The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-06
Edited by
R. A. SMYTH
AUTOMOBILE ROAD
AROUND LAKE
COMMENCED
BY r. r. I'FIornrr1edieu

By r. r. l'Hor11r11edieu
The automobile road around Clear
Lake is shaping itself. Articles of
incorporation were fled yesterday with
the County Clerk of San Francisco by
the Lake Boulevard Company In the
articles of Incorporation it is stated
that the object of the company is to lay
out and operate road or turnpike,
commencing at Lakeport around Clear
Lake, as near the margin of the lake
as convenient and practical. It will
cross the channel between Upper and
Clear Lake. The company incorpor-
ates so as to acquire lands collect
tolls and to acquire a franchise for
tolls. The company estimates the
length of the road to be eighty miles.
The incorporators are Charles A. Gray,
Baldwin Wood and Oscar Cooper.
1t is stated that work has already
been begun on the road, and it is ex-
pected that 1t will be finished and open
before the 9Th of next September, when
1t Is proposed to hold automobile road
races over the eighty miles With
the proposed lettering of the road from
Cloverdale to the lake it will be but
a pleasant run from San Francisco to
the course.
Tho completion of a good road
around the lake will do away with the
necessity of trying to get the Super
visors of the different counties between
San Francisco and Los Angeles to give
their consent to an annual road race
between these points. A road like
the one proposed will be in line with
that being built In the East, which was
found to be a necessity on account of
the unruly spectators who lined the
course, and who could not be kept
off the road. The same trouble would
be encountered if road racing was held
in California on the highways.
G. A Boyer, the head of the Boyer
Motor Company, reports the delivery
of thirty-two 1907 model Franklin cars
within the last few weeks There
will arrive a carload of twenty horse
power Franklins within the next ten
days.
The 1907 Royal Tourist demonstrat-
ing car on the road, consigned to the
Boyer Company, is expected soon to ar
rive
Among those who have received 1907
Franklins are: Mrs. Morrell, Herbert
Fleishacker. Mr.. Keithley, Commodore
J. S. Landsberger, B. D. Merchant, DIR.
A. B. Hamlin, E. NJ. Walsh, F. S. Talbot,
DIR. Connolly, DR.. Wemple, DR.. C. D.
McGettigan, DR.. Guido Caglieri, S. NJ.
Grim, P. ]. Wenigar, Samuel Frank
enheimer. Frank S. Van Trees and Will
liam Wolff.
H. S. Leyman, assistant manager of
the Pope Motor Car Company, which
handles the Pope-Toledo, Pope-Har
ford and the Pope-Waverly, is now
visiting San Francisco, and will make
his headquarters at the Hovey- Boushey
Company.
That Stanford University will not
be far behind in an automobile way
is evident from the purchase which
Charles G. Lathrop, treasurer of the
university, and member of the board
of trustees, made yesterday. Orders
for three machines, aggregating a to-
tai of s8400. were given by the Off
cial to Palo Alto agents. The ma
chimes are due shortly. and will prob
ably be put into commission as the
first automobiles allowed on the cam
pus
The purchase of the gasoline wagons
by the member of the board of trus-
tees is looked upon with significance
by local enthusiasts and ownersH The
garage owners say that motor vehicles
are to be allowed full sway on the for
hidden highways of Stanford. AS proof
they point to the rapid progress on
the grounds under construction and
Lathrop's purchase.
Treasurer Lathrop. so say the deal
ers, has given his word to members
of the faculty that they will be allowed
to take their vehicles to their doors
thus taking the ban off all the streets
of the residence section of the cam
pus
The new machines which the trustee
purchased are not all for his own use
1t is said that the treasurer will use
two machines, but that the REQ touring
car has been purchased for the ex-
elusive use of the officials of the uni
versity
The engine of Fernando Nelson's CO.
lumbia car, which ran for seven days
without stopping, completed the task
last night at. 10 o'clock, when Fred
Wright, one of the team of drivers on
the record run. pulled out the spark
plug. The car was started a week ago
Tuesday at p. M, but on the next
evening they had to stop it to replace
spark plug which had broken a
porcelain. Five minutes afterward the
engine was started again and not
stopped for week until last night
when the test was completed
The engine ran at an average of 420
revolutions minute, or a total of
4,233,60 for the week. 1t travelled at
the rate of twenty miles an hour, or
$50 miles day and 1850 miles for the
week.
During the seven days the engine
used up 1872 gallons of gasoline and
nineteen gallons of lubricating oil.
This is less than eighteen gallons of
gasoline and less than three gallons
of lubricating oil a day.
The distance travelled, If on the road,
would mean that the ear would be in
New York tonight. When the engine
stopped 1T was running without a skip
and was as cool as if 1t had been on
the road.