The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-05-31

IIlOUllOS dIlU CWlCG vi IIlOCOl
cycles, broke his own record yes
terday, made last year in ele-
vcn days seven hours and fiji
teen minutes in a Stutz. The car
used this year was a fully equip
ped standard eight-cylinder Cad
lilac roadster.
A special ferryboat transfer
red the car from WeehaWken to
West Forty-second Street in
close to three minutes. Three
traffic policemen on motor cycles
cleared the way along Forty
second Street. The dust-cover-
ed car with it's two travel-stained
passengers riveted the eyes of
pedestrians, and a crowd cheered
the wind-up at The Times Ruild-
iIg.
Baker, with eyes red from loss
of sleep and the dust Of tie
road, said Of the trip.
"Our best days run was SGT
miles. We would have averaged
over 500 miles a day if it hadn't
been for the bad roads we struck
in Missouri, from Kansas City
to st. Louis. It took us eigh-
teer hours to drive that dis
lance, about 800 miles, and it
was rain and mud all the way.
1t took two hours to do ten miles,
and at one place | pulled out in
&c the field around five autos
stuck in the road"
A postal card was handed to
Baker.
1--WE beat it here" he ex-
claimed. ''That postal was mailed
lust after we passed through
Emporia, Kan. We beat it by
nearly an hour. This is the Sec
end time on the trip that we got
in ahead Of the United States
mail. Six hours before we left
Los Angeles letter was mailed
to me at Dodge City, Kansas.
We arrived in Dodge City We'd
nesday two hours in advance of
the letter, having covered. about
1000 miles. We left Los An
geles at 1901 last Monday
morning, and arrived in Kansas
City, Mo-, at 7::30 Thursday
evening. We covered the dis
lance from Kansas City to New
York in 3 days II hours and 25
minutes. For several days our
run was better than $50 miles.
Our fastest time was between
Los Angeles and San Bernar-
dino, sixty-eight miles an hour"
did you stop to sleep on the
trip" asked one of the report
ers.
Baker ran over his fingers.
Nineteen hours, all told" he
answered. 81 can't tell yet what
our actual running time was. I'll
have to figure it out after I get
SEINE sleep, but we did not waste
much time by the way. All we
did was to give the car gas and
oil and drive it to the limit.
'The engine didn't miss a shot,
not even a spark plug needed
cleaning. We never lifted the
hood except for oil and once to
adjust the carburetor.
ut takes twenty-five locomo-
ives to make the trip we did in
the car. l looked it up, and the
distance by rail is shorter 3,24O
miles. The regular railroad
schedule between Los Angeles
and New York is approximately
ninety hours. The trains runs
over smooth tracks, and as we
had to contend with deserts,
mountains, and Doggy roads. we
think the auto did pretty well
against the locomotive. Our
route from Los Angeles was
through Flagstaff, Ari.; Albu-
auerque, N. NJ; Trinidad, COL;
Dodge City and Emporia, Kan. !;
Kansas City, Mo-; St. Louis, and
thence to Indianapolis, Ind,
through Columbus, O., and via
Wheeling to Pittsburgh, and
then to Philadelphia and through
Trenton to Jersey City,"
Mr.. Baker drove the car him
self all the way. In computing
tie new coast-to-coast record
three hours in time was SUBJ
tracted because Of the differ
cree between Eastern and Pa
cific time.