| Show s sI I ti t J 1 W 1 I 1 r J 1 j At Last the Question ti of Df What the Man Be Behind Behind hind the Motor MotorCar Car CarCan I 1 L Can Do D Is About to toBe toI I Be Decided f Ii t 1101 t ond lIntl tho Iho e who iW A hope to he 11 In III some line not too re remote j t ika mote future thoro Ih r Is I much in interested 0 lolI III t the tune Ii 1111 OWl over the proposed 1 ed r fil notional automobile lap from New k J Yolk ork to 10 At t t contact Iho 1111 t proposition ha the flavor of or an nil ill III r timed bit hll of ot humor perpetrated by b one who hn exhausted nil the accepted o i methods of ft A smile q It however that hat I It li I not lIot a 11 i A to 10 make the trip from f I Now No York Yo I to t Parl by tw automobile Is 19 1 ft not only In active development hill but It II ItIn fi In III to 10 tIll Iho fonn of f a n great at In Ink k JI 1 n tt I trial be between bet t 1 tween tho motor capabilities of every epry nation which desires ii I i Nor or I i docH H It detract from the magnitude of ot oti i the to 10 learn that thin latest Jt it i most m t strenuous lr lost lest of ot mechanical iI c and human Is II to bo made matle by byway f t way 11 of Ot Alaska 1 The rhe business hu In III Invested 1 with witha a 11 disregard of ot that Iii j proclaims its II Gallic origin ln Such It II Is I Ii i 1 In fact being heln the offspring of the Ih V genius ot La Lo Matin n 11 leading newspaper keenly alert j to tn Its r as u II doer cloer of i J hitherto undone It Is II not Im hn i I possible that Its 1111 Inspiration i from the recent equally novel at attempt tempt of an A m 11 can newspaper to reach the north polo pol by h methods known only to Journalistic enterprise e eH It H Is In Prance thu t h notion ot of tho remarkable contest originated that thata I a consulting committee bus hns been 1 1111 or 01 for the purpose ot or lr I tho Iho rules ruleR which hl ll the coming raco shall hull bo governed As All an earnest of the IC attached to 10 tho mat matter tel ter It may ilia be stated that this com such prominent I us liS Delonch ono of oC tho deputies of the republic r At t do Lobe Jobel of tho ministry of ot labor Jenn Charcot Iho tho famous ex explorer explorer do Dion president ot tho Iho Automobile Manufacturers union Charles Churles Kabot a of oC tho Geographical Society of ot Fiance rIAU fJ Similar committees mo 1110 to 10 supervise I tho arrangement In all 1111 countries In Interested In the lace Tho active Hils committee has already been sc se and consists lon of ot a n number r ot j prominent headed by h Prince c of ot communications C Among the Iho members tiro Included such noted an 1111 M of tho council of minister M minister of ot finance and M Compart minister to toJ Trance J Tho Iho membership ot or tho American committee com mItt eo has hus also been an announced Widely Discussed In tho meantime his hi Ilond 1110 c the tho possibilities nd 01 of If tho I Many there oro vho WILli that under no 1111 can tho bo On the tho other hand thero are scores of other practical mon mun it who ho havo a II sturl of II lIc travel and aio 1110 familiar with tho Iho rol of ot AI and winters who maintain that Iho daring project can lIn bo be carried to u IL successful concu conclusion sion slon Of ot course courso everybody knows what bo ho of an all automobile In I TU T MOTOn CAn NW PAUlS I MAKING THE DESCENT THROUGH A MOUNTAIN PASS a II temperate t climate It Is even no loncer a II matter of experiment In re Te sard gard to thu th conduct ot of a well built machine In III tho torrid zone Up to the present time however hOIer almost absolutely nothing Is known of nr the adapt adaptability ability ot of tho motor to 10 such a IL climate an nn that of Alaska or Siberia Tho Iho arctic expedition sent out from trum 1 land 1111 1 last fall under the leadership of Lieutenant Included a constructed motor cur eliI for tor polar use from whIch are expected but It 1 III too early arl to 10 look for tor the outcome It will ill be he recalled that form of ot locomotion Is III p prominent In tho mur clous explorations ot of certain Imaginative Itna This element ot of will ery to 10 the Interest In tho th raco and It Is IK certain i i that thaI tho Iho of ot who enter Jr Jrr tho Iho competition will be he noted very r closely from the thO moment they leave Now New York for It Is already decided that Ihal tho start shall hall be mado In III Ameri merl America ca until IH In reached Them will bo ho no lio great In III communication with th II fco n long us liS they are 1110 tho reach of the telegraph After the Iho start It will bo I possible to 10 keep kell In touch with them until Nome Nom Alaska Is left Ift behind That till fai point marks the limit of ot such communication tho Ihl last lal hundred Tulles l being coveted cored by hy wireless After the thu leave INn Namo omo no word by hy telegraph need be h expected from them until they tho I on the Siberian railway Tho Iho difficulty of propelling the tho ma machines chines over this long anti and Is hI admitted to bo he very VI 1 great but there Is still another matter to III bo Granted that the machines may be driven success successfully fully full across this frigid waste B will it bo ho possible for tor the contestants conle to rn roll duro the hardship Incidental to the 1111 It Is that all 1111 who en cn enter ter the race will bo be able uble to 10 reach reah Paris ParlE H It Is In likely like that there hero 1 will be b J numerous falls by hy tho wayside anti and or le s of oC steps U It Is that only one or two contestants of ut superhuman courage and an I may at thu th goal Ono thing lf Is certain for those iho h do l the feat fat there will be lie abundant and honor from all 1111 pf pt the Iho earth Their names will be h I Jc In sorting orling Hl annals annal as liS victors In the most trying tr test ot physical endurance m ever Ier devised by b tho Ingenuity of ot man manH manIt H It Is hardly