Show alaska impossible to the new york to paris ests have found speedy realization of the prediction that when they reached alaska they would learn what bad going actually meant at least the only car which has yet gone thus tar has made the discovery the amerl can machine which it was expected would push on through the alaskan wastes to nome on the western side of the territory there taking ship pas sage to siberia is halted at valdez A dispatch from that point to the news paper which Is behind the scheme says it will be impossible to go through alaska experiments made under con there one feature being a leavy snowstorm shows there Is nothing but narrow trails which can not be negotiated by the autos so the whole outfit has been loaded on a bleamer which will return to seattle and from that point a vessel will take the car and the party accompanying it to vladivostok the dispatch from valdez says with refreshing frankness it Is impossible for any man who has not seen the trail over which the mall Is carried from valdez to fairbanks to realize the conditions that exist today to day to consider making the trip across alaska in the face of such conditions would be a dream of a cgee chaco in the jargon which means the alaskan tenderfoot in the opinion of the troy N Y times this outcome Is not surprising for at the outset it was predicted in various quarters that no automobile could succeed in getting through the alaskan illde ness much berated highways of new york state must appear like first class roads by comparison with the alaskan trails and parts of si berla are likely to be not much better |