Connecticut western news., 1921-10-27
1.-THE SNAIL" MAKES PORT HERE OVER WEEKEND On First Lap of Eighteen Months Cruise About
 the U. s.

out-of-doors, is one of the reasons why "The Snail" came to this town last Saturday. While the skipper had ignored little Connecticut entire ly in his tentative route of travel, he found the actual accomplishment of this misdeed even greater than one so doughty as he could carry to a finish. To partially atone for this premeditated act of violence upon the peace of mind of our people, the editor of the News and his wife forced the entire party to remain with them over the weekend, which makes it possible for us to write this story.
 "The Snair' is not ship, even though it has a skipper. 1t is house built on wheels and a mighty comfortable one, too. The chassis upon which the house is built, is a GMC one-ton truck, successor to the famous model that was adopted by the government for use in France during the war. The house is 16 feet long and 2 feet wide; it's height is 6 1a feet.
 While travelling there is adequate seating capacity for about sixteen persons. When a camping spot has been reached for the night, the in- terior of the house is transformed in a few minutes to kitchen, dining room and office for the skipper After the inner man has been satisfied and the time arrives to retire for the night, a few more twists of the wrist, seemingly, again transforms the interior to .com- fortable quarters for seven persons. When we say comfortable, we mean just that, for nothing is lacking from coil bedsprings to linen sheets and wool blankets.
 The crew consists of Ellwood Lloyd, skipper; Mrs. Lloyd, su0er- cargo and Miss Elizabeth Thomas, relative, bosom. Three dogs com prise the list of passengers. They are cocker spaniels of the finest blood in America and are worthy adjuncts to the party. The naviga- tor, Karl Marshall, was forced to walk the plank at Pittsburg, Pa, when he acknowledged his infdelity by hearkening to the sirens call of engineering problems in the coal mines. The house on wheels was named "The Snail" because it carries its house on its back and travels slowly.
 "The Snail" left Memphis, Tenn, of July 18th, travelling eastward up through the North Atlantic states and into New England, making Boston the turning point. From that city the route leads through Massa- chusetts into upper New York state and on tc the southwest, the party hoping to avoid the snow and cold weather. In January CT February, California will be left behind and the prov of "The Snaip pointed again toward Memphis, where they expect to arrive in June. The trip will cover upwards of ten thousand miles.
 One other interesting feature ori- ginated by "the crew" is al eight page folder containing 10l answers to questions which people might ask at places where they stop. It is en- titled "Snailing the U. s. A."
 MT. Lloyd is a journalis3 (of which more later) and Mrs. Llcyd, is a refined lady, highly educated, whom it is a pleasure to meet and talk with. Miss Thomas IS T school teacher. Her progressive spirit and sense of duty to those she teaches has caused her to give up teaching for a year and make this trip, much in the same spirit as she has before given up teaching to take post grad uate courses at different colleges.
 When we speak of MT. Lloyd IS a journalist, we use the term in the broader sense, for few people can or have enjoyed similar experiences to his, which have taken him to 62 countries on the globe. Having spent eight years of the formative period of his life, between the ages of 4 md l2, under the breeding skies of india, where his father was Lieutenant Governor, he early developed phi losophical turn of mind which has been a great advantage in his work.
 After graduating from college he became an electrical engineer, his work taking him to many parts 9t the United States and Canada. Through contributing various articles to ma gazines devoted to electricity from scientific standpoint, he became im- bued with the idea that journalism was more to his liking and entered the field as cub reporter on |, Buffalo daily paper. Reasoning that if he was to make his mark in the journalistic field, he must study
 Journalism and the best place to do this, he decided, was in doing actual work on the best paper in the world. 2 After much study of newspapers here and abroad, he came to the
 conclusion that that paper was the z London Daily Illustrated News and