New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
'CREAT PILOTS TO DRIVE PATHFNDERS PUSH ON
Route Makers for the Glldden
Tour on the Way North.
ROADS APE FAIRLY GOOD
A Hill Climb Will Be an Unusual
Feature Of the Run
This Season. '

After a rest to-day tie Glidden Reed"
proc,ty Tour pa,hhnders will thread their
way northward from the Connecticut River
Valley section OF Massachusetts and cross
the border line into Canada. Nearly three"
auartes of the route has been covered.
The balance OF the trip 70 Ottawa viii IN"
clude much picturesque country and many
quaint Canadian towns.
The roads thus far encountered have been
! found unusually good for this time OF tho
year, and when the contest proper-this
eighth annual reliability tour Of the Amer
/ lean Automobile Association-takes place
June 70 10 25 the highways and bywsys
and mountain trails will be In Ear better
shape.
This season the psthfndsng car Is the tour
| ing Information bureaus own car, in charge
OF Howard Longstreth, chairman OF the
| touring board. II also carries 9. NJ Butierk
chairman OF the American Automobile 49,
ISOLATION Contest Board: z. L Ferguson
who Is keeping the logbook, and y. Laxar>
nick the official photographer. The party
! left Washington last Monday and has been
making good time. The route az pickles
out and announced so Ear includes SUCH
large cities az Baltimore. Wilmington
Philadelphia, New York. Bridgeport. Wassr<
bury, Hartford, Springfield and Boston
In this respect the coming contest Is Ht1
ferent from ali OF its predecessors, as q
varied lot OF country Will be 'ncluded~
Starting in the hills Of Maryland u1sdS
famous in the Civil War through the aeA
tlvities OF "Stonewau" Jackson and other%
the caravan OF cars will move northsasters
~ through the fat New Jersey count1
70 the Jersey coast. taking IN the oeacH
resorts, Asbury Park, Long Branch ara
! Seabrisht. and Lakewood. Thence the cars
will go by way OF tho metropolis 20 tbs
Connecticut River Valley. in the realm %
! the well known scenic tour" with fts
fine New England roads and the roliin q
Berkshire Hills and the steep Green Moun<
tains, and then into the forests and lakes
| Of the Dominion
AS the tour has been tentatively pisnnesd
II will cover a period OF eight days and q
distance OF about Loci miles. All the dayg
will not he travelling ones, however. n on
the fifth day OF the tour a hill climb VIE
be held and all competing cars will Be-
Obliged to climb the slope with the sans
equipment. gear ratio and passenger load
as when travelling IN the tour proper Al
Yet the NIL mas not DScn uoCiuou upolA
definitely. although tho pe.hinding car ns<
gotiated several climbs, any OF which woviS
be suitable for the purpose intended. II -
understood, however. that hill near Monte
pelier, VT. will be selected for the climb
which is feature never before introduced
in Glidden tour.
The relative performances by a price-tir11
handicap will be announced as soon as tbs
! hill Is surveyed. This handicap will bs
based on the relative performance OF stock
cars in the seven price divisions OF Glass 4
of the contest board rules in twelve i'm
portant hill climbs held during the last
season Each car. TO avoid penalty. must
climb the hill in the time specified for ~
division For each second or fraction there
OF consumed in excess of the specified tina
penalty OF one point or fraction thereof
will be imposed. The timing %, the cars
will be recorded by the Warner electrical
timing apparatus. Supplemental resula-
tons governing the hill climb are soon 70
be issued.