Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05

ceived at the White garage. where quite
crowd of newspaper men and motor en-
thuslasts had gathered, saying that the
party was stalled at Bimini. Captain
Ryus got out q White steamer, and with
the press representatives and Homer
Bushey, the coast representative OIL the
Pope factory, made a fast run to the
scene of the accident. 1t was a case OF
hang on and hold your breath all the
way and the steamer reached the scene
before the time limit of the former rec
ord had expired.
The record breakers were brought In
by the steamer and another machine that
had been sent out and crew of mechan-
les were soon at the spot to bring in the
cripple.
Satisfied with Record
While the Pope-l .artford people would
liked to have reached the garage they
feel and have good reason to- that they
have made a record for the 50O-mile run.
j. j. Fleming, who drove the machine
the first part of the way, in speaking OF
the trip said: I'VE played in hard luck
all of the way losing an hour and hall
soon after leaving San Francisco when
we were 45 minutes ahead of the record
AS our lights did not burn any too bright
ly / drove most of the night without my
goggles and my eyes suffered great
deal AS soon as it was light enough to
see the road well, 1 gave up the wheel
to Habernicht who had never been over
the road before and did not dare risk
driving in the dark. This was my sec
ond trip over the road and considering
the amount of hard luck we had and the
few number of drivers, think we should
be satisfied with our record. We will not
try to lower it again unless some one
else cuts down the time that we have
made" Habencht was too tired to talk
and wanted a chance to clean up and
place to sleep more than anything.
Reuss Cuts Time
Billy Reuss took the trouble philosophi-
cally and was well satisfied with the
whole affair, especially as he had cut his
own time from Santa Barbara.
'There is one man who deserves q
great deal of credit for our success,
said Reuss, land that is Thomas Clark
CT Ventura He is the road supervisor of
Ventura county and when some of the
people up that way wanted us stopped
from speeding on the road he paid out of
his own pocket to have men clear the
road and guard the pass so that we could
have a clear field for the run. The roads
that are under the supervision of Mr.
Clark are In better condition at present
than they have ever been before, and If
we had had good sprink to ride on so
that L could have sent the car along at
full speed, we would have made that
Santa Barbara record come down so
much that no one would have felt like
going after it again. We have the record
all right, and even If we did not get to
garage, we arrived in Los Angeles before
the car gave up"
While the time is not so remarkable
when it is considered what might have
been made had no tire trouble developed
or breakage occurred, 1t is remarkable
that three men should drive the crippled
car in such time when no man gave up
the wheel but once. Coming down from
Santa Barbara the steering was very diff
ficult on account of the broken spring
and the inability of Reuss to pull the car
around easily or straighten up after n
turn made his hands become paralyzed
and pulled the tires off from the front
wheels.