The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-03
MOTOR PUFFS

Much credit is due to Ray Mcnamara.
the youngest driver In the Glidden tour.
who, with marked ability and sane cool
headedness. successfully drove the Premier
official pilot cur No. SO from Cleveland to
New York. Every Gliddenite Is still prais-
ing the cr%editable work which he did
with his car as he took the lead with
Secretary Dali Lewis. Chairman Hower's
official ear closely following, through the
miles of deep, sticky, pnsty clay mud be-
tween Toledo and Bryan, Ohio, July 1s.
and through the toughest and worst part
of the entire run to South Bend on that
day. He also deserves special mention for
having so ably led the chugging cayalcade
from South Bend to indianapolis, and for
otherwise taking the lead in many
capacities throughout the entire tour. 1t
was his car that used only one quart of
water between indianapolis and New York,
and vas the same model Premier as the
one that finished the 1.6O0-mile car-smash-
ing run with a perfect score.
While browsing among the literary tufts
in one OF the quaint hostelries whittier the
steering ommitte OF the Glidden tour
had ungraciously plotted him, the publicity
man of r. NJ. Owen & Co, who distribute
the two smallest priced cars--the REQ and
L ItLllcT-Ludt HnlSutu lHt FtCttlt l,ouu-titAAC
strenuous A. A. A. tour with perfect
scores, CLEANED the following:
Hide your little hammer and try to
speak well of others, no matter how small
you may really know yourself to be. When
a stranger drops in, jolly him.. Tell him
that Muskogee is the greatest town on
earth-and prove II. Don't discourage him
by speaking i'll of your neighbors, and
don't advertise other towns by speaking
al - -. xa.uxs. - - b.. --g-a.--
your own business. 1t makes other people
like you. Nobody gets stuck on a knocker.
Join the Commercial Club and be a Musko-
gee BOOSTER"
This laconic excerpt was fathered by a
local wit of Muskogee, and was so well
received by his follew townsmen that It
was Immediately placarded and posted In
all the commercial houses of Muskogee,
/. T.
To lower the old record of seven hours
and forty-fve minutes from Los Angeles
to San Diego. Cal, has long been the am
bitlon of many a virile motorist in SOUTH
ern California, but owing to the rough
roads, numerous deep rivers to ford, and
to many other obstacles encountered in
the run, the feat was postponed from time
to time till July "a. on that day. how
ever, Harris Hanshue, In a '16' REQ
AhS Nhis DIbht Alc luSttsl prev tbus itCOid
by two hours. making the strenuous run
in five hours and forty-ive minutes. The
distance being 40 miles, the run was made
at an average speed of t~wenty-four aud
miles per hour.
This is the same model "16" REQ that
won the proud distinction of being the
smallest priced car that finished the Gid
den tour with a perfect score, Immediately
after which, without making a single re-
Tnntr 70 nwA -, H. aAV1AAtT@-a1 Enn ~
nonstop dash from New York TO the
Jamestown Exposition. arriving at Cape
st. Charles, Va. ILLS Thursday night, July
The nonstop run was made in twenty
three and one-half hours running time.
This wonderful little car defeated thirty
nine higher-priced cars In the Glidden tour.
besides tying twenty OF the highest-priced
cars In the country. 1t Is on exhibition
in the Transportation Building at the ex-
Judging from Its past performances the
Frayer-Miller should finish very close TO
first place in the Brighton Beach twenty
endurance race next week. This
is a ''one-car" race; that Is, the
entrants are limited to the use of but one
car, and only three other similar events
been run in this country. The first
at Columbus, Ohio, two years ago,
md a Frayer-Miller car won second hon
ors. The other two were held on the
Point Breeze track, Philadelphia, last May
and June. and In each the Frayer-Miller
was a close second, being beaten in the
latter one by the narrow margin OF six
miles, after having led for the greater
part of the contest. In this race another
car Of this make finished fifth. In the
Brighton tw~enty-four hour race the con-
testants will go against the records, which.
from one to twenty hours, were made by
the Frayer-Miller at Philadelphia, and
from twenty to twenty-four miles by the
Brothers. at the Columbus race.
a Pope-Toledo.
One by one the claim 10 superiority of
he foreign-made motor car over its Amer
can competitor is proven to be founded
On nothing more substantial than the wide
Iy different conditions under which econo-
reliability, speed and other tests are
We used to believe the French, the
German and the English product was SUI
perior because we read of high mileage
on a given quantity of gasoline.
course, the car, or tire earbureter. or
both, must be better, reasoned advocates
Of the foreign article. But official records
Of the performance of American Ford cars
on the other side disproye this assumption
and show that under identical conditions
our ears hold their own with the flower of