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Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
AUTOISTS ON
4OOO-MILE RUN
CHEERS GREET FOUR WOMEN
CROSSING CONTINENT
MAXWELL PARTY LEAVES BUF-
FALo ON JOURNEY TO FRISCO
Daring Feminine Quartet Carry Cook
Ing Utensils and Weapons to
Ward off Wild Beasts
Attacks
Especial Corresponcence).

NEW YORK, June 19.-New York
motorists were out in large numbers
last Wednesday morning to give Mrs.
Alice Ramsey and friends a good send
off at the start of the transcontinental
tour which will end in San Francisco
early next month. When the party
headed for Albany, the first stop, the
Maxwell car which she was driving
certainly looked well equipped for d
long journey and all kinds of weather.
and the four fair autoists who will
travel the 1000 miles overland are well
equipped for almost any difficulty.
In the car at the start, in addition to
grips and trunks, was a complete cook
ing outfit, for the tourists go prepared
to cook their own meals, which Will
probably be necessary In the far west.
They are prepared, too, to take care of
themselves on the road should wild an
imals be encountered, while for aid in
getting out of bad spots in the road
the four occupants of the car carry
picks, shovels, ETC., which, by the way
they will have to WELD themselves,
since they are unaccompanied by man.
When the car left New York it was
accompanied part of the way to Albany
by several other enthusiastic Maxwell
owners.
ter and Friday to Buffalo, where a big
reception was rendered Mrs. Ramsey
last night. Beginning with tomorrow,
the runs each day will be longer and
harder, becoming more so in the far
west, the trip across the Rocky noun
tains being perhaps the most difficult,
though by no means the only hard part.
While the tour is a long one, no speed
will be attempted, as Mrs. Ramsey
and her friends are taking it purely as
an outing and in order properly to see
the country, which can be observed
best, of course, from motor car.
While the trip has many alluring feat
ures it has it's dangers and difficulties,
too, all Of which Mrs. Ramsey expects
to overcome, and if the feat is success
fully accomplished it will give her the
honor of being the first woman to drive
car from New York to San Fran
cisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

grades at different points. The sight of
the racers along this portion of the
course will undoubtedly be an inspir-
ing one though more difficult to see
to any advantage, perhaps, than where
the grandstands will be located, be-
cause Of the solid line of trees that
borders the course on either side, their
foliage reaching over and meeting
above, creating a great lane which is
naturally more or less obstructed to
the view.
The stands and parking places will
all be on Ocean drive, facing the broad
Pacific. and amid the aristocratic
homes that flank that popular boule-
ward the view from these stands being
as advantageous, or more so, than at
any other point on the course. Their
location is not far from the sweeping
curve of the course that leads from
the palisades" into Ocean drive, the
start being at this point. Because of
the gradual curve of the course at this
point the racers will not be compelled
to lessen their speed in the slightest
and should be able to pass the stands
at their very highest pace, affording
a spectacle that will undoubtedly be
as thrilling and as hair-raising as any
automobile race ever seen in the coun-
try has proved.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
HOST WILL VIE
IN GLIDDEN TOUR
LAST YEARS ENTRY LIST is
FAR SURPASSED
ONLY ONE CONTESTANT FOUND
FOR THE DETROIT CUP
Baked oumbo Roads of Iowa viii Fur
nlsh Superb Going for Conn
petitors In the Annual
Classic

