The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-08-02
A LARGE PARTY OF AUTO|STS
Pass Through Fallon Monday.
All Millionaires Looking for
Pleasure

beihoHStrdtinB tne POSSIBILITIES OF
cross the continent travel in autos
driven by on-professlonal mahouts, a
party of 40 dust and grease begrimmed
people, riding in 10 40-horse power and
2 60-horsepower Premier automobiles,
passed through Fallon Monday at noon,
having made the journey from the G.
B. Williams ranch at Eastgate on that
day, which was concluded at the River
side hotel in Reno. A stop was made
in Fallon long enough to replenish
gasoline supplies and to eat an infor-
NAL lunch of pie and sweet meats.
Carrying flags presented by President
Taft, United States Senator Penrose,
of Pennsylvania; States Senator
O'Gorman, of New York, Mayor Rey-
burn, of Philadelphia, and bearing
''good roads" message to be relayed to
the Governors of thirteen States,
twelve wealthy motorists, driving their
own cars, started on 4,000-mile trans
continental tour from Atlantic City
on Monday, June Goth. To give a lit
eral significance to their slogan, ocean
to Ocean," the cars made the actual
start with their rear wheels tapped by
the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Be.
fore they reach the terminus Of the run
at Los Angeles, CAL, the front wheels
will have been washed by the waters
of the Pacific ocean at Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco.
Unique in the annals of motoring,
the tour was conceived with the twos
fold object of demonstrating the prac-
ticability of cross-continent trip by
the private owners of modern motor
cars and of lending effective aid toward
the perfection of the national highway
project.
All previous transcontinental motor
trips have been conducted with the
purpose of demonstrating the reliability
and endurance qualities of the cars.
Usually a professional driver has been
at the steering wheel and the car has
the expert attention of a skilled mech
anician throughout the trip. Reports
of these tours have always contained
accounts of impossible roads and other
difficulties which the average motorist
would regard as insurmountable.
In this tour the conditions are rever-
sed. 1t is test of the ability of the
drivers, rather than of the cars, and
the drivers are the owners themselves,
most of them being prominent busi-
ness men of Philadelphia. This phase
of the the tour is emphasized by the
presence of the wives and families of
the participants, including four boys
ranging from IL to IA years of age.
Of equal Importance is the other
purpose of the trip, the agitation tor
the completion of the national high
way from coast to coast. The project
ors of the event contend that this trip
will disclose the fact that such a road
way is already virtually completed;
that the stories of severe road condi-
tions are unnecessarily exaggerated,
and the only requirement now necess-
sary to bring the national highway to
a state of perfection is the hearty CO.
operation of State executives. This
the tourists hope to aid in accomplish
ing.
In anticipation of the growing popu-
larity of transcontinental ''hikes,"
which is expected to reach its height
previous to the Panama Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915, these million
aire tourists have chosen to spend q
seven weeks vacation in laying out an
ideal itinerary for the motorists desir-
GUS of initiating their example.
The participants in this run have
formed an organization known as the
Philadelphia Motor Tourists" COM
posed exclusively of owners of Premier
cars. The party is made up of the
following: F. H. Lippincott, chairman;
George C. Allen president of the Repub-