Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-25
MltcheII Makes LONG rrip

A. c.. Robbins OF the local Mitchell
agency returned Saturday from TWO
weeks trip around Southern California
with one of the 09 Mitchell demon
strators. He was accompanied by w.
r. williams and the two combined
business with pleasure by taking their
guns along and hunting quail at va
riOuS places en- route.
The trip covered $40 miles and in
cluded all of the towns south and east
of Los Angeles of any size. Quail hunt
ing around OceanSide was found to be
very good and just below Capistrano
large number of birds were found. Mr..
Robbins reports conditions very auspi-
cious for a large sale of cars this COM
ing season and pre- lets greater sale
than ever before in the history of the
business.
Pierce Arrows Sell Fast
w. e. Bush has the hardest time Of
any dealer on gasoline row to keep
demonstrator. 1t Is due largely to his
good nature, for when man says that
he has to have a car Bill good natured-
ly sells him the only car in the house
and then wires east to hurry up that
next order at once. He has four cars
on the road at present that will be in
in a few days and II the usual order of
things happens he will be out of cars
within a week after the shipment ar
rives.
Hartford Adds Laurels at Providence
James Tweedy of Downey is the lat
est man to place an order for Pope
Hartford. Ruess says that 1t makes
the sixth that he has sold since he took
the agency. The new place of business
is rapidly being gotten into shape and
will be ready in a few days more,
The cars that have been shipped are
on the way now and ought to be here
within two weeks at least.
Ruess Is IN receipt of information re
lative to a race that the Pope Hartford
competed in with considerable credit.
On the Narragansett track at Provi-
dence the Pope was beaten by 60
horsepower Locomotive car formerly
the American BerleiD by 1-5 of Sec
ond, for the five miles, the Hartford
running the distance In 5:14 As
1t came in second by hood and beat
a Stearns "6O'' and "75" Welsh.
Capron drove the Hartford car,
which was a stock car with only the
lamps stripped from 1t, and has
claimed a foul from the Locomotive
car. as he was pocketed several times
and had to reduce his speed to avoid
accidents. There was hardly the varia-
ton of a second in the different miles
done by the Hartford, the lowest being
1:O1 3-5.
New Rambler Garage Almost Ready
The Rambler agency will soon be In
it's new quarters at 1140 South Hope
street. The 28th is the date set for
removal.
A few days later a shipment of new
cars is due to arrive which viii be fol-
lowed by several more carloads.
The Rambler factorytis rushed to fill
the present orders and anticipate the
best years business since its organiza-
tion.
Archie Holmes of the engineering de-
partment of the Franklin factory has
been spending the past week in Los
Angeles studying road conditions In
view of adapting the Franklin to Cali
fornia conditions in every way possible
that would be advantageous.
He is giving the coast agencies point
ers as we'll on the motor and car, so
that they can get the best results from
He will probably leave for Seattle
this afternoon.
This is the first time that the Frank
lin factory has sent it's chief engineer
to the coast, and 1t was with the idea
in view of learning all that could be
done to improve the car for California
service. While here Holmes has taken
to test it In that respect, as they have
no such grades and hills near the fac
tory.
He climbed Mount Hamilton while in
the northern part of the state and
made a most successful trip to the OBJ
servatory.
Motorists Return to San Francisco
@. o. G. Miller and party, who made
the trip from San Francisco to Los
Angeles in his 30-horsepower White
steam car without an adjustment or
repair other than a puncture, left last
Thursday for the return trip.
Miller's home is in San Francisco
but as president of the Pacific Light
ana Power company he finds 1T neces-
sary to come to this city quite often.
wishing to gain more pleasure from
the trip riding by rail he decided to
make the trip in his White steamer.
Three days were spent on the down.
ward trip, numerous stops being made
at places of interest.
In the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
Ter. Albert and Marian Miller, Mr..
Bothane and r. Lynch.