leaving Cincinnati, arc Louisville. KY
Nashville and Memphis. Tenn: Little
Rock and TcXarkana. Arkansas; Dallas
and Fort Worth Texas; Oklahoma City
okla; Topeka and Wichita, Kan, ST
Joseph. Mo-, Des Moines. Cedar Rapids
and Davenport, Ia; Rock Island. Moline
and Chicago. Ill.