The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-20
CHALMERS CAR IS
1910 PATHF |NDER
"BIuebird" Will Pick Out Route
in South for the Gid
den Tour.
BOARD MAKES PROTEST
WARN FRANK X. ZIRBiEs He Is
uSuRPING A TITLE.

The Chalmers Motor company has
been awarded the pathfinder trip for
the Glidden tour of 1870 The official
announcement of the American Auto
mobile association was made Saturday,
February 26, by s. NJ. Butler. chairman
of the contest board.
The pathfinding car will leave Gin
cinnati about the first of April. 1t
will be driven by one of the Chalmers
champion racing teams and will carry
in addition to Dali Lewis, the official
pathfinder of the American Automobile
association, the official photographer
and a representative of the Chalmers
Motor company.
The 1910 Glidden tour will extend
through the southwest and the central
parts of the country. The tour will
pass through eleven states: Ohio Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. Texas, Ok
lahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
Iowa and Illinois. The tour of 1909,
which started from Detroit. was the
longest in the history of the Glidden
event. This years tour will be fully
as long as that Of last year, and in
many respects will be an ever more
thorough test of the participating cars.
The most difficult part of the 1859
tour was encountered IL Colorado, Kan
sas and Iowa. This years event VIII
not only carry the cars over the gumb0
roads of Kansas and across Iowa, but
will also take them over the mountains
of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas
and over parts of Texas and Oklahoma,
where such thing as made" road
is almost unknown.
Invade New Territory.
This is the first Glidden tour that
ever went south of the Mason and Dix
on line. 1t will open up to the auto
mobile industry a vast and prosperous
new territory. Arkansas, Texas ana
Oklahoma, all new territory for most
American auto makers, will offer some
of the greatest business opportunities
in the country. Much of this territory
is lust awakening to the automobile.
The country is rich in manufactures,
commerce and agriculture. This years
tour should. therefore, bring the con-
testing manufacturers better results
than did last years event.
From the point of view of general Ia
terest this years Glidden will exceed
any previous contest For the first
time in the history of the industry the
automobile will be brought in direct
competition with the thoroughbred
horse, part of the tour extending
through the Blue Grass regions of Kep-
lucky In the Cumberland river couh-
try and from Nashville on to the Mis-
sissippi river the route will be through
4 Al IL al hAt fIc nd Of
the Civil war.
In Kansas City the 1910 event will,
for the first time. overlap the route of
last years tour. From this point the
route will probably be through Lincoln
and Omaha, Nebraska, straight across
Iowa through Des Moines to Davenport
and across the northern end of Illinois,
finishing in Chicago.
That the pathfinding trip for the 1910
Glidden tour will be more strenuous
than that of an earlier tour is the be-
lief of the A. A. A. experts. In April
the roads of Kentucky are quite likely
to be veritable seas of mud. and at all
times the mountain travelling through
Tennessee is extremely difficult.
Protests Against Another Car.
From Memphis to Dallas, the most
southern point of the tour. and north
to Kansas City. the much feared gumbo
and adobe prevail. 1t has been predict
ed by Texas motorists that 1t will be
impossible for an automobile to ira
verse this territory during the wet sea-
son In the early spring.
That the pathfinding task has been
awarded to a Chalmers ''Bluebird" by
the contest board of the American Au-
tomobile association Is signal honor
to the Detroit-made car. The path
finding trip was deaired by a number of
the leading manufacturers of the coun-
try, but Chairman Butler and the con-
test hoard showed absolute faith in the
of the Chalmers by
awarding the trip TO the "Bluebird."
In his official announcement. Chair
man Butler also states that he sent Of
fetal protests from the American Auto
mobile association to another motor car
company, and to that company's adver-
Using agents In Chicago. against the
naming of the car driven by Frank x.
Zirbles as the Giidden tour pathfinder.
This car left Cincinnati about week
ago, and has been advertised through
out the country as the pathfinder for
the 1910 event In his protest, Chair
man Butler says that such misrepre-
sentation must cease Immediately and
that the car must be withdrawn under
penalty of disqualification of these cars
by the American Automobile associa-