New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
Autoists Brave,
DeatEs to sssss.s.,..,
Canadian Trail
Thrills Aplenty i'm Path.
finding Run Made Over
Mountains in Car From
Edmonton 10 Vancouver
Scenic Beauty Praised
Nuskeg. Rock. Slides, Gales
and Perilous Cliff Routes
Encountered is Journey

Completing the thrilling and a.
snss hair-raisiag path finding run
.roln Edmonton to Vancouver, Il. e.. the
,s.ire distance through Canadian ter.
,i.ory, the Edmonton Automobile Club
satemohlle Pilots, c. W. Niemeyer and
frank Silverthorn, who ended their
barney at Victoria recently, gave a
srsphic aeccan& Of the trip.
they described their Journey as one
msfyelces beauty ard remarkably
lard work, but they said they had
esened the pathway TO Edmonton and
Lat the expenditure o. bat compara-
aseiy small amoGnt Of money would
cake Z g permanent and pia&sant trail
81 the tourist They encountered
.uskeg. burned bridges, rock sndes,
rizziy bears. railroad trains. wind
scruis and furious rains. but they
,.ac alohg with cnly three pro,routa
,ad those caused by rail spikes.
Car Carries Heavy Load
Issying Edmonton Iune II. tho chr
sfeeeeded we>i~,srd with heavy load.
4 weighed 200 pounds. carried two
i leuf men snd l,i00 pounds OF bag
sge The outfit consisted Of picks
.s5 shovcis. axes. hammers. fou, L.
lxt i0-iDch plarkS and several ghortf =
,sces, completes set Of tools and are
ants, two spare tires and spare
sses so gallons Of gas ana FIVE gal
sss Of oil. They made the entire run
"a II gallons OF gas and six quarts Of
Il and came every foot of the way on
ssir own wheels via deserted railroad
tsdes active railways. tote roads and
Il Yale road.
from Edmonton they proceeded
tsrcegh the Yellowhead Pass trail
asine tie abandoned Grand Trunk
Fstifc Raj way grade near the noun
tins and following it to Jasper.
i. Jasper they took to the steel rail
-anriing the abandoned grade one mile
ssst Of there and following it to Red
psss Then they took steel to Tete
isgne Cache and the old tote road
senee to Alfredo. steel to Blue River
nc AyoIa, thence tote road 10 Lytton.
pel and tote road TO Hope and the
tale road to Vancouver. and then by
Canadian Pacific Jerry to Victoria.
The pathfindcrs reached Victoria with
Nistered hands and sore muscles. They
bsushed and built mi es of roads, con
arueted thirty bridges, some OF
Ehich were good enough to be called
ornament structures; they killed a
isurteen-foot grizzly bear with a 1903
rife and took 200 PICTURES OF the wild
life of the trail, Rocky Mountain sheep,
Sser birds and so on.
Death Brsved by Motorists
The car was driven on the railroads,
around curves and along precipiees
where the variation Of q hair would
AsYe thrown the occupants hundreds of
tees to death. The car wheels strad-
Sisd the rails, the outer wheels being
n the outer edge of the ties. The ties
amany instances were projecting over
-ywwning space which fell straight to
fasing rivers.
at one point where erosion had worn
ssay a tote road for some hundreds
gGfeet they went down to the river and
ieaded' a trail through the water
found rocky point, and then back
b the road. At. another they found d
ack as large asa house right in front
n them They had 10 cut their way
round, through shale rock
{ In the Clearwater district they found
tallen timber, following n windstorm
and it was in this section that they
fased the grizzly bear. Niemeye1
shot il.