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Show WILL BLAZE A HIGHWAY. Caravan From Indianapolis Begins Journey to the Coast. Indianapolis. Twenty-two automobiles automo-biles carrying a hundred or more persons per-sons started from here Tuesday afternoon after-noon on a tour to the Pacific coast in support of the proposed Lincoln transcontinental rock highway to stretch from New York to Los Angeles, An-geles, Cal. The tour is said to be one of the greatest ever taken, both in length and magnitude of purpose. The caravan expects to reach Los Angeles ou August 2 and will remain there until August 6, when the return trip by special train will be started. The route selected will take the motorists mo-torists over 3,375.1 miles of highway. The highway the plan for which originated with Carl G .Fisher, millionaire mil-lionaire sportsman of this city, is to be built by popular subscription. Of the $10,000,0011 needed $4,000,000 already al-ready has been subscribed. |