Bud and Temple Abernathy's Trip

Brothers-Louis and Temple Abernathy Trip
Submitted by Linda Craig
All newspaper articles on this page were taken from The Oklahoman Archives

Pictured above are Bud and Temple Abernathy

Pictured above is President Teddy Roosevelt
Friend and Hero of the Abernathy Brothers.

ABERNATHY BOYS HOMEWARD BOUND

Louis Has Mastered Automobile Until It No Longer "Bucks"

New York, July 6--The Abernathy boys, who rode here on horseback from Oklahoma to greet Theodore Roosevelt on his return from abroad, stated back for home this afternoon. They are not going on horseback, however, but in automobiles. Louis, the elder of the two boys, spent much of yesterday driving the machine up and down Broadway to see that he knew how to keep it from bucking. The boys will stop at Niagara Falls long enough to take in the sights there. Jack Abernathy, the boys father, started with them, but will have to leave them soon as he must be back in Oklahoma next Sunday to convey a batch of prisoners to the penitentiary.

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Temple is Injured

Poughkeepske, N.Y., July 6--Temple Abernathy had a narrow escape from serious injury here
Wednesday. In company with his father, John R. Abernathy, and his brother Louis, aged 9, Temple arrived at the Nelson House early in the evening. He rode with his father in the automobile and Louis drove a second car. As Temple jumped from his father's car the second machine ran up on the sidewalk, knocking him down and he went under the machine, but the wheels did not pass over him. He was pulled out somewhat bruised and assisted into the hotel by his father. Although quite lame, young Abernathy is not seriously hurt.

Source: The Oklahoman- July 7, 1910 Page 2
ABERNATHY KIDS
HAVE NEW STUNT

Lads Driving From New York to New State in Automobile
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TRIP IS 2000 MILES
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Brush Car is Now at Detroit--Louis Driving, Temple Mechanic.
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John Abernathy has done a lot of things to create a sensation, but when he started his boys on their transcontinental endurance run in a baby Brush runabout, equipped only with their boyish enthusiusm, he certainly originated a so-called new stunt. The people will give him credit. As will be remembered it was John Abernathy, of wolf hunging fame, who started these self-same youngsters, bearing his name, on their never-to-be-forgotten horseback ride all the way to New York from sunny Oklahoma. These youngsters were intrusted with a message from Mayor Scales of Oklahoma City to Mayor Gaynor of New York. They were also to have the pleasure of greeting ex-President Roosevelt as he landed at New York harbor. After this event everyone wondered what next. Even the most imaginative never conceived the idea of two mere children (Louis aged 9 and Temple aged 6) making an endurance run in an autmobile across the continent. But the gentleman who bears the reputation of being the terror of the wolves was not afraid of the boys and gave his permission. Can anything be conceived as note-worthy as Louis Abernathy, driver, and Temple Abnerathy, mechanic, leaving the hotel Astor, New York, Wednesday, July 6, in a baby Brush runabout? These young motorists will travel over 2,000 miles, in the heat of the day, through all kinds of weather and over all sorts of roads. They are coming to Oklahoma City all the way from New York. They will be petted and ilonized on the entire trip. They will attract comment and attention. It was a great undertaking for the boys and as equally a great move on the part of their father. There is a plan afoot to meet the boys when they cross the state line into Oklahoma again. As they are driving a Brush runabout a party of motorists, mostly owners of Brush machines, will escort them to the metropolis of their native state, where they will be banquetted and monized again. It is enough to make any American boy a little envious, but it is surely a great triumph for the Abernathy youngsters, They are now en route to Detroit.

Source The Oklahoman July 10, 1910 Page 18

ABERNATHY KIDS 'AT HOME' TODAY

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Complete 2,500 Mile Auto Tour at
2 O'clock--First Accident

Let Oklahoma City forget the capital fight, tell the
gubernatorial candidates to go strike attitudes of graceful repose and slumber in the shade, and lay aside, if she can, those familiary phrases concerning the humidity of the weather, for events of more than passying moment are in the doing and the "Abernathy Kids" are coming. After an auto journey of 2,486 miles they will terminate their remarkable fun in front of the Lee-Huckins in Oklahoma City at 2 p.m., Thursday. They will enter the city from the west at Thirty-sixth street and drive down Broadway to the finish mark. Everywhere along the route remarkable demonstrations of popular interest and enthusiasm have greeted the nervy western younsters, Louis is 9 and Temple but 6, but they have driven their Brush runabout the entire distance alone. In New York the day they started 10,000 spectators deserted a ball park to catch a glimpse of them. At the Lee-Huckins they will meet their sisters and they they will make their home for the present.

