The San Francisco call., 1909-03-01

schedule the events for the coming sea-
son. This program VIII be presented
TO the members for adoption at the
next regular meeting, which will take
place a week from today.
Considerable self-congratu ton has
been indulged in at Buffalo during the
:. last four days over
p;.-.. -. f'the announcement
WE Ws,te ,or Hnm tne that President elect
Pierce Arrow car
during his coming term of office. A
contract has just been signed with the
Etrce-AIrow motor car company by
which six cylinder 4S horsepower
suburban car will be delivered at Wash
ington as soon as it can be finished.
White steamer won the round trip
contest held from Houston to Beaumont.
Tex. last week ac-
Whit. c. Tcording to a com
w. .1 munication just re-
. Asaah ceiVed by G. A. Haw-
: kins from George a
Urquhart, general agent of Texas. okla
noma. Louisiana and Arkansas for the
White steam car
on the way through to Beaumont, .
writes urduhart. the White suffered a
tire puncture. and ]. W. Bell the driver
lost 40 minutes In replacing the inner
tube and casing. The distance to Beau
mont is "a miles as the train runs and
OF the White was 4 hours % minutes
going and 4 hours 6 minutes on the re-
turn trip. Some of the roads were very
bad, especially in the palmetto swamps
end huge ruts also prevailed in part of
the open prairie country. The fastest
time OF the White was SO miles an hour
for several miles OF the distance. Prac-
ucally the machines broke the rule re-
quirlng them not to exceed an average
of 80 miles an hour. Two ferries. the
San Jacinto and the Trinity, had to be
passed Ten to 5 minutes was the time
lost at each of the ferries going but on
the return trip the winning machine ne
gotiated one of the ferries in four min
utes and the other in FIVE minutes.|
No automobile salesroom west OF Chi
cago represents as much of a motor
f5e f5Ss P;aned eNn,odtlon as
Exhibition xiii It'll moi mobile Ie0asio company s ny !:
-------.. Oldsmobi1e. ChaI-
mers-Detroit and Thomas cars. num-
bering 40 different designs and styles.
are on exhibition. Every type from
The big. racy six cylinder 10 horse
power Thomas Flyer to the famous %
horsepower Baby Oldsmobile is shown
including the chaisis of the famous
Chalmers Detroit go" The warerOoms
represent real automobile show
The Pioneer people report the fol-
lowing orders: DIR. Blaidsell. Modesto
Chalmers Detroit; s. J. Stewart. Berke-
ley. SIX CEilnuer 1NOlnaS Flyer. j. Il
Sadler. Oldsmobile; H. ]. Bancroft, two
Chalmers-Detroit touring cars: DR..
Hamlin and w. Fl. Taylor. Oakland.
30 horsepower Oldsmobile touring cars:
Chalmers go: j. S. Pearson. Thomas
so: I. S. Osgood. Oakland. Thomas
six cylinder 10; w. S. Growell. Chal-
mers-Detroit; J. 5. Whitmore, stockton.
Oldsmobile. and c. s Holt Chalmers
Detroit.
Mighty fine little fllly: just drive her
down to my stable and tie her up;
here's your check
en.es - sals This breezy bit of
oi S'"neDaker conversation came
an official of large local iron works
company. last Sunday. when he pur-
chased a Studebaker- -Garford 80" au-
tomobile. His c-der for the machine
followed mornings demonstration
over the Hayward boulevard TO the
summit of innumerable hills, including
the drive to the head OF the tunnel
road IN Claremont and though miles OF
muddy highways.
A feature of the sale to Sadler is
the fact that the car Of which he is now
the owner was taken from the floor OF
the salesroom at Sadler's request in
order. to prove to the latter that any
stock car can perform equally as well
as regular demonstrating car.
The new 'eo Buick 40 horsepower
touring ear has made some good rec
;;.----------.s. Ias III ueLihs TN the
Record OF ruarvs a1 in Nag-
the Buick Orleans this ma
man driving. broke the 80 mile worlds
record. the hour worlds record and
the 100 mile worlds record. withou+
STOP making the 100 miles in the fast
time of | hour and 42 minutes. The
former 100 mile record. which was
] hour and % minutes. had stood for
four years In breaking this record
he Buick defeated a number of the
fastest and highest powered racing cars
can.
On top of this victory the same type
# car in the Alradsna hill climb on
y tashingtons birthday driven by Frank
course for touring cars carrying five
passengers.
NOTES Of THE AUTO
VOTES OF THE AUTO. g ..6 g s. g g..
D. Z: Whitman. agent for the Regal ear. re-
'orts the delivery OF 80 horsepower four CYL
nder roadster to Dr. 7. b. ". Leland. NJ.
ABRAMS, Regal owner Of Los Angeles has |
rrfved IN town. coming up in his car He /
reports rough trip and advises that no one I
& make tue attempt to 90 south inside OF 4
some places the water up to the door
'oards OF the car.
feature OF the new 35 horsepower Renault
unabout that has Just been received by Rene j.
Marx. the coast representative, IL that II has
What Is known rs the American clearance. The
ar Is built up that it Is possible 10 use II
yer the worst roads In the country. Ine car
$ finished in French gray and black
II. o. Harrison. agent in southern California
or the Oldsmobile. arrived in the city Yesterday
ers of the local trade. The Los Angeles motor
st reports fine business ia the automobile line
the southern part Of the state. and
avs thar the dealers viii undoubtedly sell all
be cars they can get from the east.
Charles H. Burman noted driver who Is
low connected with the Peerless factory Is
n the city for stay Of several weeks. Re
will make bis headquarters at the Auto livery
nunarv the agents far the Peerless cars "