The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-13
LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL
ON THE PENSACOLA SCOUTS


The Courier Journal of Louisville
contained the following regarding the
scouts on the morning following their
arrival:
Mud despatched and hungry, the
Pensacola scouting party, going over
the proposed Lakes e-Gulf high
way from Pensacola to Chicago, arrived
in their automobile, Speedwell 49,"
in Louisville last night at $40 o'clock
After sending their car to a garage
they registered at the Seelbach. They
took bath, rundown and shave after
which they attacked a bounteous
spread that was served to them in the
rathskeller.
The members of the party, four in
number, will resume their journey to
Chicago some time today, expecting to
spend this evening in Indianapolis
They left Pensacola last Sunday morn
ing at IL o'clock, and since then have
covered 767 IA miles of ground. Pen
sacola air is still in the tires of their
machine they have escaped pune
lures to date. The party has been
travelling at the rate of lis or 40 miles
day, and expects to arrive in Chi
cago Monday night.
Members of the party are Col. Frank
L. Mayes, publisher and editor of the
Pensacola Journal; DR.. s. r. Mallory
Kennedy. representing the Pensacola
Commercial Association, and F. G.
Brent, Jr., and A. M. Avery, Jr., young
business men of the Deep Water City
of the Gulf. The object of their trip is
to find a Gulf-to-t he-Lakes route-one
that can be used at all times of the
year for the increasing automobile
travel between the north and the south.
and also one that can be adopted by
the official Blue Book as the most
available between the lakes and the
gulf. From Nashville to Chicago a
.fn els Ixr hao al a
is clearly outlined in the Blue Book,
but no route from the gulf to Nash
vile has ever been adopted.
DIR. Kennedy is owner Of the car in
which the trip is being made, and he is
driving It, He has not only made some
notable trips over the country. but he
also holds the recor dior fast driving
over a half-nile unbanlzed track. In
1909 he drove his car from Pensacola to
New York, and made the first Gulf-to-
New York trip ever made by auto. In
1910, in amateur driving on the Kup-
frian Park track, he beat Barney Old
fields five-mile record, made on the
Worcester, Mass, track.
This was the first day that we did
not encounter rain on our trip, Col.
Mayes said last night, land, inciden-
tally, we had to use chains on the
wheels OF our machine for the first
time We spent last night In Bowling
morning. We were twelve hours and
forty minutes making the trip to Louis
Vile, but from this must be deducted
two hours and thirty-five minutes con-
sumed in stops"
Speaking of Eentucky's roads. Col.
Mayes said that with the exception of
the old Louisville and Nashville turn
pike. the party found them in very
good condition.
There is great future ahead for
this turnpike. if the people of Ken
lucky are sufficiently wideawake to the
need for good roads" he said. AT
present, the cobblestones along the
| turnpike make it almost unbearable for
automobiles. but the foundation is
there, and all that is necessary is a
coat of asphalt. That would make OF
| the turnpike one of the greatest speed
ways in the country. We covered about
| twenty miles of 1t today"