The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-07-10
MOTOR CARS
PASS THROUGH eureka
Eight Machines Coming From Chicago Over the Lincoln
Highway Pass Through Eureka Friday and Attract
Much Attenton-Tow Is Being Watched by Military
Men to Determine the Value of Motor Cars in Max
ing Long Trips

Eight military motor cars that started from Chicago on June
10 for a continuous trip to San Francisco arrived in Eureka yester.
dav morning at $50. There were 20 men in the party and all had
breakfast at the Zadow Hotel. Consul Hoag of the Lincoln High
way at Ely telegraphed Consul Rudolph Zadow of Eureka yester-
day that the party had left there at noon and would reach here In
the evening. but they were delayed on the road and made camp at
Pinto Station. where they arrived at $50 p m. After filling up
with gas and other supplies here the party left for Austin and Fal
lon and expected to spend Sunday In Reno.
During their stop here of about two and a half hours the cars
and their equipment were viewed and inspected by many Eureka
people. The officers and men in general were very courteous and
freely explained the different equipment of the cars and of their trip
over the Lincoln Highway. With the exception of several regular
q. s. army men, the party was mostly made up OF cadets from the
Northwestern Military and Naval Academy of Lake Geneva, Wis
consin. The autos were all Cadillacs and most of them OF the eight
cylinder type.
Never in any country has a number of military motor cars
been called upon to travel so many miles continuously as will be ira
versed by this squadron.
Regular army officers are With the party to make extended re-
ports of the results during and after the trip. Reports to Wash
ington will cover the observations made and conclusions reached
with regard to the cars performances under conditions "ppro1imat-
ing military necessity.
The column includes an officers reconnaissance car, equipped
with special Ross military rifles. map tables and instruments for
making road and contour maps, a debating machine, a periscope for
observations from behind walls or other defenses, altitude indicators,
range and elevation finders, in fact every instrument helpful in max
ing a reconnaissance report
A wireless car has a telescope mast mounted on the running
board, and is equipped with a special electric generator capable OF
producing a current of ITO volts. A second car carries, in addition
to it's wireless outfit, a Colt automatic aud a powerful electric search
light with heliograph shutter.
The field kitchen and the hospital are mounted on eight-cylnd-
er chassis of 145inch wheelbase. Cooking is done by means Of
6reless cooker, operated by electricity; there is also a general kitchen
equipment. Special operating table, surgical instruments and an
X-Ray apparatus make up he'equipment of the hospital car.
A complete armor of bullet-proof steel with openings for rife
fire, is provided for another car, which also mounts a Colt auto
matte rapid frer. This car carries a single rope and windlass ar
rangement which would be found useful in actual warfare in extri-
eating the car from a ditch, or dragging it up a steep embankment.
Another car is designated as a quartermasters' car, carrying a
Colt automatic type gun, while there is one balloon destroyer armed
with a Colt rapid frer.
The balloon destroyer is a hero of the Glidden tour of 1910.
and by this time has had close to 10000 miles of hard road travel
and field work during different army maneuvers.
The result of this long tour may have much to do with decid-
ing the War Departments attitude on the use of the military auto
bile other than the truck type. Washington will receive reports
detailing each days run, incidents and Developments.