The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-16
Members Of Keokuk Auto Club Who
Returned From Davenport Last
Night Are Very
Enthusiastic.
CARS WERE IN TROUBLE
Accidents Happened to Several on
the Return Trip, But Mono
Were Of Very Serious
Nature.

The first annual sociability run of
the automobile club of Keokuk COM
pleted last night was q success, al
though 1t was necessary to cut out
some of the features OF the run on
the return trip owing to the fact that
some of the tourists wanted to leave
ahead of time, because they were
afraid Of getting into bad roads. There
were several cases Of trouble report
ed, but all of the cars returned to
Keokuk last night without any very
serious mishaps. The roads were in
good shape from Davenport to Mus
catine. mud was encountered from
Muscatine to Wapello, but from Bur
lington down the roads were good.
and the competition features might
have been kept up. The scores have
not been computed yet but will be
checked up by the touring committee
tonight, and the announcement of the
winners made tomorrow.
The trip to Davenport proved all
that any one could ask for an auto
mobile tour. The roads were good,
the weather ideal. and the machines
all held their time. The only bad ac-
cident was that which occurred to the
Overland car driven by Junior Skin
vim in Burlington, and which was re-
GREETED by all of the tourists. They
were glad to learn that 1t was no
more serious than 1t was. The car
was repaired and the party returned
to Keokuk Saturday night. Mrs.
Owens was found to have a fractured
collar bone, by the doctor who exam
ined her here.
The Overland car driven by John
q G00ff ho6 fn into a Oor OF
Burlington on the up trip too, for
slight repairs.
The party reached Davenport run.
hing practically on time. At Daven-
port the stop was made over night
and the members of the. party were
entertained by friends or visited the
amusement places Of Davenport
Trouble on Trip Back.
The return trip was to be made
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.
Some of the party thought 1t would
of showers. Several left by 10 o'clock
Sunday morning. The majority Of the
tourists, however, waited until the
starting time, and left at one o'clock
and shortly after. On this trip all Of
the trouble happened. DR.. Sherlock,
in an Overland, had slight trouble
getting started. ]. p. Sheldon, in an
Overland, had trouble at Grand View.
q. A. McLoney, with his WHY'S
Knight, got into trouble ct Wapello,
when he broke an S41e. At Fort
Madison some on struck the pilot
Cadillac and bent the tenders.
The McLoney car was towed into
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the party transferred to one of the
the baggage. The Sheldon car trou.
utes loss of time, and all of the cars
were in bunch again by the time
they reached Burlington.
The trip from Davenport to Musca-
tine was made without chains From
Muscatine down to Burlington there
was considerable bad going. But
from Burlington to Keokuk the roads
were fine.
The Crowd at Davenport.
The following is from the Davenport
Democrat concerning the trip:
Twenty automobiles carrying about
70 passengers. an ideal day and fair
iSIdS, "ClV CAiC ldSloio WAiSA pldySu
an important part in making the first
annual sociability run between Keo.
kuk and Davenport a decided success
Saturday morning, starting about 6: 80
a. m. from the down river city, pilot
car No. 1, Cadillac, driven by Har-
old Kaiser, marked the course which
subsequent machines were to follow
kaiser's car arrived in Davenport
at 1890, and second pilot, driven
by Roy King, arrived Is minutes later,
he, however, had started about a
quarter of an hour after Kaiser.
The run had been planned by the
Automobile club of Keokuk and al
though a time card had been issued
to every driver. it was not race
against time but merely a week end
party in which business men of Keo.
kuk and their families participated.
They wished to take advantage of
the opportunity of showing Daven-
port what a real sociability run was
The cars left at intervals of several
minutes after the pilots had gone.
All but two of the machines listed
to make the run arrived at the Black
hawk hotel in good season, six out of
twenty coming in within one half
minute Of schedule time.
The machine driven by c. F. Skin
vim met with an accident at Burling-
ton and was forced to withdraw from
the tour. In lodging a motorcycle
the driver lost control Of his car and
it crashed into a tree, Mrs. G. NJ.
Owens. a passenger, was the only one
injured, her shoulder was bruised
quite badly.
The autoists remained in the city
Saturday evening and will return
home in the same manner that they
came, starting At IL o'clock this noon.
E. ]. Boud and Louis DeArmand Of
tho Davenport Auto club served IS
. reception committee and had made
arrangements 70 entartain the guests