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Show NAVAL OFFICER MAKES TRANSCONTINENTAL RUN Captain Jr. W. Hamilton of tho United States navy, stationed at Presidio, In California, has just completed a transcontinental trans-continental tour by automobile, for the purposes of study and conditions In the far west. Pie made the run In a llttlo thirty-horsepower Palmer and Singer car Sn thirty-three days, starting from New York and finishing at San Francisco. Hp made no attempt "to mako rpeed, but ran ten hours a day. laying off two hours each noontime. Tho midday Btops In th desert were lengthened owing to a peculiar tiro trouble ho experienced. Tho sand was bo hot that he was compelled com-pelled to deflate all four tires at midday mid-day to prevent them from bursting, owing ow-ing to the abnormal expansion. The worst conditions were found n northern Nevada. |