Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-04
GIRL WILL MAKE
LONG AUTO TRIP
MISS GLADYS MOORE IS GOING
TO SAN FRANCISCO
MOTHER AND SISTER ACCOM-
PANY FAIR MoToRlsT
She Has Already Successfully Driven
Her one-cylinder Cadillac to
San Diego and Return.
Auto Notes
RYEREpERlc PARsT

Miss Gladys Moore, the 18-year-old
girl who drove single-cylinder Ca
dillac from Los Angeles to San Diego
and return in the recent regularity
contest, will leave tomorrow morning
on a 1OOO-mile tour of the state. She
will be accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. Frank L. Moore, and - younger
sister.
AS far as is known this is the first
trim to San Francisco ever undertaken
nv a party of women. The pretty miss
will drive the entire distance to san
Francisco and return and will be pre-
pared to change tire or make any
other adjustments which might be
necessary on the long run.
On the San Diego trip, which was
undertaken with only three weeks ex-
perience at the wheel Miss Moore dis
played wonderful nerve and ability
Her performance in making every con-
troll on time and pushing the little one
cylinder car along with those of four
times the power was the hit of the
tour When she started there were
grave fears that she would never finish
the trip successfully, but she was never
behind her schedule and took the
mountain grades like veteran.
Through the valley she showed not the
slightest nervousness. She is now keen
for the San Francisco trip. The
mother, who was on the San Diego run,
has confidence in her daughters driV-
ing, and the little party is prepared to
start on a journey which has proven
too much for many a strong man.
The car which Miss Moore will drive
was a graduation present when she
finished her course at the girls collie
giate.
The route out of Los Angeles will
lead over Cahuenga pass and out CAL
abasas way to the Conejo country. A
stop will be made at Ventura for
luncheon and she will then put the lit
tie car over the Casitas mountains to
Santa Barbara. After a cay there she
will travel over the Gaviota pass,
through Gaviota, Naples, Los Olivos
and Santa Maria to Pizmo beach,
where Miss Moore, who is an expert
enced swimmer, will enjoy few days
in the surf From there she will make
a two-day run to Del Monte, py way
of Salinas. After a week at the pretty
resort on the bay of Monterey the
Cadillac will chug its way to San
Francisco, and after arriving there
Miss Moore will decide whether or MOTT
she will return the valley or coast
road.
much attention on the trip. as 1t is
one on which a woman driver is sell
dom seen and never without man
in the car.
Leon t. Shelter. whose Kissel Kar
will race a White from Los Angeles to
North Baldy for a side bet of $1,000,
will make a preliminary trip over the
course this week.
]. A. Houlihan, Pacific coast repre-
sentative for the Splitdorf Ignition
company, is in the city. THE ignition
svstems on automobiles have made
much progress during the last year"
said Mr. Houlihan, land my company
has not been behind in this particular.
One of our improvements is the syn
chronized distributing coil, which sue
cessfully solves the problem of firing
a multi-cylinder engine with a single
vibrator in perfect synchronism; we
claim 1t also removes the possibility of
misfring. It can be used in conjunc-
tion with any make of coil. We nave
also added a Splitdorf high-tension
magnetic" Mr. Houlihan makes his
headquarters in San Francisco, the
western Rubber and Supply company
being the local representative.
Lee Richardson came down from
Redlands yesterday to get a shipment
of Harley Davidson motorcycles. Mr..
Richardson reports plenty of activity
in the motorcycle line.
The Central Motor Car company, the
Auburn agency has moved from 115S
South Main to 1855. The demand for
larger salesroom and garage made the
move necessary.
Phil Lyon of the Chanslor & Lyon
Supply company returned yesterday
from a fishing trip on the Skylkomish
river. Any fish taken out of a stream
with such a name must be queer look
ing creatures Mr.. Lyon was in Sc
attic and Portland and did some mo-
toring. He said that from a view
point of an outsider business looked
good in the north. He spoke we'll of
the paved streets in Seattle, but said
there was little touring outside of the
city, the roads being very dusty. He
was accompanied by B. ". Collins of
this city and H. D. Mccoy of San
Francisco.
j. S. Conwell of the Auto Vehicle
company, who is planning the tour of
the Tourists to San Francisco and re-
over part of the course Sunday to see
what condition Newhall grade was in.
He found conditions on both sides of
the big hill highly satisfactory and
wrote to the supervisors, thanking
them for the work done and the in
terest shown in the tour, Mr. Conwell
has also heard from Supervisor j. w.
Haley of Los Banos, stating that work
will be started at once on the bad
places in the roads in that vicinity.
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