Entries for the Glidden tour con-
tests, at the regular fee of 5000, closed
June is with Chairman F. B. Hover,
76O Main street, Buffalo. From now
until July the entry fee will be $500.
The condition of the lists at the end
of last week was eminently satisfac-
tory; in fact, it has been so from tho
start On July 1 of last year, when
the tour started on July 9, there were
only twenty-nine entries in hand. This
year there were more than that many
paid in before June /. 1t is not un-
likely that quite a few makers have
delayed deliberately planning to pay
the added fee. This is because they
have been too busy to plan for con-
tests a month ahead
The success of the tour has been as
sured for a month and more and there
is a good field of contestants for both
the Glidden and Hover trophies, but
the new trophy, the handsome cup
presented by the city of Detroit for
the car with a miniature tonneau that
makes the best score is as yet at the
mercy of a single entry. This trophy
is much finer than was at first pro-
jected and the prestige of it will nearly
equal that of the Glidden trophy, as
the sole difference of conditions for
winning is in whatever difference lies
between a full touring body and the
slightly smaller body known as 4
miniature tonneau." With a small
field entered for this trophy, every car
will have a fine chance, SO that the
competition for the Detroit trophy.
with only one entry, isNjust now the
most inviting feature of the tour.
No New Survey
No new survey has been made of the
territory between Minneapolis and
Omaha or Council Bluffs. but good
going seems assured by any route. An
eastern man who lived sixteen years
in Iowa and who is as familiar with
the terrible "gumbo' of that state. of
which such dread stories have been
told, as he is with the sands of the
seashore where he spends every sum-
mer. has this to say about the roads
there:
There is no finer surface to be had
than that of these same Iowa roads in
July. They are baked as hard as a
brick and they are as smooth and as
fast as a brick road. Rain does not
even make them muddy, so hard are
they. This gumbo is a sort of clay.
you must know. When wet it is as
black as your hat and when dry It is
as white as your white hat. There
are fifteen feet of frost in the ground
out there in Iowa and in the spring
when that frost is coming out of the
ground there are fifteen feet of black.
sticky mud. 1t is a fact that horses
have been drowned in it. This black
clay, or gumbo, is drying out all the
spring and gets thoroughly hard and
dry the latter part of June. Then it
bakes in the sun till it is brick-like
and affords a surface fit for racing.
So your Glidden tourists who have
shuddered at the stories of the troubles
of the pathfnding car in the spring
will be wondering in July where the
bad roads are they heard about"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
DIAMOND RUBBER PRIZE
OFFERS T0TALED S2775

As for many other large races in
which its product has been conspicuous
in the past, the Diamond Rubber COM
pany offered cash prizes aggregating
$2775 to drivers in the western stock
classics races. For the Cobe trophy
they were: To the driver using Dia-
mond equipment who wins first place,
$1,000; second, $3.50; third, $500. For the
Indian trophy or light car race: First,
$500; second, $3.50; third, SIS. Diamond
demountable rims and grip tires
equipped a large number OF cars in
both races, and the time camp of the
Diamond company was established on
the course in charge of J. d. Tew
week In advance of the racing dates.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
STANFORD STAKES CLOSED

SACRAMENTO, June 19.-Entries for
the Stanford stakes, the classical and
historical annual harness horse event to
be conducted under the auspices of the
State Agricultural society, closed to-
day. The owners of ffty-seven horses
will strive for share of the $4,000
purse hung up for the winners.
The horses entered viii race at Agri-
cultural park in 1911. According to
the terms of the race. which was es-
tablished by Senator Stanford in 1876
the horses must enter as yearlings and
race when they are years old.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
NEW D0RRIS FACTORY TO
TRIPLE OUTPUT OF CARS
acknowledgements Company Gets
News of Rapid Strides at Scene
of Projected Auto Plant

The Bosbyshell-C company,
agent for the Doris car, is in receipt
of information from the factory at st.
Louis, Mo, that they are ready to
start work on their new factory site
within a few days. The factory will
be located at the corner of Sarah
street and Forest Park boulevard and
will occupy space 1S7X20O feet. The
building will be three stories in height
and will cost 100000. This addition
will enable them to triple their output
so that they will turn out three un-
finished cars per day.
K. L. Parrot of Tonopah, New, was
a visitor at the Doris agency this
past week. Mr.. Parrot is using a 1906
Doris in the stage service at Tono-
pah and states that it has been run
over $4,000 miles up to the present
time and gives every indication of re-
peating the performance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
MONICA is
FASTEST OF ALL
GREAT ROAD RACE COURSE is
so DECLARED
Scene of Dealers Annual Road Race
Shows Enthusiasm of Local
Residents Over Big
Coming Event

