The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-10-12
GL|[)[)EN
Tour with Seventy-Eight Cars
TO Be Started from New
York City
IN A WINDING FILE
Next Saturday TO Be Fin
ished in Jacksonville, Fla,
Twelve Days Later.

eight cars or many makes and pat
terms, assembled from almost ever!
state along the Atlantic seaboart
and as far as Indiana, will poin
their noses south next Saturday
and stream out OF New York City il
a winding file for Jacksonville
1,454 miles away. in the Glider
tour of 1911. October %, twelve
days later, is the day set for the
finish. During the trip motors viii,
take the dust of nine states, top the
Blue Ridge mountains and follow
close to the trail of the storm center
during the days of the Civil war.
The National highway, whose
path they will keep to the land OF
flowers, winds through New Jersey
cuts an arc in southeastern Pennsyl'
vania to Gettysburg and runs in a
broad line through Maryland to the
Shenandoah valley OF Virginia
Through the broad rich valley II
leads past sandstone and marble
monuments telling Of the days OF
IStonewall Jackson and Sheridan. IN
the rolling country, the trail skirts
the scenes of a score of battles, to
the broad acres of North Carolina
tobacco plantations, South Caro-
lima and the cotton fields of Georgia,
The tourist will cross the Empire
state of the South from north to
south, chugging through Atlanta on
their way Forty miles, or there
abouts, across the Florida line, the
journey will end at Jacksonville.
Probably no long stretch of road in
America, say the officials, can offer
greater diversity of scenery and eli
mate and better roadway in it's en-
tirety.
P. j. Walker. of San Francisco,
president of the Califorsia State
Automobile Association, who has
been selected referee; S. NJ. Butler,
chairman of the contest board OF
the American Automobile Associa-
ton, and other officials in charge OF
the tour, will give entrants their
final word of instruction on the
night before the start. Mr.. Walker
an ardent advocate for good roads
will be accompanied on the tour by
Mrs. Walker. A. H. Whiting, of
this city, in a 1912 Cunningham,
will be the pacemaker.
In addition to the massive trophy
for which the contestants viii!
strive, the chamber of commerce
and citizens of Anderson. S. c., have
donated a handsome silver punch
bowl to be awarded to the individual
owner whose car ends the tour with
the least number of penalties. The
Glidden trophy goes to the team OF
three cars furnishing with the best
team score, but any owner of an au.
tomobile has an opportunity to ente,
his car in the contest for the And.
derson cup.
Tirty-nine inches long and fifteen
inches high, the Anderson cup, OF
punch bowl, is chased and engraved
! in patterns emblematic of the South
The foot is round and the body oval
two modelled figures Of victory hold.
ing it aloft at each end. Cotton
blossoms and palmetto leaves ind
in silver wreath about the sides
while winged automobile wheels
stand upright beneath the fgures
at the bottom and between them al
the top. The great seal of the state
of South Carolina is stamped in the
metal beside an engraving of the
Anderson county court house on one
side, while on the reverse is en-
graved:
Perpetual Automobile Touring
Trophy, presented to the American
Automobile Association by the citi-
zens of Anderson, S. c., 1911"
Beneath the inscription there APP
pears the official emblem of the
American Automobile Association.
Six or more non-contesting cars
will take the road with the con-
testants. Therefore these represent
three-wheeled vehicles. There VIII be
two official cars and an express car,
while the baggage and supplies OF
tho tourists will be carried by motor
trucks. ~ " ~