The San Francisco call., 1906-12-04
MOTORISTS ENJOY A
CLUB RUN TO
ALVlSO
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The automobilists who made the run
to Alviso from this city last Sunday
speak in the highest terms of the hos
pitality of the members of the Santa
Clara County Automobile Club. There
were 25O guests present and the en-
tertainment was ample. After a bar
becue. the members of the yacht club
took the visitors out for a sail on the
bay. Among those who went down
from the city were Captain Max Rosen-
field of the Olympic Club in his Peer
less car. Warren Manley in his Glide,
r. E. Miller and DIR. Freeman, Jr
Robert W. MARYLAND has planned an
automobile outing for the latter part
of the week. He is going to take three
"Glides" to Del Monte to attend the
outing of the Elks at the resort by
the sea.
The new Pope Hartford 1907 model
which arrived Sunday was the talk
around automobile row yesterday. The
Hovey Boushey Company salesroom.
where the new vehicle is being exhib-
tied, was the center of attraction. The
car Is one of the snappiest looking
vehicles that has been seen this season,
The White Company has one of the
most attractive limousines that has
been seen on the coast. 1t might be
considered bus were it not for it's
fine appointments. Many of these
w hite steamers have been used in the
public service and it is most attract
i've vehicle for occasions where one has
to travel to dress functions Twelve
persons can be carried inside but for
dances and receptions six passengers
can be carried in the car without
crowding evening frocks.
The refusal of the Stanford trustees
to grant an exclusive privilege for an
automobile bus line across the campus
to Palo Alto has renewed discussion
of the probable solution of the i'm
provement of transportation facilities
between Palo Alto and the campus. The
trustees have consistently depied ap-
plications for electric road franchises
across the campus, and now evidently
mean to keep open to all the new auto
mobile road which is being built This
has given rise to the suggestion that
If the Hanchett Company desires to
put on automobile buses to connect
with its local street car line there will
be nothing to prevent 1t from running
these automobiles across the campus
BY means of transfer system the road
independent automobiles.
The officials of the company refuse
to make any statement that would dis
close their intentions. but it is be-
lieved that the completion of the auto
mobile road through the arboretum
from an entrance near the main uni
versity gateway to connect with the
road passing in front of the new gym
nasium ruins, and giving access to the
quadrangle and the faculty and fra
ternity houses, will bring with it the
means of quick and economical trans
portation. Work is progressing rapidly
and unless heavy rains or lack of ma
terial interferes this new road will be
finished within month or two and
the campus will then be accessible to
automobilists.
Charles j. Glidden. who Is travelling
toward Mexico over the rails of the
Rock Island Railway. in his car fitted
with Hanged steel wheels, wired from
Bucklin recently. The telegram says
that he arrived at that place safely,
covering distance of S43 miles on the
rails, making his total world mileage
35,6S9 miles. Glidden's car is being
run as a special on the road, and is
in charge of a conductor, who receives
orders from the regular train dis
patchers.