The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-23
First Big Tour Over Memorial
Driveway From Duluth to
Glacier National Park !
TO MAKE TWO-HOUR STOP
HERE TUESDAY MORNING
Automobiles Along Route are
Urged to Fall in Line "A
for Big Tour ~

Duluth, July 23.-Monday at noon
a caravan of SO automobiles will hum
out of this city on the first lap of
their journey over the Theodore
Roosevelt highway on their way to
Glacier National Park, Montana,
where this, the first big tour over the
Memorial driveway, will end August
2. Three states, Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana, will be trav-
ersed, covering distance of consid-
cradle more than thousand miles.
Baggage trucks and service trucks
carrying mechanics and expert tire
men will accompany the tour for the
convenience of the motorists. TEv-'
cry city along the route is making ex-
tensive preparations to entertain the
automobile travellers. A unique fea-
ture of the entertainment will take
place when the Blackfeet Indians of
the Glacier National Park reserva+
ton mass upon the Montana prairie
as reception committee to welcome.
the visitors. The redskins will scat
ter buckskin confetti over the last
lap of the journey as welcoming
omen. This early custom of the In
dians, INDUCED in formerly whenever
they welcomed visiting mounted In
dians, now is modernized as applica-
BILE to automobiles, and the pratice
is peculiarly fitting since it will serve
the double purpose Of showing the
way to the motorists as we'll as
spreading the welcoming sign Of this
tribes hospitality.
The route will take the automobile
lists through the picturesque Mime
sofa lake region and thence through
the heart of the :"Bread Basket" of
the United States" Tin North Dakota
and Montana,) ending at Glacier
Park station where the main range
of the Rocky Mountains begins.
Automobiles, on ending the tour
at the eastern gateway of Glacier
Park, will make trip into the park
inspecting the scenic automobile
highway that skirts the mountains
northward from Glacier Park sta
tion to St. Mary's lake and Many
Glacier hotel, which is SO miles north
of the main line Of the Great North
ern railway and almost to the Cana
dian boundary.
The object of the tour is not for
pleasure alone, but for the encour-
agement of good roads as well. Ev-
cry point along the route will be q
scene of good roads rallies and
speeches on the subject will be de-
livered by the officials of the Theo-
dore Roosevelt International High
way association.
Tour is expected TO cement better
relations between the various COM
munities, in addition to boosting the
Mem orial highway and motoring gen
orally.
Officials active in making the tour
a success are: e. J. Filiatrault, gen.
eral president of the Theodore Roose-
welt International Highway associa-
ton, Duluth; A. w. Tracy, general
secretary, Duluth; I. w. Lee, general
treasurer Duluth; M. N. Kohl, Cass
Lake, Mimi; L. w. Huntley, Grand
Rapids, Mimi; Ernest Bylin, Tioga,
N. D.; Henry F. Dooley, Williston,
N. D.; C. R. Hauke, Chinook, Mont;
and l. E. Jones, Glasgow, Mont.
T. w. Walker, representing the
Duluth Automobile club, will be in
charge of the tour across Minnesota,
assisted by Larry J. Moore Of Duluth,
j. R. Bachelor, recreational director
for the city Of Duluth, will be charge
of the entertainment en- route.
= Cities and towns along the route
are preparing elaborate entertain
ment for the motorists, including
Wild West performances of other
days, such as bucking broncho rid
ing, roping steers, broncho races.
stage holdups, etc.
Grand Rapids, Mimi, the first
noon -day stop, will furnish Is launch
es to meet the automobile party and
take the visitors on sightseeing. trip
across the lake where a compliments
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