The Washington times., 1911-04-22
.G[|DDEN SCOUTS
STARTING MONDAY
ON OTTAWA TRIP
President Asked to Give
Signal for Long
Journey.
SEVERAL HUNDRED
CARS WILL ESCORT
Stevens-Duryea to Make Run From
Washington, Driven BY
Barnard.
BY HARRY WARD.

That time-honored preliminary in
stitution of the annual Glidden tour
the pathfinding trip, will start Mon
day morning, and IT is likely Presi-
ent Taft will give the word that sends
the scouts on their long journey to
Ottawa.
The Stevens-Duryea car that has
been selected for the pathfinder, will
be escorted out of the city by sew
eral hundred cars belonging to mem
bers Of the Automobile Club of Wash
ington. The parade will be headed by
the big Stoddard-Dayton touring car
that laid out the route of the Four
Leaf Glover run. Clarence Barnard
will drive the machine, and the pas
sengers will be the scouts who map
ped that run. They will accompany
the Glidden pathfinder as far as Bal
tfmore. At Laurel the party will be
met by delegation from the Automo-
bile Club OF Maryland and escorted
through the Monumental City.
The Trail Blazers.
The Glidden pathfnding crew will
consist of Howard Longstreth, chair
man of the touring information board
OF the three AS; E. L. Ferguson, who
was referee of the Munsey Historic
tour; Nathan Lazarnick, official pho
tographer. and S. NJ. Butler, chairman
of the contest board of the American
Automobile Association. The car will
be driven by A. B. Young. The crew
Is expected to arrive In Washington
today. and will be entertained by the
Automobile Club of Washington.
The route to be laid out by the path
finders will be followed precisely by
the contestants in the tour, which is
schcduled to leave Washington on
Monday, June 1s.
Scenic Route Return.
After Chairman Longstreth has conn
pleted the itinerary, he viii return to
New York by scenic route, and thus
an international tour will be made
available to members in such COM
pact form as to insure much popu-
larfty. Motorists 5esnand definite
tours. conveniently arranged, and
Chairman Longstreth has a vast
amount of this work in prospect. He
will gradually work out a systematic
plan to cover all of the most visited
sections of the country. Comprehen-
sive maps will supplement this
scheme and. of couse, the accurate
local books of the many A. A. A. clubs
viii Mt into the general plan most ef-
hctently, for these clubs are in a po-
sition to know their own sections bet
ter than motorists from a distance.
The pathffnding of the Glidden route
Will cover period of about two weeks
"a trifie more II bad weather Is en-
will be more fit for motor
boating than automobile touring at
this time of the year, a goodly supply
Of tire chains and mud-conquering ap-
paratus will be carried. However, In
June, when the spring freshets have
long since dried those roads will be in
much better condition, and not at all
Entries to Be Large.
Interest manifested by manufacturers
indicates that the entries this year will
far outnumber those of any previous
season. The route of the tour is as vet
tentative and subject to change, ac-.
,ording to conditions disclosed by the
trip. It may be discovered
hat certain detours can be made to
better advantage, that some of the
Jumps are too long. or too short. or
hat In some place planned for an over
night stap, the accommodations are in
sufficient. Not until after Chairman
will the roure be tiEally determined.
Entries are already coming in aud re-
Iuests for blanks in almost every mali,
In the past few seasons the annual
ilidden tours have been either In tine
Middle West, South or Southwest, ard
10 particular effort has been made TO
include many large cities en- route
This season, however, numerous big
titles will be visited. Starting at WASH
ngton, the caravan will move through
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and several large Canadian
titles. Owing to this contestants will
lot be obliged to undergo such hard
hips as in former years, when 1t was
iinicult to secure hotel accommoda-
ions, and made sleeping in barns and
;amping out in tents necessary. In
hort, the contest this year is expected
o be Glidden tour de luxe.
BY saving ont a piece of side-ring,
which is used to prevent the tire from
eaving the rim, and then placing 1t on
IN automobile wheel equipped with z
goodyear no-rim-cut tire. and initiating
he tire to heavy pressure, engineers
It the factory CT the Goodyear Tire and
rubber Company. at Akron, Ohio, re-
emily firmly established the claim that
he more this brand of tire is inflated
he tighter II hugs the rim. As soon
s the pressure was applied to the no.
Uncut tire the gap made by saving
ut section Of the side rim began to
lose up, showing that the pressure of
he tire was toward the center of the
Wheel. This demonstrated that even If
his ring should break the tire, which
ontains 12s strands of piano wire, would
end to hold 1t on the wheel instead Of
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