Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
ESTABLISH new
RECORD FOR AUTO
NELSON IN WHITE STEAMER
SETS MARK
From San Francisco to Los Angeles in
IL Hours and II Minutes-car
Started Immediately on
Return Trip

Seventeen hours and seventeen min
utes."
That is the new automobile record
from San Francisco to Los Angeles'
distance of AIS miles.
Yesterday morning at two minutes
past 3 o'clock Ferdinand Nelson with
William Wagner, driver, L. L. Gummo'
nechanician, and Frank Carol tire ex-
pert, left the corner of Guerrero ana
Twentieth streets, San Francisco IN
thirty-horsepower White Steamer tour
ing car. and at nineteen minutes past
o'clock last evening they arrlNeo az
Los Angeles. -.,o,,, uaoord
which he made in a forty-hVe Morse
nower Columbia car, the time Iol
which was IS hours and IL minutes,
and though many trials nave -. peSn
made no one has succeeded IN loWeri1S
n unless the credit can be given 70
pone , Hartford that was driven from
San Francisco to Bimini baths IN
Few, minutes less time. At that polnt,
however. the second spring IN troIit
gave way and let the car run lLto ,1d .n5
ditch. Mr.. Nelson, with Gumho an an
Carol. came all of the way III tns s
White. but the drivers We're cli"ii7'0
every hundred miles or SO. ,,-4..,oo
we onar drove to Soledad, distance
30 100 miles. where the car was taKeii
TO San Luis Obispo 116 miles, oy WI
liam Slemmon. e.4o porhara
,,-as driven bv Alfred Peipenberg, ana
from santa Barbara to Los Angele,S
Centain II. D. Ryus was at the wheel
Gsivtaen-hour schedule had peen ar
ranged. which was very, fast' anu ~ :" 20
an attempt was made TO turn ou. ~
pass team near hihg Ci.S sft rrround
c4ol1ad I'm the SOII RIOuliN
beside the road and twenty nlIiuteo ,
were lost there which could NOT o s
,",adn nm Teams in a NUMBERS "a
ether nIaces caused delay, as the occu
nants of the car had TO get ou' ,sI,iIe
oni +,r1es and hold the horses Whlle
the car was driven slowly py'
Late at Santa Barbara
Az Santa Barbar the car left twenty Sf
eipht minutes late, but was ard to
ti,e record. A fast run was niaue 49, 80
me re- rvooi trt in leaving that city the
,ortI1 was advised to take anotner to@4 of
ttar the regular one on account NJ
srradinp that was being DONE oast
Saviation from the regular iVao t,rn
Them a half hour, as they nau ,r ~ ofter
hacr 70 get on the road again .l,,,e, aa,v
.,,n,,;no paon for several miles in the Wfons f
airnction. Even then the run lto.r, tonI
Snota barbara was WITHIN seNeli'et a.
seconds of the record now heiu ~
Oldsmobile. $50 1. 1os Angeles, a |
distance of twenty-slx nlne9' eva min
Ming time was just tWehty-nsS9 rnnte
,,tas and the Sunset boulevard 80. ood
ue +aI-an which is very poor lonN @
end nearly a mile longer Il-.and tldn ~
o,ltt, street route from HOLLYWOOD
The run from Chalk mn Wa1 ab a1,,Ie
o.ai minutes faster than the '. sCneU tie
ef era tbn OIdsmobile, and considering +bat sn
80 VI o condition of the road over lh"'
pt~e+ob was remarkably gooo. euo,,,
stIs'cu I the first stage of the trip from
CIV francisco to Soledad tVe hllhuteo W nt
aere gained on schedule time: III .u
second stage from Soledau u So oa.1 Lost
Srisno twenty-siX minutes were looe
opocount of teams and stalllng the
W -,,ben IT turned out for a wagon
eatoon minutes of the loss, however
.1,as accounted for by stop Tor luIicll
,s,icb had been prepared in advance at
san Luis Opispo. This ie1t tnei. a,.
twentv-one minutes peiiliu
schedule. In the next relay nNe ~ ~.
,o,,+ee were lost, which put them TWEEN
IutSs ;s- ,,inutes behind at Santa Bar
bara. - sobad,,1e
From Santa Barbara the scneuuie
oollad for three hours and forty MI
mites running time, Whlcn was too
fast but even then If the directions
as to the road had not sent the car
astray the schedule would nave peeil
very closely approached, as the car was
sent at top speed all the way "HoN
the roads would permit
At High Speed
The rate of speed from Chalk MIL 10
Los Angeles, which road incluues soIhe
Of the slowest stretches between mere
and Santa Barbara as we'll as the
Cahuenga grade, was made at the rate
of "A az miles per hour. In the trlal
that was made recently by Bill Ruess
for the Santa Barbara record IN
ope-Hartford, the average speed for
the first twenty-five miles over the
same stretch was forty-four miles per
hour. The car upon its arrival was
sent to the White garage, where the
tanks were reflled, the lamps looked
after and the tires examined.
In less than two hours after its ar
rival the big White was started out on
its return journey to San Francisco,
but a 24-hour schedule was set for the
return trip instead of sixteen. AS
there is no record of car making the
round trip in two days Mr.. Nelson
wants to establish that as new rec
ord. The first stage of the journey
was driven by George Adair, who
knows every turn and dip in the road
between here and Santa Barbara
probably better than any other driver
The other stages of the journey will
be made by the same drivers who
brought the car down, as they will
have ample opportunity to rest before
the car reaches them on Its return
trip.
One of the most remarkable features
of the trip was the entire absence of
tire trouble. Not puncture or blow
out was experienced and no tire had
to be pumped up. The same tires We're
used for the return journey and when
they left Los Angeles there was hard
ly a. trace of the grueling test that
they had been put to.
The entire set were Goodyear Quick
Detachable tires.
The men feel tired after the 500-mile
ride, but Gummo, the mechanician was
ready and willing to make the re-
turn trip.
Following is the schedule for the
trip down:
Miles. Time.
san Francisco .....,........s'''.... 3:uD
san jose ................s'''''s's'' oO $3.50
Gilroy .................ss'ss'..''.. 80 b;Zv
san Juan ...........'''.''.'''''.'''s S5 0'4U
SoIedad ............................ 1872 7:1O
lila