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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
10000 FORD CARS WILL
BE COMING YEARS CROP
Company Erects Largest Reinforced
Concrete Building In World-FIoor
Space Is over Six Acres

The highest producing mark yet set
in the automobile industry will be. es-
tablished by the Ford Motor company
of Detroit, which will produce the stu
pendous total of 10000 cars for 1910.
That this enormous production can
be made possible, the Ford company is
specializing on one car, and except for
improvements and refinements. the 1910
cars are duplicates of the 1909 model
which met with such widespread sue
cess during the 1909 season.
production of this magnitude can
not be turned out under any ordinary
conditions, and to accomplish it the
Ford company has erected a splendid
new factory in the Highland Park sec
tion of Detroit.
The factory is the largest reinforced
concrete building in the world-being
S62 feet long, 75 feet wide and four sto-
ries high. Its total floor space is 61s
acres. The building is a marvel of fac
tory construction, being composed of
street, concrete, brick and glass. Be-
tween the concrete columns and reach
ing almost from floor to ceiling of each
story, the walls are glass, so that every
floor is flooded with light,
In addition to this wall will be the
machine shops, S40x136 feet and one
story high, and the three-story office
building 300x60 feet.
To insure ample room for future eX-
pansion, the company purchased a six
ty-acre tract of land before building
operations were commenced.
This land was formerly the state fair
grounds and includes mile race track,
which will be used by Ford testers,
The new factory building will be fully
occupied by next November The ca
pacity of the new plant as now out
lined will be 500 cars a day,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
PORT0LA EVENTS
READY FOR ENTRIES
FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS FOR PRIZES
Automobile Races to Be Chief Event
of the Carnival, and Course
Is the Best Any
where

Entry blanks for the Portola road
races, to be held on the Oakland course
at Oakland, Cal, Saturday, oct. 23
1909 have been made public and are
to be one of the chief features of the
Portola celebration.
The following are the events sched-
uled for this race and will be found
interesting to many of this city
Event No. 1-Free-for-a for cars
having a piston displacement in ex-
cess of 600 cubic inches, and also open
to cars which have regularly qualified
for the following events, Nos. 2 and
3: Twelve laps of course, about 25S
miles. First prize $1,000; second prize,
5000; third prize, S400.
Event No. 2-Stock chassis having a
piston displacement of from 451 to 500
subic inches and minimum weight of
2400 pounds (Class B, sub-class / of A.
A. A. classiication). Ten laps Of
course, about 215 miles. First prize,
$1,000; second prize, $500; third prize,
500.
Event No. 3-Stock chassis having a
pistol displacement of from 301 to 450
cubic inches and minimum weight of
2100 pounds (Class B, sub-class 2 of A.
A. A. classification. Seven laps of
course, about $50 miles. First prize,
s700; second prize, 5000; third prize,
s100.
Entry Zee in each OF the above events
will be 10 per cent of the amount of
first prize, which fee must accompany
application for entry. In event of
bona fide start fee will be returned to
entrant, otherwise fee will be retained
by promoter.
Entrants i'm events Nos. and COM
peting in event No. 1 will be required
to complete the full number of laps of
their respective "Stock Chassis events
to do Fl, Nn
and must have completed the full num-
ber of laps prior to the official calling
off of the contest in order to so qualify.
Prizes will be awarded to entrants
of winning cars and win be either in
cash or plate at option of winner
Leslie F.. Burks, 532 Mills building,
San Francisco, Cal, is the managing
secretary, to whom all communications
should be addressed concerning this
road race
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
AUTOMOBILE CLUB
OF SO. CALIFORNIA
SPLENDID WORK BEING DONE
IN MARKING ROADS
In Riverside County TWenty-three
Hundred Dollars Being Spent in
Indicators of New and
Valuable Design