FIRST ACCIDENT
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(continuation from left column)

Wellington, Kansas, July 27, --Louis and Temple Abernathy, en route home from New York City to their father's ranch in Oklahoma, suffered the first accident of their trip when their automobile caught fire just south of this place Wednesday morning and the greater part of their baggage was burned. The fire started in the rear of the auto in some unaccountable way, and before it could be put out, nearly all the baggage, consisting largely of curios and souveniors., collected at New York and at points along the route, had been destroyed. The boys fought heroically to extinguish the flames and succeeded in saving the machine, thought it was considerably blisted and blackened. They contined on their way after being delayed about two hours by the accident.

Source: The Oklahoman, Printed July 28, 1910 on the Front Page

9-Year-Old Boy Drives Brush 2

Abernathy Kids, having welcomed "Uncle" Teddy, automobile instead of on horse back

The Abernathy Kids, famous because of their horse back ride from Oklahoma City to New York to meet Colonel Roosevelt on his return from jungle and Court returned to their home in the far Southwest in their Brush Runabout, with Louie, aged 9, at the wheel. They left New York July 6th and reached Oklahoma City July 29th. The boys chose a Brush Runabout because it is the only car they could start and handle without help, and so simple mechanically they could understand everything about it. Their car was a standard stock model, an exact duplicate of the car you buy for $485. Louie did all the driving, his brother Temple being to small to properly manipulate the foot pedal. Driving the car with one hand, while blowing the horn with the other, this 9-year-old boy threaded his way through the traffic and between lanes of cheering people out of New York City and into the open country, with the seeming indifference and freedom from worry that a racing driver would display under the same conditions. Louie Abernathy is a wonderful boy, but no other car, except the Brush could he have so successfully mastered in such a short time, and successfully managed under such trying conditions. Any good automobile made today can be driven from New York to Oklahoma City, but the Brush is the only automobile which a 9-year-old boy could power to travel any road and strength to stand every strain. (omitted next paragraph_ The Abernathy Kids are famous the world over. This feat of their driving a Brush car 2,500 miles has been watched carefully along every mile of the drive and handle for 2,500 miles. The trip of the Abernathy Kids attracted the attention of the whole country. (Omitted rest of article--dealt with the car only)

Source: The Oklahoman Printed August 14, 1910 on Page 13

GAYNOR BETTER: ''KIDS'' WIRE HIM
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Abernathy Boys Send Message of Condolence and Good Wishes

New York, August 15,--Mayor Gaynor's progress toward recovery from the bullet wound inflicted by James J. Gallagher, was uninterruped by any untoward symptoms today. Surgeons in attentance predict that he will be able to leave the hospital for the Adiorondacks in two weeks, and be back at his desk in the city hall, if he so desires, within a month. "We all expect my father to leave St. Mary's hospital in ten days," his son, rufus, said, "and it would not be surprising if the physicians were to release him within a week. His condition today is very encouraging, and we all look for rapid recovery." Among the messages of sympahy received today was one from the Abernathy boys, Louis and Temple, dated Guthrie, Oklahoma. It read: "Just returned from ranch and learned that you had been shot. We are sorry. Hope you soon will get well."

Source: The Oklahoman Printed: August 16, 1910 Page 2

Although Gaynor quickly recovered, the bullet remained lodged in his throat for the next three years. During his term as mayor, Gaynor was widely considered a strong candidate for Governor or President. Tammany Hall refused to nominate him for reelection to a second term, but after accepting the nomination from an independent group of voters, he set sail for Europe. Six days later, on September 10, 1913, Gaynor died suddenly from the lingering effects of the shooting (Not in above article)

Louie and Temple Abernathy, the champion boy equestrians picture was taken for The Daily Oklahoman near Belle Isle Saturday afternoon, immediately upon the arrival of the boys from their ride from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Temple is happy because of having just kissed his father for the fifth time, and Louie, with dropped eyelids, is thinking only of the speech he was to make to the multitude upon their arrival in the city. The left hand column depicts what was the caption under a picture of the Abernathy boys.