"I consider the Santa Monica road
race course faster by minutes than
either the Vanderbilt or Jericho
courses" is the approval given the
scene of the dealers road race on July
10 by William McDonough, the we'll
known driver and California agent for
the Pan-o-Lite oil. McDonough is an
eastern driver who, like many other
race drivers now in this city, Is una
BILE to participate in the Santa Monica
race because of the restrictions placed
on all drivers who have not lived IN
California for one year, despite the
fact that he has ridden in both of the
famous eastern races above named and
is considered one of the cleverest men
behind a race wheel that ever came to
the Pacific coast.
McDonough in company with par
ty of newspaper men and Frank Tal-
bot of the Firestone agency, w. ID.
Howard of the Great Chadwick agency
and Stanley Clemence, salesman for
Chansler & Lyon, drove over the course
last Tuesday in Darrac car, shown
in an accompanying illustration. With
out attempting to take the curves too
fast because of their not having yet
BEEN properly banked, McDonough put
this powerful car, filled to the rail with
it's nine passengers, over the course III
almost race record time, negotiating
the straightaways at q speed equal to
between fifty and sixty miles an hour,
and demonstrated to every one of his
companions IL at he has all the ability
to put any racing car over the course
at top speed, had he been given the
opportunity.
Santa Monicans Enthusiastic
The work being done on the course
shows the enthusiasm felt by the cit
liens of Santa Monica in the coming
big event. Teams are at work on
every leg of the course, putting it into
first class condition, filling up every
little jog or depression in the surface,
rolling the surface into shap, hauling
new dirt where necessary and filling
in the roadway. and, where needed,
oiling the surface.
The result is that the course must
strike any one, as it did McDonough,
as one of the fastest courses in the
country, and the prediction that has
already been made to the effect that
new record may reasonably be looked
for is more than justified.
There will be but one really bad turn
in the entire course. and this turn will
be so banked as to be- it is confidently
believed, thoroughly safe, even thoug n
negotiated at around thirty miles an
hour At the only other turn the
racers should be able to maintain a
speedaof from thirty to forty miles
an hour, while on the remainder of the
course the speed of the cars need only
depend on the ability of the drivers to
get the most out of their engines.
Nevada Avenue Dream
Nevada avenue is really the ideal
portion of the entire course, being over
four miles in length, as broad as an
avenue, well rounded. smooth as
floor and With but the slightest of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
Nevada Avenue a Dream

Nevada avenue is really the ideal
portion of the entire course, being over
four miles in length, as broad as an
avenue, we'll rounded. smooth as
floor and With but the slightest of
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04
JAMES J. JEFFRIEs

This name will take up more space in news papers in the next few months than probably any other. He appeals to the average American, and the reader is not ashamed to turn to the page of the paper where he will find the name of Jeffries in the biggest type. Without giving approval to the profession of which Jeffries stands at the head, we cannot but admit that he
 is entitled to a certain distinction. He had nat ural talent to begin with, and this he developed by industry and perseverance, until today he can be taken as an example of the successful man.
 We go by thousands to see football games, where the danger of injury is greater than in the prize ring; we applaud endurance contests of various kinds where the strain and effort is as great as on the part of professional boxer, and we see a racing machine dash through a fence or over an embankment killing the driver or mechanician, and feel only temporary re- gret and abhorrence. We know it is part of the game ,and is to be expected Wilbur Wright touched a human trait when he said that the crowds watching him fly in France were greatly increased after the accident at Fort Myer last year. If there was danger to his life, then the spectacle was worth going to see, an indication of the morbidness of humankind.
 Interest in Jeffries is not confined to any one class We must have heroes and when one man rises above the multitude by some special talent or aptitude, he gets the plaudits It does not show depraved taste to read about the un- conquered hero of the squared circle and the padded mits. Nor does every man who reads the account of the battle care to be spectator at the ringside A meeting between Jeffries and Johnson will have as great an interest as the de- eiding game between the Pirates and Tigers did in major league cities, and ten-fold as great in other parts of the country. We are not so far removed from primitive man as to be indifferent to tests of brawn, when the combatants repre-. sent the highest development in the fstic art.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04
The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon (Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundreth Wfe)
 BY MAUD MARIE
BY MAUD MARIE

