The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-06-24
NINE MILITARY CARS TO TOUR TO
COAST
Convey Of Cadiilacs. Manned by Ga.
diets, viii Follow Lincoln Highway


Chicago. June g-Nine modern wagons
, OF Mars, driven by gasoline and roll
ing on pneumaticshod wheels. will
leave Chicago tomorrow afternoon on
tranS-continental tour to the Pacific
coast. The war cars will be manned
by thirty honor students of the North
western Military and Naval Academy,
of Highland Park. H., and the mill
tary convoy will be under the com
mand of Colonel Davidson, head of the
school
While en- tour, military maneuvers
will be made by the students and Col
one Davidson will do considerable
experimental work for the government
army authorities. The members of the
party will camp en- route and upon ar.
rival at San Francisco, the war cars
will be put on display at the Panama
Pacific exposition
The So!diers-in-t making will BE-
on the road for six weeks and will fol
low TIT Lincoln Highway the greater
part of the way. The first stop will be
at Rock Island Ill, where the United
STATE; arsenal will be visited. The mo-
ter corps viii make det, ur at Ju!c,-
uurs,, Colorado, in order to include
Denver in its itinerary, and will take
the northern route around the Great
\ Ann hpt al I
City aud Reno The cars also VIII, he
sent through the Yosemite Naticra!
park md through the sequoia groves
OF California. San Diego will be TIC
first stop of Importance in the Goldnn
State and the Ell Canine Real viii. lie
travelled on the run to San Francisco
Cadillac Cars are Used
All the cars in the convoy are Cadil-
lacs. five of which are eight-cylinder
models. The equipment will include
Goodyear tires, Weed tire chains, Py-
rene fire eXtinguishers and Universal
shock absorbers. The machines in the
war motor-cade are as follows:
An officers reconnaissance car, an
eight cylinder Cadillac. equipped with
seven passenger touring body, khaki,
top and seats. This car is equipped
with map tables and instruments for
making road and contour maps and
dictaphone is suspended in the tonneau
and with this instrument, descriptions
of the road can be taken rapidly A
Bausch & Lomb periscope is arranged
at the side and can be elevated con-
siderabiy above the body of the car
This enables the reconnaissance off
Ger to see the surrounding country
from behind L wall without ednanger-
ing himself or being observed. Two
Ross Military rifles are arranged for
quick use, ii necessary In addition
this car is equipped with altitude in
dicators, range and elevation finders,
and every imaginable instrument that
would be helpful in making recon-
noissance report.
Wireless car constructed on Cadil-
lac eight-cylinder chassis This car has
khaki-covered top and is equipped
with telescope mast mounted on the
running board board. but which can
be raised readily by the crew standing
on the top of the body. The wireless
instruments are neatly built into the
car, the switchboard being mounted
directly below the drivers seat
wireless car mounted on 1911
Cadillac chassis. This car is the one
that has been used by the Academy for
several years and mounts, beside its
telescope mast and portable wireless
set, Colt automatic gun and a power
full electric search light, equipped with
Photograph shutter
A military field kitchen This is
khaki covered body constructed on an
eight cylinder Cadillac chassis of extra
long wheel base of las inches. This
car is also equipped with special gen
orator. mounted above the engine With
the current from the motor, an electric
cooker is operated and also mechani-
cal refrigcrating plant. Coffee boilers
and general kitchen equipment is car
rcd
Military field hospital This is car
very similar to the field kitchen in
construction. and is also mounted on
Cadillac eight cylinder chassis of l45
inch wheelbase. Special operating tab
les Xray apparatus and elaborate e.
,e