The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-09
OTTAWA GAVE ROYAL RECEP-
TTON TO GLIDDENITES FRI
DAY NOON.

| hun III Gl1DDENl FIhl-
DAY NOON.
Delayed and driven off their course
by floods, the Glidden pilgrims tri-
umphahtly entered Ottawa after a
long run from Washington D.. c., the
/ Stevens-Duryea Six pilot car running
as smoothly as at start. All Ottawa
motordom turned out to greet the
! Pathf1nders at noon on Friday; a
large contingent of the Ottawa C1up
met the Glidden Scouts outside the
city and escorted them into the De-
| minion's capital This Glidden Re-
ciprQcity Pathfinding trip which Off
cial1y ended at noon Friday had led
the scouts through the District of Co
lumbia, through the cities and coun-
try roads of Maryland, Delaware,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,
| Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, diagonally through the
whole of Vermont, through the pass
es in the Green Mountains. up the
Champlain Valley, across the line
| and into the Province of Quebec
where long detours We're necessary
because of spring freshets to Mon
treal and thence through the Prov
! lnce of Ontario to Ottawa, the objec-
| tive for which they had started from
Washington on the Monday morning
of the Gath of April
Though the Pathfinding trip con-
| sumed eleven and a half days, elm
mating the long stops made in cities
and towns in various conferences and
consultation of automobile clubs, In
spection of hills for the proposed
hill climbs, etc.-thirty- three hours
in all or about four normal touring
days-the actual pathf1nding trip was
made In seven and a half days of &C
tual touring, remarkable record at
this time of the year when some of
the roads which will be smooth as a
a q =, lo%o L,
and hub deep with mud in stretches
The record is ali the more extraor-
binary when you consider that in
stead of the proposed 1921 miles of
the pathflnding trip as originally
planned, the distance was increased
several hundreds by detours in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts and by
long roundabout runs in Canada in
search of roads not inundated by the
Hooded rivers and streams. Then too,
no pathinding trip before this one
has been undertaken so early in the
sea son, and this season as every resi-
dent of the whole region from Wash
ington, D. G.. to Ottawa knows is from
two to three weeks late. As a mat
ter Of fact, when the A. A. A. officials
foregathered in Washington, advices
from Montpelier, Vermont, urged a
three day lay over in Boston or at
some other point on the lower half
Of the trail because when the letters
were written there still was sleighing
on the Vermont roads through the
mountains: But the Gliddenites hop
ed against hope, knowing that the
powerful motor of the six cylinder
pilot would drive the car through the
snow banks and over the equally diff
flcult roads from which the snow had
just melted. Nonetheless the four
rOad-wise scouts and Luther Young.
the experienced driver, were overjoy-
ed with the two days of exceptionally
hot weather which occurred just be-
fore they reached the really difficult
pass up the White River to Montpe-
lier and down the Winnoski through
the main ranges of the Green Noun
tains CT Vermont.
The weather favored the venture
some Pathfinders up to Sunday ev-
ening, April 28th, when they reached
Montpelier. True they experienced
a downpour in the celebrated will
Jamestown Gulch on their approach
to Barre, Vermont, but they finally
got through the muddy rough road
to the fair haven of 1.-The Pavilion"
along side of the beautiful white mar
BILE state house of Vermont Here
occurred the longest halt of the nine
made beside the night stops on the
way to Ottawa. This halt was me-
cessitated to permit of a thorough in
spection of the good hills of Montpe7
lier which are candidates for the hill
climbing events which are planned as
an integral part of the tour this year.
The Touring Bureau chairman, How
ard Langstreth and Mr.. Butler of the
Contest Bureau of the A. A. A. have
not yet announced whether these YER
mont hills or some likely Massa chu-
sets hills will be finally selected; and
there are those who will await the
decision with great eagerness, notably
Mayor Pallar of Montpelier who de-
voted himself to the aid of the path
finders and to making their stop in
Montpelier an occasion of most
friendly hospitality. After the great
er part of the day spent in this
delightful hill town at $3.50 D. M
Monday, May 1st, the tourists start
ed down the picturesque Winooslli for
Burlington, which was reached in a
heavy downpour, and it rained even
more violently that night making the
drizzle and showers encountered dur
ing the afternoon trivial in compar-
isOn.
This rain with the hot days pre-
water IN Canada and the detours and
delays, and a thing which may in
terest those who have been reading
of the trip, the premature announce
ments made in publications, which
depended on New York Press repre-
sentatives: as to the reported arrival
of the Pathfinder in Montreal on
Monday. AS a matter of fact the Pr
lot car did not leave Burlington until
almost noon Monday and stopped for
the night in Swanton, VT, NEAR the
line" and did not arrive in Montreai
until the evening of Wednesday,, the
third of May, and it was forty hours
later when they arrived in Ottawa
thirty hours after some of us had
read in Thursdays papers that "the
Pathfinders have been reported in
Ottawa" which all goes to show just
how unusual a pathfinding trip the
scouts have had, the daily runs could
not be forecasted accurately.
When the big tour is pulled off in
June, the Gliddenites will find a most
delightful trip arranged for them
from the data compiled by that mas
made the log of this trip and who |
helped plot out some of the ordin-
airy trails up through Massachusetts,
and in other parts of the region
through which many of the popular
tours run. The very performance of |
the car counting only the actual run |
ming time in adverse conditions OBJ |
tanning during the fortnight just pass |
ed argues that each days run over !
the course finally selected will offer |
no hardship and will have the es- |
sence of touring enjoyment-splendid |
roads. the most beautiful scenery OF |
the land, variety of country from the /
District of Columbia up the coast TO |
Philadelphia and New York, thence |
into Connecticut, along the sound |
then a bit of the beautiful Berkshires |
and sachusetts with, its pictur-
esque places and historic towns we'll |
worth the seeing, up the Connecticut |
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