| Show FINE HIGHWAY MAKES LONGEST TRIP POSSIBLE Speed d Declared Declare Only uy Relative Progress ress Indication Lincoln Un oln Highway Publicity Bureau r Transcontinental records like rec rec- records record records ord made on the Indianapolis speed speed- speedway speedway way a are arc merely relative and Informative tive the Because one or more cars can be driven miles at a speed peed of miles or more per hour is of no value to the ordinary motorist than Is s the fact lect that an automobile can be driven from San Francisco to New York at atan atan an average speed of over o two forty miles per hour it only tells him that one can travel across the continent in ina a motor car in seven hours less time than he can in a 1 railroad train The drive made by byrL L B B. Miller who left San Francisco at 10 a a. a m m. May 31 and ond who following the Lincoln highway reached New Nc York City at al 8 55 p p. m m. June 3 3 was a wonderful achievement ment Then he started west wet westover over another route and reached Los Angeles Angel just one minute under trader one wee week from the hour he had left lert San Francisco I Mr Average Motorist reading an 10 account of Millers Miller's performance will not be prompted by any desire to cross the continent with similar speed but buthe buthe buthe he will receive the impression that it now is possible to drive a 1 motor car from coast to coast at a reasonable speed and in reasonable comfort He I will believe that America has high high- highways ways that ways that the day of motor touring has lias arrived And he will be right It Is interesting to read the history of transcontinental motoring and thereby learn what hat made possible such a drive as Millers Miller's In 1903 1803 1903 F F. T T. better betler known at Tom Fetch Felch attempted to learn heth- heth whether v hether er or not one could drive e from San Francisco to New York He equipped himself with the best then to be had hadIn hadin In tn motor cars tars a one cylinder Pack Pack- Packard Packard Packard ard equipped with the oil lamps then used and loaded with appliances enough to build his roads as he went along His JUs guide was a map of the Union Pacific railroad the best and only road Information available at that time On June 18 1903 1901 he started the big b venture Directed by the railroad folder and a compass opening gates cutting wire vire fences and making in inquiry In- In Inquiry at every possible opportunity he succeeded In reaching New York In three fifty days In 1027 1927 Mr Miller Jn tn a Chrysler 80 lighting his road I with Ryan Lites an invention intention of II the chief engineer of the General Electric company by which he was able to sec see his road as plainly at night as in the day motored between the same ume two cities in three and one- one fourth days It It is sate safe to assert that Miller made his drive rive with far less hardship hi than did Fetch Millers Miller's equipment was such sueh as you would use on an ordinary ordinary ordinary nary outing In the country He had the usual number of spare tires lIres and the usual tools that go with an auto auto- automobile mobile The Union Pacific map and the compass were vere replaced by a con con- continuous continuous continuous chain of steel signs marking the Lincoln highway ay The balance of the work depended upon the stamina of the vehicle and the driver The novice can and thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands do make the same trip annu annu- annually ally They take two weeks weeks' or more the length of time being dependent on the amount of sightseeing they desire to do |