Source: The Oklahoman
Printed: September 28, 1909
Page Number 8

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Pictured above are Bud and Temple Abernathy	Pictured above is President Teddy Roosevelt Friend and Hero of the Abernathy Brothers.
ABERNATHY BOYS HOMEWARD BOUND Louis Has Mastered Automobile Until It No Longer "Bucks" New York, July 6--The Abernathy boys, who rode here on horseback from Oklahoma to greet Theodore Roosevelt on his return from abroad, stated back for home this afternoon. They are not going on horseback, however, but in automobiles. Louis, the elder of the two boys, spent much of yesterday driving the machine up and down Broadway to see that he knew how to keep it from bucking. The boys will stop at Niagara Falls long enough to take in the sights there. Jack Abernathy, the boys father, started with them, but will have to leave them soon as he must be back in Oklahoma next Sunday to convey a batch of prisoners to the penitentiary. ------------------------------ Temple is Injured Poughkeepske, N.Y., July 6--Temple Abernathy had a narrow escape from serious injury here Wednesday. In company with his father, John R. Abernathy, and his brother Louis, aged 9, Temple arrived at the Nelson House early in the evening. He rode with his father in the automobile and Louis drove a second car. As Temple jumped from his father's car the second machine ran up on the sidewalk, knocking him down and he went under the machine, but the wheels did not pass over him. He was pulled out somewhat bruised and assisted into the hotel by his father. Although quite lame, young Abernathy is not seriously hurt. Source: The Oklahoman- July 7, 1910 Page 2	ABERNATHY KIDS HAVE NEW STUNT Lads Driving From New York to New State in Automobile -------------- TRIP IS 2000 MILES -------------- Brush Car is Now at Detroit--Louis Driving, Temple Mechanic. --------- John Abernathy has done a lot of things to create a sensation, but when he started his boys on their transcontinental endurance run in a baby Brush runabout, equipped only with their boyish enthusiusm, he certainly originated a so-called new stunt. The people will give him credit. As will be remembered it was John Abernathy, of wolf hunging fame, who started these self-same youngsters, bearing his name, on their never-to-be-forgotten horseback ride all the way to New York from sunny Oklahoma. These youngsters were intrusted with a message from Mayor Scales of Oklahoma City to Mayor Gaynor of New York. They were also to have the pleasure of greeting ex-President Roosevelt as he landed at New York harbor. After this event everyone wondered what next. Even the most imaginative never conceived the idea of two mere children (Louis aged 9 and Temple aged 6) making an endurance run in an autmobile across the continent. But the gentleman who bears the reputation of being the terror of the wolves was not afraid of the boys and gave his permission. Can anything be conceived as note-worthy as Louis Abernathy, driver, and Temple Abnerathy, mechanic, leaving the hotel Astor, New York, Wednesday, July 6, in a baby Brush runabout? These young motorists will travel over 2,000 miles, in the heat of the day, through all kinds of weather and over all sorts of roads. They are coming to Oklahoma City all the way from New York. They will be petted and ilonized on the entire trip. They will attract comment and attention. It was a great undertaking for the boys and as equally a great move on the part of their father. There is a plan afoot to meet the boys when they cross the state line into Oklahoma again. As they are driving a Brush runabout a party of motorists, mostly owners of Brush machines, will escort them to the metropolis of their native state, where they will be banquetted and monized again. It is enough to make any American boy a little envious, but it is surely a great triumph for the Abernathy youngsters, They are now en route to Detroit. Source The Oklahoman July 10, 1910 Page 18
ABERNATHY KIDS 'AT HOME' TODAY ----------- Complete 2,500 Mile Auto Tour at 2 O'clock--First Accident Let Oklahoma City forget the capital fight, tell the gubernatorial candidates to go strike attitudes of graceful repose and slumber in the shade, and lay aside, if she can, those familiary phrases concerning the humidity of the weather, for events of more than passying moment are in the doing and the "Abernathy Kids" are coming. After an auto journey of 2,486 miles they will terminate their remarkable fun in front of the Lee-Huckins in Oklahoma City at 2 p.m., Thursday. They will enter the city from the west at Thirty-sixth street and drive down Broadway to the finish mark. Everywhere along the route remarkable demonstrations of popular interest and enthusiasm have greeted the nervy western younsters, Louis is 9 and Temple but 6, but they have driven their Brush runabout the entire distance alone. In New York the day they started 10,000 spectators deserted a ball park to catch a glimpse of them. At the Lee-Huckins they will meet their sisters and they they will make their home for the present.	