The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-30
TOURED CONTINENT
TOLOSE CAR HERE
Young Women From Califor-
mia Fall Among Thieves on
Riverside Drive.
UNFRAMED ON DESERT
Their Blue Coupe Crossed
Mountains in Snow-Braved
Nevada Sandstorms.

To lose the car In which she had mo-
tored clear across the continent. alone
save for one other young woman. to have
it stolen from her directly on her arrival
Is scurvy treatment for q girl from thf
Golden Gate to receive from Father
Knickerbocker on her first visit to his
town. But that Is what happened tc
Mrs Marie Hudson of San Francisco
who is stopping at the Brevoort, hoping
against hope that her dark blue coupe
will be returned to her SO that she car
take 1t back West and keep 1t forever as
a memento Of the exciting experiences
she and Mrs. Iva Place had as they
drove through the sandstornns of the
deserts, the snowstorms OF the Rockies
over the bumps OF the Lincoln Highway
and round by Niagara Falls into New
York city,
whoever stole that car got some good
California air along with it," Mrs. Hud'
son sand yesterday. I'VE only had one
blowout in all the journey. That was al
Reno, New The other three tires came
through all right with the same air we
pumped into them at Los Angeles, where
we started.
They Carried a Pistol Too.
why did we make the trip7 oh. we
just thought we'd like to be able to say
that We had done II. two women alone
! was the driver. and / got very tired
sometimes, but we didn't have much
trouble. Twice we were held up or
lonely Nevada roads by men who pointed
guns or pistols at us and wanted &c
know II We had any stun to drink. But
no Californian is afraid of a gun. AND
besides we carried a good AS pistol ir
the right hand pocket of the car. So we
covered the men and told them, yes, we
had some gin and things in the back Of
the car to keep ourselves alive during
the long journey, but the stun wasn't fol
them, and to beat it. They beat It.
I'VE tried the pistol on a big wildcat
and huge badger we saw in $50 mile
stretch of desert sand that we labored
through but missed them both"
The two women motorists made the
trip in fourteen driving days, but they
were longer than that on the way, be-
cause of frequently getting out of money
and having to wire back home for a few
hundred Then they'd Just have to stay
in whatever town they happened to be in
till the funds arrived.
Though they didn't start till late In
May. they encountered cons derable snow
in some places. Near Colfax, New, they
got stuck in a 500 foot snowdrift. but
the part of It where their car fioundered
was only five feet high. A little Ford
came along and pulled them out II
Lexington. Neb.. they narrowly escaped
death from a sudden hailstorm in which
the stones, Mrs. Hudson says. were as
big as med UNI sized oranges.
German shrapnel couldn't be worse
than those hailstones," she said. They
do have some storms out there Well, we
went across the Continental Divid,
where sometimes it Is so cold that cattle
freeze to death standing, and we drove
through Danner Lake, the place where
some years ago. several hundred persons
were showed in and starved to death.
First over Mountains This Year.
"Our car was the first that crossed the
summit tbs summer, I am sure-that:
the highest point in the Rockies. Oh, but
the mountains weren't as hard as the
sandy stretches. I remember one sixty
mile stretch OF sand in Nevada without q
farmhouse to break the monotony. We
used to rise at in the morning, driving
days, to get on our way before the heat
and my, but l was sleepy and my eyes
stung when afternoon came.
We stopped at hotels or farmhouse!
and Jared pretty we'll except in Ne
braska. Those Nebraska people are
lazy. At Big Springs they gave III
oleomargarine instead of butter anC
water when we asked for milk-and al
the time cattle standing in the fields JUS
asking to be MIXED and the people toe
lazy to milk them. And the roads II
Nebraska were bad. I never would drive
again over the Lincoln Highway. 1t wa:
terrible all through Nebraska anC
Nevada but better in Wyoming
In Utah Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Place
stopped in the house of a Mormon
bishop, which was full OF children" sh,
says, but very interesting. In fact, they
had no unpleasant adventures till
reaching New York and calling on {
friend on Riverside Drive, they came
down to the street to ind the WHY'S
knight missing.
THE license number was Sl2,10S Cal.
and the upholstery was grey, and Their,
was a patch on the back OF the sea-
where 1t had been burned with a cigar
No. ! was not smoking the cigar" sale
Mrs. Hudson. But l suppose the thieves
could take of the license number and
have forgotten the motor number"
In spite 70 her bad luck here Mrs
Hudson would like to spend the winte
If her mother. back in San Francisco
would only send her six-year-old son
whom she misses dreadfully, on to b,
with her. With her son and her car sh,
thinks she could be happy in New York