The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-11
CADILLAC EIGHT
 MAKES RECORD RUN
Rec0rd-Making COast-tO- Coast Dash Made by a
 Cadillac Eight

The details of the record breaking ,oast-to-coast dash of the Cadillac Eight, finished at New York May 15, ire interesting as showing the stamina and endurance of man and mechanism. They are equally impressive as setting forth the difficulties encountered by Baker, the driver, and Sturm, his and the fine performance of the car on a grind of unprecedented severity. The log of the trip is as fol- ows:
 May S-Los Angeles to Williams,
 Arz=533.5 miles Mountains and
 desert-very hot--poor roads.
 May civilians. Ariz, to Santa
 Fe, N. M-555.2 miles. Roads
 good and bad in spots. some very
 fine and some very poor; very hot.
 May 10-Santa Fe, N. M., to
 Dodge City, Kans-567.2 miles. A
 few miles of mountainous road in
 New Mexico. and the rest of the
 journey very good; moderately
 warm.
 May 11-Dodge City, Kans., to
 Kansas City. Mo.-401 Miles. Very
 fine roads to within 50 miles of
 Kansas City when we struck some
 mud; cool.
 May 12-Kansas City to High
 Hill, Mo-216 miles. Very poor,
 muddy roads all the way, hub
 deep in places, with rain. Worst
 roads on the trip.
 May 1S-Hjgh Hill, Mo. to Green
 up, Ill.--210.9 miles. Very muddy
 roads to within few miles of
 St. Louis, then fair going to
 Greenup, Ill.,; no rain.
 May 14-Greenup, H., to Pitts
 burg, Pa.-493 miles. Roads good
 up to within a few miles of
 Wheeling, then rain into Pitts
 burg; some muddy roads.
 May 15-Pittsburg, Pa., to New
 York, N. Y.-395 miles. Mountain
 going through considerable fog
 outside of Pittsburg, then good
 roads into New York city; fair
 weather.
 From this it will be seen that the total distance is 3371.8 miles. The first announcement of 3471 miles. rushed out just as the trip was completed, was 100 miles in error. The average TUT daily running time was IT hours minutes. On the basis of actual run ming time, the cars average per houl was 26.34 miles. The daily and hour ly averages would have been mucf higher but for the bad going across Missouri. Average number of miles per gallon of gasoline was 9A; witf 300 to $50 miles per gallon of lubri- eating oil.
 The run was started from the Los Angeles courthouse at 12:01 a., m Monday, May 8, and completed al Broadway and Forty-second street New York, at 2:53 p. m., May 15. While the elapsed time for the trip was thus ' days, Il hours and 52 minutes, tho actual running time was 12S hours and the total time not running, 51 hours 52 minutes. or an average daily lay-off for driver and car of hours, 5! minutes. This was spent in sleeping eating and taking on supplies of gaso line. oil, etc.
 Baker drove the car the entire dis tance. The car travelled the entire dis tance under it's own power, excep when pulled out of ditch by blocl and@tackle once near Holly, Cal, ant once near Bonneville, Mo, and o course, except when ferried acros rivers. Baker says he did not clean : spark plug during the entire trip. On day he drove a stretch of 84 mile' through such heavy roads that high gear going was impossible. At another time the road was so poor that two hours were required to make 10 miles ~~~-~->~~~-~-~~~~~~O~~~ ~O~~~-~~~~~~-~~~-~-~-~-~