The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-03
Details Of Cadillac
Coast-to-C Coast Record
ON THE ROAD II HOURS A
DAY IN eENEN4OAY GRIND
6e7 MIIes Highest Days Run.

The details of tho record-break-
ing coast to coast dash Of the
Cadillac Eight, finished at New
York. May Is. are interesting as
showing the stamina and endur-
ance OF man and mechanism Iney
are equally impressive as setting
forth tho difficulties encountered
by Baker, the driver, and Sturm,
his companion, and the fine per
Torrance of the car on grind OF
unprecedented severity. The log
of the trip Is as follows:
May S-Los Angeles to Williams.
Arizona = 1895 miles.
Mountains and. desert
very hot-poor roads.
May civilians, Arizona. to
Santa Fe, N. M.-555.2
miles. Roads good and
bad in spots, some very
fine and some very poor
very hot.
May 10 Santa Fe, N. M, to Dodge
City, Kans.-567.2 miles.
A few miles of noun
famous road in New
Mexico, and the rest OF
the journey very good
moderately warm.
May 11-Dodge City. Kansas, to
Kansas City. Mo.-40
miles. Very fine roads
to within fifty miles of
Kansas City when we
struck some mud-cool.
May 12-Kansas City to High
Hill. Mo.-216 miles. Very
poor, muddy roads all
the way, hub-deep in
places, with rain. Worst
roads on the trip.
May 13-High Hill, Mo-, to Green
up. Ill.-210.9 miles. Very
muddy roads to within q
few miles of st. Louis,
then fair going to Green
up, Illinois-no rain.
May 14-Greenup. ILL.,, to Pitts
burg, Pa,-493 miles.
Roads good UP to within
q few miles of Wheeling,
then rain into Pitts
burgh; some muddy
roads.
May 15-Pittsburgh, Pa, to New
York, N. Y.-395 miles.
Mountain going through
considerable fog outside
of Pittsburgh, then good
roads into New York
City. Fair weather.
From this it will be, seen that
the total distance is 3,371.S miles.
The first announcement OF 3,47l
miles, rushed out just as the trip
1Ah Y1i1nd in
error. The average run per day
was $50 miles, and the average
daily running time was IL hours,
5 minutes. On the basis OF actual
running time, the cars average
per hour was 1884 miles. The
daily and hourly averages would
have been much higher but for
the bad going across Missouri.
Average number OF miles per gal
Ion Of gasoline was On; with 800
to $50 miles per gallon OF lubricat-
ing oil.
The run was started from the
Los Angeles court house at 1901
a. m. Monday, May 8, and COM
pleted at Broadway and And
street, New York, at 1858 p. M,
May Is. While the elapsed time
for the trip was thus days, II
hours and SO minutes, the actual
running time was 12S hours, and
the total time not running, 81
hours, 81 minutes, or an average
daily lay-off for driver and car OF
6 hours, IS minutes. This was
spent in sleeping, eating and TAX
ing on supplies of gasoline. oil,
etc.
Baker drove the car the entire
distance. The car travelled the
entire distance under its own
power, except when pulled out OF
a ditch by block and tackle once
near Holly. Col, and once near
Boonville, Mo-, and, of course, ex-
cept when ferried across rivers.
Baker says he did not clean a
spark plug during the entire trip.
One day he drove a stretch OF "a
miles through such heavy roads
that high-gear going was impos-
sible. At another time the road
was so poor that two hours were