WAR MESSAGE CARRIED

Earl Whipple Declares Trail Was a Great Success and

Records Were Made in Sections in His District.

A dispatch was received from M.G. Cooley, Saturday, that the run of 3,680 miles to Seattle, was made in 121 hours, 12 minutes, only one hour and 12 minutes behind the schedule.

The only unfortunate incident to near the Yellowstone Trail relay run from Milwaukee to Eau Claire was the smashing of the Oakland Six driven by Dr. Cunningham of Cadott as the trailer from Cadott to Eau Claire. However, the doctor continued to Eau Claire and in the run from Chippewa Falls got ahead of the relay party, meeting with his mishap at the corner of Putnam and East Madison streets at Eau Claire. In attempting to round the corner, his car struck a telephone pole, the hub of one of the wheels striking it. One wheel was smashed, one of the front fenders and one of the rear fenders broken. The car was otherwise damaged to the extent of possibly $200. In the car were Dr. Cunningham and three others and fortunately none of them was injured. The car stopped in a pile of sand at the brink of an embankment; held ther by the sand. Otherwise the car would have toppled over the high embankment.

A report from Baldwin is to the effect that Redmond reached there five minutes ahead of the time scheduled between the two points. This would put the run one hour and twenty-three minutes ahead of the schedule across the state.

In the arrival of the message at Marshfield the carriers were two hours ahead of schedule. From the latter city the message was carried to Stanley by C.E. Blodgett, in a Packard and delivered to J.E. Galbraith, his son, J.W. Galbraith, chauffeur, and H.F. Sargeant. The run to Eau Claire was made in a Cadillac and delivered to Allan Redmond at the corner of East Madison and North Barstow streets. Mr. Redmond carried it on to Baldwin.

The schedule time between Stanley and Eau Claire was 80 minutes. Mr. Galbraith reducing that to 60 minutes, bringing the message in one hour and eighteen minutes ahead of the schedule made for the cross state trip. Just one minute was lost in making the change of relays.

Erle Whipple of Waupaca, who was in charge of the run across the Badger State, declared upon his arrival in Eau Claire that the run from Stanley to Eau Claire was the best time made on the trip to Eau Claire. Some idea of the speed that was made is shown in the fact that the run from Stanley to Body, a distance of five miles, was made in six minutes. Stanley to Cadott, a distance of 18 miles, was made in 25 minutes. Stanley to Chippewa Falls was covered in 34 minutes, Chippewa Falls to Eau Claire was made in 16 minutes. The last stretch of the Stanley-Eau Claire relay is considered remarkably good time.

Much praise is deserved by the young woman telephone operator at Fremont, who worked over time in order to report the progress of the cars going to and from Fremont. The interested public was kept informed by this young woman by phone, and she is entitled to much credit.

Dr. Christofferson made the trip from Fremont to Stevens Point, as reported last week without a mishap, losing only one minute on account of being tied up by a freight train on a crossing.