There are but few automobile owners
and drivers but will greatly appreciate
the good work the Automobile club of
Southern California is doing in mark
! ing the roads of the several counties
of the southern section of this great
| state.
/ No work in which they have been
| engaged however, will begin to meas
ure up with their performances in RiV-
erside county, where the club is eX-
| pending the handsome sum of twenty
three hundred dollars in the most COM
plete system of marking the roads of
that county ever attempted anywhere
in the United States, and so simple
that the most obdurate wrong road
taker cannot but take the right way
even though he be deretermined to go
wrong. The illustration given in the
photograph of this splendid work of
the Automobile club shows the sim
plicity of the new method adopted to
place these signs, and in the informa-
tion they contain. Instead of Following
the old fashioned plan of the post and
cross sign, with even the emblems
upon them, the new signs adopted for
Riverside bear the indicated direction
at cross or diVerging roads and then
give the traveller the full information
as to the exact distance to the next
place, inquired QONI 10 ltIllIlS VI HlllNo'
Another feature is the change of
color of the background of the sign
boards For example the tourist comes
to a diverging road and glance at
the board shows white ground with
blue letters he at once knows that this
particular road has been marked the
entire distance. If, however, he OBJ
serves that the background of the
board is blue with white letters, While
the sign at the diverging point gives
the distance to the place to which the
road leads, it also tells him that the
road has. not been marked over its
course.
Every road and cross road that is
either new or old has been incorpor-
ated also in the new maps of the club,
so that the rooms of the members will
give every information concerning
every road in the southern part of
California.
In working out this scheme, the
members and officers of the club have
found ready assistance from the very
best of citizens along the roads, they
fully realizing that we'll marked roads
add to the value of their holdings and
makes property all the more valuable.
This must be apparent also that each
year the number OF visitors to Cali
fornia increases materially Many of
those are lonlsin" for nlacee TO locate
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
POPE-HARTFORD IS
IN GREAT FAVOR
A WEEK AFTER INTEREST Is
STILL INTENSE
Many Sales Recorded During Week
as Result of the Popularity
Given It by Wild
Bill

The exciting event during the past
week, of course, in automobile circles,
has been the wonderful run made by
William R. Ruess in the Pope-Hart-
ford, when he captured the Fenner cup
and the we'll sustained honor of win
ming the Mount Baldy race.
Ever since Automobile Row has been
discussing the race from every phase
of the event, and all are now ready
to give to the winner the full credit
of his remarkable run that brought
honor to himself and credit to the car
he drove.
The warerooms of the Ruess Auto
mobile company have been crowded
daily with eager, prospective buyers,
and the visits of these people have
borne fruit, for no less than seven di
rect sales were made of Pope Hartford
cars, effected by the evidence of en-
durance and the staunch structural as
sembling of the parts that make the
machine desirable for just the condl-
tions of roads that are peculiar to CAL
ifornia, where the roads are far from
being the best in the world.
A visit to Santa Barbara by Ruess
and Captain Jargstroff has added fur
ther sales to the record of the firm, so
that when Bill Ruess wildly sits
down to figure up the chances he took
last Sunday morning in that terrific
but successful ride, he can safely look
to the credit side of the ledger and
smile that broad smile for which he is
known with the good feeling that, how
ever great the chances taken, it was
profitable to do So
Nothing gives wild Bill" more
pleasure after all the excitement at
tendant upon the race than to give the
utmost credit to Harris Hanshue, who
drove the losing Apperson in the Baldy
race, and many times expresses his
sympathy for the losing driver of a
good car. These two fearless fellows
were and are the very best of friends
personally and none congratulated
Ruess more heartily at the conclusion
of the run than Hanshue although the
later had made one of the most desper-
ate attempts TO win that he has ever
made in the time OF his racing career.
Hanshue's heart was in that race for
himself as well as for his dead-game
employer-Leon T. Shettler-a man
who thoroughly enjoys the sport as
well as the lessons that are learned
from endurance runs such as are af-
forded in Baldy courses, and with char
acteristics enterprise is always one of
the most willing of all Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26

