The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-08

the kind ever seen here or abroad.
Everything connected with road MAX
ing, machinery and materials. will be
on View, and in many, instances there
win be practical demonstrations.
Gndden Tour Entries.
A hundred cars may be the limit
put on the entry list OF the A. A. A.
national reliability run by the ma
fionai tour committee. Entries are
coming In steadily for the Detroit
New Orleans journey, which will start
from the City OF the Straits October
7th and conclude In the Crescent
city October 18th. Recent notable
entries include DR. Wallace Wood. OF
| New Orleans: Frank Hardart. OF
Philadelphia, and j. 8. Kinnan. OF
| Toledo. o.. all long distance tourists
| OF much experience. DIR. Wood ar
! rived in New York during the week
after very Interesting trip from New
/ Orleans. With his family he left New
Orleans August 9Th, and -traSaled
through Mobile and Selma. Ala
Ala. Atlanta, Ga. Greenville, Char
| lotte. Asheyille, Greensboro. n. c..
I Roanoke and Staunton. Va, Gettyf-
burg and Philadelphia, Pa. and Tren-
ton and Jersey City, n. J. Dr. Wood
ia A methodical tourist, and he COM
puted his mileage as 1900 miles.
which required 1913 gallons Of gaso-
lene and Ia gallons OF oil. During
the trip he ascended Saluda mountain.
rise of $500 feet in six miles.
i Mr.. Hardart has been in a number
of big tours, nd invariably In &C
|, companied by his wife. son and three
daughters. In 1900 he won the trophy
in the MunSey run OF that year On
the Munsey tour in 1910 he had rather
bad luck. after travelling 1900 miles
and was forced to withdraw the las,
day. On the 1911 A. A A. national
tour. Mr. Hardart was penalixed only
81 points for being late coming into
. Roanoke, va. On that day there wal
: such a severe rain that the roads were
in too dangerous condition to drive a
the speed required and Mr.. Hardar
would not permit his son to risk tn
lives Of his family in an effort to &c
| to the control on time.
Ktnnau is retired bushes
man of Toledo, who spends his win
ters in Pasadena, Cal. During tn
summer, he tours throughout tn
a country and has just returned from
q trip through Nova Scotia. Both Dl
: | Wood and Mr. Kinnan will leave Ne'
Il | York this week, over the roads 70
7 DFLTOal. mere IN tiS kuCACSt
@ between these three entrants. and eac
/ one wants the A. A A. national troph!
: AS none of them are In any way cor
r nected with the automobile trade, the
a are going into the tour, simply &c
i. the sport and the JOY OF touring.
: Charles J. Glidden, donor OF til
n famous trophy bearing his name an
II which will again be contested for b
the teams from the different elite
e | may decide to be competitor for tn
IL A. A A. trophy. which has been adde
IT to the prize list The handsome Al
:. derson cup this time will be for II
runabout and miniature townmen cor
G, tenders.
- There seems to he more interest
l. the tour this year among the make
a than in any of the recent tours Fro
10 letters received from the tour repr'
q sentative in Detroit, 1t is expectt
Q, that the entries will be the largest
y any of the national tours and II
\. committee may be compelled to linn
> the, list to a hundred. In order to il
N sure a comfortable run for the pa
l. Elephants.