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Show Chicagoans Gape as Byrd's Weird Snow Cruiser Rolls slons 55 feet long and 30 feet wide highway police preceded the vehicle to clear tha regular traffic. Dr. Poulter expects to reach Boston in eight days. ; CHICAGO, Oct 26 The 75- 000-pound snow cruiser built for Admiral Richard E. Byrd's antarctic ant-arctic expedition headed for Bos- 1 ton today on the first leg of a projected Journey to the south j pole. ! The gigantic Ice buggy start ed the eastern trek at 2:45 a. m. C.S.T.) from Grant Park, where It had been on publie display for a day. Dr. Thomas C Poulter, scientific director of Armour institute's in-stitute's research foundation and designer of the cruiser, was at the controls. On the outer drive Dr. Poulter rolled the Juggernaut along at 20 miles an hour, but for most of the wsy to the city limits the machine traveled at half that apeed because of turns and underpasses. un-derpasses. Night workmen and motorists along the route stopped to gspe at the strange vehicle aa It moved ' along the dimly lit streets. Both front and rear wheels wera j turned when the craft negoti-I negoti-I ated curves. The cruiser can I travel sideways at a 2S-degree angle. ' Because of the cruiser's dlmen- I T |