| Show AUTO IS REALLY Y DISPLACING GIN HORSE Trip Tt Through Texas Confirms 1 Story That Even Cowboys CowboY Fancy Motors PATHFINDERS EXPERIENCES SCOUTS SO LEARN LE MANY NY CURIOUS THINGS IN LONE STAR STAB STATE STA Br L JT J SlITS Not N t long ago there thero appeared In the news columns of the daily dany papers papa throughout the country an Item which told of a large Irge purchase of o automobiles by br b Texas cowboys It was stated that the cowboy of the great southwest was wan deserting his horse for the more modern gasoline buggy huggy Perhaps these reports were accepted only partially at tho the time that they were first made public But they have been substantiated by bythe bythe bythe the official path finding crew for the 1910 Glidden tour Throughout hout Texas the passengers rs of the Chalmers 30 have hae found great motoring enthusiasm The entrance Into Texas of ot the of ot official pathfinder was waa one ot of triumph The car was met on the Red river of ot Arkansas by the representatives of the Dallas Automobile Dealers association Dallas extends the tho glad hand was their message It sounded to the path finding crew pretty much like the greeting they received all along the theline theline theline line But the Dallas enthusiasts lied had come miles mites to deliver It They brought with them th complete road data from Texarkana to Dallas They prom promised promIsed promIsed good roads reads and they produced them The trip from Texarkana to Dal Del Dallas Dallas Dellas las was a constant ovation from the small towns along the route Led by Mayor W TT D Davis a big es escort escort cort from Fort Worth accompanied the car to that city A number of this es ec escort e cort had ha been with the car carall carall carall all the way from Texarkana The en entrance entrance entrance trance Into Fort port Worth was one of tri triumph tn All Texas is glad the Glidden tour Is coming through that state and andall andall all Texas d care who knows It Horse Heine Replaced The horse is la on the downward path even In Texas said Mayor Davis of at Fort Worth at a banquet tendered the Chalmers pathfinder crew The horse was all right when Texas had few roads practically no fences but ours Is no longer a n wild unsettled country Texas is i a real state with all of the In Indications of o civilization which other states have h ve We have good roads and we are constantly making them bet better better 1 ter We Wa are devoting ourselves to ag agriculture and we have fenced in our ranches Texas Is a state of great dis distances distan tan es esSo e eSo So the horse Is no longer practical The automobile answers our needs We find that we can accomplish twice as much with the motor car as with the horse That Is why Texas Is ia buying automobiles autom That is why Texas is glad to receive the Glidden GUdden tour This is the spirit which the pathfinders ers ens have nave found throughout the south and the southwest Fort For Worth for tor some sume unknown reason marks the line between the south and the west w As the car progressed in the further west through northern Texas Oklahoma and Kansas the same enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm was evident From the personal point of ot view of t the pathfinders the change from the thereal thereal thereal real south to the west was a welcome one for the roads r ads Improved speedily after atter crossing the Mississippi The route making of Scout Lewis has pro progressed progressed progressed gressed very satisfactorily Exhaustive data has been supplied all along the route and Lewis says his Information will be more complete than that for any other previous tour But things came nearly ending other otherwise otherwise I wise last Friday noon at Ringgold Tex Tax TaxI I The Pathfinder er had been met At Jit Bowie by a delegation of at six automobile par parties parI parties I ties and as aa they pulled Into RInggold Joe Gardham swung tho the Chalmers 30 in beside the others on Main Maln street Someone Just behind the pathfinder un unscrewed unscrewed unscrewed screwed the radiator cap of his car and like a geyser long waiting lt Its chance came a fountain of scalding water which fell gracefully on thi th backs of ot the Chalmers crew crew Dai Dat Lewis and his comrades all had their th lr coats off and they Just bent and took the shower shoner for fora a second before Gardham shot the car I ahead a few yards Everyone thought he was parboiled but there was as an a matter of fact no skin lost lest lostA lostA lestA A high wind blowing at the time cooled the boiling water sufficiently to prevent serious consequences although Dal Dai Lewis dropped about 40 miles of at road notes which went flying DyIng across the plains pursued by half a dozen men It was all captured otherwise the car would have been compelled to turn turnback turnback back bac BO so that Lewis might the route for the distance recorded It was the nearest approach to toan an ac as accident accident on the entire trip Much Interest Observed The warmest welcome thus far said Dal Dat touching the back of his neck gingerly to ascertain whether any of It was cooked E L I Ferguson the manager m nager of the tour Is enthusiastic over oer the Interest being taken In the big annual endur endurance endurance ance ince event by manufacturers through throughout out the th country We have been receiving such excel excellent excellent excellent lent reports from Mr Lewis and his party regarding the roads and the busi bust business business bustness ness possibilities that the manufacturers ers ens of automobiles s are beginning to feel that they cannot afford to mIss rales the Glidden tour said Mr Yr Ferguson ur I surely expect that there will be no less than 75 cars entered In the tour They will carry probably people The e whole south BOuth and southwest realize the importance of such an nn event and Is keenly kee IY alive to the possibilities of the tour This In turn Interests the manu menu manufacturers manufacturers of motor cars so BO that I feel reel perfectly confident in saying Laying that the 1910 event will be the largest and most Important of all Glidden GUdden tours The decision of the contest board of or orthe the American Automobile association to reroute the tour so as to Include Kan Ken Kansas Kansas Kensas sas City St Joseph Mo Falls City Auburn Nebraska City Plattsmouth and Omaha Neb eb Council Bluffs Des DesMoines DesMoines Moines Davenport and other cities along the river to river road and the Iowa Good Roads association have lit literally literally flooded the crew with telegrams Nebraska and Iowa have made mado a keen fight to get the Glidden Glidden Glidden den tour They have won out and now the various cities and towns along the new route are planning big receptions both for the pathfinder and the tour tourists tourIsts isis uIt It lt looks to me said Dal Lewis as though were not going to have much time to get road Information I am glad to see so 80 many Important cities anxious to entertain the Glidden GUdden tour and I am glad to have them assist us lAB lABin in our work but If I have to read many more letters of ot welcome I am sure the official route book will suffer |
