The San Francisco call., 1908-03-21
Auto Racer to Garry
Carrier Pigeons
Driver of the Thomas Car viii
Release Birds in ALASKA
and Siberia
By r. r. i'Horr,n1ecieu

BY r. p. i'Horr1rr1edieu
The latest novelty in automobile rae
! ing has been sprung by E. P. Brinegar.
manager of the Pioneer automobile
company. The company is the agent
! Tor the Thomas car. and has Kept In
close touch by wire with the interna-
tional racers as they have come across
! the continent When they leave here,
Brinegar hopes to still keep in COM
munication with the Thomas car. I'm
til it reaches Europe, Brinegar has hit
on the idea of taking chance with
the carrier pigeon He has secured two
dozen of them, and they are now housed
on top of the Pioneer building. They
will be released on the car in Alaska
and in Siberia with the hope that they
will find their home in America. He is
t also about to get into communication
with the Pacific pigeon club to see il
/ he can get some of it's noted flyers
to release on the trip.
II. D. Ryus, the veteran automobile
man of Los Angeles and we'll known in
local motor car circles, was in San
Francisco Thursday, and returned to the
south the day following Ryus spent
/ the morning visiting the various
agents. The afternoon he spent a [ the
! headquarters of the White company, as
he is agent for the White steamer in
| The southern part of the state. Ryus
/ says that there are a great many
| tourists in southern California on ac
count of the arrival of the warships
and that innumerable automobile par
! ties have arrived in Los Angeles. They
are coming from all parts of the state.
| but principally from the central west,
Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. AS
number of local motorists contemplate
the journey southwark in the near fu-
fr1r Pxrrtc clrn6 y, IrV,o x-I,~a&
conditions the roads on this overland
trips were in at the present THE high
! ways between San Francisco and Los
/ Angeles he said "are in as fine con-
dition now as they have ever been"
! II. S. Deming, the Santa Cruz banker,
was in San Francisco yesterday, hav-
ing made the run up in his White
steamer. He was accompanied by a
| party of friends. The motorists were
surprised at the condition of the roads
reporting them to be fine. and are look
ing forward to the return trip today or
tomorrow.
The following telegram was received
! by W. 3. Miller. general manager of
the Diamond rubber company, VINO is
/ visiting the coast: Car with diamond
tires. Marsh rims, wins first event.
! Thomas car, demountabIe Diamond
! tires, wins second event Both 100
! miles. No tire trouble" The above is
g report from races held at the big
Savannah meet, in which the Diamond
tires nave inquired favorably through
out.
Frank G. Minor. local agent for the
| Locomobile, reports the sale of 30
horsepower, four cylinder LocomobiIa
to f. 6. Meuer, and also one to A. w.
Maltby of this city. He also says that
I
/ horsepower. four cylinder LocomobiIe
| limousine One of the latest purchasers
of 1908 Loeomobiles was Fl. f. Law.
| who had his car shipped Immediately
| to Europe, where he will use it in
touring. The San Francisco gas and
electric company has ordered 30
horsepower Locomobile to be deliv-
| cred TO its office in Redwood City for
use in that vicinity. Charles Merrill
has had delivered to him 20 horse
power touring car, and also one of the
same type has been delivered to Mr.
Caldwell of San Mateo
J. R. Marx. manager of the
Renault Freres selling branch in
on a run down to San Jose to
meet the French cars in the New
| York to Paris race NJ. H Meron con-
sui general of France. They will make
the trip in the racy Renault runabout
The Winton motor carriage company
reports the sale of a Winton six
Teen Six to L. c. Seheller and one TO
| w. III. Chandler of Los Angeles.
W. c. Morris. local manager of the
Autocar reports the sale of a 35 horse
J power four cylinder touring car to o.
c.. Eisen, to be delivered to him in New
York this week. He also announces
that tive carloads. consisting of Auto
car runabouts and roadsters, will ar
rive here early next week and will be
delivered to purchasers.
6. r. Hufschmidt yesterday pur-
chased a 20 horsepower four cylinder
Studebaker touring car.
Osen & Hunter report the sale of 20
horsepower four cylinder Mitchell
runabout to e. Bishop of this city A
e. Hunter handling the city branch of
the business, said that business had
been exceedingly brisk up to the pres
ent Tina and that at the rate they
were going they would have TO wait for
cars from the factory.