The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-02-06
PRICE Will WORK
FOR GLIDDEN TOUR
PRESIDENT STATE AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION HOME FROM CHI
cAco AUTO SHOW AND CON.
FERENCE OF AMERICAN AUTO.
MOBILE ASSOCIATION.

| With concerted effort on the part O
the North Dakota automobile and hote
men and through Montana, feel tina
we can swing the 1912 Glidden tour thi.
was" said Pres. w. ]. Price of the
North Dakota State Automobile asso.
citation to Forum representative or
his return today from Chicago, where
| he attended the conference of the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Automobile association held there last
! week at the Blackstone hotel.
There isn't much doubt in my mind
II we all work and pull hard together,
we can get the tour this way" he con-
tinued. Il had long private confer
ence with Pres. r, A. Hooper of the
American Automobile association and
A. Batchelder, chairman of the execu-
tive committee and they assure me
that this route will be seriously con-
sidered If we feel certain we can take
care of the tourists in the way OF ho-
tel accommodations.
"The main point about those people
who have not been to North Dakota
regarding these western cities and
then compare them with towns of
corresponding size in the east and CEN
trail west and jump at the conclusion
that our hotel accommodations are
on a par. They have no conception
of the hotel facilities we have in this
country and when 1 told them of the
Gardner and Waldorf here, the Dakota
and Frederick at Grand Forks, the Nc
Kenzie and Grand Pacific at Bis
marck, the st. Charles at Dickinson,
the Leland at Minot and the Great
Northern at Devils Lake, which are
just as fine hotels as people find in
cities of 100000 population in that
portion of the country, and their eyes
widened with considerable surprise.
But if we can swing the tour this
way" said Mr.. Price, at will mean a
big thing for North Dakota, for it will
bring $50 cars of all kinds and sizes
to this state. Each car will carry
four to six people, and what better ad-
vertising could North Dakota have
than that. 1t is true more tourists
than that pass through the state each
summer but few of them stop over
night in any of our cities and see what
they are. A great many of them pull
down the window shades and go to
sleep on the trip and never even see
any Of the scenery or perceive what
progress is being made up here.
IF the tour comes through the
northwest to the coast 1t will leave
Chicago, pass through Milwaukee. La
Crosse, Minneapolis and on to Fargo
where 1t can either go to Grand Forks
and around that way to Butte or
straight west through Bismarck and
Miles City. That is a point to be de-
cided upon after the tour is fully
planned.
THE other tour proposed will take
them out to Omaha and back through
Kansas City to st. Louis and straight
south to New Orleans. 1t is still
debatable point which route will be
chosen this year. It remains for US
to persuade the executive committee
Of the A. A. A. to come up here"
Mr.. Price told also of the big show
at the coliseum and at the armory
across the street and of his excellent
time with all the big automobile men
In the country, among them Elwood
Haynes, president of the Haynes Au-
tomobile Co., and inventor OF the first
American made machine and of the
first gasoline machine in the world