The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-08-11
COMING OF cLIDDEN TOUR IS
HAILED WITH ACCLAIM

prints picture of the Glidden trophy
and follows it up with the following
article which it prints in the most
CONSPICUOUS part of its paper doubled
loaded and double measure size so
as to attract more attention.
Now if the different boards of coun-
ty commissioners from Duval to Hills
borough counties will get busy we can
get the Glidden tourists to extend
their route on down the peninsular
from Jacksonville to Tampa via
Ocala.
Let us all with one accord begin
to get busy and we can have hundreds
of automobilists passing along this
route the coming fall and winter.
The following is the Atlanta Jour-
nails editorial on the Coming of the
Glidden Tour"
The news that the Glidden tour will
use The Journal-Herald highway this
year, sent out all the country by the
Associated Press, is little short of
startling in come quarters, and is
welcome nowhere more than it is in
the south. The fact that a radical de-
parture will be made from what have
grown to be considered the essential
features of the Glidden-its rigid,
| technical rules-is by no means a
| minor factor in astonishing motor
circles.
The dispatches from New York is
being read all along the highway,
Thursday from New York to Jackson
vile. 1t is the interesting topic of
the day in every town and city which
that highway traverses, and in all the
country contiguous to it.
No other tour will be held upon the
highway this year. The Glidden will
supplant any other plans that might
have been formulated. BY the Gid
den, the extended highway will be
dedicated from Atlanta on south TO
Jacksonville. The older section, that
between Atlanta and New York, has
already been definitely established by
| two tours run under the direction of
The Journal and the New York Her
aid. The first of those was run in the
| fall of 1909, when the highway was
designated, and started at New York,
| finishing in Atlanta The second was
run in the spring of 1910, from Allan
ia to New York
Because it is the classic among
automobile contests, the running of
the Glidden is national event. Even
more than that. 1t is international.
It's plans, it's start, its course, and it's
finish and results, are the subject of
daily news in every paper of the Unit
den down the national highway will
establish that highway more definite
ly in the minds of The Journal and
New York Herald working alone.
Along the Jacksonville extension,
particularly, the news of the coming
of the tour will be received with ac-
claim. No more signal recognition
could have been given that extension
that is now assured.
Road work that has been progress
| ing steadily since the scouts of the
highway extension finished their
work some three months ago, will
now be redoubled in energy. Flor
ida's part of the road is in the process
of building from the rough. 1t is be-
ginning to take shape. But it is not
yet by any means the kind of road
that the Florida counties are willing
to have represent their state before
| the tourists (and the great majority
of them will be private owners) who
will come that way with the Glidden.
Therefore, a transformation surpas-
sing any work that has yet been ac-
| complished is to be expected between
this date and the time when the Gid
den tourists take to the road. Duval
county, in which is situated Jackson
vile, hearing some rumor of the Gid
den tour running the highway, has
already knocked the lid off of all de-
lay in the highway work of that
county has gotten down to brass
tacks for quick results.
The first Amerisan Automobile as
ISOLATION tour was run in 1904, two
years after organization of that body,
and reached from Boston and New
York to st. Louis, the distance being
1918 miles from New York The 1905
tour started and finished in New
York, its itinerary including Hart
ford, Breton Woods, Concord and
Worcester. 1t was for this run that
Charles j. Glidden first offered his
trophy, which was awarded to Percy
P. Pierce, driving a Pirce car, the dis
hnfr