New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-27
MILITARY TOUR
TO PACIFIC WITH
CADILLAC FIGHTS
Northwestern Academy
Boys and Army Officers
Try Armed Motors.
TO CAMP BY THE
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
War Department Receives Daily
Reports of Observations
and Results.

Colonel R. P. Davidson, head Of the
Northwestern Military Academy, Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, is at 1t again. The
colonel has been training his boys in
military motoring for several years.
He had a detachment Of them in two
armored Cadillacs on the 1910 Glidden
Tour.
Now he has forty future generals,
several regular army officers and eight
Cadillac Fights on military cruise
from Chicago to the San Francisco Tx
position and return.
The army officers will report their
observations to Washington.
The column includes an officers re-
connoissance car, equipped with special
Ross military rifles, map tables and IN
struments for making road and contour
maps, a debating machine, a perlscope
for observations from behind walls or
other defences, altitude indicators,
range and elevation finders, in fact,
every instrument helpful in making a
reconnaissance report.
A wireless car has telescope mast
mounted on the running board, and Is
equipped with a special electric gen
orator capable of producing a current
of 10 volts. A second car carries, IN
addition to its wireless out1t, Colt
automatic and a powerful electric
searchlight with Photograph shutter.
Fireless Cookers.
The field kitchen and the hospital
are mounted on eight-cylinder chassis
OF l45-inch wheelbase. Cooking Is
done by means of fireless cooker
operated by electricity; there IS also
a general kitchen equipment opecial
operating tables, surgical instruments
and an X-Ray apparatus make up inc
equipment of the hospital car;
A complete armor OF pulIet-proGl
steel, with openings for rlhe nre' ~
provided for another car, when also
mounts a Colt automatic rapid nrer
This car carries simple rope am
windlass arrangement which would DC
found useful in actual warfare IN ex
Treating the car from often, or uras
cling it up a steep embankment'
Another car is designated as quar-
termaster's car, carrying a Colt AUTO
matte tyne gun, while there is one pal
loon destroyer, armed with Colt raplu'
firer. l a
The balloon destroyer Is nerV "
The Glidden tour of 1910, and by TINS
time has had close to 10000 miles oil
hard road travel and field work during
different army maneuvres.
Following Lincoln Way.
The corps will follow the route OF
the Lincoln Highway for the greater
part of the distance between Chicago
and the coast. A side run will be maze
to Rock Island, H., for visit TO the
United States arsenal.
The column is routed through Des
Moines. Omaha, Ogden, Salt Lake City
across the desert to Reno, Sacramento
thence south through Yosemite Ma
tional Park, San Diego, then TO 10;
Angeles and San Francisco. Most OF
the machines will be placed on exhioi'
ton at the exposition.
Much interest is being shown by
many Of the cities and towns on the
route. and escorts and all courtesies
have been vouchsafed. Camps Will Dc
made along the route and military DIS
cipline will be enforced.
The results of this long tour may
have much 70 do with deciding the
War Departments attitude on the use
of the military automobile other than
the truck type. Washington will, re-
ceive daily reports, detailing each days
run. incidents and developments.