The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-16

ing trip made last winter in Gard
ner car will show the class Of the priz.
being offered by the Chronicle. i
P. Sandels is the Red Lodge agen
from whom the purchase was mad
and that gentleman furnished the dat,
from which this very interesting stor,
is taken.
Cannon Ball' Baker is famous
driver Of cars in test runs. The Gard
ner Motor Company began negotia
tions with Mr.. Baker at Chicsgo, Feb
ruary End, and an agreement was fin
ally reached and concluded on Feb
rnary 8th. A car with an AIl-Seasor
top on it that had been in the service
of the Production Department was Sc
lected to make trip from New Yorl
to Los Angeles in midwinter with &
Gardner car. On the 10th, the All.
Season top was replaced with Sedar
body. The car was then thoroughly
checked, oiled and CREASED, and Baker
left with it for New York on Febru-
airy 18th. 1t was a standard stock joI
in every respect.
Leaving New York on the heels OF
a terrific snowstorm, shortly after
"Cannan Ball" Baker left Philadelphia
he ran into one of the worst blizzards
the East has known for many a year
Natives of the Allegheny Mountains
and U. s. Official Weather Reports
verify this. From thence on he en-
countered great drifts of snow, roads
covered with ice SO treacherous that
many cars had either gone over EN-
bankments or had been abandoned al
together.
He encountered fogs SO dense that
vision ten feet beyond the car was inn
possible; mud roads between st. Louis
and Kansas City that had been de-
clared impossible and over which no
car had passed for two weeks; beyond
this, more mud, sand, rocks and snow;
but through all this Gardner came out
victorious.
The run from New York to Los An
geles with a closed car was made in
"A days Ia hours and Is minutes run
ming time and is what Mr.. Baker
states is his Outstanding achieve
ment" in car running. His signed
statement follows This was my sig
ty~fourth trip across the country in
which / have driven different makes
of cars. can conscientiously say
that Gardner is more real car for the
than any other car have ever
driven, and in this mean what say,
because | have just purchased Gard.
ner Sedan for my own personal use.
Il was simply amazed at it's ability
to Withstand the terrific tests through
which it was put without showing any
evidence of abuse or deterioration. I
viii tell you, if the public knew as
much about the Gardner car as / do,
you couldn't begin to build enough of
them"
CANNON BALL" BAKER.
To attempt to describe the condi-
tions under which Cannon BALI Bak-
er dorve Gardner Sedan christened
the Blizzard" from New York to Los
Angeles, ifnour days fourteen hours
and fifteen minutes running time in
the dead of winter, would not be do
ing justice to either the car or its re-
driver.
Words cannot express the treachery
and danger Of the ice and snow-cover-
ID roads through the Alleghenies; the
log, slush and ice through Ohio, In
llama and Illinois, and the impossible,
nearly bottomless mud roads between
st. Louis and Kansas City; the de-
of the sand, rocks and !
roadless sections Of part of |
he route between Kansas City and
Los Angeles; thus the factory has
to tell the story with pic
.ures taken en- route and then let the
,ublic Judge for itself.
Mr., Sandels will bbe glad to show
n the Salesmanship Campaign or to |
,opies of these pictures to candidates
'r others interested.
The factory secured the services OK
hr. H. F. Van Horn well known In
annapolis newspaper man, who was
'elccted to accompany Baker as an
,fficial observer, to give an account
4 the entire trip.
Being engaged to officially check
iiHe required. gas and oif consump-
Inn etc and rf,f an q rnnsA<sf,anro nnxy