Hear now the 'Maiden's $ Psalm," oh my slaughter, and consider its words of wisdom! Marriage is my destiny; it shall not escape me!
 It maketh me wander unto many pink teas and cotillions
 Itkeepeth me going!
 Yea, though prefer single life and mine own independence, yet must l follow the hus- band hunt; for my family expecteth 1t.
 Lo, my father looketh upon me as "bur- den"; my mother shall not regard me as "failure"; my brothers tremble lest they shall have to support me. Stenography and cheap boarding house stare me in the face; and the vision of "eternal maidenhood" in fifth floor back. and cold ham for luncheon are abhorrent unto me.
 Though I bind myself in corsets of steel, though I limp upon French heels, though 1 burden my head with the weight of eighteen puffs, I shall not faint; for the thought of the time when I shall dwell all day in kimono comforteth me.
 Then, patronizing married women shall not call me- "Poor Thing!" Then, shall I have Mrs. y on my calling cards, and personal maid, yea, and an expensive bulldog.
 Then. shall I be invited to chaperon other damsels, and I shall patronize them, and firt with their escorts.
 And if I become widow. I shall marry again without effort, for unto men, love is but game of ''Follow the Leader!'
 Now shall go forth upon the Love Chase, and my feet shall not stumble. To, with whatsoever wed will be satisfied; for know that husbands, like unto birthday gifts, are not matter of choice, but of chance!
 At twenty I shall not wait for an affinity, lest at thirty I be contented with an asininity.
 Yea, I am meek! I shall not be cast down though I receive lemon; for know that in the matrimonial market, grape fruit is scarce Surely, luck and success shall follow me, and shall dwell at last in West Side apart ment with real Daghestan rugs on the floor and the hall boys wearing buttons. Yet, let not him that falleth to my lot blame me that we are illmated; for shall say unto him, Go to! Thon were the best [ could getI' Selahl
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04
BEAUTY IS RELIGION

Femininity is not cult in any city except Paris. That is the secret of the Parisian su- premacy in fashions The cult of feminity has never been cultivated so absolutely as it has been cultivated in Paris. Woman is the religion of Paris. The Parisians worship nothing but wo- man. They worship her as substitute for ev- cry other form of romance. She represents for them the only remaining escape from reality Paris is the city of cynics It is the metropolis of disillusion. It has lost faith in every ideal except the ideal of feminine alurement It has no illusions except the illusion of beauty It clings to that last illusion with pathetic ob- stinacy and in order to keep it up 1t demands an everlasting refinement of refinement. The natural crudity of woman must be yelled with mystery, and the whole art of fashion is the creation of feminine mystery. Clothes are used not as an envelope, but as an evasion To be dowdy is to be found out. Paris is the severest critic of feminine outline and poise and idiosyn- crasy. No sensitive woman can walk down the Rue de la Paix without feeling anxious about the hang of her skirt, the angle of her hat the har- mony of her color scheme, the fit of her gloves, the shape of her shoes, the propriety of her hair and the grace of her gait Paris is the only city which makes a woman fear daylight.
 It IS the fierce glare of criticism which makes Paris the dictator of the worlds fashions If a woman Is not elegant in Paris she is an eyesore London stares at an elegant woman; Paris stares at dowdy woman. In London woman is either pretty or plain; in Paris even the plain woman is pretty. The Parisienne, as a rule is not beautiful, and perhaps that is why the cult of elegance is so universal in Paris In London plain woman gives herself up as bad job, but in Paris plain woman makes the best of bad business and outwits Nature by the ingenuity of art
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

diligent search he government is satisfied that Wilmington was drowned in 1874, and that his rights passed to a daughter, who cannot be found, but for whom apparently accumulated in terest for thirty-five years is held. Her name is known, but her whereabouts is at present not ascertainable However, the government does not despair of being able to get the money that is her due into her hands.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04
PASSING EVENTS
1 Wondering Pension.

