The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-25
AUTOMOBILE WORLD

and for stability. he is willing to back
his machines against those Of any for
eign manufacturer. So far as the Buick
Motor company is concerned, it viii
make every effort TO have all future
races in America open TO any and all
cars.
Two cars precede the Glidden caravan
each day and, this year, they are both
Studebaker E. NJ. +. go" cars, fitted
with special bodies to carry the huge
bags OF confetti. The confetti. by the
way, is not the ordinary kind of tiny
paper bits, but long, stringy ribbon
like strips that cling to the grass along
the sides I'm dry weather, or becomes
bedded in the mud on rainy days,
leaving the long ends waving IN the
wind. And how welcome is the sight Of
those waving ends to the anxious driver
huTrying to make UP time lost in tire
or other repairs, fearful every moment
that he has gone or may go wrong on
the road. The confetti, so painstaking-
ly laid by Dai Lewis and his assistant,
NJ. Reeves, is a grateful assurance that
the contestant is still on the right road.
X
The Mrs James r. Ramsey party,
who are making a trip from New York
TO Frisco, spent couple Of days in
Salt Lake during the past week sight
seeing. They arrived last Wednesday
and left yesterday for the coast The
trip is made in a Maxwell, and while no
attempt at record-breaking is being
made. yet it is a remarkable trip mas
much that there are no men with the
party. Mrs. Ramsey and three lady
friends have made the trip Unaccompa-
MED. Mrs. Ramsey has made whatever
r-nra IT,
while the car was in Salt Lake this
week at the Sharman Automobile COM
pany. Mrs. Ramsey did what little
overhauling was necessary without the
aid of local mechanics.
Sam Sharman will accompany the
party from Salt Lake to San Francisco
as pilot, and will ride ahead in a ten
horsepower Maxwell. Sharmsn has al
ready made the trip, and believes a car
of this size is plenty large enough to
make the trip. The party left yesterday
morning, going west via Garfield.
Grantsyille, across through the Deep
Creek country 60 Ely. From there they
viii take a northern route and hit the
main line of the Southern Pacific this
side of Reno.
The Ford car that won the New York
Seattle contest, and is now making the
return trip, is not making any effort to
break or establish any time records
common report TO the contrary.
The object of the trip is to demon
strate the possibilities Of a light weight
car, and that the return trip could be
made in the same car that had made
the record-breaking run from the At
lantic.
The car left the exposition grounds Or
noon, July s, President Chilberg of the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition firin5
the starting shot. 1t proceeded south
10 san francisco and Los Angeles. and
VIII strike east and northeast across
Nevada and Utah to Granger, Wvo. The
balance of the route is not vet settled
En- route the car will visit an Ford
agencies, spending such time with eacb
as seems desirable.
X X
Manager Seymour Young of the Com
soliaated wagon & Machine company's
automobile department annonnces r..
company has made the unique record
OF disposing of 100 cars in loo da,,s
ms ne believes is the record for auv
western city During the week inst
passed sucks have been sold to T.
Gualle. the Pioneer Fruit company and
}. NJ Becker Of Richfeld, Utah.
me I tdh Inplement-Nehicle comma
ny has secured a shipment of sir CadtI-
iaes, which is due to arrive the COMING
week This will make a total of nine
cars received during the month of JuIv
which IS remarkable under the presaSt
scarcity OF cars. This company renorts
that the Cadillac people have decided
10 cut out all smaller agents through
out the northwest during the cor1ino,
season as it is impossible to fU orders
for the large concerns.
Ohe OF the most noteworthy fea+,,r,-
attending the start Of the GIidden ton
was the presence Of the MaxweIi-Rris-
coe Motor company's band. FORTY gtror-,
VINO mad come from Newcastle ma -
ieR zen thelr tuneful activities to the great
est Of all American touring contest
The band made its first bow To Dstroit
on sunday, during the festivities ~
pared Tor the Gliddenites by the citY Of
Detroit. The band won much prsiss for
us excellent performance, and a. -
% DC the best drilled musical oreari1s
ton OF its kind in the state of I1dio-o