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Show FIRST AUTO TO ' CROSS COUNTRY 1 Dr. Jackson Makes Trip in! Two-cylinder 20 Horsepower Horse-power Touring Car Most of those who may be planning ! to polish up their motor cars and set out on a trip across the country fall to realize how recent has been the growth of this American pastime of driving from coast to coast more or less cn famllle. Except for the occa slonal venturesome pioneer striving for new records or else for publicity It has grown up entirely since the world war. , FIRST AUTO TRIP. The firnt automobile trip across the country was made in 1903 by Dr. H. I Nelson Jackson and Sewall K- Crocker, Crock-er, as th result of a wager Dr. Jackson Jack-son left San Francisco May 23 In a two-cylinder twenty-horso-power Win-ton Win-ton touring car, equipped with B 1 complete camping outfit, some extra pluK$, a spare tire and a few tools. After ferrying across to Oakland Dr. Jackson drove through Stockton and Sacramento and up the Sacramento Sacra-mento river to Anderson. There he left behind the Southern Pacific, and with no other supplies than twelve gallons of gasoline and five gallons Of oil. struck out across the coun- j try. The first part of the route fol- lowed tho Pitt river and made a con- 1 nectlon with the railroad at Alturas. I Beyond Alturas the tourist entered j the desert region of southeastern Ore- ! gon. At one time on this stage of the trip they were 36 hours without food, driving day and night without j seeing a human, being, but fortunate-lv fortunate-lv they had plenty of drinking water 63 DAYS ON ROAD. From Omaha eastward through Chicago and Cleveland to New York j the, route lay over already well beaten beat-en paths The tourists ended their trip in New York July 26. having been 63 days on tho road, and actually actual-ly traveling 4 5 days. While Jackson and Crocker wero still In the mlddlo of the continent the second successful party left Sun Francisco. This party was composed of B. T: Fetch aTid M. C. Krarup, in a single-cylinder, nine-horsepower Packard. They were tho first over the rood through Nevada from Reno to Cobre, following the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, a route which has been adopted by a great many tourists since. Fetch find Krarrup reached New ork In 63 days, thus having the distinction Of first breaking an established trans- i continental record. THIRD TOUR. The third transcontinental tour of 1903 was made by L L Whitman and' E. I Hammond In an eight-horse-; power Oldsmobile, also starting from i San Francisco. They were the first ' to adopt what has since become one ; of the standard routes, namely, the, direct line acrosc Nevada and Utah to Granger, Wyo . and the Oregon tr.iil from Qrknger to Omaha. Despite De-spite their, better and more direct route, Whitman and Hammond spent 73 days between San Francisco and New York. The first transcontinental tour, taking the word in its customary meaning, was that of Mfsrs Oehr and Canfleld and their families in 1906. They started from Wenatchee, Wash . on the west bank of the Columbia Col-umbia river and In the heart of the j famous apple country, and blazed an entirely now trail through the moun-j tains of Wyoming They arrived In New York after ISO days on the road. Fortunately for the tourist of to- I day the dangers and discomforts that! beset the pathways of the ploneer.s j have in great measure been ellmlnat- i cd. so that the modern motorist can make his plans for a trunscontlnenral , trip with a reasonable assurance of getting to his destination at about tho! ; time desired without fear of much j trouble or delay, provided he taken j reasonable precautions and does not attempt the Impossible. Leon A. I Dickinson, in Leslie's Weekly. on |