The San Francisco call., 1909-08-14
.SAUSALITO ROADS
ARE DISGRACEFUL
Highways in That Vicinity Are
the Worst to Be Found in
Any Part of California
Signs Posted by the Automobile
Club of California Are
Being Destroyed
By R. r. L'HOMMEDIEU

The Automobile Club of California
has thoroughly posted this part of the
state with signs telling the direction
labor of love on the part Of the officers,
and many are the compliments that
have been heard from all quarters on
the benefits of the posts. Not alone
have the automobilists been grateful
for the work, but every one who has
time the signs have been up the van
dals have got in their work.
Yesterday it was noticed that the
sign which is at the crossroads beyond
the Manzanita station in Marin county
has been so battered that it is impos-
sible to read it. 1t is shame and a
disgrace to the county. But one can
not be surprised when the condition
of the highways in that section and
on into Sausalito is considered. The
poorest sections of the state have bet
ter roads than are to be found around
Sausalito.
The club should not have erected
signs in that section until the county
had shown that it had enough self
respect to keep its roads up to a STAN
dard in keeping with the reputation of
California. Motorists going through
Marin county will find the roads out Of
Tiburon boulevard compared with the
Sausalito route.
A. E. Hunter has received word of a
curious experience felt by B. N. Beard
Good Work Beard was in
----@-.. state. road short
time ago, and
drove out on it in his Mitchell car. In
turning around on heavy fill, the top
OF which was soft dirt. the dirt caved
and the machine went over the bank
and into the bed of creek Is feet
below, landing bottomside up. Beard
writes: I'VE had % men working on
the road, so, with the assistance of
some of them, we turned the machine
over and procured pair of horses,
drawing 1T up out of the brook and
back on the road The tenders and hood
were somewhat dented, and the front
axle sprung, so that the right hand
front wheel stood under at about an
angle OF 40 degrees, and the steering
wheel was badly damaged. / cranked
the machine, and it started off all right
1 ran 1t on to~East Lynne village, about
a mile from where the accident oc-
CURED, where there was a. blacksmith; ;
took off the yheel and Strengthened the
axle. Then continued to New London
and came back to Shelton that after
noon, making a run of about 75 miles
after the accident
A copy of the following letter was
received by H. l.. Owesney of the Win
ton motor carriage
Good Run company from the
Of winton Rapaips Roms office: fbe .n,ae- re
did run of a Win
ton car: John r. Biakeslee of Cleve-
land owns a Winton Six. So too, does
Fred c. Gates of the same fair city.
Blakeslee and Gates are warm friends.
So. when Blakeslee planned a trip to
New England yHGates was invited
ut was more sociable to go in one
car than in two, so Gates car was left
behind.
The trip began June 26. That even
ing found the tourists in Fredonia, N.
Y. Next day they were in Auburn. 1872
miles farther away. A run of 1872 miles
took them to Schenectady. June 80
marked their arrival in Bridgeport
Conn.,, and July i at Narragansett pier
Then they went on to Nantasket, Mass !:
Portsmouth, N. H.; Poland Springs, Me !:
Breton Woods. N. H.; Sunapee Lake. N
H; Greenfield and Stockbridge, Mass.
Saratoga Springs, n. Y; Auburn, Buff
falo and home.
Total distance, 2,O3S miles. DAYS of
running, 10. Time spent tinkering with
engine. not the infinitesimal part of a
split second.
ga rude person in an automobile
rammed my car in the rear, causing a.
leak in the gasoline tank, and we re-
paired the damage said BIakeslee;
otherwise it was going the route like
coasting down hilI.'"