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Show TOURISTS IN AUTOS HAVE GOOD TIME Party Traveling From Atlantic At-lantic to the Pacific on Pleasure Bent WILL BOOST FOR NATIONAL HIGHWAY Millionaires Show Feasibility Feasi-bility of Ocean to Ocean Roadway. Twelve big touring cart, bearing the "ocean to ocean" party of auto tour-' tour-' Ijta whoartcroaalnf ttecontlnent for pleasure, bound from Atlantic City to LosAngele, are parked In the city garage and the Jail yard back of police and fire headquarters, while an oil italned mechanician li overhauling and cleansing them, in preparation for the last leg of a trip that U unique in the annala of auto lng la America. The men and women making the trip are forty in number. Their aggregate wraith l eaid to be more than flw,-000,000. flw,-000,000. They are traveling to demonstrate demon-strate the fact that a private party can cross the continent from ocean o ocean hv .utomnhile at a reasonable coat. To make the trip a practical demonstration demon-stration of the theory, there la only one professional chauffeur in the party, he driving the luggage truck, and one machinist, who accompanies the wain far there has not been a ae-rioua ae-rioua accident, and while the party has not kept close to the original schedule, the deviations were caused by. their voluntary vol-untary rearrangement of plans. A delay de-lay of a day was cauaed by a cloudburst cloud-burst between Denver and Laramie, where the party was compelled to stop at a little wayside point called Forks. The aeeommodatione at Forks were pioneer pio-neer in character, and all the members mem-bers of the party slept through the night in a barn. Worst Boads In Wyoming. George A. Parker, head of one of the largest Bible publishing houses in the world, ia business manager of the trip. He aaid thie morning that the worst roads encountered on the entire trip wars in Wyoming. As eoon as the Wyoming-Utah line was crossed an improvement waa aeon, and the roads encountered thus far in thia stats are aa fine aa those in New York. "W are having a delightful trip," Mr. Parker said thia morning. "It has been revelation to many of na. and the pleasure we have had ia far greater than any little discomfort. We are simply out for pleasure, and we want to see the country and see it right. We want to demonstrate the feasibility of a great national automobile highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. "Just aa bit of sentiment we backed our machines down ths beach at Atlantic fity until the water touched the rear tirea,' and will run our front tires Into the brine of the Paeifie. One f th memhera of the Dartv B?Ot a llt- tie too venturesome at Atlantic City and ran onto the wet aand. The waves swashed upon him, burying- his wheels. and then the ssnd gave war. We had to give him a hard pull before he waa on solid (round. Hare Few Accidents. 'We hsve been ainipilarly free from accldenta. On one ear a couple of springs were broken by a bit of eare-lesasess eare-lesasess in running, ovsr a bump. Thst wss quickly repaired. Another ear struck a rock that atuek up in the middle of the roc- out in Wyoming, and ripped the gearing casings off. Vt e put baek to the town we had just passed and repaired ths break. "A fnnny thing about that wss that ws warned another man, not of our partr, to look out for thia rock; but he did not see it and ran upon it s half hour after we strtrrtt it, damaging his machine as ths one in our party was damaged. "While the .aaentlal feature of th. trip la pleasure, we will make th. trip an object ob-ject lesson In th. good roada movement, and will advocate the proposed national automobile highway from ocn to oeaan. Woman Hare Tins Time. "The women members of the party are delighted with the trip, and with their experience. ex-perience. They aay that they are having the tlm. of their lives, and ar standing the dlscomforta. such as they ara. wtth fine fortitude. Not on. of th.m would tarn baek for n farm In Virginia. "There ar. tw.nty-awven men. ten women and three boya tn the party. Roy laacNamara. winner of th. Ollddea trophy tro-phy last year, la th. pilot, and la the only professional driver In th. party. All other driver, ar. the owner of th cat they are driving " Upon thalr arrival here th party engaged en-gaged an antlr floor of th Hotel Utah, which will he hMdouartera tor the party during tbe brief stay her. Will B Entertained Bar. Carl R. Williams, publicity agent for th. Oommmerrtal club, piloted the party to tha organ recital at th. t.brnacl. at noon today, and has conducted them to Saltalr beach thia afternoon. After visiting visit-ing th big pavilion they will ae the bull right, after wblcb they will take a dip In th. brine. Returning to th city they win dine at the Commercial ciuV and. th.y will be th. fuestl of the wandamere management manage-ment tonight, parking their cars In the center of th motordrome. Traveling In luxury aa they are, the autolata are mlaalng but few of th. comforts com-forts of home. They hav. a cook car with them, and two chera from the Art club of Philadelphia. The party wss met 104 miles out of the city bv Mavoe Rrana-ford Rrana-ford and Chief S. M. Barlow, who piloted them Into tbe city, extending a welcome to the city. Th official reached th party In tlm for lunch yeeterday. and wee delighted with the manner la which the trip Is being conducted. Regardl of the comfort In which they are traveling, th. trip la a comparatively cheap one. The average coat. Including everything, from the pay to th. pilot and attendants, to the hotel bill, and .v.rvthlng alee from Atlantic City to Loa Angresa. la 924S for each member of th party, Th. party will remain ha the city nntfl tomorrow afternoon, or peeetbly until Wedneadav. It will remain Intact until Loa Angelea la reached. Some tt tn men who hav business matters to attend, at-tend, will return at one. and other will oontinue their Journey to ether place, on passurs sent. Som. ar planning to ran from Loa Angelea to Saa Franclecu, the nr. up th. coast to Oregon, and hack to th. Tellowsten. Each member of the party will follow his own Inclination after the dls handing at Lua Angel. |