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Show IllDFil TRUCKS HDLOS WOLOJEGOnO Motor Caravan Travels 1600 Miles Farther Than Nearest Rival, Is Claim. . Officers and Men Cheered j Enthusiastically as They I Enter Limits of City. j j i Establishing by far a new world's rec-J rec-J ord for both time and distance, the United ! states array motor transport convoy rested last, night in Salt Lake, with Its speedometers showing 2499 miles covered since leaving Washington, D. C, July 7 last. It was after the imposing parade down Main street had been completed yesterday afternoon and while the train was preparing pre-paring to make camp for thc night that Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. McClure, commandant, received a telegram from the war department extending congratulations congratula-tions and stating that the distance previously pre-viously traveled by an army motor train was 900 miles. Hence the convoy hat nearly 1C00 miles to its credit over all previous iecords. Multitudes Cheer Arrival. All the way from Warm Springs,- between be-tween .Seventh and Lighth North streets, southeast through the residence part of the city, many hundreds of citizens gathered gath-ered to greet the entrance, of the train. By the time South Temple street was reached the hundreds were multiplied into many thousands, and when the caravan turned east and proceeded to the monument monu-ment corner at the intersection of Main and South Temple streets and' thence south down Main street, it was greeted and cheered by multitudes that packed the sidewalks, the greater part of the pavement and filled every foot of available avail-able space in windows and doorways. In emphasis of the "ship by truck" movement, about 150 trucks, representing scores of dealers and commercial interests in various lines of industry, followed the army convoy to the accompaniment "of stirring music. In addition to the "ship by truck" legend which was conspicuous through this parade, many of the trucks bore signs calling aitonUon to the benefits held to accrue by further adoption of the motor truck as a means of transportation in business. There were also hundreds of automobiles, both private and commercial, commer-cial, that loined in thc line of march from the monument corner down Jo Sixth and .Seventh South streets. Token for Commander. No stiff formality marked the entry of the transport train into the city. When it arrived at the niounment half a dozen charming young women, including Miss Martha Richards. Miss Mary Clayton, Miss Agnes Naiamtt, Miss Esther Badger, Miss Madeleine MnClelkin and MIsh Ro-sella Ro-sella EUerbeek, presented to Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Mot 'lure a floral token, wrought into the fashion of a small motor truck. Tt was received with courteous cour-teous aeknow ledgments, placed in the commandant's car and will accompany the caravan on its journey across the continent. The floral piece was the gift of the local truck rioaiers. Standing on the steps of the monument. Governor Bamberger and more than a dozen of the governors who are attending attend-ing the convention of state executives in this city reviewed the parade. Entertainment Is Provided. Salt Lakers spared no pains in making the stav of the convoy one of enjoyment. enjoy-ment. T. Do Wilt Foster, secretary of the Utah Plato A u to mo bile association and chairman of the general committer, labored night and day for t wo or more werks preceding thf arrival of the corpy. a (tended to a mill I it urie of do la Ms and went as far east as Lvanston. Wyo., with his pikt car to ascertain the best route to be traveled. Capta'n Freeman Ra-et t. chairman of Ibe committer on entertainment of officers. of-ficers. fi-?ccfss'ul!' carried through a dinner din-ner dance at the ll"'el Utah last night, and John A. R-ylP. chairman of thp committee com-mittee on entertain men l of th n:en a -id reprfetitim: the War Camn Community service, looked a T'er a trip to Saitair for the "boys." who-e the lo''al chapter rf the Ked Cross served refreshments. B. Mcr.deiihaU was chairman of the general gen-eral reception committee and A. F. Siv-aee Siv-aee was chairman of the par. trie committee. commit-tee. Lunch at Warm Springs. Leaving Ocden ai fi:-C. o'clock yestr-ria yestr-ria v mornivir. the mo; or cor;,s headed south for a' T.'-ke and made no stops at a:i until Warm Snrir.c "as reached at 1 :K- Here a hah va. ordered for hutch. Then the bn-io called forward promptly nt 1 oV';o.-'. light of the oiid -t it-.-d trucks that left Ogden yesterday niorninc: vro found to be in need of new t;rs. they ""speeded up." reach :ng Salt ,:i ,-.r t hre- lioi-rs J ahead of the r'-cu'ar tr.-Cn. in order that I t bo wheel-, m ;eht be a : t ended to be;",,re i 'eavinc f'r the rer.ta : in;., r of the .'.ourny. Th s was The frrst t m1 :wy of the s.-l:d fires had roqinrcd rep'ac;: g n th.e journey, jour-ney, l-'cr si:ch n; r. ' r eh. :clcs as arc eo, nipped with p:tip :c:i- 1 1 r-. a r . :r pi e i (Goatiaued on rage 11. Coluam 1.) ' ITl CISill , Walker Field Too Soft for Camping Ground; Street Ia Utilized. (C'onUmiort Fioin Page Ono.) I 8Upiv!y 1 citrrled, but. 1 1 1 1. plao!nff of a lioil'i fire r.