Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-06
CAR
COMPLETES ROUTE
FOR GL|ODEN|TES
Stevens Duryea With A. A. A.
Board REPRESENTATIVES Reach
End Of Trip at Ottawa.

The Glidden reciprocity tour path
finders have found the path from
Washington, D. c., to Canada. Dust
covered and happy, the party, in the
A A. A. touring information boards
car, reached Ottawa Thursday, May 4,
having picked the route for the CON-
test, which win leave Washington,
June 10.
They encountered varied weather o.
the trip, balmly sunshine. wind, rain,
hail and snow, and, while Chairman
Butler. of the A, A. A. contest board,
Chairman Longstreth, of the touring
information bureau, who conducted the
run; E. L. Ferguson. the veteran rou e.
marker. and the official photogral her.
were g4ad when their work was fin
ished, they, nevertheless, pronounced
the trip not so bad, after all"
The trip from Montreal was made
through a heavy sno wstorm, and the
weather was freezing cold. However,
Keeper OF the Logbook Ferguson wirSS
that, contrary to un1ounded opinion on
Broadway, the polar bears do not str IL
into the dining-rooms of the hotels and
lick up the crumbs from the floor. "A
fact, no polar bears nave / zen seen.
A number of prospective entrants
have made inquiry regarding the mat
ter of getting their cars through the
Canadian customs house when crossing
the border. In this respect there Will
be nothing to worry about, for that Will
all be attended to by the contest board.
There will be no red tape or delay in
getting through.
Excellent hotel service has been en-
| countered by the pathfinders all along
the route. People in the automobile
industry can recall Glidden tours OF
former days when the weary motorists
| were Obliged to sleep on floors, piazzas,
tents, railroad trains and In barns with
| the horses, and Louis Disbrow and
some of his friends tell how they sat
UP in their room one night n snot
rats with q .32-calibre revolver, put
nothing of that sort will be
this season. Accommodations for pc
tween 800 and 400 persons can be Cd
tanned all along the line.
A hearty reception was accorded the
pathfnding party in every town n
city through which they passed. Inc
Hartford, Conn, Automobile Club met
the pathindars and escorted them into
their city, and at Springfield, Mass
the Springfield Automobile Club enter
tained the crew at luncheon. When
the party reached Boston, on Thursday,
| they were welcomed by the Bay state
| Automobile Club and by Mayor Fitz-
gerald and Charles ]. Glidden, donor
~ ~ trophy thai h"a-- his name
In a short speech MI. Glidden said he
believed that the 1911 contest, which
will include a hill climb en- route, will
he he best ever held in that 1t shall
mass through the big Eastern cities OF
America and will help further the
reciprocity movement and will ma
t~er,allv assist in the building of good
roads between the United States ano
Canada,
From Boston the path-hnders wenoes
their way over the historic battiefieia'
Of revolutionary days, passing throuef
Lexington. Concord ard other towns
that now bear landmarks OF many {
J volley and skirmish between the rec
coats and the colonists. The rathhnd'
ing car rolled through F1tchburg
Mass, thence over the boundary nne O.
Massachusetts, to Keene. N. H., up tn
Connecticut valley to Montpelier. NJ
From here it continued on to Brrlng
ton and along the picturesque Lake
Champlain for several miles, swerv'ns
wei a long bridge onto Grand Island
-shich is in the centre OF the lake. Sew
eral BRIDGES were crossed before tn
party reached Ro"ses Point. wNich 1
close to the boundary line OF Canad'
md the United States. When the crew
reached Montreal they were hea-tl'
welcomed by the Automohi'e Club o
''anada. At Ottawa the city threw onei
ITS gates and the reception was hiiar
ious.
Never before have the residents Of
region for the projected route Of (,