Show I AAD Of GLIDDEN TOUR JOUR 81 STARTS ARTS CINCINNATI 0 Feb 26 With With Frank X Americas America's most famous famous fa fa- fa road driver at its wheel the Mitchell Ranger which recently recently acted as pacemaker paceD in the national highway tour tou from New York to Atlanta after having a few months before success success- fully carried war dispatches from Ma Mai MaJ j. j Gen lea Le Leonard nard Wood U. U S. S A. A in New v York fork to Maj Gen Weston U. U S. S A. A in command at the Presidio San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco in the tho first transcontinental war mes message age mission ever essayed in this country is now covering tho 1910 of the Glidden tour which begins here bere about tho the mi middle of oi June and winds up uv about weeks later in Chicago The Tho early start of the tho automobile over the tho Glidden tour route that traverses the states nearly half of them below the Mason Masot Dixon line lino with much of the itinerary over territory terri ten tory never before invaded by the big hig annual touring cavalcade is in response to an unparalleled dew demand nd from motorists motorists motor motor- motorists all over the as well weIl as the bi big manufacturers for data on the course selected for the greatest reliability relia rehia- contest of trIO western hemis phere That That ho sixth Glidden to tour wUl r will be bea a mo test for tho fr m mechanism of the best cars made mad in th c is the verdict of the technical automobile me men who laid Taid out the touring route That tho the car that blazed the way on the big New York-Atlanta York national highway highway high high- way run un for a record breaking field of contestants an and d subsequently conquered conquered con con- all manner of climatic road and physical difficulties in tile transcontinental transcontinental mission dispatch will go through from the tho Queen City to Chicago via Texas is the the- firm conviction of tho the desi designer ner of the tho Mitchell Ranger Ganger The Tho widest vari variety ty of road conditions condi is expected in Kentucky Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- Arkansas Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Iowa Ioa and Illinois Advance information gathered by Driver is that floods ice snow and deep mud may bo be encountered at itt intervals alon along the entire route with witha a possibility of enforced detours in in the tho Mississippi river valley on account of inundations Whatever the obstacles encountered terea says sij-s the the Mitchell Ranger will surmount them it should be only an ordinary ing task after tho the conquest of Wyoming freshets fresh fresh- eta ets ts on message trip The he motor motor motor mo mo- mo- mo tor world will keep its eye odo the Mitchell Ranger hanger plowing over roads that never before were traversed by byan byan byan an automobile as is well as other highways highways high high- ways that are seldom traveled by motor motor mo mo- mo tor cars cars The Glidden tour annually has been increasing in lit strenuous features due to the tho development of tho the cars and the tho industry In 1903 1905 it began in in a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city and terminated te in the same city after a trip of miles in in the New England district The following year tho the strenuous task from front the starting point at Buffalo led tho the tourists tourists tour tour- through Ontario and Quebec to t the e finish at Rangeley Lake Me 1150 miles In 1907 07 the start was made at Cleveland Chicago bein being the tho western terminus an and New York the tho concluding in big ing point a distance of 1570 miles In Iu 1908 1958 the tour began begau at Buffalo and running through Pennsylvania Now York and Maine it finished at Saratoga Saratoga Sara Ram toga a a distance of 1570 1070 miles In 1009 1109 the tile longest and most severe lour tour of all be began an in Detroit and was concluded on a hard run rim east from froni Denver to Kansas City after having touched Chicago Minneapolis and Omaha the ilic total distance havin having been 2640 miles As planned d for 1910 the the tour will be be ho beabout about 2200 miles The fhe principal cities in which controls may be he expected d after after aft In- er 1 leaving lea Cincinnati are arc Louisville Icy Ky Nashville and Memphis Tenn Litt Little Little KYj 0 Rock and Texarkana Ark Arl Val Del Dallas las Ins and Fort Worth Tex Oklahoma ity City Okla Topeka and Wichita Kan St. St Joseph Mo Des Moines Momes CeI Cedar Ce Ce- dar day Rapids and Davenport Ja In ROCK nock I Island Moline MoJino and Chicago ill |