Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-09-10

The auction sale Of secondhand ait
tomobiles which Is to take plasc 20
morrow at the Won Hamm' Young gar
age IN attracting "a lot Of attention and
ne the machines are to be sold without
reserve u big crowd is expected to at.
tend The sale.
The Scnumun garage received III "
~ +. Stuicbuker this morning per the
China These machines are selling
very fast and are very popa;ar with
auto people.
Covered With mud SO thick that 1t
vas Impossible 20 tell the oliSinai
cClors of the ears. both Cadillac
thirty ears pulled up at the finish
Of the New York to Boston winter
,nduraucc, run with pc tcct scores.
The ears left New York Thursday
morning ~ 6:30 o'clock aud reached
...,u.. tie same evening, after ira
yelling 2i3 miles % about the worst
reads that Sccilon OF tic country
has seen ror 81 me years.
Six thousand miles so FAR this sea-
son without a mis- explosion or the
.c."U,au Of Il spa. plug Is the rec
ord of Cadillac Thirty" owned by
William l.. Matthews, a contractor
and builder. OF Princeton, N. j.. Mr..
Matthew'S has Informed the Cadillac
Company Of this remarkable per-
Torrance. lie says this is the fifth
car he has owned and that never
before has he had a similar expert
ence.
Skidding-contrary to an impre-
sion that is more or less widespread
is not always the result OF slip
perry roads, but frequently is due to
unequal pressure of the brake bands
on the brake drums.
by proving compensating devices
on both sets OF brakes on the Cadil-
lac Thirty. the Cadillac makers say
they have made worthy forward
step in eliminating skidding. ordi-
narily II the brake bands are not ad.
justed uniformly. the pressure ap.
piled to one wheel is greater than
that on the other. with the result
that the rear end OF the car slews
around. The Cadillac compensating
devices-which may be likened to
the doubletree on wagon-take up
any inequality that may exist In the
brake-band adjustment, and cause
the pressure to be applied uniform
ly to both brake bands.
There appeared In recent num-
Der OF the London motor publica-
ton. the Autocar, a communication
which is of interest to American au-
tomobile owners. and which serves
to bring out again the durability OF
the Cadillac car. The writer is the
owner of "A Cadillac car, which he
has used for four years and which
he has driven well over 80. 900 miles.
His letter was called forth by dis
cussion In the British motor papers
of the wearing qualities of American
machines.
The writer goes on TO say:
II have just stripped the car
down TO the last nut for the fourth
year In succession. and and that
with tho exception of slight wear In
the rollers of the back axle, there Is
almost an entire absence Of wear in
either the engine or the transmits.
sion.
1.-THE gears are as true and In as
good condition as the day ! bought
the car, and the engine pulls bet.
ter than ever. The car has now
done well over $4,000 miles, and
think your correspondents will
agree with me that the material put
into the car and the workmanship
mast have been of excellent quail
ity."
A trip OF over 200 miles. half OF
which was In the mountains OF
Washington, was recently made In q
day by o, b. Settlers Of Spokane and
three associates In his eighteen
horse power Franklin touring car
The running time was less thar
eight hours. OF the achievement
Mr.. Settlers says:
"A few days ago we started from
Spokane, Wash. at an. and rar