-'jui:-eH in;i.-:hLnrry lli.'U la not pure of ilm I '.iii.t' e.iii1i:i..-iiC. ' Commandant Is Admired. Llruten;uir -t ''.li.ri';l ,'.!.:' 'liir.:. ' oninun-rlor, oninun-rlor, in ;-. ( u r t -' i is, lii'-.-iih.-iy f-:i!'ncst and vdi'linl Ully :!j: of 1 1' "T, wliO In plainly uic h ;i'l ii.ii .:4 liy b'.lh r.i-n and tiiCut-.ii. lOvei-, do'ly in Mm t r;i j : I i t- train ,' works, work li.iril, l,ut acroi'liiiK to the neti rh'-n' irii.el is alwa.'.H "u tlie Joo." Ju.-t. jri'jr Lo l:a'.-inK tK''"n yi'.-)L'jrday n.oinlnx toloio'l Mot iuru haul: "All of u r.;ah.o ilwt llns j-i no easy tn.ik; if ih ofu: that io:imlri-M ero-rKV. ability abil-ity ami ilet' i'iinuatjon. "A o liavu kel't the convoy InlacL. with tlio tjxci-iitlon of I r.ntj triti-k that wr: lout in th3 in'.uiKalns of Iv.nn.Hylvania al'.or it had lo:.t all four Wucpla, avoraKed t;ij;iit or ten mllea an hour, hat worked tvilve hours to inako two iuih:.s on ono oi.va.slon, tmd on another twoUo iiours to iiuikc twelvii inih;s. Thi.4 IniinMiied on tho worut road.s wri Hti'urk, In Nfhia.iUa, near Xorili I'latto. Som-t nn:;t wo liavo haltod ' ot 3 o'oluok In tho morning, to nio'..j on Iwo lion.a lal'-r, and at nnnnroti-; Llrnoa ve liiivn inado i-amp al midiiiH'iii. to tnovo oioini.My at 11:1111 in niofitln'. Wu ' t.:-v had n.-llh.'i- mniou.-i ilme:,.i nor ac-I'Nlcnt ac-I'Nlcnt in nil thn lon;r Jonrnvy. 1 ladicvo tho tour will do imii h to ytimulato the inihli.j InLore.st In thu gootl ruads inovo-tnr-iiL, having nol'-d that tlio atnount to , lie ankod for in Lho Towntiond Idlt is to ' hn rul.soil tn $ L,UU0,U00,(JUU, and tlio tour should have an especially Rood effect In Wyoming, for we broke all the culverts and bridges that we passed over." Spokesman Gives Views. Dr. f. if. Johnson, official spokesman for tho convoy, specifically with regard to the good roads objects of the tour, Bald: "There are now five and one-half million mil-lion automobiles and trucks in the United States, worth five and one-hall billion " dollars. Within the next few years, ac-! ac-! , cording to tho most reliable data that 1 ' manufacturers can secure, there will be built fifteen million additional autos and ' trucks, which with the present supply will have a value of twenty-two billion dollars. dol-lars. The lifo and character of service of the auto depends largely n tlio road 1 over which It travels. If the roads are '' good, the people got satisfactory returns from their billions Invested In autos; If . they are bad, tho people are losers. We ' need a system of national highways, at least four or five, from east to west; at : loast five or six from north to south. The nation should build these roads, so that the state and the county and mu-nlclpal mu-nlclpal funds for the roads may be turned to construction and maintenance of the roads that are tributary to tho main highways and the minor roads that lead into the cities. The plan has proved a success In tho principal countries of Europe. Eu-rope. The result is that the highways of ' Kngland, France, Germany and Belgium ' make an American feel that he ought to ..apologize." I' Camp Site Proves Soft. At the conclusion of the parade ot trucks the caravan turned into Walker's . field on Main street, between Seventh r and Eighth South streets. The grounds looked inviting enough, covered by a ' heavy carpet of grass and surrounded by a protecting fence. Half a dozen big " trucks stopped at the spots the drivers Intended and then started to sink. The ground was too soft for the great weight 1 " and it was found necessary to pot the vehicles out of the soft soil quickly. Sev-1 Sev-1 eral of tho trucks sank so deeply that thev were unable to get out on their own ower, so the giant five-ton army tractor was called into sorvlce and It pulled the sinking motors back to solid ground. The field was abandoned as a camping place and the convoy bivouacked in Main street. Special to The Tribune. OGDBN. Aug. 19. When the United states army motor transport corps left ' Ogden this morning for Salt Lake, Lleu-' Lleu-' tenant Colonel C. W. McClure left behind two officers to investigate tho robbery ! of tho tents of Major Sereno E. Brett of ' the tank coi-ps and Lieutenant Elwell H. i Jackson of the ordnanco corps, which occurred oc-curred some time during the night at l- Tjorln Farr park. It is stated that per- uonal and government equipment to tho '- value of ?100 was stolen. Some of the maps and papers stolen ' from the camp were recovered at the park just as the groundskeeper was ' throwing them into an ash can to be turned. The stolen articles included an '.'automatic pistol and some leather paper ; 'carriers and kodak films. When asked for a statement of the ab-' ab-' 'sence of officers at the park. Chief of Police T. E. Browning said that offteers were on duty In the park at the dance : hall but riot In the park where the convoy con-voy camped. lie said ho took It for ;'granted that no guards would be neces-' neces-' sary, as the convoy would have its own . guards. ; Descriptions of the stolen property liave ; been furnished the local pawnshops and ' telegraphed to the near-by cities. |
