Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
AUfO|NG IN BLIZZARD
Mrs. William A. Hall Describes
Motoring Adventures.
FINISHING WORLD TOUR
New York Woman and Son Have
Travelled Nearly 10000
Miles.

Determination to complete their circuit
of the globe brought Mrs. William A.
Hall of New York and her son Melvin
into series of motoring adventures that
at times bordered on the desperate
When Mr. Hall hurried home from Eu-
rope, expecting to enjoy a family reunion
at home. he learned that his wife and son
We're fighting billiards. with their Pack
ard in the Rocky mountains. He met
them at Colorado Springs. but his attempt
to persuade them to give up the last leg
of their 400O0-mile trip was not success
full.
Touring through Europe, the orient the
Philippines and Japan brought no such
vicissitudes as were encountered by Mrs
Hall and her son in crossing the United
States by way of the southern route.
SnOwstOrms and zero weather, OUT of sea-
son. upset their schedule.
Mrs Hall sets forth wildly in a letter
to Mr. Hall the conditions they have
faced.
Had Strenuous Times.
1--WE have had about the most strenuous
times of our lives in this part of the
trip" she writes from Albuquerque. New
Mexico. ut is only a few weeks, yet 1t
seems centuries. since we left San Diego
and entered this climate that has with
cred and frozen us with zero weather and
billiards..
1T is enough of an undertaking at any
time to cross the continent, but only mad
folk like ourselves would attempt it at
this season. Not that I would give 1t up
now, or would have in the beginning. But
to start off in the morning with no shell
ter from blizzards, facing the prospect of
walking from twenty-five to hundred
miles through the drifts for help, is
fearful wear and tear on ones nerves.
1.-The isolation of the country is appall-
ing and with every machine but our own
crippled, with broken axles. broken fly
wheels. driving shafts, broken radiators
imagine whether it needed courage to
start out into the face of it all. 1 have
lain awake nights thinking of it, when
have been shivering in some barren little
room, with all my furs and clothing piled
on to keep out the biting cold.
Hardship in Orient.
I'm the orient we had plenty of what
we thought was hardship. but it was al
ways warm and there was no actual ter
ror of being left out overnight. But this
if you lose your way you can only go on
and on for hours without meeting any
one or coming to habitation. You get
out of water, out of gasoline, even out of
food. From Springerville to. Albuquerque
1t is over 100 miles without a sign of life.
and most of the way over such roads as
would wreck nine cars out of ten.
I'm spite ofadiagrams maps and every
safeguard possible we lost our way and
found ourselves at night going deeper
and deeper into a canyon. We discovered
the campfire of some Mexicans, whose
Spanish and English we understood
enough to know that we were twenty
Ave miles from Albuquerque, in Hells
CANYON. which led on and on to some
mines.
Indians Refuse Shelter.
1.-The wonderful Packard struggled back
again. through snow fords. rocky bowl
ders and arroyos. Never yet has she gone
back on US. We had been five hours go
ing eighteen miles in a snoMstorm when