Michigan City
Weekly Dispatch, Thursday, 12 March, 1908
WANTS TO SHIP CAR BY RAIL.
Crew of French Racer No. 2 Blocked in Plan to Cross Country.
The crew of the French car No. 2 in New York to Paris automobile race,
discouraged by the bad roads, intended to ship their car by rail from Chicago
to Seattle. They were stopped, however, by a cable from Paris stating
that if shipped by rail the car would be disqualified.
Chesterton Tribune, Thursday, 16 April,
1908
THOMAS CAR GIVES UP
AMERICAN ENTRY IN NEW YORK TO PARIS RACE FINDS ALASKA WAS IMPASSABLE.
Trails Blocked With Snow and Flyer In Put on Boat and Shipped to
the United States.
A telegram from Valdez, dated April 9, says that the Thomas car in the
New York to Paris auto race, was shipped from there to Seattle on that
day, the attempt to cross Alaska having been abandoned. The Thomas
Flyer is the American car which arrived here in February from New York
ahead of the foreign cars, and having stranded in the snowdrift northeast
of Burdick, was overtaken and passed at Hammond by the military car en
route to Fort Leavenworth.
. . .
Michigan City Evening News, Saturday,
30 January, 1909
. . .
On the Lake Front.
John Wolfe, who resides with his family at their summer home, Hermitage
avenue, high up on the hill, came to his business today in his automobile
and reports that the only drift on the drive is at the park floral house.
There the snow is drifted to such an extent that entrance to the waterworks
is a difficult matter by team. Mr. Wolfe found it necessary to resort
to the tactics used by the New York-Paris autoists a year ago. He
wielded the shovel while his big Buick stood almost on the verge of toppling
over.
. . .
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