possible to Invest a II man with all of lit the Ihl Il essential to I tho Iho accomplishment of this Ihl foal feut Ho mum be e perfect mentally and phys physically all He lIe must be beyond the Iho ordinary endowment of at his species It Is III not to see soe that uc cess will depend more on Iho man Und tho machine than on tho ma machine chine hI It matteis how ca capable pable the machine may bo ho If It tho man who Is In to guide uhle It II Is IR lacking In any absolute Tc Tho rho Journey across the American continent has hns now been made BO many times by b automobile that the ul ot the undertaking oie ure pretty Ir tl well understood 1 Great us IlS they undoubtedly Ire are they arc 1110 no longer as a l lIn Insuperable In l August A t an en made tho Iho run from 1011 coast to 10 coast In 15 I days hours and 10 minutes This Is I le IC Indeed when It II Is remembered the by railway con consumes almost five Iho days It must not be bc expected that the contestants will equal this feat feaL Tho h start sturt Is III to 10 bo be mado In and them thero will bo numerous delays from the frequent and severn Revero storms which are ur certain to 10 ar aI arrive rive at nt that season selon of ot tho Iho year Arrived at Sun San Francisco co the Nur Iv Ivors ors will take ship to 10 alele Alaska This will consume ten len days tIn and from that point the tho land journey will be lIe ie 11 1 Wheeling In Iho tho arctic will now begin and an l there will be hf plenty of ot effort d 1 to 10 get through to Ta To Tanana nana on tho Yukon there how however ho ever tho WilY way will bo a little Hille less 1 Ing provided that is tho thaw has lias not nol set In III and made it Impossible to 10 get et down the tho river to Norton sound along alons Inn shore hore ot which the tho advance to Nome must be nude nt de At Nome u IL ulong ILIon long Ion rest of several months Is un unavoidable unavoidable avoidable When the tho Ico begins to form In BerIng strait the racers will willbe III be 1 by b steamer to Kast 1 aIt capo front From that tar far northern point tho Iho advance lI Is largely a IL matter mallet of ot con conjecture jecture and must bo be by b in individual circumstances The who will engage In to Inthe the enterprise o do not look upon the Ule Alaskan and 1101 Siberian portion ot oC tho journey an the most part of ot the taking They Tho believe that nothing will prove to 10 bo more Inore difficult of ot accomplishment hm nl than th i passage p through tho western halt of the Ameri American can continent According to the opinion ion of ono of or tho most competent Italian Hallan authorities tho historian of tho famous trip of Prince from Peking to Paris thero IB IR no especial obstacle to with the Iho polar part of or tho journey According to Present Plans the Start Across the American Conti Continent Continent nent Will W ll Be Made In February Tho mechanical ot or crossing America climbing tho moun mountains the Iho of ot ofIlio Ilio tho us passes In III thu tho caily eally spring mo the things to bo be dreaded ho de This opinion Is 1 not nl shared by b American who feel Ceel trepidation In III undertaking a n trip which has hos Mon been successfully by hy hyItt Itt least cloven different touted 1303 1903 The Route Chosen According to the tho American merlc n coadjutor of Jo Matin In the enterprise th selected Is III sis II follows In the cast the Appalachian moun mOlin mountains nr J avoided by going from New York to Albany und then through the Mohawk wk and nd thu tho lal region to Buffalo From Buffalo tin the chain of lit great greal lakes Is followed through Cleveland and then across Indiana to Chicago Thus far the la Is practically direct and U can bo outlined with lIh Bloat exactness West of or thero Is less necessity for tor detailed directions direction as nil the tho road from place to 10 place Is not confuted by hy a II multiplicity of crossroads leading In all ull Chicago tho Iho road lends leads to Clinton In crossing Illinois through Geneva aud Dixon tho Iho Mississippi at It Clinton It heads through Rapids Rapid Marshalltown Amos and to Omaha and from Crom Omaha leads through Fremont and dram Orand Island to Kearney rn IY All this way wa the tho plain Is I low and tho Toads roads uro 1111 apt to be he muddy In thu Iho and bummer but at al the the cars reach theio they should b froen fairly solid offer of tor fall 17 good transit tran lt Trout Kearney carne to 10 North n bundled mile stretch of very road has ha met every traveler but none lone has attempted It In March Murch or 01 February ary when 11 these th expect cl tn to cross cros anti and It is expected that tho th road will bo 0 frozen hard enough to lo obviate some ot of this Kroin I rom North to there Ire are mitt miles ot of good road but bul climbing nil all th lh i while to Is a 1 streIch of ot simi similar similar lar length equally Rood good though of or steadier ascent From Kroin through to comes the rock rockiest lest iest ascent Il of all aU passing through tin the famous Sherman pass Getting through the pass the tho de Ie descent scent begins to 10 and ami then thel fol follow 01 low mills of vury ery bad roads to II Wyo Wyoming to tl Granger aio many man deep folds that In 11 spring or summer Kummer cause great lIm difficulty culty cult while through ton and In Into Into to Olden Ogden lie ale miles s of ot sandy desert waste wast very vory hard to 10 traverse extending beyond Ogden through Kel Kelton ton lon and In Ne Nevada N vada for or tully fully lOO 1200 millS miles In tha Iho Through Mill City to Lovelock Iho sand sagebrush continue end endIng lid Ing In a OUr fifty stretch of quicksand tit lit Reno Then rhen begins b tho passage II over tho Sierra Hierro which In some Homo respects rh Is 18 believed to be more difficult than tha tho Roele passage Tho rho trail leads through ee Summit Colfax and Into then down thu Iho Sacramento valley to Stockton and then Ihen Into San S Y |
