Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-21
AUTOISTS SURE
OF FAMOUS RUN
JULY REGULARITY OUTING ALL
PREPARED FOR
Hotel Accommodation Are Carefully
Looked Into and Arrangements
Made for Celebrating July
4 In San Diego

The regularity run for July 8, 4, 8
and 6 will doubtless be quite a sue
cess. A pathfinding tour over the pro-
posed route was made during the past
week by D. b. Rose, the chairman of
the committee. accompanied by Fred
erick Pabst. The two in an Elmore
car inspected the road and chose the
routes to be followed, whenever there
was q choice.
The possibilities of hotel accommoda-
tions at the various stops was also
looked into, as even the beautiful seem
cry along the route will not allay the
healthy appetite that goes with mo-
tor trip and stays for the whole run.
The road conditions are fairly good
all along the route and present no
hardships that need deter the owner of
even the low-powered cars from go
ing along. There is no mud whatever
and, while there is some dust. 1t can
be avoided by cars travelling a few
hundred yards apart.
Many pretty stretches OF country are
found along the coast route to San
Diego, which will be the first days
run. To Santa Ana the roads are the
poorest Of any section in the entire
course.
At medium rate of speed, however,
Santa Ana there is stretch of road
that continues past San Juan Capt.
strano mission for quite way which
is very good indeed and will permit of
fast and at the same time comfort
able riding.
Not far from the old mission the sea
| is seen for the first time and for a
great part of the way after that the
road is close to the shore. For many
miles it runs along the edge of the
| bluff just above high tide mark and the
| salt spray is blown in the faces of the
| motorists continually. Some sand and
a few grades add variety to the coast
| road, but at no time will they neces-
state low-gear work with four-cylin-
der car working in good condition.
| The glorious Fourth will be passed at
| Coronado, and doubtless many of the
motorists will take advantage of the
days intermission to see some of the
spots of interest in and around San
| Diego.
La Jolla, Point Iona and its home of
the theosophical, Tia Juana and Lake.
side, will all claim their share of sight
seers.
Manager Ross of Hotel Coronado has
| expressed his willingness to arrange
any special form of entertainment for
the evening of the Fourth that meets
| with the approval of the committee.
trip by the inland route the greatest
beauties of the run are Encountered. Out
of San Diego few miles Is the Scripps
road, and it is pleasure to drive over
it. An easy gradient was chosen for
the hilly part, and the narrow road
winds around into the canyons and out
again, giving ever changing Views of
| the valley below
Above Escondido some of the most
| beautiful scenery in all Southern Cali
fornia is seen. The road runs for miles
among the hills, where huge oaks and
sycamores shade the highway with their
spreading branches. Little streams run
down the canyons and ferns crop out
from under the shade of the trees.
Rabbits and quail are always In front
| of the car as 1t travels along, and with
| a gun enough game can be shot with
out stopping the car to keep the larder
| full for a week.
Another fine grade is the Red noun
| tain. The curves seem to have been
made with huge pair of dividers, so
round are they. A twist of the wheel
and the car will roll clear around the
turns without a change of the steering
| gear.
grade little valley is passed through
where the boulders are strewn all over
the hillsides, some of them as big as
houses. On the steep mountains on
either side of the road they are stuck
thick, as though some giant child had
used them to decorate hill he had
built for his amusement. A thick
growth of scrub oak is striving hard to
hide the big rocks, but all over the
hillsides their enormous domes stick
out above the shrubbery.
Elsinore lake lends variety to the
scenery, too, as 1t is the only body of
water of appreciable size seen on the
| inland route. From Elsinore the route
will be laid to Riverside, via Perris.
| Between Perris and the top of Box
Springs grade there is stretch of
rather rough road, but fortunately OF
no great length.
| From Riverside the fourth morning
the cars will go to Redlands, and in
stead of following the regular road into
Cotton the course through High Grove
will be taken. This will bring the cars
out on high cliff overlooking the