- [Narrator] Jackson's
quest as well as the intense
publicity surrounding
both the Packard and the
Oldsmobile journeys, had
not only aroused greater
public interest in the
Vermont's progress,
it had spurred the Winton
company into action.
- [Jackson] Darling Swipes,
On our arrival here, I was
much surprised to find a man
from the factory with a
letter congratulating me
and stating that they
were willing to place
men along the line with
supplies at their expense.
- The Winton company
now offered to provide
Jackson with the same financial
support the Oldsmobile
and Packard companies were
giving the other expeditions
but it would also mean
the Winton company
would be in charge
of the rest of the trip.
That evening, in his letter
to Bertha, Jackson revealed
his answer.
- I have informed
them that we have made
the trip so far without
their assistance and thought
that perhaps we two green
horns could do the rest of it.
- "Winton's man", he
added in a telegram
the next morning as
he pulled out of town
with Crocker and Bud, "cannot
understand how we made it."
(light music)
- Following the route of
the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad they sped across
Iowa and Western Illinois
in such a rush that Jackson
didn't even stop to send
telegrams to Bertha
about their progress.
(light music)
- Every where they went, people
turned out to cheer them on.
(banjo music)
- Four days after leaving
Omaha, they pulled into Chicago
where Jackson proudly told
reporters, "We have come to
the conclusion that we can
run our car over any road
that a man can take a team
of horses and a wagon,
providing we can get traction."
"We were honored with
receptions by city official,
automobile dealers and
hero worshipers generally,"
Jackson wrote, "But the
one thought in our minds
was to finish."
- The next day, a caravan
of automobile enthusiasts
escorted them out of Chicago.
Although their departure
was delayed a few hours,
until they could find
Bud, who had wandered off
in the crowd.
They rushed through Hammond
and South Bend, Indiana,
then Toledo, Ohio,
and on the 20th of July the
59th day of their journey,
they were personally greeted
by the Winton company's
advertising manager,
Charles B. Shanks,
who had accompanied Alexander
Winton on his aboarder trip
in 1901.
Then a convoy of cars led them
triumphantly into Cleveland.
- Monday evening.
Darling Swipes, well, old
girl, I have brought the car
to it's birth place and
a great reception it got.
We had quite a
procession into the city.
They are all like a lot of kids.
- Surrounded by reporters who
now hung on his every word,
Jackson sent his chief advice
to anyone trying to make
a similiar trip would be
for them to figure out their
expenses and
multiply that by 20.
(banjo music)
- [Man] The Jackson party
went to the Holland Inn Hotel
for a cleanup and for supper
while the faithful bulldog
mascot, so ugly that he's
handsome, remained in
charge and fought flies
and kept off
inquisitive newsboys.
The Motor Age.