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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
BUGGYABOU7S GAIN
IN POPULARITY
PecuIiarities of Construction Make
Type Especially Adaptable on
Rough Roads-HoIsman Is
Excellent Example

It is somewhat difficult to realize the
number of buggyabouts in use in South
ern California when one judges by the
number seen only in the city. The car
is designed especially for the use OF the
man who must use it on roads that often
are untitled for the regular type OF ma
chine.
On sandy roads or those that are cut
deep with ruts it has great advantage
with its high wheels and solid tires over
the pneumatic tire of thirty or more
inches diameter
Throughout the farming districts in the
south and middle west the Holsman auto
mobile, which is buggyabout, in the
usual meaning of that term, has proved
extremely popular and many an ingen-
ious farmer uses the motor to operate nus
saw or grist mill.
Some of the advantages claimed by the
Holsman manufacturers are that the
mechanism Is raised SO high above the
road that none of the parts are dragged
in the sand or mud, nor do they hit the
rocks or stumps on poor roads. The tires
will not puncture and the transmission
has no friction clutch or differentia
The traction of each of the wheels Is
independent of the other, and the two
cables that drive the rear wheels will
drive the machine INDEPENDENTLY VI SNS
other.
The high wheels eliminate many OF the
shocks due to small holes in the road
and the application of power being near
the periphery of the wheels there is no
more strain on the hubs than In horse
drawn vehicle.
For the man who wants vehicle that
will climb the hills and travel any road
that one can drive horse over there Is
probably nothing else on the market that
is so efficient as the buggyabout.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
AUTOMOBILES COMING

Two carloads of Pullmans will ar
rive on Monday. The shipment in
cludes both touring cars and roadsters,
and H A. Stone Is consequently in good
humor now that his cars are so near
ready for delivery, All of the cars are
of the twenty horsepower model II
class.
carload of five Auburn touring cars
viii be unloaded Monday and one OF
them is to be delivered as soon as 1t
can be tuned up, which will be at once.
The Auburns fine record in the CHI
cago reliability run has done much 20
place 1t high in the esteem of the mo-
toring public. The ten points that
were scored against 1t in that most
rigid OF all American contests were for
a lack of perfect alignment in the front
wheels. The fault was not in the cars
actions during the run, bat the wheels
were slightly out of line when It went
into the contest and it was not possi-
BILE to have them trued up in time be-
fore the contest began. When some of
the points lost by the other machines
were for loose lacing of the leather
dust apron loose grease cups or q loose
nut it amounts to a perfect score when
IL is all said and the motorists so con-
slider it, Out OF the first ten cars to
finish the Auburn was the only two
cylinder car and came in NTH in point
Of scores.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
FIRE ALMOST DESTROYS
H. O. HARRISON co. GARAGE
t,ohted Match Thrown on Floor Near
Washing Rack Responsible for
Blaze Among Auto
mobiles

Fire came near wiping out the gar
age of the Fl. o. Harrison company
tuesday evening. The washer Threw ',,s
washing rack and in an instant the
whole end of the garage was aplaze;
The man grabbed his coat ana NAT
and ran next door to the Cadillac gar
age where he yelled fire and then ran
on and is probably running yet, as ne
has not been back to get his pay.
Several of the boys in the Cadillac
garage rushed next door with hand eX-
tinguishers and had the blaze under
control when the fire department ar
rived. but they had hot ten minutes
in tho meantime.
TLe whole rear partition was badly
scorched and several of the machines
on the floor had the paint considerably
blistered The damage was only NOM
inal. but would undoubtedly have pe"n
heavy had not the boys from the next
door been prompt in responding to the
call of fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
"JACKRABBIT" WILL
ARRIVE MONDAY
Driver Has Probably Reeled of More
Miles Than Any Other in the
Country-May Contest
with Reuss

