Show ACROSS ARABIA ARABI BY Y AUTO One of tho the most interesting articles or of recent publication is that that in the London Times describing an automobile automobile automo automo- bile trip across Arabia Tho The start was made from which Is at tho northeastern rn point of tho the Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- sea thence down dori through Aleppo and Damascus and then n straight past cast to Bagdad Tho The distance is about a n. thousand miles a ns as the cr crow mw lw flies file but must have been somewhat greater r I in following roads Th The Tho trip occupied nine days though there thero were ere but sixty hours of ot actual travel They Thoy had hall to pontoon their car across s tho the Euphrates river and and camo came near losing it The Tho prIncipal principal prin prIn- cipal traveler was a Mr David Forbes and four tour people were with him One was an Arab guide who knew only the tho country as he had learned learnell it from camel travel Ho was totally unable to help the tourist u aa us an American guide would have havo done done In In knowing tho the country as ns it Interested a a. man with an automobile automobile- Ono One of or the tho curious results of the trip I Is the discovery that the tho deserts can hardly be ho Improved upon as to smoothness and hardness Here Hora and there they encountered t wadis or ra vinos which It Jt was sometimes sometime to cross arose But It Is the belief of Air Mr Forbes that It if he had struck straight for tor Bagdad from tram Alexan- Alexan dretta or Damascus ho would have madu modo all an even quicker trip Tho Thin car car was of ot course a matter mattor of oC great interest to the natives of ot Arabia From Damascus to tho the Euphrates Euphrates Eu Eu- thE they never noer had seen such a a vehicle The better informed had haj heard of or tho the steam cars can but this was different in iii that it went out without without with with- out a track truck ha having hanS nS been laid The rhe thing Is It Important to all tho the world because It proves pros tho the usefulness useful useful- ne ness nes of or tho the auto In actual service oven ovenIn ovenIn In iii countries where no effort eUort has been mado to prepare the roads And without Instituting n I any comparisons com corn thero there la Js an argument t for forthe the tho establishment of an auto line from the ho railroad in into o St. St George state o of Utah republic of tho the United States |