WEBVTT 00:01.368 --> 00:03.636 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] The Vermont was bruised, 00:03.636 --> 00:07.474 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% but to everyone's relief, still able to run. 00:07.474 --> 00:09.275 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (old time trumpet music) 00:09.275 --> 00:10.510 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% They drove on, 00:10.510 --> 00:13.346 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% through Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady, 00:13.346 --> 00:16.683 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% determined now not to stop for anything. 00:22.756 --> 00:24.758 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They crossed the Hudson at Albany, 00:24.758 --> 00:29.362 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and turned south to follow the east bank of the river. 00:29.362 --> 00:32.232 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% News of their approach brought out cheering crowds, 00:32.232 --> 00:34.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% as they passed through the towns of Hudson 00:34.000 --> 00:35.435 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and Poughkeepsie. 00:38.038 --> 00:40.573 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% In Peekskill, they were delayed briefly 00:40.573 --> 00:42.308 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to patch a punctured tire 00:42.308 --> 00:45.578 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% by the glow of a hotel's outside light. 00:46.980 --> 00:51.084 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% There a delegation of reporters, Winton company officials, 00:51.084 --> 00:54.754 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and Jackson's wife Bertha met them in a fleet of cars 00:54.754 --> 00:56.990 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to join in the final miles. 01:04.697 --> 01:08.601 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It was 4:30 in the morning on Sunday, July 26, 01:08.601 --> 01:11.371 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% when they crossed the Harlem river into Manhattan, 01:11.371 --> 01:14.074 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% drove down the city's deserted streets, 01:14.074 --> 01:17.644 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and finally honked their horn to awaken the night porter 01:17.644 --> 01:21.815 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% at the Harlem House Hotel on 30th Street and 5th Avenue. 01:23.249 --> 01:26.486 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Jackson had made it from San Francisco in 63 days, 01:26.486 --> 01:28.822 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% 12 hours and 30 minutes, 01:28.822 --> 01:31.658 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% well within his wager of 90 days. 01:31.658 --> 01:32.926 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And having become the first 01:32.926 --> 01:35.395 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% to drive a car across the nation, 01:35.395 --> 01:37.931 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% once New York woke up to the news, 01:37.931 --> 01:42.335 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% he and Crocker and Bud were the toast of the town. 01:42.335 --> 01:46.172 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% (marching band fanfare music) 01:50.443 --> 01:52.445 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% The New York Herald. 01:52.445 --> 01:55.582 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Dr. H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, 01:55.582 --> 01:59.419 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% his chauffeur, finished the first trans-continental 01:59.419 --> 02:01.588 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% automobile trip at half past four o'clock 02:01.588 --> 02:03.089 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% yesterday morning. 02:04.290 --> 02:06.159 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% On their arrival, the mud besmirched 02:06.159 --> 02:08.261 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and travel stained vehicle, 02:08.261 --> 02:10.830 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% which had born them so faithfully and sturdily over 02:10.830 --> 02:13.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% 5600 miles of roads was housed 02:14.767 --> 02:17.437 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in a garage in west 58th street. 02:18.805 --> 02:22.642 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% All day yesterday it was visited by admiring automobilists, 02:23.776 --> 02:26.913 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and curious passersby peeped in upon it. 02:27.814 --> 02:29.149 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% In honor of it's achievement, 02:29.149 --> 02:31.618 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% it was decorated with tiny flags 02:31.618 --> 02:34.521 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and draped with national standards. 02:35.722 --> 02:38.324 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% A thick coating of mud gave evidence 02:38.324 --> 02:40.627 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% that it had been somewhere, 02:40.627 --> 02:43.463 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and that somewhere a long way off. 02:53.806 --> 02:57.911 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Newspapers all across the nation retold Jackson's story, 02:57.911 --> 03:00.280 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% sometimes embellishing details, 03:00.280 --> 03:02.448 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% including one report that claimed the Vermont 03:02.448 --> 03:04.784 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% had floated across rivers, 03:04.784 --> 03:08.288 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% using it's revolving wheels as propellers. 03:23.403 --> 03:26.973 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Jackson had lost 20 pounds during the long journey, 03:26.973 --> 03:30.176 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and he had spent $8,000 of his own money. 03:30.176 --> 03:33.346 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The price of the car, a salary for Crocker, 03:33.346 --> 03:36.282 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% food and lodging, the seemingly endless need 03:36.282 --> 03:38.985 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% for new tires and replacement parts. 03:38.985 --> 03:43.156 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% 800 gallons of gasoline and the $15 to purchase Bud. 03:45.825 --> 03:49.696 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% But, he said, it was worth every cent and every pound 03:49.696 --> 03:51.364 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% to win that $50 bet. 03:52.632 --> 03:55.168 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And yet, when it was all over, 03:55.168 --> 03:58.538 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% he never bothered to collect his winnings. 03:58.538 --> 04:00.907 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - He never collected the $50 bet. 04:00.907 --> 04:01.741 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% - Never. 04:01.741 --> 04:02.575 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% - Never. 04:03.843 --> 04:05.612 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It wasn't the money. 04:05.612 --> 04:09.449 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I don't think that was what drove him to do this.