q " uNU6ItHy TtHStOW.
 It is more than two centuries and half since Richard Penderell hid Charles II in an oak at Boscober Although the male line of the Stuarts is instinct and Hanoverians hold royal rank, the annuity, of $100 which Charles decreed to Pen derell and his heirs is scrupulously paid Just now there is trouble about finding the heirs. In 1859 the pension was divided between two men, named Macaren and Wilmington. They sold their life interests in the pension for cash Mac laren is still alive, but very old London cab man, but Wilmington disappeared. After a most
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

"A New York husband is suing his wife foI divorce on the ground that she takes his money and keeps it, /" says the Providence Journal Any wife who takes her husbands money and keeps It, when she might lend it back to him. is cruel and inhuman.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

A Wllkesbarre girl, recently wed, now de- clares she was not in her fright mind when the ceremony was performed. As a post-nuptial conclusion, this is hardly to be classed as par ticularly novel,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

An Iowa woman, after her fifth adventnro lnto the realms of matrimony, now declares tbat marriage IS failure. It seems that she neooot L,' ca to procure divorces between her various st;lI
 very y-much-allve husbands, and that may have something to do with it. may nave
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Surely, the monojury that found both Pinchot and Ballinger not guilty should have no diff culty extending a similar verdict in MT. AId- rich $ favor to point including s'Uncle Joe. ,,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

One thing is certain" says the Topeka State Journal. But it is not that Mr. Bryan will never agalu be candidate for the presidency.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

And now the John Jacob Astors are to be d- vorced. Still, there must be one happily mar ried couple somewhere concealed about the 400
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

A fiorlda candidate for the senate says Ca ProtectlVe tariff is unconstitutional. What nowever, IS the Constitution between tbrifty pplneapple p growers and the powers that be ;n
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04
DAILY ARIZONA SILVER BELT

The New York World accuses the mighty Bwana Tumbo of plagarizing. Gadzooks! That is worse than mature faking'1if the indct- ment is not short and ugly
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

King Edward would hardly dare indorse the house of lords as outspokenly as MT. Taft in dorses MT. Aldrich. But, then, the king is some thing of a molycoddle in politics.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

After few weeks of more or less loafing ex- istence the old reliable stove is about to settle down to hard winters run.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Pie never developed noble character. l, says woman writer. It has developed some noble office seekers, however.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Thomas w. Lawson is said to be Cookite. This is natural, of course. If Cook is proven a faker, he will make even Lawson look like a cheap imitation of the real thing.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

rlttsourg's baseball team advertises the homo town 1 Tn much better fashion than some of oe ;te milionaires do 'One ol US
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Senator Depew's advice, "Drink champagne only, z was given out for limited circulation, of course.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Automobiling causes appendicitis, so the latest surgical promulgation has it. This will tend to conine the malady more closely than ever to the smart set.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

MT. Balfour has accused fellow -Englishman of uttering "a frigid, calculated lie" He must have been referring to the ice man.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

To be perfectly frank about the matter, the in- troducton of women into the membership of congress actually might decrease the aggregate flow of eloquence.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

The trouble with the interesting Mr. Barrill is that it is wel-nigh impossible to tell whether he is lying for the fun of it or merely because he needs the money.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

No man, however, may consistently blame MT. Speaker Cannon for talking while he has the floor It may be difficult for him to obtain it later along.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

Some of our tightwad celebrities ought to be happy that they do not live in Jackson, Miss, where the price of ticket to the Taft dinner was $25.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-04

The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper Tn the world published in city with l2,OOO or less population.