Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-13
LONG AUTO TOURS
WILL BE IN VOGUE.

tablish a record for long-distance
automobile tours if the inquiries for
routes and road information received
at the Touring Club of America
broadway at S~eventy-sixth street.
New York, during the last week are
any criterion. These requests are
being received from all over the
United States. also from Canadian
points, illustrating to a marked de-
gree that long-distance travel is cas-
ily increasing in popularity.
Among the more extensive timer
aries recently compiled is one for MT.
and Mrs. Alfred w. Seamon, oil
BROOKLYN. members of the touring
club. who are now on a 4.O0o-mile
Journey, which will cover a period OF
about two months and will take them
through nearly all of the eastern
and Southern States.
There are few metropolitan automo-
bilists who have Travelled more eH-
tensively by motor a in America
than they have, Mrs. Seaman being
an enthusiastic automobilist as well
as an expert driver, and will be al the
steering wheel of their Franklin
car during part of this trip.
From New York the party is pro-
ceeding South to Atlanta by the way
of Philadelphia. Gettysburg, Staun-
ton and Roanoke, Charlotte, Camden,
Columbia, Augusta to Atlanta and
birmingham, Ala, where they turn
northward to Chicago by way OF
Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati ana
Indianapolis. Road conditions Will De
reported at the touring clubs Soutn-
ern branches at Atlanta, Nashville
and Louisville. At Chicago they VIII
call upon j. P. Dods, vice-presldent
of the touring clubs Middle West de-
partment, securing the latest infor-
nation as to road conditions on thelr
eastward journey through Toledo'
Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse. Albany
to New York.
Mr. Seaman is a member OF the
law and legislative committee of the
Long Island Automobile Club and one
of the best-known Automobiles in
this section. He is greatly interested
in highway improvement n
legislative matters affecting the IN
terest of automobile users, having APP
peared at many important confer
enees held at Albany as well as at the
national capital.
Judge C. C. McChord, of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, an en-
thusiastic motorist and membe oil
the Touring Club, is planning an ex-
tensive tour throughout the Middle
West. going over the mountains by
a of Pittsburgh and Wheeling and
thence to Cincinnati and Louisville
James r. Sterett, the prominent
Pittsburgh attorney, plans to motor
east to Gettysburg and down the
Shenandoah Valley. The Touring
/ Clubs scout cars have mapped out
a very pleasant entrance into thls
famous b-attle-Scarred valley, so that
the many historic scenes of strife
may conveniently be approached by
automobile.
AS the season advances the popu-
larity of Canada as a resort for mo-
florists increases. and many members
of the Touring Club write in to in
auire as to the condition of the roads
leading into the Dominion. Frederick
Harris, the well-known Springfield.
Mass, banker, is contemplating a
tour through the province of Quebec
some time later in the season. Mrs.
Dora A. Davies, of the Touring Club,
is an enthusiastic explorer of the
Acadian charms of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, and has just sailed
from Boston for Yarmouth, N. s.,
with her touring car. The Canadian
customs authorities are very cour-
teous towards Americans in the Do
minion, and recognize a bond of SONS
authorized surety company in lieu
of the duty. These bonds cost but
IS, and may be procured from the
headquarters of the Touring Club,
Broadway at Sev%enty-sixth street,
New York, on very short notice.
r. l.. SPOTS, of Larchmont, a mep-
Der of the Olympic team, recently re-
turned from a hunting trip in north
ern Maine, and relates many interest
ing and exciting experiences encoun-
tered while driving his a through
the wilderness.