El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-28

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4 Chalmers ''36,' W. o. L Westgard.
pathfinder for the American Automo-
bile association, reached FL PasO We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock, mapping
the BOrderland route
Mr. Westgard remained over IN FL
PasO today to see Juarez and FL Paso,
and give his mechanician, Jack Graf,
a chance to get some repairs mace 10
his car. He viii leave early Friday
morning for Las Cruces, on MS way
east from Il PasO-
al number of Las Cruces AUTOMOBILE
lists, including Francis E Lester, chair
man Of the DOna Ana County Good
Roads board, met the pathfinding party
at CanutilIo and accompanied them into
Ell PasO- A number OF FL Paso cars
also met the path1lndlnS party at the
same point The FL Pasoans included
c. B. Stevens, president, and J. D.
Bukey, secretary, Of the FL PaSO Auto
mobile club. All the cars came back
into FL Paso at o'clock Mr.. Rinehart
led. with the pathfinding car second
in line.
Norte hotel, Mr.. Westgard and his
party were taken TO KnOblauch's ranch
to the barbecue given by the Interur-
ban company. Afterwards they were
left for the evening. with no Official
program. but leading FL PasOans
dropped in quite frequently and Mr..
WeStgard was kept busy meeting new
acquaintance and talking routes He
declined to make any statement rela-
tive to routes, but said he found the
road in good shape between Ell Paso
and Deming, with no sand that he
would call hard pull
Tonight the party viii be guests Of
the FL PasO Automobile club at the
Sheldon hotel at dinner The Las
Cruces people will also be present
quick Time Made.
Mr.. Westgard and party left -Deming
Wednesday at 1855 and came to Ell
Paso without an accident Of any sort.
r. H Rinehart led the way in, with
Dell NJ. Potter, president Of the South
ern Highway association and g A
Branston, OF London, a guest OF Mr.
Westgard, as passengers
G. a Martin, of FL Pasosl rode with
Mr.. Westgard, to give him what infor-
nation he needed about the road Jack
Graf drove the car and Z. A Taylor,
moving picture photographer, was the
other passenger in me Pathfinder
10 This car has made five transcon-
tinental trips and is still running in
beautiful shape.
The party iunched on the road with
out stopping, but made a stop just west
of CanUtiIlO at Adrian Pools place,
where Mr.. Pool set out a splendid
barbecue lunch, with all the necessary
trimmings, and topped 1t off with ci-
CARS Mr.. Pool then accompanied the
party over the bridge into Canutillo,
where the FL PasO and Las Cruces peo-
pie took them in charge
The Las Cruces people who met Mr.
WeStgard and accompanied him into FL
Paso were Francis Z. Lester, Mark B.
Thompson, Harry Sims, Jos. W Taylor,
Capt. Phil Dessauer, Ted RouaulI Nor |
gan O. Lleweuyn, VIM Palmer, jr., Har /
old Hague, w. T. Jacoby' L K Cleve-
land and P. T. Campbell
Nan Is Struck.
As the automobile party came down
Oregon street, the Cartercar Of JOS ". |
Taylor, driven by Mr.. Lester, struck (
Otto Olsen, just as he was cross ]
ing Oregon, near the corner Of Main, I
and knocked him down, but ne was not I
seriously injured The man was taken I
TO q hospital where he was treated by I
DR.. J. II. Richmond. Olsen was not 4
seriously hurt He crossed the street /
in front OF the car and then jumped !
back into the street and began ZigZag- [
ging in front of the machine. Although (
the cars were running only five or. six /
miles an hour at the time Nj Lester
was unable to stop before striking the 1
man, but the car was stopped within /
a foot OF the accident
O.. To Return Here Friday Night.
Mr. Westgard is to leave FL Paso /
Friday morning early for Las Cruces
and take lunch in that city at II o'clock
He viii then continue east through san
Augustine Pass and back to Ell PasO
over the road on the east side of the I
mountain The party will spend Fri
day night at Fl PasO and Saturday
morning viii leave FL PaSO over the
east side road by way Of Fort Bliss and 4
run to AlamOgOrdO, continuing from
there 10 Roswell, where they expect to
arrive Sunday night.
TOnight5s Dinner.
At the dinner to be given tonight to /
Mr.. Westgard Mr.. Potter and party,
county judge A S. J. Eylar will pre-
side. Mr.. Potter will speak for the Wis
itors-
President Stevens Of the Auto club.
took the party to Juarez and over pOr-
lions Of FL Paso on sightseeing tour
today
The Official Arrangements.
Dr. 5 n johnson, Of Roswell, has
oeen selected as official pilot for the
trip from FL PasO to Roswell. From
Roswell to the Texas state line at !
BrOnchO, DR.. Geo. 7. Veal, Of Roswell,
will act as pilot From Broncho to
BrOWnfield, Texas, and z j. Anderson,
Of Snyder, viii be the pilots
Out Of FL Paso, Dr. johnson viii, as
2 courtesy to Las Cruces, yield his seat /
in the pathfinding car to a man from /
Las Cruces, and from Las Cruces to
AlaEogordo the seat will be yielded /
gordO to Roswell, DR.. Johnson viii ride I
with Mr.. WeStgard-
Besides the escort Of Las Cruces cars
out Of Fl Paso, J. ". Stockard ana par
ty, Of FL PasO, and G. ". Rousseau. of
viii accompany Mr.. West
gard from here. Mr.. Rousseau will ar
rive this evening from AlamOgOrdo.
Not Picking a Route.
Mr.. Westgard desires to correct the
impression that he is picking out one
transcontinental automobile route over
which all tourists viii travel in the fu-
ture. Mr.. Westgard stated that his bust
mes Is TO map and log all routes and
that one route is just as much the off
cial route as another. They viii all be I
published by the A A A and tourists /
can take their choice. His business is /
to collect Information on all routes and
present it to prospective tourists, and I
not to dictate 70 them which route they
8han take.
The pathfinder stated that BY next :
Tear he expects to have five complete
routes mapped and {
logged four already having been COM (
pleted. He and his brother will man : 7
ultimately every road in every state in
the uniOn- all of which viii be Dub- 7
lished IN the official Blue Book with
equal prominence. n
Mr.. Westgard is merely gathering
1ata on all the roads for pUbIicatio9 :
in the books which his association has =
for sale The prospective tourist can }
secure Information on all the routes bv /
which he could reach mis- destination {
and then choose the one he desires; his p
shoice being in no way influenced by ]
he association. r
The widely prevalent impression that q
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