Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
MOTORING
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The race between the Hayne and the
Stearns will probably be run today or
Tuesday morning at Santa Monica on
the Palisades boulevard.
Both machines are fast and neither of
them has been picked as strong fa-
vorite, as no one knows just what they
will do when let out.
At the first trial the Haynes ha
trouble with the gear to the magnetic,
and stripped it, bending the shaft at the
same time. That has just been fixed
and Saturday was the first time the car
has been taken out since. They have
been tuning it up. and on the Pasadena
boulevard it showed great speed Thu
Stearns is known to be one of the fast
est touring cars in town and 1t will be
a fine feather in the cap of the Stearns
if it can beat a Haynes sixty.
It was moving day Saturday on gaso-
line row for the Studebaker, so they
Ii AIDED up their furniture and effects
and took them down the street to the
rev place at 12S1-3S South Main street,
where the new building has been put up
for them. w. f. Bush expects to get
moved into the other side in few days.
Mr.. Lord reports the sale of another
model B touring car to Irving Hellman,
which he gave to his mother.
The Gearless Transmission company
has moved from the Westlake garage
TO East Ninth street so they will be
nearer the thick of things. They have
paced two cars so far, both touring ve-
licles, and are making demonstrations
daily.
NJ. C. Laughlin and party of three
others made the round trip to San
Diego a few days ago, going down and
rack by the coast route, which is any
thing but good at the present time.
There are a number of bad fords to
cross that try the quality of the car
as well as the driver, but even where
the water was three or four feet deep
the party made it successfully by rush
ing the streams.
The vogue the taxicab has gained in
New York in the six months that have
elapsed since its Inauguration has
amounted to a veritable transportation
revolution. The theater and hotel dis
tries now fairly swarm with them. On
the driveways of Central park they
come close to outnumbering any one
class of vehicle. The average receipts
VI ii idAlCdD are Sttlu W De 9OU d udy
OF this $40 goes to the driver for his
commission. This leaves $40 to be d.
tided between maintenance and profit.
No wonder American makers have
walked up to the possibilities of this
rev field of motor car manufacture and
are preparing to invade all the large
cities of the country through the taxi
cab companies now being formed.
Austin claims to be the leading mo-
toring town in Texas. With a popula-
tion of about $4,000, it has over $50 cars.
Pasadena with a population of 10000
acknowledges to 1000, which comes near
the record. One machine for every
thirty men, women and children ought
TO afford nearly every one in town a
lide occasionally, but it doesn't.
With practically every club of any
standing in the United States already
enrolled under the banner of the Amer
ioan Automobile association, the ma
tiona1 motoring organization is extend
Ing an urgent invitation to every
motorist in the land to help in still fur
ther building up the influence and pres
tige of this great fraternity of Amer
lean automobilists by adding his name
TO the roll of individual members and
thus do his share in influencing legis
lation for better highways and more
reasonable legislation. A two dollar
bill sent to Secretary +. H. Elliott,
437 Fifth avenue, New York, will pu.
enc in the army of crusaders for roads