The much touted Apperson "Jackrab-
bit" will arrive Monday, and Edgar APP
nerson. one of the manufacturers and It's
driver. will get here the following day
Apperson has been driving cars con-
tinually for the past thirteen years, ano
was one of the first to put the automo-
mile on the market. He was associated
with his brother and Elwood Haynes in
the man facture of the Haynes-Appersor
car. and the first practical automobllt
ever made was made in the Apperson
shop after the plans o. Haynes.
Probably no other driver in the United
States has driven as many miles as Edgar
Apperson, and whenever new car IRON
his factory is ready to test out either ne
or his brother takes it over the road to
see tat it is UP to the high standard
that they maintain.
1t is expected that upon Apperson's ar
rival a race of some kind will be ar
ranged there being a probability thai
Billy Rauss will take up the gauge.
There is fine course on the Santa
Monica boulevard, and If 1t is possible tc
obtain the use of it for racing there will
nrobablv be a contest there.
There is a stretch of four or five miles
| that can be reeled off in fast time with
out danger. as some of the cars here
abouts have made as high as sixty~tVe
miles per hour on 1t already.
For a mile stretch there is nothing that
will equal the new Huntington boulevard
to Pasadena, and 1t Is the most easily
accessible of any cours within easy as
lance and would draw the largest crowd
AS racing contests and such events are
for the sake of publicity and the size OF
the crowd is one of tn essential features
from the manufacturers standpoint theirs
is nothing else that appears to be quit
SO good in sight as the stretch mentioned
The Jackrabbit will be entered Ia the
Altade. hill climb as will be most OF
the cars represented in this part nf the
country.
There is considerable interest already
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
STRIPPED RACE TO
BE OPENING EVENT
Meet at ormond VIII Occur First
Week of March Under Manage
ment of Automobile Club
of America

The opening event of the season will
be a stripped stock touring car race at
Savannah some time in February. For
this contest the state of Georgia and the
city of Savannah are willing to help IL
along and it Is even promised that the
ten miles of shell roads. where the race
will be run, will be protected by soldiers,
The Automobile Club of America has
taken the active and complete manage
ment of the meet at Ormond, which is
to be held the first week in March and
has adopted rules which will mean an
enormous entry list for the reason that
freak cars will be eliminated from all
contests. Following this event Will be
the motor boat race down the canal for
the Commodore Allen trophy from St
Augustine to Lake Worth, and the week
following will come the usual motor boat
tournament on Lake Worth. A road race
from Jacksonville to Miami. distance
of S66 miles, and for the better part over
untried roads, will close the month OF
March. 1t is not improbable that this
road race will be followed by twenty
four hour race to be held on Ormond
beach This race has been suggested by
Emanuel Cedrino of the Fiat Automo-
bile company, who scored the victory IN
the twenty-four hour race at motifs
mark. closing the season of twenty-four
hour races of 1907.
Cedrino proposes to race four hours
daily for six days. placing the cars under
control at the close of each days run
and this has met with general approval
inasmuch as he has opened the contest In
a sportsmanlike way to all cars, the
race may be on.
Following this contest will come the
stripped stock touring car race over the
roads in Westchester county, lately
planned by the Manufacturers commit
tee. heading which is Robert Lee Nor
rell and Tom Moore. In May, Atlantic
city and Cape May WI enter the list for
week each on the beaches at these
points. In June it is not at all improb-
able that the American Automobile as
ISOLATION. through its technical commit
tee will promote stripped stock touring
car race over ideal Indiana roads. In
July the fifth annual tour OF the Amer
lean Automobile association will take
place and It Is not at all improbable that
the first annual gathering of the Amer
lean Automobile association, with brake
contests, dust contests, and gymkhana
sports, will take place. During August
there will be frequent track contests and
twenty-four hour aces and in September
and October interest will center in the
vanderbilt race, the elimination trial and
in other contests proposed for these
months Altogether the season Will be
very lively one
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
GLASS AUTOMOBILE TO LIE
EXHIBITED AT ST. LOUIS

At the St. Louis show glass automobile is
&c be exhibited. 1t is said to be a thoroughly
practical vehicle, having been built In Dusssl
dorf, Germany. for use In tropical South Ameri-
ca. Mindful of the fact that the terrific heat
and the insect life In South America and
Africa destroy everything made of either wood
or steel--to such extent that In those coun-
tries the telegraph poles made of glass
a German manufacturer, while travelling in
South America several years ago saw this,
and the idea Immediately struck him Of max
ing an automobile out OF glass. AS soon as he
got home he set to work to carry out his plan.
and the machine to be exhibited at the st.
Louis show is the result. 1t is painted black,
and except upon close inspection would be
tnlxen for ebony.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
FROM CONSTANT READER

