Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-12
TOURIST CARS
ARE EN- ROUTE
PILOT TO LEAVE AT 5 O'CLOCK
THIS MORNING
MOTORISTS WILL BE ON THE
ROAD TWELVE DAYS
About Thirty-fiVe Cars viii Cover One
Thousand Miles to San Franz
disco and Return-Auto
Notes
BY FREDERIC PABsT

The car which is to pilot the forty
Tourist automobiles from Los Angeles
to San Francisco and return will be on
it's way this morning long before the
average citizen sees the morning pa
per at the breakfast table.
Five o'clock is the hour for the first
car to start on it's long journey and at
$3.50 the others will begin to run up
Broadway, through the tunnel, along
Buena Vista street, over the bridge
and out the San Fernando road toward
the towns of Burbank, Fernando and
Newhall.
With flags flying, over hundred en-
thusiastic Southern California motor
lists will honk their wav through the
mountains and desert to the many
small towns en- route and the larger
cities for the nightly stops.
From all indications last night over
thirty-fve cars will take part in the
run. The number of Withdrawals at
the last minute had been far below ex-
pectations and with thirty-five actual
contestants the tour at once assumes
a place among the greatest ever held
in the history of motoring.
In this country it is~second only to
the Glidden tour, and considering that
1t has been conducted entirely by one
company and that only cars of the
Tourist make have been permitted to
contest, it takes rank as the one great
tour of the year.
Will Make Long Tour
The cars will cover 1000 miles and
will be out twelve days. Leaving Los
Angeles, the first days run will be
over the Newhall grade, through the
San Francisquito canyon, over the
Neenah plains through the TETON
pass and across the allSali flats to
Bakersfield
The night will be spent at Bakers
field and tomorrow the cars will run
to Fresno, with lunch stop at Han
ford. The lunch stop today Will be
under the trees at German.
Friday the cars will be asked to go
from Fresno to San Jose. This will be
a long tour and will take the party
over the Pacheco pass. From san
Jose into San Francisco will be an
easy half-day's run.
Arriving in San Francisco Saturday
noon, the party will not start on the
return trip until Tuesday morning.
There will be two nights and day at
Del Monte and three days for the re-
mainder of the trip.
Tourist cars attracted much atten-
ton running around Ine StreetS yes
terday afternoon. Fastened to small
staff extending from the radiator cap
was a yellow flag with the words,
Tour of the Tourists" Each car also
had number
Repair Cars In Rear
Bringing up the rear will be the re-
pair and tire cars. These have been
especially fitted up for the occasion,
w. D. Newerf having built box rack
on car carrying Goodyear tires. The
repair car will be in charge of George
Kussman and will be equipped with
everything which might be needed by
a car in distress.
At the start the George P. Moore
company will present each contestant
with two gallons of Monogram oil and
the Chanslor & Lyon company Will
make the, motorists presents of cans OF
carbide.
The Tourist company has provided
souvenirs for every participant. The
men will receive watch fobs and the
women stick pins.
All cars will run on schedule time,
the prizes being for the most perfect
scores,