To Texas in an Automobile.

The New York Times
August 2, 1901

Out of the presence of a little company gathered to bid them farewell, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Clark Decker and her husband started at 10:15 A. M. yesterday from the Gilsey House on a two-thousand-mile trip to Beaumont, Texas, in a gasoline automobile. Among those who saw them off were Mark Weiss, a prominent resident of Beaumont, and C. L. Hanson, a pioneer in the Texas oil industry, who will reach Beaumont first, and arrange a reception for the motor car travelers. Mrs. Decker talked freely of the plans for the journey. Mr. Decker, however, had little to say, except that the trip was his wife's idea, and that he was going to please her. The route announced was Fifth Avenue to Twenty-third Street, to Jersey City, and through Asbury Park, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, Macon, Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans. The couple expect to complete their long ride in about seven weeks, making no effort to establish a speed record.