The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-10
WOMAN BREAKS
MOTOR RECORD
MISS PREUSS TRAVERSES
LINCOLN HIGHWAY IN
LESS THAN IL DAYS.
Averaged 3lo.8 Miles a Day for Over
IL Consecutive Days; Drove $50
Miles in % Hours and 20 Minutes;
Used Goodyear Tires.

A woman, driving alone, has cross
ed the continent via the Lincoln
highway, in II days, Z hours and 40
minutes. J.. G. DAILY, representative
of the Goodyear tire company for
northern Montana, says this consti-
tutes a record. A year ago E. q.
Baker, the iron-framed veteran Of
many a record breaking dash by
motorcycle or automobile, startled the
motoring world when he bridged the
gap between the two oceans III Ill
days, Z hours, and Is minutes. Yet
a woman has lowered that record by
an hour and a half.
This spring, it should be said, Bak-
er made the transcontinental journey
in seven and a half days, but the
drive which ended when Miss Amanda
l'reuss checked in before the Meal
pin hotel in New York on August IT,,
was so remarkable that Baker HIM
self, learning of it, was among the
first, to telegraph his congratulate
tlOnS.
Average $40 Miles Daily.
To summarize such an achievement
in terms Of the hours, days, and mn-
utes required, fails to convey even the
faintest idea of the severity OF the
test. But when You have divided the
distance covered $500 milcs) by the
number Of days and have discovered
that Miss Prcuss averaged BIOS
miles a day for over eleven consecu-
tive days, and when the fact has prop
crly impressed itself on your mental
apparatus that she drove every foot
of the way herself, and was not ac-
companicd by an assistant or mecllan-
ician or ever a passenger, you begin
to realize that a rather memorable
feat has been accomplished.
Miss Prcuss drove an Oldsmobllc
eight shod with Goodyear tires, which
are the standard equipment OF the
Oldsmobile. The car gave a splendid
account of itself. Mechanical trou-
b]rs were few, a minor element
of her braking system becoming frac-
tured when she hit a particularly Sc
we're bump in the Rocky mountains
but causing no difficulty until she
arrived in Cheyenne, Wyo., where she
had it replaced.
Borrowed Radiator.
At Dixon, ILL.,, the radiator, WlllcI
had been injured in a COLLISION al
Pine Bluff, sprung a malore leak, ant
was replaced by a radiator from ;
private owners ear, which she re.
turned from South Bend, where she
was unable to buy a new one. 1Ir'
trouble she had practically none, only
one new tire being purchased ei
route. at Cheyenne, Wyo., as a meas
ure of insurance. the balance O
her castings being in excellent cond1
ton. She carried two extra tires al
the way, one Of which she never used
The tires were plain tread III iron
and l-Weathcr tread IN rear.
To make her record, Miss Preuss a
times achieved almost the physical,
impossible, driving on one occasion =
hours and 20 minutes without sleep
between Cheyenne, Wyo., and Councl
Bluffs. Ia.. a distance of $50 miles
DOING a couple Of hours, and thc1
proceeding 1875 miles farther to Ames
Ia. where she spent the night. I'm.
next morning she arosc at daybrea'
and drove straight through until tn
following morning, % hours and 4
minutes, to South Bend. 4SO miles
with a couple of hours sleep IN
garage at Dixon, Ill.
If we could only see ourselves a
others see us-but we can t, S