The San Francisco call., 1906-10-20
BY r. r. I,tton1naed1eu.

The women automobile enthusiasts
are commencing to take renewed in
terest in the game. Mrs. ]. A Marsh
the president of the California womans 5
Automobile Club. has returned to the
city from her summer outing She is
having her Great Pierce-Arrow thor
oughly overhauled and repainted In
about three weeks it will again appear
on the city streets. Mrs. Marsh and
Mrs. Jules Gabriel. the secretary of the
club, in discussing the future of the
club, said yesterday that a meeting
would shortly take place. Mrs. Marsh
said;
/ have been away all summer and
Mrs. Gabriel our secretary has all the
old addresses, but we do not know just
where to find the members at the pres
ent time. Just as soon as we can get
in touch with them / will call a meet
ing and we will make plans for the
future.
club was getting along in great shape
and we had planned some very inter-
esting events. Not only were we go
ing to enjoy the pleasure part o. the
something in the way of helping the
good road movement. You know that
when a woman starts out to achieve
anything she is generally successful.
We want danger signs and many other
things of that order, and / think that
we may be able to get them. At least
there is one thing that we can do. and
that is, we may be able Ito stir up
the men, and they may do something.
That will be one way of getting re-
suits. Our club will have to be prac-
there are so many more women who
own automobiles that we will have to
go over all our preliminary work so
that they may be in touch with all we
have planned.
/ wish that all the old members and
all women owners who wish to help us
improve the automobile conditions
would send their names to Mrs. Jules
Gabriel the secretary, lao Fell street.
In this way we will be able to send
out a call for meeting.
There undoubtedly will be more at
tempts made to lower the record be-
tween San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The agencies which represent the cars
that failed to get through will have
to win out. All the trouble has been
laid to the tires, and this has
brought the tire men out on the de-
fensive. One of the representatives of
the tire manufacturers said yesterday:
They are blaming the tires. and we
have practically no defense, inasmuch
as we do not know the number of miles
these tires have worked before they
were started on the record breaking
trip. Now these cars were specially
overhauled and tuned for the trip, but
the running gear that had to stand
the brunt of the work, was not given
a fair show--I mean the tires.
For trip like that attempted to
Los Angeles the tires should be abso-
lutely new Think of what they have
to stand. They are driven over the
roads at all rates of speed When the
road is good the car is sent along close
to sixty miles an hour; there is no
slowing down for ruts or bad spots.
They try to miss them. but If they are
close together, why, the driver takes
a chance. 1t is the tire that has to
take the brunt of all this hard driving.
Now when there is another speed test
to be made | want one of my repre-
sentatives to go along to look after the
tires, and / want the car to start out
with new tires. Then if they do not
stand up to their work / will feel the
owners are justified in blaming the
tires. But l feel certain it won't be
the tires the next time. If all they
say about the able running of the ears
is true the record will be smashed IN
a way that will make the fastest rail-
road time almost a possibility.
Undoubtedly the test of a tire on
trip of this kind is the most trying
that can be made There is nothing in
the ordinary running of an automo-
bile which can compare with these runs,
and it should not seriously count
against tire.