Show j SELECTING ROUTE FOR 1910 GLIDDEN TOUR I E r f 1 o t I 1 f dJ t. t G- G OW ON U o NEW YORK Within a few Cew weeks prospective entrants In the tour of 1910 wi willbe be furnished with wih first frt hand information concerning the condition of the route tentatively selected for tho bl big cross country countr affair Frank Is at present engaged In covering the route rute In Inthe the tho Mitchell ranger He Il Is now on a long southwestern journey that will carry him Into Texas before the turn Is made for COI Chicago Ten states will be covered wholly or 01 In part be before Core the trip ends As ittle is known about road conditions Inthe in inthe the southwest his reports will wl be of ex- ex reme interest st and on them may depend to a great extent the support that Is accorded accorded ac ac- corded to this years year's contest contest Special to The Telegram INDIANAPOLIS Ind March 5 Fol Fol- Fol lowig closely cosely upon the news of its Is entry of the first car In the Denver to Mexico City endurance contest has ha come the announcement an- an today that the Premier Motor Manufacturing company has ha formally en entered entered en- en the first two cars in the annual re- re contest of the American Automobile Automo Automo- bile bie association for the trophy As in the 1909 event the numbers 1 and 2 will wl be carried by the two Premiers At the he recent automobile show In the he entries wele made with Samuel M. M Butler chairman of or the contest board of ot maps and route cards I In Tn all al these the automobile has scored victories not always accomplished without battling against prejudice but how readily this has been disarmed when the ability of the motor car for various uses has been discovered and when the owners of of machines have been careful to exercise courtesy and discrimination for the rights of others No longer does the tho farmer menace the he motor car as in former days The Tho farmer armor in many parts arts of the tho country is s now one of or the most ardent advocates advocates cates of automobile use uso and no longer the movement for good roads Indeed the national grange and the farmers armors clubs cubs are arc now the strongest strongest allies ales of automobiles towards securing measures Still ti point and ard 1 perhaps as tho most prominent of all that bas lias been ac accomplished a. a I year by year by the tho steadily I increasing demand for more cars thereby hereby mcanin meaning new owners new users and a wider distribution of service ev ey every ery season is the tho organizing strength that hat has developed The governing body ody of the United States the American Amer- Amer ican can Aut Automobile mobile association depends upon the automobile users of the tho country coun- coun try ry for the ability to get these bene bene- its that have been enumerated This national organization is the tho representative represent of the automobilists of tho tle country coun- coun try ry through their hundreds of clubs Again through it is the representative of the states through the of these cubs lubs into their respective state bodies I. I the national association and this will start the ball rolling for Cor the listing of other entrants Until recently there has been considerable considerable consider consider- able speculation as a to the probable course which the real big tour of oC this year will wi take for ts its 1910 route Cincinnati and Indianapolis have been the two cities cites considered d for Cor the starting point and it itIs I Is barely possible that this city may se secure secure se- se cure the honor The only difficulty would be bl in the fact that the contest board of the A. A A. A A. A has practically given Its Is word to Cincinnati that the three weeks weeks' trip will wl start from Crom that city The route selected will wi take the cars through th the great southwest which is proving itself to be the greatest automobile buying section section sec sec- tion of oC the country cuntO and which has never as yet had ha a national tour It I is probable probable able that Nashville Memphis Little Lite Rock and Dallas Dalas Tex will wl be visited In the downward travel and then Oklahoma City Topeka St St. St Joseph and Des es MoInes in going northward At the Iowa state capital the tourists will Wi take a turn to the east eat winding tip at Chicago The Thereal Thereal real details of the course curse have not been mapped out and will wl not be decided until It i is time to send out the pathfinder On account of the heat in Inthe the section through which the the contest will wl be run it i has ha be been n decided to hold the event earlier earler than heretofore and Wednesday June 15 has been definitely decided upon as the date for the start Chicago will willbe wl be reached on June 30 thereby keeping the entire duration of the tour including the preliminary a and the o aftermath er to within three weeks ek It was considered der g that the 1909 tour which occupied four weeks was too long and that It I broke into the routine of factory work worl to an extent that was undesirable Because of oC the tho early start it I is likely that the pathfinder path path- finder will wl commence Its is laborious task during the latter later part of oC April Apri and this would be made even earlier if there was any assurance of or fairly good road rad condi condI- It I was the experience of oC the tourists last year that summer roads were very very much better than those which the pathfinder had to choose In the early erly spring and because of that reason leason the Premier car used by Chairman er cr was forced force many times to break roads across the prairies in cases caes where there was a splendid highway leading more directly between cities While it has not been decided what car carwill will wl lay lav out olt the route for 1910 and subsequently sub sub- pilot piot the tour It I is likely that thata a strong supporter of tours in the past will wl be selected In such an event it will willbe wi be followed directly by two Premiers which will wl lead the procession each day The drivers for Cor the two Premier touring cars have not as yet ct been assigned but It is assured that they will wl be among the most experienced road contenders In the country countr |