The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-17

whom | wanted to shake hands and talk
little. But the time was limited, and
so We went through Lunenburg and
South Hill, Boydton and Clarksville
without stopping 10 see anybody. My
two small boys, known to the school
girls as Shack" and Ed" while
reyeling in all the delights Of a boy
at such trip, gave out intimatton
that they were ready for lunch at
every stop. but l feared 10 stop as
long as the engine was working so
smoothly and pressed on. We reach
ed Oxford about 40, having run tho
eighty five miles IN three hours and
forty minutes. with three or four
stops. one of ten minutes TO find a
cap which blew off and hid itself in
the bushes along the road, reminding
as of the remarkable perversity some
times displayed by inanimate things
We took Mrs Horner by surprise
after her dinner was over. but she
insisted on preparing more. but we
finally effected a friendly compromise
by which we ate our lunch in her
beautiful home, and she supplemented
1t with milk and pickles and dessert
1t was very difficult to stick to the
program and depart on schedule time.
for Mrs, Horners house had Just been
completed. and she wanted Mrs Cam
about it, and many other things OF
common interest. Our allowance OF
four minutes was extended to seventy
minutes, and we pulled out of oxford
at 2 so p. NJ. for Durham The tele-
gram was still behind us so | called
up the ONCE by long distance. got my
information and left the telegram to
die on the road
Another fine stretch OF road gave
wings to the engine and we reached
Trinity College, thirty-three miles
from oxford. at 4:15 having stopped
In Durham few minutes. We stayed
at the college twenty minutes to shake
hands with Prof. Wanamaker and DR..
Brooks to make enquiries about the
road and incidentally to water the
horse" We had covered the III
miles from Blackstone in six hours
and forty-fve minutes for stops, and
without any kind of difficulty because
'of bad roads or machinery. l won
dered how far we would have been. il
the people had given no more care
to the road than Richmond and Pc
tersburg do to their road.
The next objective was Greensboro
fifty-five miles from Durham by train
and probably a mile or so further
through the country. The road swept
on by Hiilsboro, Mebane, Haw River,
Graham, Burlington and Elon College.
We passed by the gates of "Occonee-
chez" the beautiful summer home OF
my esteemed friend. General Julian s.
Carr, for whom / had inquired in Dur
ham, but found that he had gone to
Washington to attend the exercises in
connection with the presentation of
the statue of Senator Zebulon Vance
by North Carolina to the United States
government TO be placed in Statuary
Hall
Z At Graham we found our gasoline
running low, and we bought Ave gal
Ions, pumped up our tires. watered
the horse and pressed on. About
twelve miles from Greensboro the left
hand back tire fiattened out. the first
machinery or tire difficulty in $50
miles. Everybody climbed out and
the children went to picking black
berries while the tire was being
changed and pumped up. The pump
did not work very well and the air
spring OF the tube was bad, and the
minutes were speeding by. Help ar
rived La the shape of fou- gentlemen
who were coming in a Ford from a
ball game in Greensboro They stop
ped and loaned us their pump, and
We We're soon ready TO start. They
gave us the disagreeable news that a
bridge just ahead of US was down and
we would be obliged to make detour
OF two miles out of the way. making
the run ahead of us to Greensboro to
be sixteen miles. This was covered
without further delay, and we went
into the garage at Greensboro about
$3.50. having run about Gtxty miles in