enormous output, it is not even sus-
pected that the supply will begin to
equal the demand for motor cars. Fac
tories are running to their fullest ca
pacities, and even overtime in a great
many of them. However, his firm have
arrangements made for deliveries for
October and thereafter, ass~rlng
prompt delivery of all cars sold to buy
ers a pleasant anticipation for the ad-
mirers of the car with Columbia's
name, fully sustaining the reputation
of this house for prompt dealing and
sure and certain carrying out of all
assurances given to buyers-a satis-
faction that must prove valuable alike
to buyer and seller
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
BACK FROM EASTERN
TRIP TO FACTORIES
NEW CAR WILL BE THE six
SIXTY-SlX" COLUMBIA
Will Be One of the Handsomest Cars
Ever Seen in This Section
and Wonder of
Machine

c. E. Bireley of the firm of Bireley
& Young arrived back in Los Angeles
! after most extensive trip through the
eastern cities during the past six
weeks, whittier he had gone to visit
the factories of the Columbia and Her
| reshoff cars, and is more than de-
lighted with the result of his visit.
Mr.. Bireley, during his travels
through the eastern states, visited Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Cleve-
land, Chicago, Detroit and. many other
of the larger cities making careful
note of everything appertaining to the
automobile business, how it is con-
Quoted in the great automobile centers
and noting the improvements in the
cars for which his firm are the selling
agents as well as those of other makes,
and after a careful study of all that
appertains to the business, is more
than satisfied with the machines the
firm are selling here and have made
so popular.
An innovation to the trade here will
be the new series of the Columbia car,
which will be the new four cylinder for
six and seven passengers, and the new
iX-SiXty-Six," which will, from what
Mr. Bireley states, be one of the hand
soonest cars ever seen in California, in
point of graceful lines, colors and fin
ish, while the high standard of the
cars themselves LOT ana ca
pacity will be greatly enhanced.
None will observe these things more
either than in he new series of the lit
tie Herreshoff car, upon which the OBJ
servations of the manufacturers have
been centered for the past year. and
the improvements will make the
Herreshoff a machine that the public
will notice favorably.
OF course the Columbia, which has
been doing some stunts hereabouts
of late, will rank with the highest
class cars of the country. The taking
of the San Diego record for which
others have ever since been trying with
all their might to wrest, stands as an
example of what the Columbia can do,
for scarcely had she come with the San
Diego record safely tucked away in
her packing case, till with the same
identical outfit, without a repair or ad-
justment of any kind, she went to Red
lands and brought home the Burris cup
for the time made to the marble quar-
rie of Burris, and none seem anxious
to take a chance at wrestling that Gun
from the Columbia s lockers. When
she competed that twenty and a half
miles of 1900 feet mountain climbing.
the Columbia had gone where no other
car had climbed, thereby proving her
capacity and endurance and the little
car Is fit as fiddle to make either of
the runs over again and probably cut
her own time off a considerable.
Mr.. Bireley reports the greatest ac-
t1Vity in every section of the east and
especially among the makers of auto
mobiles, the estimate being 200, 900 cars
Ior the season of 1910 and with this
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26

possibly establish winter homes and
residences and when they have roads
properly marked it shows the enter
prise of the inhabitants, the character
of the residents and adds to the gen.
eral interest taken in the places visited.
The work referred to here has been
in the hands of Leonard f. Block, who
is superintendent of roda signs for the
club, man enthusiastic in his work
and with thorough and practical
knowledge of what he is about; while
the practical assistance of Cotton A.
Smith, assistant secretary of the club,
working heartily in harmony with all
the other officers of the club, is doing
so much to make this organization one
of the most desirable in the country
The officers of the Automobile club
of Southern California are as follows:
George 4. Ellis, president; r. P.
IIillmah, vice president; Charles B.
Hopper, secretary treasurer; Cotton A.
Smith, assistant secretary.
Directors-L. d. Sale, Fred L. Baker,
H. w Keller, Charles G. Andrews, F.
O. johnson, j. j. Jenkins.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
Buick Wins aeven Elrats

The Buick won no less than seven
tlrsts out of the ten events contested
during the carnival leaving only three
firsts to be divided among twenty man
ufacturers and thirty drivers of ma
tional reputation, who made game but
unsuccessful stands against the speed
and power Bucks. Many went to bed
hungry while the Buick boys feasted at
their banquet of first honors.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26

dealers to advance the interests of
automobiledom. In calm and easy man
ner Shelter says, II have forgotten al
about the Baldy race" showing the
real-the true craftsmanship of the
dealer in the well known and favor
ably considered Apperson and REQ
cars, for which he is the distributor
for Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
Rounties Paw Gas Bills

Coyote hunting in motor cars is
favorite sport at Waller, Mont. The
sport is exciting and the bounties on
coyote scalps pay the gasoline bill.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
LORD BALTIMORE
DESCENDANT DEAD.
Especial to the Newark star.

