The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-09-08

trouble was encountered than would or
dinarily occur in driving Ford such a
distance. l drove the car the entire dis
lance, and it was under its own power
at all times, except when the passengers
would have to occasionally push to get
out of a mud or sand hole, or get the
car on Top of one of one of those crowned
dirt roads that it had slipped off of into
ditch. The Car was never hitched on
to any other car or team, and all repairs
were either made in the garage or on
the road, and it wasn't necessary at all
to pull the car into the garage for any
repairs. There were. of course, repairs
that were necessary. One morning, Is
miles from Trinidad. Colorado, in the
desert, rear wheel came off coming
out of bad arroyo; but there was a
fellow Fordite from Indiana going back
to Trinidad, kindly took me and the
rear wheel back to the Ford agent al
that point. a new hub was put in, the
wheel was taken out and put on the car,
and the time consumed was exactly
three hours and fifty minutes. That
day we made 1877 miles.
I'VE were all mighty glad to get back
to Kentucky. and didn't see anything on
the trip that looked as good to US. We
are all convinced that we'll paved streets
and good roads are the biggest advertise
ment and asset that any community can
have. People are travelling more and
more in motor cars, and they will travel
xyh al IN G.
we figure that it is good business for any
town or any county to so improve their
streets and uurnpikes as TO encourage
travel, both by their own residents and by
strangers. who may have a dollar to
spend.
I'VE consider ourselves exceedingly
fortunate in making this trip with prac-
tically no hardships or trouble of any
kind. There were great many who
encountered all sorts OF trouble, not only
with their cars. but with almost unin-
terrupted bad weather. There were a
great many who started on the trip out,
who never finished at the coast. either
shipping their cars back or disposing of
them for what they would bring; and
there are many more who intended COM
ing back, who got to the coast and came
back on the train. We have been asked
many times since we returned if we we're
tired out. But we were no more tired
than one ordinarily would be when
travelling every day; and you might say
that none OF US were under the weather
| inuta mr., tho ortira ~
"On the trip from Cincinnati out, we
were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. S.
H. Burton, of Elsinore. Cal. and their
niece, Miss Alberta, Webb. of Orange,
N. J. Mr.. Burton drove Hudson Six,
and had made the trip from his home to
Cincinnati in April and May. SO that he,
too. made the round trip. He was
equally fortunate on the trip going out,
in that he had no trouble to speak of. &
I'VE account for our practically entire
absence of trouble on the road TO the
fact that we were driving light car,
which was much easier to handle on
muddy roads and in tight places than a
larger and heavier car would have been.
We were also careful not to drive too
fast, and not to run at night, except in
case of emergency-that is, when it re-
quired few miles TO reach a place
where we could get accommodations.
We were also careful to see that our car
/, was oiled often and thoroughly, and al
ways had immediate attention given to
any little trouble that might develop.
We made it rule to fill up our gasoline
tank whenever there wasroom forassmal
a quantity as two or three gallons. as we
were not sure how far the next station
was and when we would reach it; and We
also found that stop for gasoline very
often gave as the advantage Of infoFma'
tion about roads ahead or other matters
: which we picked up from the garage