The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-02-17
CLIDDEn PARTY BREAKING UP.
Night Of Southern Hospitality Winds
up Long Tour from New York.
LAST RUN OVER BAD ROADS.
Metz Car, Lightest of All in the
Journey, Earns Niche in the
Glidden Hall OF Fame.
LAST RUN OVER BAD ROADS.
By JOHN F.. MAHoNEY.
Especial Dispatch to Boston Herald }

Especial Dispatch to Boston Herald !,
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 81
ihe Glidden tourists, after a night
| and a day Of royal southern enter.
| ta1nment, are leaving here tonight fol
| their homes, satisfied with the show.
ing their particular cars made. and
Siad Of the fact that the tour means
1eat2f roads in the south, Miles of
roads are now being laid out in this
state. '-('
2 number of Gliddenites have a
crouch because they were forced to
MAKE fast hourlyschedule over the
terrible roads,, of yesterday. 1t has
been the MAIN stopic of discussion
among the party today, but. despite
an the talk, the fact remains that
ne great majority of cars got in
without penalzations.
ANY car that made yesterdays trim
and get to this city last night had
something to boast Of It was only
86 miles from Live Oak to here. but
1t was some bad reads.
Z. II. Metz, manufacturer of the
Metz car, was warmly congratulated
When his team arrived just at dark.
Many thought that the Metz runa-
9cat, the lightest Of all cars in the
tour, and the lowest priced, would be
unable to negotiate the sandy roads
OF this state, and when it showed
up 1t caused no little surprise.
This Boston outfit has been one
continual surprise from the start.
FIRST of all, this team was the last
TO be forced out of the running
senedule of the tour. The day of
the terrific rain Storm, as the cara
van ascended the Cumberland noun
tains from Natural Bridge to Roam
o&e, Va, the Metz team was the only
one OF l9 that had a clean score
5fhere were a number of teams that
Got ~ with a. perfect score with the
extension of 26 minutes allowed be-
cause Of a blockade in the read. The
Metz cars We're inside of their sched-
alle without this, extension,
& The drive through the Cumberland
IA feaa sa1sss tas c., c.
was another test that many thought
would put the Metz cars out. It was
one long drill up the mountain,
through thick clay and over swollen
creeks, but the Metz cars made it.
and as the reads improved they We're
up with the speediest cars in the
tour
Just outside of Macon one Of the
Metz cars went through exactly the
same kind of an accident that the
big Cunningham pacemaker had
when Sam Butler was killed, The
little runabCut turned turtle when
The driver was forced to make a
sharp turn to get out of the way of
coiiding with car that came off a
blind road. The car turned over
twice and then righted on its wheels
with The engine running. One Of the
wheels was smashed and a steering |
KnuckIe was bent. The car got into
Macon without being penalized.
The drivers Of the Metz cars had |
never experienced the sandy roads |
Of southern Georgia and Florida,
yet thay guided their machines
through 1T without a broken part; in
fact there wasn't a wrench touched !
10 the three Boston cars in the ell
ire run. Tire trouble and two bro
Ken wheels, due to accidents, was all
hat the Metz cars suffered in the
sntire run CT 1854 miles of the tough
3St reads in the country.
The Metz Roadster, the most pow
7rful four-cylinder stock car in the
world, sells for only s495, complete.
Allen's Garage, Donaldsonville, has
he district agency for these splen-
lid cars.