Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-27
RECORD CARS
TAKING REST
PRESENT INTER-CITY MARKS
PERMITTED re STAND
BIG RACE MEETING IN SAN FRAN
CISCO SEPTEMBER %
Frank Seifert VIII Go North to Drive
stoddard-A. j. Smith Is Back
from the Elmore
Factory
BY FREDERIC PABsT

The local and San Francisco motor
lists have apparently recovered from
the record breaking fever which so vi
olently attacked them several months
ago. During the spring and early sum-
rner hardly a day passed without some
one going after a road record. Trials
for the San Francisco mark were COM
mon occurrences, and many attempts
were made to annex the San Diego
record.
OF late practically nothing has been
done In this line. There has been some
talk of local car going after the San
Francisco mark, but as yet no prepa-
rations have been made.
With the roads in their present shape
the Kisselkar record of five hours and
forty-three minutes, and the Fresno
record of nine hours and ffty-eight
minutes held by an Oldsmobile, will
probably stand for a long time to come
On the best of highways these marks
will be hard to beat.
The writer made trip over the coast
road from San Francisco last week and
was surprised at the good condition OF
the roads for greater part OF the
distance. There are miles and miles
where car can be sent along at fifty
miles an hour. The roads in the vicin-
ity of San Jose have been kept in first
class shape. Work is going on now,
and instead of becoming worse they
will be made even better.
The grades are In the worst shape.
Most of the mountain roads are deep
in dust and more or less cut up.
The San Diego record for the one
the present A Thomas Detroit went to
San Diego in four hours and thirty-nine
minutes, and Great Smith established
a round-trip record and holds the
AChanslor-Lyon trophy.
C. S. Brown of the stoddard Dayton
company has returned from his vaca-
ton at Lake Tahoe. He spent two days
in San Francisco, and says trade con-
ditions there are encouraging.
One of the big track race meets of
the year will be held at Tanforan, San
Francisco, September %. The races
will be under the auspices of the Olym-
pic club. There will be complete pro-
gram of short and long races, and many
of the new 1909 models will be seen in
action at that time. Norman Church
will send Frank Seifert up to drive a
Stoddard Dayton. San Francisco mo-
florists are ripe for a race meet, and
there probably will be large delega-
ton go from here.
A. ]. Smith, the western representa-
tive for the Gilmore factory, has re-
turned from the east. He says the FL
more cars will be improved, but there
will be no radical departures from the
Elmores of old and the price will not
change. Mr.. Smith was at Clyde, o.,
and visited many of the other eastern
points of interest. He stopped at San
Francisco on the way back.
According to the latest statistics there
are s4,S50 motor cars in France.
Guy West of the Western Rubber and
Supply company is in Chicago. He has
endeavored to corner the souvenir post
card market and as result his friends
must suffer.
John McLain, the western representa-
tive for the Franklin company, left
last night for San Francisco. He ex-
poets to return In about month.