The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-10
CARS MAKE Time ON
HEAVY COUNTRY
ROADS
First Day Penalties Light
Due in Winnipeg this
Evening.
= + y I
u pen ALTIES FIRST DAY. =

White Earth. Mimi, Aug. 10.
Notwithstanding the bad rum
ming only ninety-eisht points
ThnrsI assssseS s,n as rb penalties M;tsno on
a report is not completed.
Perfect scores We're reported
for the Marmon. Hupmobile. REQ,
Cadillac, Warren and Detroit.
contesting cars. The two non-
contestant airs of II. j.. Clark and
Fl. G. Blanchard had perfect
scores also.
The Hupnobile car was forced
to the ditch by a following car
Blanchard Buick, which earlier
in the day broke a spring. yet
made up lost time. No points
We're marked against the car for
stalled motor under the circum-
stances. The Studebaker got
nine points for being late into
Wadena. The Paige-Detroit was
penalized nine points for engine.
and magnetic trouble. The Staver
was charged with thirteen points
for magnetic trouble and eighty
sever for being late.
The official cars We're in per-
feet trim. o. A. Brictson of the
press car took the helm himself
today and let his driver rest.
Wadena. Mimi, Aug. Hoover the
worst roads and in the most trying
weather ever experienced on a state
automobile tour in Minnesota, the en-
trants in the fourth annual endurance
run, Minneapolis to- Winnipeg ad re.
turn wendell their weary way from
Little Falls to Wadena. Only the
sandy soil permitted all cars to ge,
th~rough-at that two hours late.
The Stoddard-knight pacemakel
car. driven by H.. X. Harrison of st
Paul. shipped gallons of water from
the pools in the road. Everywhere
was evidence of IA heavy rain.
First Welcome at Little Falls.
At Little Falls, the noon control
came the first evidence of welcome
ing and along the streets the citizen.
displayed flags. The city had invent,
men working the roads.
Asa Paine of the Northland Motor
Car company dropped off there ano
G. G. Ackley took on some Of thu
newspaper men.
The second half of the days u
was a long grind and resulted in many
penalties. Occasional stretches O.
Chains were .donncd early and were
absolutely necessary; also wint
shields to keep the cars from drown
ing out while running through tn:
streams in the road. 1t was a grea'
test of motto car efficiency.
The run Thursday developed tn;
ignorance of the art of road building
in parts of Minnesota. as one of Tho
worst stretches was the road between
worked" Untouched prairie road:
We're excellent. In the vicinity of st
Cloud the made roads We're good INT
the granite roa signs were appre
ciated. From Sartell to Royalton were
some poo and roads.
At Swanville was the largest turn
out of people and some of the pretti
est scenery.
Road signs again made their ap
pearance at Long Prairie and thu
road was we'll posted to Wadena.
A short distance out of Brewer
VILE the tourists met George Thomp
son Of st. Paul and an automobile
load Of tourists.
H.. j. Maxwell, state immigration
inspector, welcomed the tourists a
Wadena, his former home.
First Vote Taken.
h exciting feature of the day wa
the first vote for. the neatest carload
best looking carload and best naturet
Sdl Odo Inc NOltS IdH StIOuE 10.
No. IL, Rec car, carrying Miss Gene
We've Rawitzer and Mrs. A. Neufer
Of Redwood Falls. The young WON
en- had to- get out in the rain Will
the top was put up and never muir
INJURED. a. c. Emmett of the Winni
peg Free Press named them the two
most sportsmanlike passen
gers he had known. The Hupmobil
was second choice.
| AZ Tho rors,oCt 90 DoJ Tabs H-y1x
DIR. c. E. Dutton, chairman, ordered
a twenty minute stop there late to
day.
Owing to bad roads the runnin;
schedule. for today was cut to eigh
teen. sixteen and fourteen miles al
hour.
J. 3. Haviland withdrew his staver
Chicago a at Wadena because o
penalties from we magnetic trouble
Haviland Hangs On.
Perham, Aug. 10.-What with
dance for the visitors and stories o
the days run. the Minnesota tourist
hardly retired before they wer,
aroused at the Wadena hotel for tn,
start for the moo luncheon on tn
White Earth reservation. The SUI
shone Friday for the first time o,
the run. I. b. Haviland decided t,
restore the Staver car and proceed t,
Thief River Falls. New York Mill
turned out in full force to watch tn,
tourists through. The roads into Per
ham are improver over those o
Thursday and the scenery is beauti
full. All the cars are on schedule.
On Time at Detroit.
Detroit, Mimi. Aug. 10.-Travelint
twelve miles Of bad and winding
on time yesterday and remained
twenty minutes. The travel is prov,
ing more enjoyable as the people be
come accustomed TO- the cars ant
adapt themselves to the roads. AL
started safely for White Earth. TIL,
plucky Hupmobile is being congratu'
lated for its "gameness." Near Clear
Lake the only accident of Thursda.
occurred. The little car was run into
by a large touring car and was turned
over on it's side. Nobody was injured
! and in five minutes the "Hup" wa!