The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-19

 Automobile Tour
Sixty Philadelphia Motorists in Premier Cars on Trip From
 Atlantic to Pacific

Atlantic to Pacific
 When the waves of the Atlantic tomobiles at Atlantic City, N. J., Mon- day, June 26, there was a chug of motors and the first pleasure tour from ocean to ocean in the history of the motor-car industry was under way. On, on, ever westward, the tou- rists will speed until the far-distant goal is reached and better means of communication opened up between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
 The main object and purpose, to encourage long distance touring among Philadelphians, it is one of the most important events in the annals of the motor-driven vehicle. Prob ably 100 times has the country been crossed by motor car, but never be- fore has this distance of 4,50O miles been traversed by a delegation Of tourists of the ma snitude sent away at the signal of Mayor Stoy, of the seashore metropolis.
 Manufacturers promoted the 1n1- tial transcontinental tours, but the day is now here when the bank pres ident, genius, merchant, business man and others of means are doing the Atlantic and Pacific by automobile. The first motor car to perform the feat was of 1909 model and establish ed this prestige only two years ago. At this time the performance was considered a hazardous one, and only one or two cars made the trip at the same time. The best illustration of the rapid growth in perfecting con struction in the automobile is had in the journey of the Philadelphia tou- rists, who make up a party of more than fifty persons.
 The contest feature is lacking in this event. It is the owner who, Tn this case, is a leading business man or citizen, who is back of the cross country tour. Several of Ph1ladel- phia's best families are represented, pressed it, is an educational tour and at the same time lends to the vaca- ton of these active admirers of the automobile.
 Seeing America before going into the unknown foreign lands," is the slogan of the cross-country tourists, who could not adopt more suitable and health-g giving means than the motor-car. The educational feature of the trip consists of the securing of valuable data on the conditions of the roads separating the two great bodies of water. A study of the surrounding country will be made and plans worked up and data fur nished in a move to secure an ocean, to-ocean highway Not until the seal the SIdC0 or sF0HISylVduld IS pidhl- ed on the shores of the Pacific will the tourists give up the journey.
 Ten Premier touring cars and large truck made up the party known as the Philadelphia Motor Tourists. The motor tourists, exclusively Pre- mier owners, organized in Philadel- phia on June 2 and decided on the transcontinental jaunt as their open- ing event in the campaign in the in- terest of promoting long, distance touring. The association organized with the following officers. who will have charge of the trip: Chalrman F. H. Lippincott; treasurer, George c. Allen, president of the Republic Trust Company, and secretary, John Guy Monihan.
 Each of the prominent motor en- thusiasts owns his own car and will Not only in the automobile world, but from a business standpoint, the tour ists are widely known
 The personnel of the trip includes the following: George c. Allen, pres ident of the Republic Trust Company, tions of Philadelphia. In his car will ride his family.
 F. IF. Lippincott, chairman of the tourists committee, of the famous family. He is enthusias- tic and believes the trip will open up
 
 In the car with F. B. Moller. son of a retired banker, ride two Amherst graduates.
 Hon. John H. Murphy, one of New Works city commissioners, will pilot his big six-cylinder car.
 Hon. H. O. Bechtel, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Penn sylvania, will spend his vacation mak- ing the tour.
 c. G. A. Loder, who established the legal status of the Sherman antitrust 1 law believes the day when ocean-to- | among automobilists, is close at hand. | He, too, will hold the steering wheel over his own machine.
 c. Francis Jenkins, the Franklin | Institute goid-medalist, inventor of | the moving-picture machines, has rig l ged up one of the movies on his 1 car and on his return will show the l public under what conditions the trip | was made. j P w. Baker, a prosperous tobacco l broker, has cancelled trip abroad to accompany the tourists in his large | car. Il
 Ellsworth Sprague makes the ninth | driver of the party. Accompanying | these men will be their families and | | number of friends. Ray McNa- which will pick out the route, and here will be a truck to carry the bag yage.g
 Nothing has been left undone by | John Guy Monihan in the way of planning the trip. Realizing the mag 1itude of the event, every little de- all has been arranged and the cars will be run on a schedule. The tour sts will be gone forty-seven days in teaching the Pacific, but only thirty ,ix days will be for westward travel m a number of the larger cities two o five days will be spent in sight ,d fn hor cri1r