Henry White. our secretary of embassy
at Paris. tells of brilliant reporter on a
French journal who holds strong objec-
ton to the notebook, dear to most of his
associates.
The Partisan newspaper man wears
large white cuffs, and on these he is said
to jot down such events as appeal to
him, with suggestions for his subsequent
articles. AT first, the story runs, his
laundress was much puzzled by these
hieroglyphics. but as time went on she
became able to read them. and apparently
derived much benefit and pleasure there
from.
One day the journalist received with
his laundered garments slip OF paper
on which was written:
"Your last washing was very interest
ing. but we should be glad to have you
give us more political news. "--Harper's
Weekly
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
OLDFIELD THINKS HE
COULD SELL MACHINES

Barney Oldheld is making every effort
to break into automobiles as business.
The retired champion of the automobile
track is talking of going to Pittsburg to
Join the colony of eX~champions now
located there. In Pittsburg are Earl
Kiser. the old match race king; Eddie
Cannon" Bald. once popular champion,
and Johnnie Johnson, the greatest record
breaker of history All are in the auto
mobile business. and Barney has an offer
from there which he may accept. At any
rate Oldheld. who has tired of the track
and taking fences, will enter the game
somewhere, and is deluged with offers,
any one of which he may accept at any
time.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

nIHP Autocar roadster is one of the
last week arrivals and stands up to
- all OF the promises that were made
for 1t by the local agent.
1t is one of the few four-seaters that
are put out in the roadster style, and is
beautifully made throughout There is
that attention to the convenience of the
driver that tends to make the handling OF
the car easier in many ways.
From front to rear there are many lit
tie things that show careful study on the
part of the makers that is highly appre-
ciated by an owner.
Where it is usually necessary to have
rumber of small things added to a car
after 1t is purchased, there seems to be
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

And now an eastern automobile maker is on
Is way to California to beard the lion in his
den. He is after the scalp Of Wild Bill Reuss
and that 70-mile- an-hour Pope-roiedo racer His
name is Apperson and his 55-horse power car
he calls the 'Jacfrabbit, and he thinks that
he can do seventy-hve miles an hour. He
wants to bet $4,000 and Billy Reuss and few
of his friends ars looking for that Kokomo, In
diana, easy money. Billy says he needs no
fancy name for the old gray wagon he is driv-
ing as II is already a winner. 1t is stock
nope-Tol runaL ut, but weighs but 2200. and
with the 1903 engine It runs fast that the
wind saves him the barber bills
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

manifested in the February contest, and
it bids fair to be the most successful one
ever pulled off on the Altadena course
AS Apperson Is a good sport he will
undoubtedly add considerable to the In
terest taken In speed contests and hill
climbs while he is here. The Appersons
nave entered their cars in all of the Van
derbilt races and all contests managed by
the A. A. A., the technical committee Of
which Edgar Apperson is a member.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

The car is one of the incest appearing
machines of the roadster type that have
been received here up to date, and VIII
doubtless hav many admirers.
A speed of sixty miles an hour is guar
anteed on good roads, and from test.
made in the city, when the speedometer
ran up to fifty-five, there seems little
doubt but that the roadster will make
good one the minute fat rate.
The Great Smith roadster is another
snowy machine that came in this week.
1t is trimmed as the touring car of this
year, in auto gray, with broad stripe OF
gold leaf. The lines OF the car are very
good and the motor needs no further rec
ommendatioh, as it is enough to say that
II is Great Smith.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

