Meeker - Ezra
Source: Crawfordsville Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, Wednesday, May 17, 1916 p 4
Washington May 15 - It was the same
old "limousine" but a modern ox-less chassis, that the same old Ezra
Meeker, 85 transcontinental traveler, hauled out its shed here today to
look over in preparation for Ezra's 4th jaunt from coast to coast.
Meeker calls his renovated vehicle a "schoonermobile." It's all of that.
The top is the same, label-covered prairie schooner top which Ezra's
oxen have dragged 3 times over the roads between here and the Pacific
under it is an up-to-date motor driven chassis. Within a few days Meeker
starts for Olympia, Wash a distance of 3,560 miles. Meeker is the
original triple-exponent and proponement of a national, coast-to-coast
highway. He expects to drive one before Old Man Time gets him. - typed by kbz