The San Francisco call., 1909-12-15
MITCHELL OUTPUT
UNCHECKED BY FIRE
Blaze at Racine Did Not Reach
Manufacturing Plant of
Popular Car
Agent A. E. Hunter Advised
That Deliveries Will Be
Made as Scheduled

The fire in Racine. wis, which was
supposed to have destroyed part of the
Mitchell motor car plant. did not have
any effect on the output OF Mitchell
cars. The buildings that were destroyed
belonged to the Racine novelty works
and the Mitchell wagon company.
The destroyed plant is two miles
from the Mitchell motor car companys
factory. The novelty works had made
some of the bodies for the Mitchell peo
pie, but these were already in the fac
tory and were saved. These are only
a small part of the bodies used, the
main lot coming from another section.
A. E. Hunter of Osen s, Hunter auto
mobile company. the local agents for
the cars, said yesterday that the fire
mobiles and that deliveries would be
made just as the shipments had been
scheduled.
The dates for the record trials at the
motor speedway, Friday and Saturday
next. were granted
All Ready for by the A. A. A. re-
Speedway Test. Director areS foVISns of cons
tests r. A. Moross
of the speedway Everything is now
ready for the battle of the stalwarts
with the marks that have stood for
With the granting of the sanction
gram for the meeting is being ar
ranged and will include events for cars
Of class l, $50 to 500 cubic inches;
8, 2s1 to sol cubic inches: class 4. ISL
to 2S1 cubic inches; class 5. 161 cubic
inches and under.
Each of these classes will have
classes will be kept.
The Ast of events will include the
quarter. mile, the half mile. the kiIo-
10 mile, the 20 mile, the so mile and
the 100 mile; also trials for one hours
running. Records will be gone after
The craze for the torpedo body on
automobiles, which was the striking
winfon With cent London snow,
Torpedo Body United States. It
has even reached
the Pacific coast. III. L. Owesney, man.
ager of the coast branch of the Win
ton motor carriage company, reported
yesterday that he had received an or
der from E. j. Cook for Winton six
cylinder, seven passenger touring car
with a torpedo body. This will be the
first Winton touring car that will carry
E. B. Waterman came up from Fres-
no in his little six cylinder Winton- He
all the way down to the raisin city.
The Wtnton branch yesterday re-
ceived two carloads of 1910 cars
Announcement is made by the Amer
lean automobile association that open
meetings Will be
A.A.A. to Hold held at national
:. Open Meetings FSSI9 FiStb eSts Venue. New
York. during the
two great automobile show weeks, and
of fare and three-fifths have been
granted by the trunk line association
for members of the association.
The first meetings are scheduled for
December 81 to January Z, inclusive.
during the week of the automobile
show at Grand Central Palace. under
car manufacturers association
A A. A. members residing at points
outside of the territory above men
toned should purchase regular one
est point from which a certificate re-
duction has been authorized. and there
repurchase one way ticket and secure
Meetings will also be held from jan
uary to Is inclusive. during the week
OF the aut9moDlle @ d sh9W ~ at sniaI Madlsof of
the Association Of Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers, which opens on Janu-
ary and continues until January 10.
That the tenth national automobile
show in Madison Square garden. Janu-
ary S-l5. Will
a. cor,in~ shoyx exhibition of mo-
:. .-.---y.. tor cars, motor cy-
cles and accesSor
les ever held in the famous building.
is positively assured by the official
list of exhibitors Just issued by the
Association OF Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers, under whose auspices
a total of 323 different displays. Of
which there are 81 exhibits of COM
cessories and parts, and 23 motor cy-
Gle exhibits.