The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-23

the Cadillac IS that made this record possible Take
the seconds or even fractions, which we saved in this
way gulies turns, mud holes and in trai: and multi
ply them by many hundred for each day of our record
run, and you will see what it amounts to.
AS the sun rose and the heat grew oppressive, we
soon began burning tires by excessive breaking as we had
decided NOT to spare them For l35 miles across the
desert we ploughed, where trouble would have
meant disaster, If net dscontinuance of tn; run.
1t was in this desert that we had our FIRST and only
mechanical trouble | noticed the oil gauge going down,
and poured in the last two gallons OF oil We had We
rode on few miles and noticed again that the gauge
was dropping Stopping the car TO investigate found
that The pipe leading the oil pump had been broken
from The terrific torsional strain and oil supply
gone. liked foot five miles through deep sand with
the thermometer lowering around l2O degrees, TO rail-
road station where there was neither oil nor telephone
line. train was approaching and vanked off my
and standing between the rails tagged the train
but there was nothing doing in the way of OIL However,
jumped the train, intending TO tide to the
point where oil could be secured feeling that with each
passing minute the chances for our record diminish
ing.
AS we pissed the point where | had LETT the car
noticed that another car hid hated and persuaded the
engineer to stop h train and let me off, When arrived
found that Sturm had secured a gallon of oil. Having
empded one OF water bags, he crawed under the
other car and drained tn: oil from It's crank case plugged
up the broken oil line and went 10 the saton
seven miles away where we secured enough oil TO get us
into Needles.
Just think ofit This was the only mechanical
trouble we had throughout this entire We did not
touch the moto to clean spark plug, and ex
cept for this instance did nothing but fill gasoene and
oil tanks and drive 10 The limit.
We negotiated the stiff mountain trails at oakland,
Ariz til, new Kondke of America without trouble
alf ir,haI oil OF onIf ho
paths extremely ;ut for many to make The
ruts OF Arizona engaged attention next, and here
again we scaped on high centerS for thirty miles before
we got to Kingsman.
With Kansas City to reach in less than four days
knew that motor trouble meant that we would fail But
The old Eight never missed shothe good old brakes
never failed when called on them Arizona has some
miles Of fine road and We took advantage of these hitting
it around IS until we came to the deep sand when we
slowed down Bit The pulling power of the Ell h-cyln
der motor was revelation to me In this sand | had
driven other cars across and had repeatedly to eer dig
them out with shovel or back oI TO get fresh start,
but nothing like that happened on this trip.
Kansas afforded us an opportunity OF using soma of
our speed and at Dodge City, the third night out we
turned in for few hours sleep with SGT miles to our
credn Running Kansas City we experienced our first
touch Of what we had eared-.hat was Kansas mud We
used chains for at least five hundred miles bor getting
to this part.
1t is fortunate thing that the good Lord never per-
mts us to lock ahead and see the difficulties we ar, 10
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Greatest of All Motor Car
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