The San Francisco call., 1909-10-07
COMES FROM EAST
IN A BIG BUICK
DR.. T. c. TredweIl of New York
Crosses the Continent
by Easy Stages
Visits the Northwest and Will
Return Home by the Way
of Los Angeles
By R. K. L'HoMMEDIEU

DR.. T. c. Tredwell, for many years
practicing physician of New York city,
is in San Francisco, having made the
trip across the continent in his Buick
40 touring car The doctor has long
been horse fancier and constantly
maintained sable of four thorough
breds until he was seized with the au-
tomobile enthusiasm.
Leaving New York on June IA and
accompanied by Mrs. Tredweil and her
brother, Doctor Tredwell steered up the
west side of the Hudson and toward the
Catskln mountains. Erie, Pa, was the
next objective point, after which short
stops were made at Ashtabula, Cleve-
land and Toledo, o. Three weeks were
spent in Chicago. St. Louis furnished
amusement for the tourists for period
Of one month and at Denver a stop Of
three weeks was also made. The route
was taken through Cheyenne and Lara
mie and followed as closely as possi-
bic the Union Pacific railroad as far as
Green river. where the course was laid
for Portland, Ore, the party having
just reached San Francisco from the
northern city.
complete camping outfit was car
rIed on the machine and many nights
their tent was pitched in true old over
The physician has been his own chauf
feur and mechanician on the entire trip
and is very loud in his praises for the
perfect manner in which his machine
came through the ordeals to which it
was subjected on the long journey. The
doctor says there Were no roads at all
In the state OF Wyoming, and upon
reaching the salesrooms of the Howard
automobile company, after a brief de-
scription of the great obstacles which
were encountered, and being asked
what work he desired done on his ma
chine before proceeding on his journey,
he replied: There is not one thing
necessary to be done to my machine. 1t
is running more perfectly today than
when left New York and l shall pro-
ceed to Los Angeles in a few days"
Handsome 1910 Thomas Flyer tour
ing cars were received by the Pioneer
automobile compa-
New Thomas ny ~, n
Cars Arrive proved the center
.,.--- of attraction along
the row when
placed on display in the salesrooms of
specially built car. to be delivered to
A, w. Goodfeilow of Fresno, and is one
of the most striking and completely
coast 1t is six cylinder. 20 horse
power car. The body is finished in-
white, with black running gear. The
a leather AN and It is equipped I'D with i every every
modern convenience. The other is also
seven passenger car. but finished in
dark green, with cream running gear.
Manager McLain of the local branch
of the II. H. Franklin company says
there are those
fFrankIins who take it for
Use NO Fan Cooled automobiie
engine must have
fan such as all water cooled motors
have. That such is not the feet, how
ever, is being given a demonstration
by the III. III. Franklin manufacturing
company This company, in putting
out It's automobiles for the 1910
season, has abandoned the fan, and
the current OF air which cools the en-
gine cylinders is moved solely by the
fiywheel which is made of such type
as to produce strong suction. Each
cylinder has a separate current of cool
ing air, which is applied first to the
hottest part of the cylinder, namely,
tom along vertical cooling fanges. BY
this arrangement all parts of the cir
conference of each cylinder are equally
cooled.
The following letter has been for.
warded by William I. Hughson of the
Standard motor car
Wants Race for company to L. P:
. L.le re"o" the commit tt e g
which has the Por-
to1a road race in charge. According
TO the entry blanks of the Oakland Por-
tola race, which will be held under the
auspices of the Automobile Club of
California. Saturday, October 23 cars
of less than 231 inches cylinder dis
placement will not be able to run.
While 1 realize that the idea of max
ing the real cylinder displacement as
high as possible, in order to insure as
high a horsepower machine in the race
as possible, | also wish to say that we
are very anxious to put a small car into
the race. We do not know how this
an event of short distance for low pow
cred machines, such as the Ford. The
Ford cylinder displacement is 16s