Sef-starter Smith is evidently recovered from
his accident of last September when he
went against Captain Ryus, who drove the
winning White in the to Badly peak, for
Smith is engineering the observation-disclosures
hill climb for washingtons Birthday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

nothing eft undone that would add to
the completeness of the car.
In front there is a small injector to
prime the carburettor when necessary
saving the trouble of lifting the hood to
get at the primer.
The contro. is in two hand grips in the
wheel, so that one does not need to re-
lease the hold on the steering apparatus
to change the throttle or spark.
Oiling cups have been placed on all OF
the spring joints, and pressure oil cups
on the steering knuckles.
At the rear of the body are two loops
from which to suspend the license num-
ber and under the body are two strong
straps to control the rebound of the
springs.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
Lost

"Well, Sepperl what about the goose
your father was going TO send me?''
Dunno. teacher, but it's geetting well
again. '-Transaflantic Tales.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

w. NJ Phelps, sales manager for the Pope
Hartford factory who has attended all the
Vanderbilt cur races and big motoring events
in the east, was the Pasadena tournament
Oh roses He says that he never until the Pas
adena affair saT many automobiles together
ri once, which goes to prove the often made
statement that more automobiles are used in
California than anywhere else on account of our
weather and magnificent distances
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-09-12
HARD TASK TO
MOVE ENGINE
WT8Cking Crews Work With Might
and Main al Lshlgh Valley
Coal Docks.
EKGlNEER is RECOVERING

Wrecking crews worked all day
yesterday trying to remove the
wreck Of engine No. 3,251, which
jumped the track on Dock B Thurs
day afternoon and plunged from the
trestle to the ground, thirty feet be-
low.
A steam crane partially lifted the
engine yesterday, but 1t was not
moved. The work is being continued
today and by night 1t Is expected
that 1t will be taken to the yards.
The engine looked like mass of
junk, the cab being gone and the
machinery a twisted mass of iron.
Workmen have repaired the damage
to the dock, and crowds of people
watched the operations yesterday.
AS told In the NEWS yesterday,
the accident caused the death of
John Farley, car rider, and injured
Engineer Charles Boyer, who fell
with the locomotive. The latter is
resting comfortably today, and is un-
der the care of DR.. G. w Fithian.
Harvey Adams, the fireman, who
jumped to the dock and sustained a
sprained hand, will not suffer any
serious effects.
John Kisko, Of SO Parker street,
was struck in the head and stunned
at the scene of the Lehigh Valley
railroad accident at Dock B yester-
day afternoon AS the wrecker was
elevating the demolished engine, a
cable parted and Kisco was badly in
jured on the head and face. He was
attended by DR.. M. s Meinzer.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-09-12
Much Interest Manifested in the
TWeRtyfuuF Contest at BTlsh-
ton Beach Today.
ACCIDENT AT THE START
sartorI Hurled from His Machine
Going At the Rate of Mile a Min
ute and Has His Arm
Broken.

New York, Sept. 12.-Eleven motor
cars, eight of them American, with two
French and one italian entrant, start
ed in the twenty-four hour endurance
race at Brighton Beach, which is be-
ing contested today. President Roose-
Welt gave the starting signal by tele-
phone from his home at Oyster Bay.
In collision between two machines,
occurring in the second hour Of the
race, Paul sartori, French driver,
was badly hurt.
While going at the rate of a mile
minute Sartoris machine shot through
the outer fence at the turn, coming
out Of the backstretch.
As his car struck the rail Sartori and
Renee, his machinist, were hurled
headlong through the air. They We're
picked up twenty feet away. Sartori
was unconscious. His right arm was
broken, his scalp badly bruised, and
several of his ribs were confused Re
rec received a severe scalp wound.
Shooting through a dense cloud of
smoke eleven putting, blowing, restless
giant racing automobiles started on the
twenty-four hour journey. President
Roosevelt sent the machines moving
by a telephone message from his home
In Oyster Bay, and as his word go"
reached the grounds it was echoed by
more than $4,000 lusty lunged enthu-
siasts
Great Crowd Gathered.
It was the biggest crowd that ever
attended an automobile race in this
country, and only on classic handi-
cap day when horse racing was in its
prime was there ever a larger gather
ing of humanity massed together In
the huge grand stand Shortly before
thss-start the tickets were exhausted.
This caused a congestion at the gates,
and 1t necessitated a squad Of detec-
tiyes to straighten out the tangle.
While thousands came by train and
troisey, as many more made the trip in
autos. 1t seemed as if every car in
this vicinity was there. The cars lined
up in two divisions, and for twenty
minutes before the start they moved
about like so many cranky thorough
breds prancing at the barrier, and all
the time they chugged and puffed and
emitted nerve racl1ing noises.
AS the gong sounded twenty-five
hands switched half that number Of
wheels, and all sped away like streak
Of lightning. Laurent Gross, who cap
tured the fifty mile race and is driving
under the name of Laurent was tn
first to show ~ Front
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-09-12
LOCAL OPTION
IDEA is URGED
BY SPEAKERS
Audience Of Several Hundred
Hears Mr.. GsarhaTt and Pas
tors Of Churches.
MASS MEETING PLANNED
Voters Are Urged to Support for
the Assembly, One Republican and
Two DemOCratss, Mr.. Edgar and
Messrs. vanCIssf and Butcher.


