The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-01
PAIGE MOUNTS Pixies
PEAK OVER TIES OF
COG RAILROAD.
FIRST CAR 10 nAEf cLIks TIES,
IhEsSEfs bND ROCK CONEiAED
viii IS PER CENT GRADE TO
MAZE NINE NILE DfiVE 4 RECORD
TEST ALTITUDE OF $4,000 FEET
ADDS 10 DIFFICULTIES.


1.-THE Paige entry in the Labor Day
contest at tikes peak, after shattcr-
ing all speed records 85r this event IN
to the fourteen mile post, was stopped
at this point because a binding Dir
Yard made it dangerous 10 continue
at high speed. 0llciaIs OF the contest
had previously agreed to permit Mr.
Milford 10 start over again IN case of
a snowstorm, but for some unkncwn
reason, this promise was ignored and
permission to make a second start WIS
refused, when Mr. Mulford returned to
the starting point.)
The new Paige $50 seven passeng-
er STOCK model touring car with Ralph
milford at the wheel, last week Gimp
ed Pixies Peak, using the cog railroad
as its route, feat that has never be-
fore been accomplished by an auto
mobile and which had been presumed
to be impossible.
The extraordinary difficulties of the
cog road climb lie IN the fact that the
car was not only obliged to- run on the
ties and over frcstles, cattle guards.
cog switches and rocks, but was lore
ed as we'll to conquer a grade that in
some sections mounted as high as rs
per cent. The climb is declared to be
the highest, steepest and most diAl-
cult ever made by an automobile. No
other cog road in the world is half
so high and no other vehicle, except
specially built Baldwin cog 1ocomo-
tive had ever mounted this road. Even
Son-of-a-Gun-E1ilI nearly a two mile
stretch of rs per cent. grade, MkJ3
made with ease.
The distance covered was nine miles
and the STRAIT was made from Maniton
at an altitude of 6,400 feet. AS the
altitude at the top is 14,19O feet, the
Paige had to climb nearly 900 feet
mile, with an average grade of Is per
cent. At no point in the nine mile
climb is the grade less than ~ per
cent; four OF the nine miles are 70
per cent three and ohe7eighth be-
tween 20 to rs per cent. The longest
pull OF 70 per cent is a mile and three
quarters at 1900 feet.
Added to the difficulties was the de-
ereasing depression as the altitude
mounted to 1900 feet. The hardest
stretch, is the last half mile of rs to
2S per cent. grade at $4,000 feet AS
several stops weresmade to take NOV
ing pictures and still photographs
no attempt was made to take the time.
IN addition to the stops for pictures the
Paige was obliged to waftrhree-
efs' of an hour because Of a break
doWn Of the cog locomotive which had
just proceeded it.
10 accidents OF any kind were sui
tered by the car. Some of the grades
were travelled in intermediate at a
speed Of 15 miles an hour. On the
steeDest grades the car mounted at d
rate Of six miles an hour in low. Not
over gallon and a half of water Was
used ON the trip. Among the POINTS
passed en- route were Little Chief
Iron Springs, Hell Gate, Grand Pass,
LIENS fulcn, Timherline, Nindypaint,
6on-of-a-Gun-Hill, Bott0mless Pit ana
Abyss of Desolatfon. AS many as
eight persons were carried up some
OF the grades.
II. b. Wilson, printer of Pixies Peak
Review, whose shop is at the top. was
the most astonished man in the world
when he saw the car approach his Of
fee.
II have lived on this peak for %
years, he said, and III certainly
admit that this is the first time i ever
saw an automobile way up here
The Paige descended by the way Of
the auto highway, thus being the frs.
ear to make the Pixies Peak round
trip.
This great feat of the Paige far ov-
ershadows the Labor Day events fol-
the reason that the car that climbed
the Cog Road was stock model while
allsthe Labor Day entries were spec
ials.
flt was proof conclusive that in pow
er and stamina the Paige "6-66'' has
9Cssuperior in the world. for no test
could more conclusively prove the
ability of the Paige to negotiate any
hill or stand up under the most Sc
we're abuse than this nine mile climb
over rough ties, loose roadbed and I'M
usual grades, with several passengers
aboard.
etAnd following this test, the car was
driven from Pixies Peak to Denver.
thence to Chicago and Detroit, show
ing no indication of the terrific strain
to which it has been subjected
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