The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-24
RACING AUTOISTS
ARE COMING WEST
Portola Event With Big Prize
Money Will Be the
Attraction
Already Three Crews Have Sig
nified Their Intentions
of Competing
BY r. R. L,HoMMEDIEu

the history OF the automobile on the
the most experienced drivers will be
headed for the coast soon. The fact
that big prize money will be hung up
will be the magnet to draw them
westward. Already three racing teams
have sent word that they will be on
hand to take part in the big road race.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Aug 90.
Stanfords traditional restrictions
.----------+ against opening
Replace w Autos drive Of the cam
pus to automo-
biles and motor
cycles was somewhat broken last SEM
ester when the trustees withdrew the
ban from all but the main drive. The
tradition is now completely shattered
railway Of Palo Alto. Men are at work
clearing the trees and leveling the
ground for the roadbed, south of the
automobile road. The line will be a
system and will meet the Southern Pa
cific spur below the campus book store.
passing colse to the mems .dormltory,
Encina hall. The new railway will
dispense with the carriages and auto
mobiles running between Palo Alto
and the campus, reducing the 10 and
40 NCHI tdIcS W d . CSul OASIS. ACCOTU"
ing to the brother of Manager Yount,
who Is In the east, the Peninsular rail-
way extension is in the hands of the
Southern Pacific, although the con-
done by the university. Yount also
stated that the schedule of running
would probably give the students a Is
minute service.
c. e. Mathewson, Pacific coast man
ager OF the Diamond rubber company,
has received the
Big Re Record heMs In bit istte Of
lor diamond "A tire mileage
milage record that
many motorists will envy was made by
G. W. Butler. who won first prize,
$1,000, in the lowest upkeep contest
conducted by the Winton automobile
mI n, nut Butler is a chauffeur
cago, and his daily records were duly
sworn to. The Diamond make of tires
was used and in 1908 miles covered
gave an average of II, 2S91k miles each,
counting only the tires fully used up, or
an average of S,045 miles including
tires in use when the contest closed A
hint to automobile owners is found in
Buffers system, by which a rear tire,
when it had run $500 to $500 miles.
was changed to the front, so that the
newest tires were always on the rear
H. L Owesney of the Winton motor
carriage company of San Francisco has
-----------.:. received word that
VIII Erect New the Winton motor
Winton Home WHITES viii erect e af PiRs
street and Terry
avenue. Seattle, the finest automobile
establishment on the Pacific cast The
steel and concrete building will have
an so foot frontage and be 120 feet
deep, and will consist of six stories,
two below the street level and four
above Contracts have been let and the
building will be ready for occupancy
on January / next. The entire building
will be occupied by the Winton COM
pany, whose rapidly increasing bust
ness in Seattle and the northwest has
at us East Pine street.
Manager McLain of the Franklin
motor car company said recently, in
speaking of the
fabrication In order to sim
------! plify for the owner
of motor car the
Franklin have for 1910 substituted
wherever possible grease cups for small
oilers The idea is that the average
operator of an automobile will turn up
a ratchet grease cup. where he will not
put oil in. A special arrangement for
fabrication of the spring pivot bolts has
also been provided. Grease CUPS, how
ever, are not use on them as iubricat
ing once month with graphite grease
is sufficient"
NOTES OF THE AUTO
In sentencing a chauffeur. convicted
of killing a boy. to 20 years in Sing
Sing, Judge Mulqueer of the New YORK
courts said: The automobile has come
to stay. Properly used, it is q source
of healthful recreation. 1t is an Inn e
portant factor in business. 1t affords
remunerative employment for many.