The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
SUPERVISORS GO
OVER BOULEVARD
San Mateo Officials and Officers
of Automobile Club Consider
Bad Conditions
Some Chances That the Road
May Be Put in Good
Shape Again
By X. X. FHOmn1edieu

By X. X. FH0n1medieu
Casey John Coleman, supervisors of
san Mateo county, and A. b. Watson
and Leslie Il. Burks sf the Automobile
cub of California yesterday. The
meeting took place at Colma, and after
discussing the conditions of the boule-
ward built under popular subscription
through the work of r. p Schwerin,
those who were at the meeting took
automobiles and went over the full
length of the road, including that por-
ton that reaches as far as Burlingame.
1t would have been impossible for
any sane person, after the ride yester-
day. 10 say anything but that the
roads at the present time are as bad
as could be found in the state of Cali
fornia The two supervisors acknowl-
edged as much yesterday and thought
they should be improved. They know,
and any one who has gone over the
road of late but once knows. that it is
a crying shame to allow such an ex-
pensve piece of highway to go to
pieces, especially when the road means
so much to San Francisco, San Mateo
and Santa Clara counties. But yester-
day these two supervisors were not
as keen about taking over the unac
cepted part of the road or fixing up
that part that has been accepted
would be expected of any one who
was thoroughly in accord with the
meeting of those who had asked the
supervisors to go over the road.
Casey seems to want to do every
thing possible 10 put the roads in con-
dition. Coleman would not express
any official opinion" but thought that
the road should be fixed up. Neither
would say what he thought would be
the official action at the next meet
ing of the supervisors, which takes
place, on the 18th of the month. 1t
is evident from the expressions yes
terday that the supervisors would like
10 see outside capital come in to build
up the roads of the county. Both of
them put on the poor mouth.
This. as was expressed by one of the
automobilists after the meeting. was
coming TO a pretty pass when the rest
Of the state of California had to put
it's hand in its pocket to build roads
in a county where some of the rich
est men on the Pacific coast reside
Don c. McCord, head of the local
branch of the WilIys-Overland motor
car company, has
.1.r,cn car written from the
Coming West east o SAYING ing, that n1st sne ne
-.
with the Marion car,
which he will also handle on the coast.
He writes: The car is built by the
Overland people, they having purchased
the Marion plant and on account of the
demand tor Marions are building about
], 200. The car is 80 horsepower toy
tonneau or FIVE passenger. and both de-
tachable. l saw one of them do 60
miles here yesterday, and / consider it
one of the best built cars ever saw.
To-o,b E-o.tuaad ~ +hiS oit ta G
Joined the: ranks of motor car owners
- and has purchased
Ruxs a a Studebaker go
sfudebaker car which .ici.,a he 1s,. will sa,.
pleasure. He drove
his car to Mountain View, his home
town. The Studebaker Brothers conf
pany of California also reports the sale
and delivery of Studebaker- -Garferd
car of the 40 horsepower suburban type
to J. Rupert Foster of Marysyille.
H l. owesney. manager of the San
Francisco branch of the Winton
.. m o or carriage
Praises the company, has re-
.,... -".oI teresting lette r
stone of Phoenix Ariz The letter
contains clipping from local news
paper. which Dr. Stone felt would also
be of interest The letter reads:
Every man. when he gets good serv
I Ice, OF DuyS SOOu tHlng. sSnOulu not
be slow in saying So Especially is
this so in the case of motor cars. I
want to say that my Winton six is the
envy of evenly one who has seen it or
ridden in it. 1t is a beauty and in
every way most satisfactory Have
run It some 1,500 miles without touch
ing 1t: oil and gasoline is all that is
needed. / was very lucky to get it,"
The clipping gives evidence of the
work that is being done by the doc
tors Winton; DIR; H; H. stones Win
ton automobile broke two records while
returning from Roosevelt Yesterday.
1t climbed to the top of Fish Creek
hill in 6h minutes. 80 seconds
better than the previous record held.
and ran the entire distance from
Roosevelt 10 Tempe in 3 hours and
so minutes. clipping so minutes from
the previous record over this road
When the machine was started up
Fish Creek hill 1t was with the de-
liberate intention of beating the former
record. No effort was made. however
to break the record from Roosevelt to