FIRST ACCIDENT ----------- (continuation from left column) Wellington, Kansas, July 27, --Louis and Temple Abernathy, en route home from New York City to their father's ranch in Oklahoma, suffered the first accident of their trip when their automobile caught fire just south of this place Wednesday morning and the greater part of their baggage was burned. The fire started in the rear of the auto in some unaccountable way, and before it could be put out, nearly all the baggage, consisting largely of curios and souveniors., collected at New York and at points along the route, had been destroyed. The boys fought heroically to extinguish the flames and succeeded in saving the machine, thought it was considerably blisted and blackened. They contined on their way after being delayed about two hours by the accident. Source: The Oklahoman, Printed July 28, 1910 on the Front Page
9-Year-Old Boy Drives Brush 2 Abernathy Kids, having welcomed "Uncle" Teddy, automobile instead of on horse back The Abernathy Kids, famous because of their horse back ride from Oklahoma City to New York to meet Colonel Roosevelt on his return from jungle and Court returned to their home in the far Southwest in their Brush Runabout, with Louie, aged 9, at the wheel. They left New York July 6th and reached Oklahoma City July 29th. The boys chose a Brush Runabout because it is the only car they could start and handle without help, and so simple mechanically they could understand everything about it. Their car was a standard stock model, an exact duplicate of the car you buy for $485. Louie did all the driving, his brother Temple being to small to properly manipulate the foot pedal. Driving the car with one hand, while blowing the horn with the other, this 9-year-old boy threaded his way through the traffic and between lanes of cheering people out of New York City and into the open country, with the seeming indifference and freedom from worry that a racing driver would display under the same conditions. Louie Abernathy is a wonderful boy, but no other car, except the Brush could he have so successfully mastered in such a short time, and successfully managed under such trying conditions. Any good automobile made today can be driven from New York to Oklahoma City, but the Brush is the only automobile which a 9-year-old boy could power to travel any road and strength to stand every strain. (omitted next paragraph_ The Abernathy Kids are famous the world over. This feat of their driving a Brush car 2,500 miles has been watched carefully along every mile of the drive and handle for 2,500 miles. The trip of the Abernathy Kids attracted the attention of the whole country. (Omitted rest of article--dealt with the car only) Source: The Oklahoman Printed August 14, 1910 on Page 13	GAYNOR BETTER: ''KIDS'' WIRE HIM -------------- Abernathy Boys Send Message of Condolence and Good Wishes New York, August 15,--Mayor Gaynor's progress toward recovery from the bullet wound inflicted by James J. Gallagher, was uninterruped by any untoward symptoms today. Surgeons in attentance predict that he will be able to leave the hospital for the Adiorondacks in two weeks, and be back at his desk in the city hall, if he so desires, within a month. "We all expect my father to leave St. Mary's hospital in ten days," his son, rufus, said, "and it would not be surprising if the physicians were to release him within a week. His condition today is very encouraging, and we all look for rapid recovery." Among the messages of sympahy received today was one from the Abernathy boys, Louis and Temple, dated Guthrie, Oklahoma. It read: "Just returned from ranch and learned that you had been shot. We are sorry. Hope you soon will get well." Source: The Oklahoman Printed: August 16, 1910 Page 2 Although Gaynor quickly recovered, the bullet remained lodged in his throat for the next three years. During his term as mayor, Gaynor was widely considered a strong candidate for Governor or President. Tammany Hall refused to nominate him for reelection to a second term, but after accepting the nomination from an independent group of voters, he set sail for Europe. Six days later, on September 10, 1913, Gaynor died suddenly from the lingering effects of the shooting (Not in above article)
Louie and Temple Abernathy, the champion boy equestrians picture was taken for The Daily Oklahoman near Belle Isle Saturday afternoon, immediately upon the arrival of the boys from their ride from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Temple is happy because of having just kissed his father for the fifth time, and Louie, with dropped eyelids, is thinking only of the speech he was to make to the multitude upon their arrival in the city.	The left hand column depicts what was the caption under a picture of the Abernathy boys. Source: The Oklahoman Printed: September 28, 1909 Page Number 8