The run from Boston to New York, even in Summertime, is a good long jaunt for a motorcar to accomplish in one day. Yet a woman did it the other day. Mrs. K. R. Otis of Cleveland, who won fame by winning the Cleveland hill climb and breaking the record between Cleveland and Buffalo, was that woman.

Mrs. Otis arrived in New York Monday night, Jan. 18, and announced that she expected to carry out the run as planned. Although her friends tried to discourage her from attempting the feat during the severest weather New York and New England had seen this Winter, Mrs. Otis started the motor of her Stearns car in front of the Hotel Wolcott, in West Thirty-first Street.

Mrs. Otis was accompanied only by a guide, who had never been over the road before. In spite of this fact, a combination of circumstances resulted in the loss of some time due to getting off the main road. The trip throughout was beset with obstacles and difficulties of the most trying nature. The only tire trouble on the way to Boston was just out of New Haven. The road was frozen fairly solid to Hartford, beyond which much thaw and mud were encountered, making the going full of rough places, testing severely both the car and the endurance of the driver. Later the roads were again frozen over and snow sometimes a foot and more in depth covered and obscured the highways for many miles.

Deep snow drifts were encountered between Springfield and Worchester. In some places the highway had frozen solid and formed a convex ridge in the centre, making the driving hazardous and full of danger in spite of a thorough skidding equipment on the wheels. Owing to this road unenvenness, the car and its driver had several narrow escapes from collision with telegraph poles and stone walls. Shortly before 8 o'clock Mrs. Otis drove on to the Metropolitan Parkway at Watertown, a suburb of Boston, and here for the first time she encountered the strong arm of the law in the shape of a policeman, who ordered her to stop.

Innocently enough Mrs. Otis had violated a city ordinance prohibiting the use of skidding devices on the parkway, and although ten inches of hard snow and ice on the roadway prevented any possibility of doing harm to the latter, no mercy was shown. She was arrested, but was released on bail an hour and a half later, and a flying run was made to the Hotel Somerset, after which Mrs. Otis drove to the home of Mr. Otis's mother in Cambridge, where she spent the night.

Promptly at 11:40 Thursday morning, Jan. 21, Mrs. Otis was checked out at Boston and started back to New York, arriving in Hartford at 4:30. Careful going was necessary from Hartford to New York, as a heavy fog enveloped the landscape and made rapid driving impossible. Her running time from Boston to New York was nine hours and thirty minutes.