Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 3 | Man Who Made First Auto Tour of World Dead

Man Who W-ho Made First Auto Tour of World Dead BOSTO BOSTON Sept 12 One AP-One of the country pioneers In transportation trans trans- and communication Cob Coto- nd nel Charles J. J GUdden GlIdden Is dead at athis athis his home here liere ln In his seventieth year Colonel Glidden made the first trip around the world In 1903 covering mlles miles In seeing thirty nine countries He organized the first aerial transportation transportation trans trans- com company any tel to operate beL between be- be L tween Now New and Boston Years before he obtained the fIrst subscriber r V to an exchange telephone system and was asso- asso elated with Alexander Graham Bell BellIn Bellin In his early At one onetime onetime time he owned one sixt sixth one of the Bell telephone system In the United States As a a. balloonist Colonel Glidden t made made two forty ascensions in this country and others on the continente continent He e pk liked d tl flying ng and did much or of it Mrs Glidden the former Lucy Glenworth whom he married hi 1878 1878 and who who- had a part In many hIs adventures adventure was at his bedside bedside bed bed- side when the end came yesterday Funeral services are to be held tomorrow to to- morrow