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QUICKSAND PERIL
THE GIANT.. BALUCHITHERIUM.
[BY DR. ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS]
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1926.
GOOD ROADS.
WHAT AMERICA HAS DONE,,
The United States now has, It is announced, half a million miles of hard-surfaced roads, Twenty- |ive years ago, there was not a mile... Forty years ago, there were only a few miles of asphalt pavement even in cities, and there were no pavements of any sort Putside of cities.
This is the second of a series of four interesting articles regarding the recently ended third Asiatle Expedition of the American Museum of National
The water-bound macadam road History, "written by Roy Chap man Andrews, the lender of the was the best in the country, and party of explorers and scien-here was little enough of that. tista. It will be remembered European roads were the marvel that the many discoveries made American travellers, by their during Dr. Andrews three contrast with the dust, ruts and exploring trips have contri- mu to which America submit- buted valuable additions to the ed. Even after the automobile! srience of Geology and interest-ame. American machines were all built high and awkward, to ing information regarding many monstrous animals which room-traddle the ruts, enage and ed over the earth millions of bumps of American roads, while Europeans cars were hung low, years ago.
For the smooth roads" of their countries.
But the motor car, to every-
In the third scientific exploring axpedition into the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, conducted by the body's surprise, sucked up the American Museum of Natural hard roads of Europe and blew History in search for further them away in dust. After three Cnets regarding prehistorie man, thousand years of road building, boust and reptile, we faced they had to start even again." Constant adventure, hardships Now America has outbuilt the and danger.
world, anys a writer. One adventure in particular was full of peril for all in the party, as well as for the car, One of the most important and we made on this trip from camp was the fossilized remains, of the alant Baluchitherium, a member of the rhinoceros family and the largest land mammal that ever lived. Something like three mil- It has made the motor vehicle lion years ago this great beast the convenience of the poor rather Fad sunk in quicksand and béen than the luxury of the rich. It fossilized there in an upright has moved more than the crops. position. We recovered the feet It has abolished the isolation and part of the legs of the animal. insanity of farmers" wives, and It was while crossing the bed the "hick" verdancy of their sons, of an old river nearby that we It has lessened the provincialism nearly shared the fate of the of city dwellers.
The good roads movement was u luxury desire, for the rich man's automobile, while it was still the privilege of the few, put over on. the farmers on the pica of moving the crops. It has turned out to surpass all the taking points, sincere or bluffs, of its orginal promoters.
Baluchitherium. The man I sent It has made good schools neces- » ahead to look for quicksand re-sible to everybody. It has given ported that everything was all rural delivery of mail and news- right. The sand was smooth and papers. It has made fresh meat apparently firm. I started across no longer a monopoly of cities. and quickly ran the speed up to It has, in fact, transformed life, thirty miles an hour, The speed thought, culture and civilization. nved our lives. When we were It has been the most startling about half way over, the, back of thing of the century. the car suddenly sank as though we had run over a pit covered with glass. But the speed carried the front of the "car over the quicksand, and the front wheels hung on firm ground. The back of the car had sunk almost out
CIVIL AVIATION.
LUNCHEON IN MID AIR
The first aerial luncheon ever given in the history of the world
of sight, but we yanked it out with another Dodge in which took place at Croydon on October other members of the party were 27th, when a party of twenty riding.
aviation experts sat down to a But for that. patch of firm men in the New Vicker's Rolls- ground another party of explorers Royce "Vanguard" aeroplane, ¡ome millions of years hence which has recently been put into night have found a fossilized commission. The menu included Dodge many feet down in the lobster salad, veal and ham pies,
and.
chicken and ham patties, and Many times we staked our lives Russian salad, followed by a in the dépendability of the Dodge selection of cold sweets and Brothers cars, of which we had cheese, accompanied by the usual Ive. Our supplies, including | drinks.
rasoline and oil, were carried by! Owing to the fine design of the came train which left three machine, and the power and re- months ahead of us and camped liability of its motors, the func- t a well seven hundred miles tion was an unqualified success, ut in the desert. From this and may fairly be considered to entral point we made trips of have opened an entirely fresh.
our and five hundred miles ihto chapter in the history of civil
he desert, always with only one aviation.
ar. If anything happened to
hat car we would have starved
to death or died of thirst in 'the
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dealers are becoming even the slightest repairs on our motor engine.
less. The dealer finds that the
(M. Andrews third article will competition in the field of used car salos is keener than in the new car market.
appear next week),
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