New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
WRIGHT TO HEAD TEAM BLAZE TRAIL IN TEXAS
GIidden Pathfinding Auto on
Last Leg of Journey.
ROUTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED
Extra Day Added to the Length
of Tour SO That Cars May
Pass Through Omaha. =

On his way East from California. = ~
Butler. chairman OF the contest board Of
the American Automobile Association. Wis
fled Omaha and rasds arrangements
10 change the route or the CTItd1s1 tour TO
take in that city. ". r. McKeen r.. prssi-
dent Of the new Nebraska state assoeia-
ton had little difficulty IN convincing Mr..
Butler that his recently organized assocfs-
ton should be recognized 5y night stop
I'm Omaha President McKeen said hts as
ISOLATION had decided 20 make Immediate
application FOR membership in ths Amer
can AUtonooils Association.
Mr. Butler accordingly wired Mr. Lswf1.
who IA now on the last leg of his tourney
between Fort Worth Ter and Chicago. to
change the route after leaving 81 Joseph.
Mo. SO that II will run direct 70 o-nsna-
After leaving ST Joseph the route viii
probably switch across The northwestern
corner Of Missourf into NsbTaska- After
leaving Omaha II Will turn east and take IN
Des NnIuAs Iowa Des 91otIes was on the
original route and the detour nov PIsrHsd
in order go take in Omaha Utu add
more day 20 the tour and take In tUo sides
Of q triangle instead Of one. After l7aSfHs
Des Moines the cars viii run 20 Cedar
Rapids. Iowa. Moline. III, and snish az
Chicago about June %
AYranzenents have been completed By
which the new state association will com
pIets its sfiliation with the national body
at the next meeting Of the executive com
mittse of the American Automobile Asso-
citation. This makes the thfrty-stxth stats
association 10 become affiliated ufth the
American Autornobfs Association. Other
state associations are in course OF forr1a-
ton, and 1t is likely that before ths end
a. f~,f
which has three or mora autornobtls clubs
within It's borders will have Joined the na-
tlona1 body
During the last wssk the pathfndiaz
party had probably more difficulties 70
contend with than any pathhndsrs OF pre-
vfous GIiddan tours. Starting from CincfT-
natl on April 12. they ran into . doubls
storm which came out Of the Allegheny
Mountains and swept across the SOUTH
western part of the country. No sooner had
they literally swarm out Of this dsluge than
they ran into another storm, which cams
I'D from the Gulf Of Mexico. and during
the last weak they have done nothing but
search the river banks 81 Mississippi and
Arkansas fer fordins PLACES and bridges
which had disappeared with the rising OF
ths streams in thar district
After leaving Memphis on AprH N, thsv
found excellent roads all the wsy to
Helena, Ark, Is which point they were
accompanied by q delegation of motorists,
who tourneYed 81 N4r-pnis go rreet them
and pilot them across the state line
From Helena Ark to Little Rock. Ark
they found very long days run. WITH it5
detours included, The distance WAS moro
than one hundred and s-vrnty-hve miles
Between Da1eville and Texarkara, Ark,
the pathfnders crossed the Red River BOT
tom lands and had some more hair raising
experiences with the excited little streams,
which seized their car and tossed il around
as though ~ were rowboat.
The party was met az Red River by an
other delegation from fexarkana. Fort
Worth and Dallas headed BY NJ A. Sack
stedder, president OF the Dallas Autoneb1ls
Club. These motorists had travelled 265
miles TO welcome the pathhndsrs into the
State Of Texas
The last reports heard from Afr. Lewis
and his party came from Paris. Tex.
where they arrived on April 25 covering
utne+v-tVeo MILES bAtweaH TsXarkana and
Paris in half day. The running. Mr.
Lewis said. was excellent and early on
the morning of April Is the party began its
journey 20 Dallas. crossing a very fat
country.
From Dallas the run TO Foft Worsl,
Tex. thirty-three miles, Is described by
the local tourists az ideal, and after stou
these two cities of the Lone Star State.
the car Will head for Oklahoma On ths
last leg of its Journey