Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-02
LOCAL GARAGES
ARE PRAISED
VISITORS COMMENT UPON UP
T0-DATE ESTABLISHMENTS
Advent of Effective Good Road Move.
ment Will Result in Placing the
Los Angeles Automobile
Trade at the Top

A feature of the Los Angeles automo-
bile trade that has given rise to much
favorable comment from visiting manu-
facturers, statesmen and tourists lies in
the motor establishments that charac-
terize the growth of the trade in this
city.
Large, airy and complete quarters are
the rule, and the cleanliness and whole
somness which greet the visitor or
prospective purchaser is undeniably
conducive to the popularity which the
local managementS of auto concerns
are deriving immeasurably with every
passing week.
1t matters not whether an inquisitive
one on inspection bent drops in to oc-
cupy a few moments or more of the
busy dealers time or another who has
heralded his coming by notice of a
probable purchase. More than one
prominent eastern tourist has seen fit
to compliment the treatment accorded
them by Los Angeles dealers irrespec-
tive of the car which the latter handled
and depended upon for livelihood
This hospitality, combined with the
spacious and adequate quarters for the
storing and repairing of machines at
all times of the day and night is re-
sulting in the automobile business of
the city gradually passing the more
populc s communities of the country
and edging toward the top of the list.
With the entrance of an effective
good road movement the probabilities
are strong that Angel City enthusiasts
will lead in numbers any automobile
stronghold of the country. Environ
ments and climatic conditions are ideal
and the one besetting drawback is a
lack of good thoroughfares, which
above all things should be prominent
factors in the upbuilding of such a
community.
New York motorists are having con-
siderable merriment at the expense of
a metropolitan policeman who had
arrested a man for travelling supposed
ly at the rate of thirty-five miles an
hour.
The following dialogue led 10 pro-
test from the driver:
"This mans machine was goin'
thirty-five miles an hour, your honor,
an only caught him after chasin' him
half mile" said the bicycle policeman
in one of the police courts u few days
ago.
The automobile driver protested thSt
he wasn't driving anywhere near as
fast as that, but the magistrate held
the motor driver for trial. AS a matter
of fact, there isn't a bicycle policeman
on the New York force who can over
take an auto going thirty-five miles an
hour.
To do this the cop would have to
pedal about five miles an hour faster,
which would carry him over half mile
of road in forty-five seconds. That is
about nine seconds faster than the pro-
fessonal bicyclists' track record for
the distance, and the cops aren't quite
in that class. Yet on their own sworn
testimony many of them have lowered
all the marks short of two miles.
What is believed to be the largest
shipment of autos in history was made
last week from the Rambler factory.
A solid train of seventeen cars was
sent to the San Francisco house of
Thomas B. Jeffery e Co. The consiSn-
ment consisted of fifty-two surreys of
the type one pattern, fourteen surreys
Of the type three pattern and one sur
rey type two. The freight on the ship
ment amounted to $6175.