Over 800 people were present at an
open air local option meeting held az
Smith street and New Brunswick
avenue shortly after 8 o'clock last
night. Much enthusiasm was shown
by the crowd, in which were Mayor
Bollschweiler and a number Of prom
inent city officials.
Rev. DR.. WiIding, pastor Of Simp-
son ME-. Church, Edmund Gearhart.
of the State Association and Rev
James H. Northrup, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church, all made
addresses, using the old fountain as
their rostrun.
Mr.. Garhart spoke at the same
spot on Thursday night and was SO
enthusiastically received, that 1t was
decided to hold another meeting last
night. After a few preliminary re-
marks he introduced DR.. Wilding,
who noticing that many Juveniles
were among the listeners, spoke for
their benefit and said the question
was interesting, particularly because
of its effect on boys
DR. Wilding said he was IN favor
of the liquor business being treated
by the majority rule, the same as any
other question and made reference to
its bad power in politics.
Mr., ,Gearhart made an excellent ad-
dress which was strenuously applaud
ed. He told several interesting an
icdotes and urged the following three
things:
For the republicans to vote In the
primaries for Edgar instead of Voor-
hees, who, he said,' broke his pledge
last year.
For democrats to give Mr. Van
Cleaf a splendid tribute of votes be-
cause he voted for local option last
year.
"At the election to make sure that
Mr.. Edgar of the republicans and Mr..
Van Cleaf and Mr. Butcher Of the
democrats are elected. These three
are In favor OF local option
Rev. James H. Northrup told Of
how the local option movements were
getting red hot all over the county
and state, and like the other speak,
ers. made the issue very definite.
He referred to the Atlantic city
rebellion as showing the spirit Of the
big people in defying. the law by vir-
tue of the political power of the IL
Quor dealers. The speaker appealed
to the audience to consider the ques-
tion as a matter Of obedience Of the
law and home rule.
Mr.. Northrup said that recently
over a dozen people had told him that
IL the local option question was put
to vote here, Perth Amboy would go
wet and I told them,| he continued,
that the principle was right and that
tf the vote should 20 that way.
would abide by the result"
A public mass meeting In hall
will be held shortly, at which time
speakers will discuss the question
more fully.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-09-12
is SANE,
THE VERDICT
Jury In Case Of Germantown
Slayer Of Niece Finds Youth
to be Of Sound Mind.
SEVERAL AMBOYANs on JURY

New Brunswick, Sept. 12:-One
of the hardest fought battles to save
the life Of a man convicted Of muir
der in this state ended yesterday af-
ternoon when the jury In the case of
Frederick Lang, whose mental con-
dition has been the subject Of a hear
ing in the Middlesex county court
for the last two days, returned a
verdict finding him sane. Lang was
sentenced months ago to die by
hanging on September 20 In this city.
The hanging of Lang win be the
first execution of this kind to occur
in this county in twenty-five years,
and It will be the last that ever will
occur unless the law which provides
capital punishment by means Of the
electric chair is revised. Lang was
sentenced before this law became ef-
fective.
The murder Of Katie Gordon, for
which Lang is to die, occurred in
Piscataway in April, 1905. Piqued
because the woman, who was his
niece, refused to marry him, Lang,
who was a mere youth, shot and
killed her.