Show TRIP TO PIKES PEAK automobile l lias sy S y 3 3 i j y W V 4 ay S rt ty ti t tye s fe y P at tx liis L ij 1 g ya tv aw M yi nl MR S tv R 18 P M fel 3 ja y fea az ni tl t 1 va J J fc tAS als A M js iel N t tf fyd sie sf s f 2 yasa j f j ity ta i f v A 1 l ill afis sf iS t si A t aw mt r t afi it hi lans ll NS ta f aag W T t ani tN i fe tte sq VV tr tra 3 d s its tw fi Sit luv I 1 ga R q 4 0 LEAVING COLORADO SPRINGS FOR PIKES PEAK A young motorist hns has just climbed to the top of pikes peak n IS 12 nille ru run n I 1 in a few seconds less than 23 ini minutes hon zebula n M pa alke ke who discovered the mountain in 1806 or major long inho ho first scaled it in 1819 would have looked at each other with a wild surmise were they alive learn of the feat today to lo remarks philadelphia ledger in III tile delys of tile forty biners the monarch of el paso county colorado stood as a beacon to tile lie promised land of el dorado but the travelers were scarcely more concerned with the ascent from the aesthetic or 01 athletic point of view thin than was or julin cac caesar sar when lie he crossed the alps the were merely a form 1 harrier to tile the creaking wagons of the gold prospectors the tourist nt 3 to the summit nowadays by the rack and pinion railway and 6 1 vast panorama of t 1 i epli ird ir d outi oiled beconi i can hardly imagine the ext extraordinary effort pioneers in the western wilderness a century ago even the iron cover covering coverly ln a distance of eight and thice quartets miles from Eng engelmann Engel elint mans 1 in an hour and a half cannot compete with the record made by th the ti bile whose daring driver took the many halapin turns on a grade of cent fit at ei express press speed willie while the utility of such a performance may lie called in III question the feat could not have apen executed ditl without lout cebul con conspiracy piracy of mechanical science and personal intreri intrepidity dl i worthy of passing commemoration |