Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
OVER 80 AUTOS
TO ENTER TOUR
GREAT INTEREST IN TRIP OF
TOURISTS"
ALL ANXIOUS FOR 1o0o-MILE
FIRST ANNUAL RUN
Elaborate Preparations Made to Enter
tain Participants En- Route-Itln-
erary Books Prepared.
Quartet Formed
BY FREDERIC PARsT

Over thirty cars have been entered in
the first annual "Tour Of the Tourist"
which is scheduled to start from Los
Angeles August II and complete the
trip to San Francisco and return, a
distance o. over 1000 miles. This al
ready assures one Of the largest tours
O. the kind ever held in the country
and If entries continue coming in as
they have since the event was an
nounced fully fifty cars will start on
the run up the valley.
Elaborate preparations are being
made to entertain the visitors at the
night stops. The civic bodies of the
different cities will provide musical
concerts and a Tourist quartet has
been formed to sing the official song
of the run.
Itinerary and route books have been
prepared and will be issued to all con-
testants this week. The Auto Vehicle
company has also prepared letters of
instructions to all owners who have
entered cars. Many other unique fea-
lures which will be of assistance to all
owners and drivers will be provided by
the local company.
Mr.. Conwell received numerous ap-
plications last week from owners of
other cars who desire to enter the run,
and while he was forced to refuse these
cars as regular entries, as the run is
strictly a Tourist tour, he cannot pre-
vent other owners making the trip at
the same time the Tourists go over the
road.
Among the entries is A. A. Whitney,
who will without doubt be the largest
individual in the run. He Is feet 312
inches tall and weighs 800 pounds. He
has entered his 1908 roadster
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Los Angeles at $3.50 on the morning of
August IL. A schedule sheet has been
arranged, and while it will not be nee
essary to make each town at certain
minute the schedule as prepared will
be great aid in making the noon and
night controls on time. According to
the rules of the run it is necessary that
every car check in at the noon and
night controls at not more than ten
minutes before or after the scheduled
time.
Schedule Arrangement
The schedule is so arranged that any
car can run on time. The wise driver
will endeavor to gain few minutes at
each small town in order to have some
time to spare should there be pune
ture to repair on the road.
The schedule calls for two hours and
six minutes between Los Angeles and
the top of Newhall grade. The dis
lance is twenty-nine miles and can
easily be made under the allotted time.
Almost every car will make a gain here.
From the top Of the grade there will
be a drop down to the town Ct Newhall,
thence on to Saugus and from there
into the San Francisquito canyon.
This will be a beautiful early-morning
drive, and while many fords will be
encountered at this season of the year
they will give no trouble whatever,
and the newest driver will get through
easily. The schedule calls for the climb
and the drop to Kern ranch, dis
lance of 551s miles, in two hours and
twenty-four minutes after leaving the
top of the pass. Twenty minutes are
allowed for reaching Elizabeth lake,
five miles from Kern ranch. The cars
will soon be on the near-desert stretch
about Fairmont and Neenack, where
water is a muchly cherished thing.
Signs of the Owens river work will be
seen on all sides through this section
The gasoline station will probably be
at Neenack.
1t is sixteen miles from Neenack to
German, where the noon stop will be
made. The total distance from Eliza
beth lake to German is thirty-five
miles, and two hours and thirty-six
minutes is the time for that stretch
The road is good for a greater part OF