Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
TRIP
WITHOUT BREAK
WOMAN DRIVER OF ABILITY
ENDS TRIP
Brings Transcontinental Car
to Los Angeles on Ex-
hibition for Week

Last Wednesday morning there ar
rived in Los Angeles a Maxwell auto
mobile that had recorded to its credit
the total of something like 5000 miles.
made by it since leaving the hands of
the workmen at the factory at Tarry-
town, N. Y.
Other cars have made as much and
more mileage than the sturdy car in
question, but none of them had the
honor of a performance such as this
one, and never before done in the his
tory Of automobiling in this or any
other country. Four women, unaccom-
panied by any male escort or assist
ants had Travelled 4200 miles in the
machine from Tarrytown n. Y, to
San Francisco, through sands of the
desert, over mountains and the mud of
almost impossible roads through sew
eral of the states, making all adjust
ments or repairs, healing punctures to
tires or changing them entirely, and
arrived safely al the end of their
journey in the northern metropolis,
having established a record never be-
fore attempted.
Driving the transcontinental car from
New York was Mrs. j.. H. Ramsey OF
Hackensack, N. j., an accomplished
autoiSt, of cool nerve, fearless dispo-
sition and confidence in herself, and the
machine she was to pilot across the
American continent Accompanying
Mrs. Ramsey were Mrs. E. n. Atwood,
Mrs. w. Cooper and Miss Jahns, all
from the home Of Mrs. Ramsey at
Hackensack
A few days of rest in San Francisco
and the intrepid woman driver came
to Los Angeles and thence back to her
home with Miss Jahns. Mrs. Atwood
and Mrs. Cooper remained to visit San
Francisco friends and on Sunday last
left that city in the same car for Los
Angeles, this time driven by one of the
fairest and most accomplished chauf-
feurs on the Pacific coast, Mrs. Fred
J. Linz.
Mrs. Linz is the wife of Fred J. Linz.
vice president of the Maxwell -Brisco
Pacific company of this city a leader
of society in San Francisco and Oak
land, and was the first president of the
woman's automobile club of the Bay
city.
Mrs. Linz is not merely a driver of
note, but is thoroughly master of the
Maxwell ear in every manner. She
knows its ins and outs, can make all of
her own adjustments ana repairs to the
car she is driving if necessary, and has
never had any mishaps that required
the assistance of a repair shop Main
y
rings, magnetos and all the indescrib-
able things with which the auto man
loves, like the doctor or druggist to
mystify their patrons, are as familiar
TO her as the walk to her boudoir. Let
one of the numerous things that hap
pen to the best of cars occur, where
men in wrath and profanity put on
long coats and crawl beneath their
machines to tighten a bolt or make
other repairs. Mrs. Linz really enjoys
the part of the mechanician and per-
forms her work quite as well as the
able bodied man with the label of hts
trade-the oyeralls covered with grease
and grime-and she does it without
word of complaint.
1t may not be known generally that
Mrs. Linz enjoyed a reputation as
journalist, too, of which many might
be proud. Bright, brilliant, vivacious
and entertaining, she numbers many
friends wherever she goes.
The trip down the coast was made in
easy stages and without experiencing
any trouble, the car being in as good
running order as when 1t started from
its home 1000 miles away with its four
woman occupants.
J. S. Conwell of the Maxwell Compa
ny of this city will retain the car in
the Maxwell warerooms on South Main
street where II is now housed, and II
will be on exhibition for the coming
week at least, and will then be returned
to the San Francisco agency. 1t is in
the same good condition rs when it left
the factory. shows no signs of its ardu-
Gus trip, and is another exhibition of
the reasons for the unprecedented sales
of Maxwell brand of automobiles, when
al1otments of machines running up into
the many hundreds are sold away
ahead as far as next spring.