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Show WHITE AUTOS CARRY HOSTS TO SUMMIT More Than 10,000 Reach World-famed Pike's Peak Over Great Boulevard. CARS STAND THE TEST Highway Company Finds That White Auto Busses Are Satisfactory. Fleets ot White motor busses and touring tour-ing cars operating on the new ?250,000 double-tracked Pike's Peak auto boulevard boule-vard from Cascade, Colo., to the summit sum-mit ot ibis mighty mountain, nearly three miles In the air. have carried more than 10.000 passengers up the mountain to the "root-of-the-world" since the highway high-way was officially opened to motorists on July 23. These busses were the backbone of the transportation facilities during the recent mountain-climbing contests. Running in fleet formation most of the time, they made trip after trip from Colorado Springs to tho peak and to the intermediate inter-mediate observation points. Stiff Test of Car. While the highway Is a marvelous road-bulidlng road-bulidlng achievement, it nevertheless Imposes Im-poses a gruelling test on a motor car. Power and endurance will not suffice. To be used regularly on this road, a car must make the eighteen-mile climb without heating and without being affected by atmospheric at-mospheric changes. It must have powerful power-ful and durable brakes to withstand the long downward flight, and In other ways must provide absolute safety to passengers passen-gers Manv modern touring cars, of necessity, ne-cessity, refill their radiators at the water wa-ter stations on the mountain. The busses, however, make the entire ascent without a great loss of water and only refill them because "safety first'" is an Inviolable rule. , , , . In addition, the question of comfort and economy must he considered. It is apparent, therefore, that the highway company had a difficult problem in selecting se-lecting equipment for constant use under un-der these conditions. In seeking the type of bus which had been most successful in other mountain sections of the west, the highway company com-pany found that White busses were the predominating equipment in all the great national parks. The installation of Whites on Pike's Peak quickly followed. First Run July 23. Before the opening of the road to the summit, the busses and touring cars carried car-ried passengers from the hotels in Colorado Colo-rado Springs to a point two miles above Glen" Oo-e or fourteen miles up the mountain. On July L'S the entire route wus opened and the first run to t lie summit sum-mit was made. N The distance from Colorado Springs to the summit Is twenty-six miles and there is a rise of 8109 feft. Each of the twelve busses and three touring cars make two round trips every day, climbing the rock-walled rock-walled sides and continuing to the snow-clad snow-clad summit above the clouds. Here a forty-minute rest is allowed passengers lo inspect the Summit house, secure refreshments re-freshments and view the wonderful panorama of 60,000 square miles of scenery. scen-ery. The sunrise trip of the buB line is a great favorite with tourists. The machines ma-chines leave the Springs at midnight, reach the summit to see the' run rise and return to the hotels for breakfast. Noted Educator's View. Speaking of his trip up the mountain in one of the White motor busses, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Co-lumbia university said: Just thirty years ago I made my first ascent of Pike's Peak, going on ! foot from Manitou in about seven ' and one-half hours. Yesterday I made the ascent with as much comfort as ' if I were riding on a park boulevard, going irom Colorado Springs in a White motor bus in about two and one-half hours. The Pike's Peak auto highway is certainly a triumph of engineering. One cannot but marvel at the construction of the road, the wide turns and the easy grades, which, considering the ascent, are far easier than might be supposed to be possible. The trip is in every way a memorable one. and there is no better nor more satisfying way in which to see typical mountain scenery of the state of Colorado. Every -mile of the trip is crowded with scenic interest that possesses all the grandeur of the Alps. From Its terminus more miles of mountain and plain are visible than from any point on the globe reached by automobiles. No state is too remote to send its tourists to see this wonderful scenery. The marvelous mountain boulevard with its motor carriers marks the passing of the long, weary rides in lumbering stage coaches that could make at the best two or three miles an hour over rough mountain roads. Now the tourist enjoys the wonders of nature in a new way and to its fullest full-est extent. It seems as if nature and science had joined hands to rouse Americans to the call of their own country, and today the cheery honk, honk of the automobile is' heard where a locomotive never has I whistled. |