Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1911 — PENSACOLA SCOUT CAR PASSES THROUGH CITY. [ARTICLE]

PENSACOLA SCOUT CAR PASSES THROUGH CITY.

Quartette of Citizens From Florida City Make Brief Step on Route Finding Trip to Chicago. Dr. S. R. Mallory Kennedy, A. M. Avery, Jr., F. C. Brent, Jr., and Col. Frank L. Mayes, who left Pensacola, Florida, on September 3, in a Speedwell auto to scout out a route from Pensacola to the Great Lakes, arrived in Rensselaer at about 8:30 o'clock this Tuesday morning, having come from Lafayette, where they remained over night, in 1 hour and 20 minutes, a distance of 45 miles. The distance from Pensacola td Rensselaer as measured by their odometer was 1,045 miles. Dr. Mallory is a member of the Pensacola Commercial Club, and Mr. Mayes is the editor of the Pensacola Journal, and that paper has attached considerable importance to the trip, as it is presumed to establish a good automobile route between Florida and Chicago. One remarkable thing about the trip was the fact that the tires have held up without an accident and were filled with Pensacola air when the party reached here. They were accompanied here by J. H. Quinlan, of the Chicago Speedwell Agency, and C. N. Gates, of the Chicago Motor Club, who had met them at Lafayette and acted as an escort to Chicago. Mr. Mayes’ wife was a number of years ago a resident of Remington anti later of Monticello. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kingsbury, of Hartford, S. Dak., where she is now visiting. The Pensacola party will be banqueted by the Chicago Motor Club. Mr. Mayes will remain in Chicago to attend the good roads meeting. He has for years, through his papers and otherwise, been engaged in developing the good roads movement. Both he and Dr. Kennedy are delegates from Florida to the good roads convention. They will return to Pensacola by train, sending their car to Dayton, Ohio, to be overhauled In tbe factory.