The San Francisco call., 1909-06-27

most delightful trip
IS TO motor as far
as the law allows SSE=@eS<[Z[zzH
and then stage il IN1 LEAYYTT
! into the valley ~
on the trip I was accompanied by
Waiter Hansel. one OF the firm Of Mer-
pm, Hansel & Sahlbscb. REQ agents in
FStockton
I The trip TO Yosemite is an exceed
ingiy hard one on account of the heavy
grades, deep wales. many fords to be
made through the creeks. and road
IN many places none too good.
! TRY A ONE CYLINDER
A number of large cars have made
fthis tour and on their return told such
tales Of their hardships and experiences
that thought il would be quite a joke
70 accomplish it in a one cylinder car.
The time taken by some of the cars was
81 least two days from Stockton. We
: set a time limit OF one day.
We took a good early start in the
morning, just about sunrise. and had
the pleasure Of taking supper at the
Sentinel hotel in the valley, the evening
: Of the same day. We accomplished the
run IN this time by keeping steadily at
tt wherever the roads were passa bic
fanq when we had to leave the road and
80 up the bank TO get around obstruc-
( rons, such as fallen trees and rocks
we would sometimes progress bv
Jumps Of three or four feet at a time
: by speeding up the engine throwing in
The low speed clutch, then before the
engine stalled, pulling out the clutch,
speeding uD and jumping again.
When we entered the Yosemite val
ley II was about ; O'Clock in the after
noon. We forded the streams v,itbo,,+
any trouble, the water only coming a
little above the hubs of the wheels
After good supper and a splendid
nights rest we spent the following daz-
viewing the sights OF this wonderful
place. We left the hotel early the nAxt
morning and right there we learned
+ something about the streams of Yo-
semitic valley.
FED BY MELTING SHOWS
We found that these streams are fed
from melting SHOWS of the mountafns
I. q nd that the snow, melting through the
Gay Tar upon the hills. finds its way
down 70 the valley in the early even
ang' ana that the water Is. the greatest
depth about o'clock in the morning
IRON which time IL gradually subsidies
until 1t commences to rise again in
Etne evening. So when we started in the
early morning, and although the water
fcoming in had only been about hub deep
1T was now up over the floor boards
This submerged the carburetor and
made orr progress very slow
We would dash into ford and keep
going until We would drown the en-
gine then we would both get out into
this icy cold water, nearly up to olr
waists, and one man taking hold of the
TOP OF each front wheel, we would roll
the car through the ford
Upon reaching the other side we
would drain the water out of the crank
case, and the carburetor, turn on the
gasoline. prime the carburetor pIenti-
fully crank her UP again and go on.
We only had TO do this few times
and then we got past the water and
started to come out OF the valley.
FIND BIG GRADE
Here we found 20 per cent grade
one foot in five rise. This grade was
a mile and half long, and the road
surface a little bit soft for easy travel
ing. There is a great deal OF. altitude
at this point and the air is pretty thin.
therefore the compression very light.
We did not have any too much pres
sure in our little runabout, but by rest
ing the engine a few times on the
grade we came up without any serious
trouble. From this point our return
LLlD TO CLOthlDu was Incl
dent. We just kept plugging along.
and made the return trip in about the
same time as the run into the valley.
After we reached Stockton Mr.. Han
sci suggested that we take a REQ AZ
and make the trip again, turn right
around and come through the water
while # was at low level and back into
stockton again inside of "A hours.
This appealed TO me ns a pretty good
stunt and we were just about to start
on the trip when we received word
from the department of the interior in
washington that automobiles would not
be permitted in the Yosemite. on ac-
count of the danger of frightening
horses on the narrow mountain roads.
on the trip we did make with the
little one cylinder REQ we had the
pleasure of showing people that we
could go wherever a car should go and
some places it should not
A letter received from Grand Rapids,
Mich. states that the value Of the
.t automobile n e
I Fire Engines ehgine Was one 60 ot
Successful fne prineslspad top
lcs OF o.SSIsslo1l isssl''. l.
at the Michigan
state firemen's convention recently
held in that city. Chief Delfs of Lam
sing who has recently been furnished
with an auto engine. reported that his
engine had responded to II alarms in
156 DAYS. total OF 16 hours, at total
cost ot Sza'e4' "a s...aa s1sas 4.sze--