Show DUCK BOCK mm SNOW DRIFTS EAST ST OF CHICAGO Thomas Car Cal Still Leading French Driver Says Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans Will Drop Michigan Cit City Ind md Feb 23 The The The Thomas car reached this city at 9 9 o'clock tonight driven It by Montague Rob Roberts rt next to whom sat C. C A A. A COC Cocy the Chicago driver er Tho The car came Into tho city under Its own power from the eastern city limits and although three hours earlier than was expected d was greeted by the PIcard reception committee com corn from Chicago an and aid anda a number of ot the main maln citizens who wore were along streets In an in tort tort-lew at the city limits Mr Ir Roberts declared the roads roads- we west vrest t of L South Bend to bo be even worse than anything heretofore encountered and various members of tho the party part agreed r with him The party left Now New Carlisle at S S 30 30 o'clock this morning and covered tho the seven Cn miles between that place and foiling Rollins Prairie In about five hours houra entering entering en en- Rolling foIling Prairie drawn by 13 12 horses with as man many m men n going ahead with shovels sho The Tho party seemed to have no fear of ot tho the superstitious combination com corn although ou h car ear was v.-as as drawn rawn b by 1 11 horses when it 11 l tt If tt at et o'clock I Th They y found the going better west ol of oC Rolling Rollins Prairie than they did east cast of that place arid and to tile the utter n astonishment astonish hm h- h m ment of oC the a awaiting party of or I in this city reached ranched here hero at the time stated The hordes hortes were cre dismissed at the tho city after alter tho the last st hill bill between South Bend and this city had been passed The Tho Thomas car can according to present arrangements will remain hero here t until 7 30 o'clock In the morning at least ast Roberts says BOYS ho will drive tho the car to Cheyenne though er e every man of ot the party is Js s ph physically exhausted s SAYS s rr-s Zu it fu u t H Kicks nt at t or fir If ol on Oil C. C Goshen Ind lad Feb 23 The Tho Thomas car ar party are playing for to- advertising and nd arc are giving the thc Impre Impression ion that it Is Isla isa la a road race rather rathe- than than- an endur endurance nce test cst said A. A R n. Ruland of the Zest arty who has a a. kick to r register The fhe was not built hullt C for er speed or equipped quipped for fast travel Th Tho driver of the French car stung stuns by y tho the reports circulate b by the Thomas part party arty overtook the thc American car at Kendall ill where there tho the reserve shaft w as s sprung Owing to delay In the custom house the duplicate part has not ot been forwarded and two to of ot the party part have o gone Iono to Chicago for a n now new shaH shaft The car Clr will wUl start Monday Uon n morning Huland Is is the toe American agent for tho ho machine mJ who ia hi c ing th the thu z hit P parl lift U J t c d dg believe elleve that tl the Thomas party l intend to o make the Siberian trip as no prop- prop rations have vet ct Lc been n made In Siberia for or gasoline oUno aid aad lubricating oil It squires requires four months at least he says to o get got the oil to the stations as It must be e relayed b by clog dog and reindeer teams The American car oar was given tho ll privilege gt of traveling over the Interurban interurban inter inter- urban line lino of ot the the Chicago South Bend end and nd Northern rn Indiana na electric line from Goshen to South l lend end a 0 privilege which the tho Italian car could not s secure making 25 miles milos of C to buck I IThe The Italian car left lert Goshen at this his afternoon taking the old Fort highway Wayne Chicago The Greyhound tho tIm Italian pilot car Is s e laid u up ut rt at t with witha a a. jammed jammed transmitter resulting resulting- from Crom froman Croman an encounter with a heavy snow bank The pilot car of ot the Thomas was abandoned here and shipped back to Detroit |