The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23
.HONK HONK NEWS
Glidden Plot Car ito Be Equip
ped Wi. h Wireless.
Many Miles From Telegraph Sta
lions at Times.
WILL SEND 500 MILES.
Rules Are Out Governing Man.
agement of Entire Tour.
Other Items o Interest in Auto
Circles.

+, Wireless telegraph messages sent
| from a moving car are to be feature
/ OF the Glidden tour this year. The
Chalmers Motor company has arranged
tohave care equipped with a complete
wireless outfit. The car will be
rugged with apparatus for sending and
| receiving messages from a distance of
400 miles.
This years event, like that of 1909, is
| to extend through a territory where
| towns and telegraph stations are far
apart. A wireless telegraph car would
| haze proved valuable last year in sew
eral instances. On one occasion a con-
| testing car did not report at a night
control. No one had any idea what had
| happened until the following morning.
| Messages from a wireless car could
be sent at any point along the route
and would be of great assistance both
| In the conduct of the tour and to the
| press representatives.
Help Newspaper Men.
That unusual happenings may be
more speedily reported the wireless car
is to be placed at the disposal of the
newspaper men on the tour.
mother annoying feature was that In
several small places telegraph stations
We're closed at o'clock at night and l.
was difficult to get the wires after
dark. With the wireless car in work
ing order, the wires can be tapped dt
any minute. In this way news of the
Glidden tour this year will be obtain
able at any hour of the day or night.
Follows Pilot Car.
The wireless car is to follow the pilot
car every morning. 1t will then drop
ack to the last car of the route dur
ing the day, bringing up the rear at
night. Those desiring to send mes
sage would experience little or no de-
lay, whereas if it were necessary 10
wait until a town was reached hours
of delay would result.
The Glidden tour will traverse sec
tions of the country where the tele-
phone is still rarity. Telegraph sta
lions will also be far apart, as the tour
progress. The wireless car should be a
welcome sight to the tourer desiring tn
reach friends at points where there s
neither telegraph or telephone
The rules which are to govern the
1910 national reliability tour of the
American Automobile association fer
Glidden and Chicago trophies, have
been sent to all automobile manufac-
history of the famous Glidden tour that
the rules have been issued in a separate
form, and far enough in advance of the
start of the tour to permit prospective
entrants to study them in detail and
make their preparations for the con-
test.
There are two trophy awards this
year; the G1idden trophy and the Chi
CdSO lTOpIy
Must Be Members of A. A. A.
Every .entrant must be a member of
the American Automobile association
or one Of its affiliated clubs. Each car
must carry, constantly, its full equip
ment as, cataIogued by its maker. Con-
siderable additional equipment is per-
mitted under the rules. including tire
initiating tanks or pumps Cars in the
Glidden division must carry four or
more passengers, and cars in the Chi
cago trophy class must carry two or
more persons.
The contest board reserves the right
to refuse any entry. Entrants will re-
eeive their official numbers in the order
in which entries are received by the
contest board. These numbers must be
nlainly displayed on each side of the
hood. on the radiator and, if possible,
on the rear of the body. Every an
trant must nominate an observer, who
will be assigned to ride on a different
car each day during the tour. Fraud
in the evasion of the "stock-car'
10fnf4ion &c set forth in the rules of