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Show i aa i i ii-tt MDTOR CARAVl ACROSS ROCKIES One of tho first weBt to oast motor caravans to cross the Rocky mountains moun-tains will leave San Francisco May 20, bound for St. Louis, going through tho passes of the high Sierras thirty days boforo the roads aro acknowledged to be open. The tour, which Is being conducted under tho auspices of the San Francisco Fran-cisco Advertising club, will comprise twenty automobiles, and a ono and one-half ton motor truck, which will follow at the rear carrying supplies, tar fuel and oil and emergency equipment. equip-ment. Tho motor trucR, wnich will be equipped as an old-fashlonod prairie prai-rie schooner, will be obliged to keep pace with tho main body of tho caravan. car-avan. The average day's run will exceed ex-ceed 200 miles for tho entire fourteen dayH scheduled for the trip from tho coast to tho MlssiBsippl. Tho auto caravan is being used to convey the delegates from San. Francisco Fran-cisco to the national congress of ad men, which, la being- held In St, Louis from Juno 3 to 10. Between soYenty-flvo soYenty-flvo and eighty representatives aro expected to comprise the company, together to-gether with two military observers of tho army, who are expected to make tho entiro trip to gather data for purposes pur-poses of the war department. There has been somo discussion about roads and the routo selected by the Ad club after considerable talk has been attacked by towns on other highways. Tho proposed itinerary, which in all likelihood will bo adherod to Is from San Francisco, Oakland, Truckoe, 'Cal., Reno, Nev., Montello, Ogden, Utah, Salt Lako, Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo., Eagle, Sallda, Colorado SprlngB, Denvor, via the Royal Gorge of tho Arkansas; thenco eastward through Hugot, Kan., Beloit, Kansas City, Mo., Columbia to St. Louis. A motion picturo photographor will accompany tho Ad clubbors on tho entire en-tire trip, tho pictures being displayed in tho convention city on their arrival. It is expected that those pictures, besides be-sides being taken in tho most scenic rogions of the United States, will bo of great value for military purposes, showing tho actual conditions of tho road, and tho behavior of tho motor cars under tho real conditions which thoy encounter during the trip. Tho road chosen for tho motorists is ono which is unique in several wayB for the demonstration of a national l rnTTTirnr imi n m 1 defense problem. In tho first place, it Is an alternate way tb cross the country district from tho Lincoln highway from tho time it loavos Call' fornla until it enters St. Louis. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it comprises the highway across northern Nevada, which has been proposed for the Lincoln highway high-way in proforonco to tho present routo through Ely and the Fallon Sink. On the complotlon of tho tour tho San Francisco Ad club will havo proven prov-en the practicability of moving a large body of men In motors quickly through tho most mountainous regions of tho country without tho aid of the railroads. rail-roads. Tho road passes over Tennes see Pass, tho continental divide, at an altitude of 11,600 foot. Should tho threo transcontinental trunk linos become be-come disabled during war times this feat is one which would bo required by tho army in Bonding soldiers be-twoon be-twoon two points of dofense. |