PLAINFIELD, Sept. 27.-Harry Cal
vert Edgerton. the new manager of the
Plainffeld Theatre and direct descend
ant of Cecil Calvert, the original Lord
Baltimore. was found dead in his room
in the %1roquois Hotel here at a late
hour last night by DR.. A.. II. Dundon,
who had been attending him for neu-
ras thenia. He had bteu an invalid for
some time. He came here from Mon
treal about six weeks g to take
charge OF the-loeal theatre.
Mr.. Edgerton's wife was expected
here tomorrow afternoon, having dis
posed of their home in Montreal. He
was born in Baltimore ffty-two years
ago, engaged in theatre business in
1879 in New York as treasurer for the
original Pinafore Company. managed
by James C. Duff. He was later with
Augustin DAILY, H. r. Jacobs, of Chi
cago, and Gus Hill. In Montreal he
been with Sharrows and Edwards.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
LAY CORNER. STONE OF
EAST ORANGE CHURCH.

The exercises of laying the corner
stone of the Elmwood Presbyterian
Church, East Orange, yesterday were
conducted before a crowd of 800 persons.
The service was interesting and impress
sive.
The Rev. Charles b.. Bullard, pastor
of the Church, read a list of thirty
four articles commemorative of the
year and other matters of interest TO
the congregation.
The invocation was led by DIR. George
Webster, pastor Of the Church of the
Covenant. New York, and the respon-
sive reading by the Rev. Dr.. James S.
Riggs, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian
Church, East Orange. The address for
the occasion was delivered by the Rev.
John Douglas Adam, of the Mum Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church, East Orange.
DIR. Adams address was brief. He
spoke on THE Use of a New Church"
in which he brought the greetings OF
the Mum Avenue Church. of which
the Elmwood church was a mission al
one time.
The prayer following the laying of
the cornerstone was said by the Rev.
James M.lLudlow, former pastor of the
Mum Avenue Church, and DIR, William
Frayner, associate pastor of the Mum
Avenue Church, pronounced the bene-
diction.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
NAVAL COMRADES HIS
GUESTS ON BIRTHDAY.
Nutley Man to Lead Them in Pa
rade THURSDAY.

Lars j. Petersen, of the Central Ho-
tel, In Chestnut street, Nutley, cele-
brated his 46th birthday yesterday at
his home, m had as his guests al
dinner members of Naval Camp No. AZ
Veterans Of the Spanish American
War, of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Petersen was organizer of the
camp, and was boatswain on the Chi
cage and Cincinnati in the Spanish
War. On Thursday he will lead 2oC
naval veterans in the New York pa.
ral<.
Srsctss veterans present. all Of whstA
whps AZ The battles at Santiago Sai
C&sAenas. were Commander Frank Pen
naIt. Past Commander William Han
son. Senior Vice : Commander Emil
Reutiger, Junior Vice-Commander Ha-
kon Hanson, Past Senior Vice-Com-
mander o. Hofbrand,. Chaplain WILL
lam j. Gaines, Carl Nilsson, Frederick
M. Jacobson, H.. Johnson, J. Carseund,
A. Blume, ]. E~ckenberg. j. P. Olssen,
G. Farnblad, o. Hopstrand, Carl V.
Petersen, T. christensen, William
Brown, T. Ericsson, John Morse and Mrs.
0. Hofstrand.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
DEATH ENDS CIVIL WAR
VETERANS MISFORTUNES.
Frank S. Taylor Will Be Buried
Tomorrow.

