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Show AUTO TOURIST IS GOING HONE . Charles Glidden Suspends for Summer. His. Remarkable Au- s . tomobile Tour of World; Has Covered 33,600 Miles. .' ' - v.- . CHICAGO, June 30. Charles J. Glidden, a' veteran automboile tourist and founder of the trophy tour bearing bear-ing his name, reached Chicago yesterday yester-day on his way home to Boston. Mr. Glidden and his wife sailed last month frtm Japan, where, they closed for the . time being their remarkable automobile tour of the world, returning return-ing to this country to spend the summer. sum-mer. . Since 1901, when Mr. and Mrs. Glidden Glid-den started on their travels, they have visited thirty-five countries and have covered in their motor car approximately approxi-mately 83,600 miles. . It is Mr. Glidden's intention to continue con-tinue his travels until fifty countries have been visited and about 60,000 miles of highway have been- covered by his car. He estimates that the tour as planned will not be completed until 1911, by which time he expects to have seen more of the world and its people than any other living person. |