The San Francisco call., 1908-07-03
AUTO OWNERS TO
LEAVE FOR OUTING
Most of Local Men to Start This
Morning for Two Days Trip
TO Various Points

The automobile owner. both in and
out of the trade, will be absent from
the city for two days. beginning to-
morrow morning. The racing man will
go to Concord, the man that owns a
Mitchell will be at San Jose and Del
Monte, while with the others it will be
go as you please. Lake county and
the Marin county side of the bay will
be the objective points of most of the
owners. They will HE away to the
mountains, away from the damp sea
air and the noise of the glorious
fourth of July celebration.
A. D. Plugon of the J. W. Leavitt company,
has returned from his trip to Fresno, bringing
home silver cup which he won by capturing
the FIVE mile race. Plugof also captured nice
string of customers, disposing Of carload OF
away
R. ]. Marx, manager of the local branch Of
the Renault Freres selling branch, will tour over
the holidays in his big Renault roadster to
Santa Cruz. He will have as guest NJ. j.
Tansey.
R. F. Thompson, who for some time past has
been identified with the local branch Of the
Fisk rubber company, has had hattering oner
from the Michelin tire company and will here
after manage the San Francisco branch. NJ j.
Tansey who came out to open the branch house,
will return east toward the end of the month
Norman de yaux of the Auburn motor car
company reports the sale and delivery yesterday
Of Auburn to Chief of Police Carroll OF
San Jose. This makes the seventh car he has
sold this week.
A. c. Leonard. manager of the local house of
the Goodyear tire, reports the change over on
Walter Hobart's Locomobile to Goodyear quick
detachable heavy tourist tires:
motor stage line. with two seven passenger
90 horsepower Pierce Arrow touring cars, has
been established between Mojave and Lone Pine.
Cal, by Z. T. Carter of Mojave and ]. Hume
and A 7. Hay of Los Angeles The route lies
for 13O miles over a sandy road and makes con-
nections with the stage coach at keeler.
L. L. Burnham, who has recently made a trip
through Lake county in his Thomas-Detroit, re-
ports conditions there for automooiling very
In one place there are AZ turns in one mile.
Don C. McCord, manager of the Keyston motor
car company of Oakland, agents for the Overland
and Marion cars, reports the following sales:
D. A. Walrus Of Berkeley has purchased a %
horsepower four cylinder Overland touring car;
C. ID. Pierce OF Sacramento has purchased a %
horsepower four cylinder Overland runabout.
McCord also states that e. A. Russ and Q. 5.
Cummings have just returned from trip to
Sacramento, Marysville and through COlusa
county in Marion They report the roads
to be in fine shape.
To prove that he could comfortably make the
run from Syracuse to New York in one day and
cross the Catskill mountains in doing it H. H.
Franklin, treasurer of the Association of
Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, recently
drove five persons besides himself over the route
selected in six cylinder Franklin touring car.
The distance travelled was 34S miles.
More than 90 'os Rambler owners are now
touring through the United States. Four own
ers from Louisville are making a 1000 mile
trip from Louisville to Chicago, Milwaukee,
Detroit, Buffalo. New York and indianapolis.
Two recent purchasers are making the run from
the Rambler factory in KenoSha 10 their homes.
ID. J. Taft of Ashland. KY, is making the tour
from his home through Illinois. Ohio and In
diana and return. A. n. Storey of Arlington,
s. D.. has taken car from the Rambler fac
tory and is making 1,50O mile tour.