The San Francisco call., 1909-05-07

tory that all Of the 1909 output has
oeen sold and that the last car will
be delivered June ]. All of the 1910
cars have been allotted and subscribed
Tor by the different agents. The first
OF the new models will be received by
II. y. Harrison, the new California
agent, July l.
Don c. McCord. manager of the Will
lys-Overland motor car company, which
.s.----- handles the Over
Busy Work mt land car, has writ
i----- letter to the auto
mobile department
Of The Call: Have been so busy get
ting off cars that haven't been able to
write to you. Every day brings in new
agents, and all of them demanding cars,
SO IT has kept me on the job to see
tnat my shipments go forward. 1 must
say, though, that / have been treated
very nicely; have shipped 80 cars so far
ana VIII get off about 20 more in the
next couple of days The Overland
company is working four plants here
70 tneir full capacity night and day,
ana although they have turned out 29
cars day since / have been here, 1t
was only drop in the bucket toward
ming the demands of the agents. 1
never thought that there could be such
Saie or automobiles as they are
having this year, and from all indica-
lions next season will be larger yet.
me Overland factory intends to build
10000 cars, in fact contracts for ma
terfal are already let in the new plant
purchased from the Pope people. This
Is In addition TO their present plants.
Ihey Will go to work at once in the
new plant, so the agents will be
assured of plenty of cars very soon.
Manager Richardson of the Reliance
auto company has received word that
s.--- George Robertson,
1ytn hoc ci 10
Racing Drivers take charge of the
racing interests of
the Harry S. Houpt
company. and has been deputized to or
game a racing team to handle the
Houpt and Herreshoff cars on the track
and In road races. has announced the
engagement of the first of his drivers.
HIS selection was young Willie Haupt,
VINO made conspicuous success in
road racing and for the last six years
mas oeen prominent in racing in Phila-
cars He joined the Houpt company's
force May l, and went to Bristol with
george Robertson, where the special
Houpt racing cars are being built. later
visiting the Herreshoff factory at De-
troit to thoroughly acquaint himself
with the stock Herreshoff cars which
he will also handle. With Haupt, Rob
ertson and Roberts the Houpt company
pected that fourth member of the
team Will be secured, and his engage
ment announced shortly.
The hill climb over the Fort George
hill course, held among the events of
the recent carni
winners In val in the great
HnI Climb wonderful wonderful demon. @ns
stration of the
performance of the stock car All
the spectator had an opportunity to
observe the relative power and, speed
of the different types of the modern
vehicle. The classification of the stock
cars was, made on the price standard
In the class for gasoline cars selling
for 1851 to and including $1,000 the
EMF carried off the honors making
the hill in 80 20. the Buick coming
price from s1.so1 to $4,000, the Buick
won, this time covering the course In
40 2-5 seconds. In the free for all the
Stearns made good time. negotiating
The best time that has been made
between Eureka and Ukiah at this sea-
son of the year
Fast Tfme was accomplished ed
In Mitchell As6iil Of Eureka areRas
In his Mitchell
runabout he left Eureka in the morn
ing, arriving in Ukiah on the evening
of the same day. after covering 185
miles Asbill says that the roads are
rough and almost impossible In places.
He is making tour of Sonoma. Yolo.
Solano, Lake, Mendocino, and Humboldt
counties.
l. H. Bill, manager of the San Fran
cisco branch of the Thomas B. Jeffery
So company. is in re-
Long .yourpev ceipt of a letter
Of Ramhi.r from the home of
--s 3. flee in Kenosha in
which Is incloseo
a copy of letter received from H. F.
Toedtmann of Cleveland. o. The writer
says: My Rambler had covered over
1000 miles before our trip from Cleve-
land to the Thousand isles, Canada. and
no special preparations were made for