Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — PARTY RETURNS HOME. [ARTICLE]

PARTY RETURNS HOME.

Trip from Pensacola to Chicago a Successful One and Cause of Good Roads Stimulated. Pensacola, Fla., Oct. iO.—The Pensacola Gulf to the Lakes scout party, which left Pensacola Sept. 3 to blaze out an automobile highway between the Deep Water City of the Gulf and the metropolis of the Great Lakes, have returned home after a most successful trip which ended in Chicago on Sept. 12. The net running time, with all stops out, was 74 hours and 34 minutes, and the distance covered was 1,149 miles, making the rate 15 1-4 miles per hour. The entire distance was made without a puncture and without tire trouble of any kind. When this kind of record can be made over all kinds of roads it indicates something of the possibilities of this great Gulf to the Lakes highway. The route traversed was as follows: Pensacola, Fla., to Brewton, Andalusia, Troy, Montgomery, Wetumpka, Clanton, Montevallo, Pelham, Birmingham, Blount Springs, Cullman, Decatur and Athens, Ala.; Pulaski, Columbia and Nashville, Tenn.; Franklin, Bowling Green, Cave City, Canmer, New Haven, Bardstown and Louisville, Ky.; New Albany, Scottsburg, Seymour. Columbus, Indianapolis, Lebanon. Lafayette, Remington, Rensselaer, Crown Point and Hammond, Ind.; and Chicago. The scouv party were received enthusiastically all along the route and the goods roads sentiment which they endeavored to stimulate will, it is believed, result in the improvement of the roads in every county through which they travelled and' those counties will also reap the benefit of the great automobile traffic which is already revolutionizing industry and conditions all over the United States.