Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
CROSS-CONTINENT
RUN IS COMPLETED
Pathfinder Twin-Six Passes
Through Gettysburg on Coast
to-Coast High Gear" Run
IBy staH Correspondence

Pathfinder the Great, the High
Gear" twin-six transcontinental car.
enroute from San Diego. Cal. to New
York, passed through Gettysburg yes
terday, on the last 200-mile lap of her
long journey. At Caledonia Park, mid
way between Gettysburg and Cham
bersburg on the Lincoln Highway. she
was met by ]. J. Garvin and A. E.
Brough, of the Pathfinder Sales COM
pany of Harrisburg and a group of
newspapermen.
Before starting on the tedious
ocean-to-o ocean grind, both the inter-
mediate and low gears were sealed by
officials of the Automobile Association
of America and at no stage of the
mountainous trip was it necessary to
resort to any but high gear; a remark
able feat and one never attempted be-
lore. over the Rockies, across the
Great Divide, through the heavy des-
ert sands and alkaline dust, and all the
way 'on high" is the noteworthy ac-
complishment of this car. in the hands
of two alert, clear-eyed and well-tan-
ned young men, neither of whom ap-
pear to be a day over %. The car is
being driven by Walter A. Weidley, son
of the builder of the Weidley motor
used in the coast-to- coast car, while
"Heinie" Scholler is acting as mechan-
1cian. However, from the minutes
of the trip which are being kept by
these two nervy young men, SCholler
has had but little opportunity to eX
hihit his ability as a mechanician, not
withstanding the fact that the car has
carried several hundred pounds of
emergency parts, but not once has any
part of the entire mechanism been
broken or replaced. On only two oc-
casions on the long journey have they
experienced any tire trouble-and yes
terday was one of them. The first
puncture occurred near Reno, New,
and the second, shortly after leaving
Bedford Springs Sunday morning. This
leaves two of the four tires with the
original San Diego air which has car
ried them exactly 5,4O0 miles accord
ing to the speedometer reading in Get
tysburg yesterday.
Mr.. Garvin, together with party of
newspapermen acted as an escort of
the High Gear" car into Gettysburg
where they were greeted with a great
footing of automobile horns all along
the streets of the Battlefield town.
When the big car pulled up to the
hotel to register there was a battery
of cameras-everything from the staff
photographers huge Reflex, down to
the most minute vestpocket size
turned upon them, but the young driv-
er and his companion merely smiled as
though quite accustomed to similar
scenes along the route.
After registering his car, young
Weidley insisted on seeing part of the
great battlefield in his high geared
wonder and while passing through the
National Cemetery with les thousands
OF unmarked graves, remarked to a
newspaperman that "it makes a fellow
feel as though he's almost guilty of
treason for not being down in Mexico
instead of burning up gasoline here"
After a trip through the historic
field, the big traveller resumed its jour-
ney with Philadelphia as its next stop,
and on to New York to-day, finishing
up a $500 mile trip in just 30 days,
thus making a new worlds record for
q high gear run. Tuesday morning
the driver of the big car expects to
take her to the Sheepshead race track,
just outside of New York, and turn off
a few hundred miles in fast time. lust
to show that there's speed as we'll as
endurance within that long, gray hood,