The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-01
Log Tells Stirring
Story of Record Run

A modern saga of heroic adven
ture is written in the log which has
just reached the Chrysler Corpora
ton of l.. b. Millcr's unprecedented
feat in his Chrysler Imperial 80"
Phaeton-the first continuous trans
continental round trip ever completed
in the United States.
1t tells stirring story Of mechan-
zeal performance and human skill
and endurance, rivaled only by the
epoch making flight Of Colonel Lind
bereh across the Atlantic.
With his travelling companion.
Johnnie Weber. Miller left San Fran
cisco at 10 a. m, Tuesday, May 81.
One minutes less than week later,
Tuesday, June Z, at $3.50 a. M, he
drove his Chrysler into Los Angeles.
seven days out of San Francisco via
New York, a speedometer distance Of
G72O miles.
In one week Miller had driven a
distance as great as the average
motorist covers in whole season.
The log is thrilling narration
Of swiftly shifting scenes.
From San Francisco, off the Ferry
at Oakland, through the miles Of
orange blossom and rose scented
highways of San Joaquin valley, Mil
Ter and his Chrysler passed up into
the Sierras and across the snow
covered mountain passes into Carson
City.
Sweeping out then over the Lin
coin Highway, the speeding car dash
ed through Ely, an hour ahead Of
schedule, up into the Deer Creek
mountains. across Gold Hill and
through Salt Lake City under a
myriad Of stars.
Under the smoothly humming
engine slipped the gray ribbon Of
dust that once was the trail Of
the pony express as the route led
Indians and across the great Wyom-
ing plateaus through Cheyenne. With
the next night came Nebraska plains
Through clinging seas of mud, ever
cutting down the precious driving
average, the car and its driver bat
tied on, crossing the Missouri river
at Omaha half an hour ahead of
schedule.
Hour after hour, mile after mile,
state after state, passed. The kill
ing pace carried them through Iowa
and Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and
when the tireless drivers reached the
Pennsylvania line at East Liverpool
they looked proudly at a speedomet-
err that recorded S05 minutes for the
last 282 miles, an average of 55.8
miles an hour.
Across Pennsylvania, around the
outskirts of Pittsburgh, through the
historic Gettysburg battlefield, on
to Philadelphia and in New Jerseys
maze Of traffic the car kept up its
terrific pace to Jersey City and the
Hudson river ferry to New York.
Here Miller checked in at 8:55 p. M.
~ hours and IS minutes elapsed
time from San Francisco, breaking
the old one-way transcontinepta
record by three hours and II minutes.
One minute on the New York dock
to get time stamps on his card and
Miller was back on the ferry head
ed west, and officially on his way
to California. The return trip was
q repetition Of battling against the
elements that were faced Roinx east.
From the time the car left the old
route to branch south on the Old
Trails at Chambersbutg q furious
downpOur Of rain beat upon II. III
Kansas three days precipitation had
swollen rivers out Of their banks and
made roads more like hogs. All
through Colorado and down the pic.
turesQae old S4nAa Fe trsil into New
Mexico tAs 6enntlsss drtxers fought
their way nattkat 1850 Msndsv mora