Funeral services over the body OF
Frank S. Taylor, a veteran of the Civil
War, and a charter member of Lincoln
Post, g. A. r., win be held in his home
162 South Seventh street, tomorrow. The
interment will be. in Paramount Gene
terry. Many of the veterans of the city
and of the Soldiers Home, in Kearny,
will attend the services.
Mr.. Taylor's death came as the cul-
mination of a series of misfortunes
starting a year 6 with the death OF
his wife, to whom he was married
shortly after the close of the Civil War.
His health steadily declined since his
wife's demise. While returning from a
visit to his old comrades a week ago
last Saturday. he was stricken with a
fainting spell, and had to be taken TO
his home in an ambulance. FITS death
came last Saturday.
Mr.. Taylor served in several regi-
ments during the war, the first being
the First Regiment. New Jersey volun-
teers. His next regiment was the New
Jersey Emergency Militia. and his last
the Thirty-Fifth Regiment, in which
he served as a lieutenant.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
STARS CRUSADE ENDS
LOCAL ALPINE CLIMBING.
Pedestrians "Stunts" Over Four
Corners Distractions No More.

The northeast corner of Market and
Broad streets presented an appearance
today decidedly different from that
which has distinguished it for several
months past. The change has been
wrought by the removal Of the wooden
bridge which covered the sidewalk on
both thoroughfares, where the new
Firemen's Insurance Company's build
ing Is being erected.
Following the agitation of the STAR,
which eliminated in the refusal of SUI
perintendent Of Public Works Charles
M. Shipman again to issue a permit,
the contractors, Whitney-Steen Com
pany, got busy early yesterday and
RACED the bridge on the Broad street
side, establishing in it's place a board
walk, half of it being in Market street.
1t 10 said by the contractorssthat as
soon as three more columns are placed
the remainder of the bridge will be
lowered to the street level. The drum
engine that stood on Broad street has
been effectually effaced from the erst-
while Alpine scene.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
RED TAPE OBSTRUCTION
WRECKED BIG FETE CAR
Newark Was Blazoned in Gilt tering Letters Across Front oil
Hudson River Vehicle, but 1t Never Got Here, and 1t Was
4:30 A.. M. When Tired Hudson Fultonites Got Home.

Noteworthy enough to go ringing
down the corridors and Railways of
history was the voyage of a big red
Hudson River car. which bore in living
letters of light the word Newark"
across its bow from Edgewater, the
Jersey end of the 129th street ferry.
toward this port Sunday morning.
The expression toward this port" is
used advisedly, since the craft, although
sound OF keel and wheel and fully
manned BY a crew consisting of q con.
versational motorman and a hard
working conductor, whose fare-eollect-
ing duties never seemed to cease. never
reached the destination for which its
glittering electric headlight proclaimed
it was headed.
1t was shortly before midnight Sat
urday that the red trolley ship cleared
from Edgewater, the beautiful terry
terminal, Before it had begun its jour-
ney down the hill every inch OF space
in the seats and aisles and on the plat
form had been preempted In front of
the entrance to Palisade Park by men
and women who had fought and all
but bled for them. These same men
and women. who had been waiting
since $3.50 p. m, after the fireworks
were over. for a chance to hang by
their eyebrows to some sort of a con
veyance bound for home. could not
nave been persuaded to give up the
positions so dearly won by gifts OF
much gold or myrrh or frankincense.
The futile. struggles Of the crowds to
board the already oyercrowded car at
the ferry-hoiise furnished one of those
few GASES Of pleasure and amusement
for the occupants in the wide desert
of hardship and strife they were to
cross. Pleasant diversion of a similar
kind was furnished at every point
along thefline where the car stopped.
No sooner was the craft under way
than the conductor began the duty of
collecting fares. which was never TO
end until the car turned back. At times
1t seemed that he Z would almost
meet himself in he centre of
the car, SO rapidly did he make
his way up and down. collect
ing, collecting. always collecting.
Wherever a stop could be made an in
spector boarded the car and watched
conductor at his work, and watched