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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

to supply this organization with its
power for number of years me
Piercy company is regarded as one
tors of the world. At present the flrm
handles the parcel delivery of between
so and 70 of the largest business houses
in the metropolis. The firm has ,oeen
noted for its fine horses, as we'll as
its splendid equipment. hence. no single
item of current news is, in my opinion,
a greater indication of the advance of
the automobile business.
Numerous complaints from autoists
who have suffered punctured tires on
=. 1.-The road between
Tack. ON san San Rafael and
Rafael Road ? roi,asd a ! um tSe have ave
thorities to search
for the miscreant who has been sow
ing the country roads with long taeks
with wide heads and spreading broken
glass on the roads near bridge ap-
proaches. Several machines have come
rollin- into San Rafael with the tires
so badly ripped that 1T was impossible
to mend them, and number of
machine drivers have been compelled
to work for hours patching punctures
received from the tacks.
No one seemingly has an idea as to
the identity of the person, who has
vicinity along the road, but has been
lavish with his tacks from the end of
PetaIuma street to the town limits of
the Rose City.
The first reports that there We're
tacks on the road were made last
week, and they still continue to come in
The automobilists have been inquir-
ing of late what has become of the
8. :. good roads com
fc.a p,.a mittee'' of the Cal
%n,,st.n ifornia Promotion
=. !. committee. T h e
COMMITTEE started
out well to make quite a record. but
after its meeting held some months
ago nothing has been heard of what
it is doing. Activity in this line is of
as much Importance to the welfare of
California as lot of the noise made
by some of the. schemes to attract at
tention to California.
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Good Roads
| Committee Lost
NOTES OF THE AUTO


Among the motorists who made the
trip to Aetna springs the last week
is E. G.. Schmiedell.s Robert Tibbetts. and
"a White steamer; L. j., Holton; John
Fuller, in a Jocomoblle, ana N. An
drews in a Rambler.
In a letter received by the Frank O..
Renstrom company from the manurac-
turers of the Pullman automobiles, they
state that they have quadrupled' their
capacity over last year and are working
their men day and night to fili the
orders for machines. Their ageneies
have increased during the last elght
months $50 per cent over last year
M Koshland. who made the trip to
Santa Cruz and return the first part
of the week In his Thomas D 3 Flyeei eailaet pet
shape, except for very rough place
near the summit of the Santa Cruz
mountains. II warning were not given wen
get into serious trouble, says kosh-
land. He was accompanied by his
family.
Abraham Doyle, 50 years old Of In
diana is said to be the Oldest motorist
in the United States. Doyle has pur-.
enased touring car and insists upon
drying it himself. He was formerly
a farmer.
Word has been received that Mrs.
Alice Ramsey of Hackensack, N. j.,
is preparing to- start on her trans
continental tour on June g. She is
confident of reaching San Francisco
by July 15 and expects to drive and
repair her car unaided by man the
entire distance. Three of her women
friends will accompany her
The automobile dealers of Cincinnati
are preparing to set apart a week for.
the sale of all their second hand cars.
.
From abroad comes the information
that novel machine Is in use on a
race course in France for picking up
nails or other bits of metal. Suspended
from the axle-a are several electro-mag-
nets which quickly draw up the par
ticles of iron, thus protecting racing
cars from tire punctures and the result
ing accidents to drivers
automombile company will leave to-
night for the Mitchell factory at Ra-
cine. Wis, also for visit to New
York. He will be gone about three
weeks.
Norman de vaux of the Auburn mo-
from the east. De vaux went back to
the factory to obtain more of the Au-
burn cars, and returns with two car
loads.
returned from tour through the CEN
tral part of the state in his new
Studebaker car Beam states that the
extensive repairs which have been un-
been completed the pass is now in bet
ter shape. than it has been for many
Years, and automobilists need not fear
making it
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W. K. Cowan. Rambler dealer in Los
Angeles. has written to the Thomas b
-. effrey company,
u1 Iuct the following =
About Tire. sSTss'ins sYoa have iGsss5: prob-
ably carried an
umbrella for several davs as a precau-
tion against the rain. which never
came. and the first Day tnat II was was
were drenched. Well, that is what
happened to me, with tire trouble
had been driving a Rambler Forty-
i've" during the season, the demon
strating car which was equipped with
a spare wheel, top and so forth. until
fnail-- some one came along and in
sisted upon buying this car, which was
giving such perfect satisfa ction; and
another Rambler car. equipped as the
first was. was then put into service oy
me- and so it continued until with one
single exception all my cars were dis
posed of, and all of this time had
had no trouble from a single pune
ture nor had I occasion to remove the
spare wheel from the irons. Having
been forced to use the one remaining
car without a spark wheel, took
party for a ride to the mountains just
outside of Los Angeles and had gone
but one mile on the return trip before
a bad blow out resulted. and 1t was
necessary for me to telephone to my
store in Los Angeles for assistance. as
was totally unprepared for making
tire REPAIRS. HaFiBE always pcch piV-
yfded. until this trip. with a spare
wheel
I. J. Morse of the Locomobile COM
pany of California has received word
:. .,. that the Locomo-
New eS Lass%osile aS%s inerease it's fac c
OF Loco.no1 1.'o-rl-... tory facilities. The
letter from the
home office says: Plans have been
made by the Locomobile company of
America for q large addition to its
factory at Bridgeport. Conn. The new
part will cover an area of 10000 square
feet and will enable the factory to
produce 200 automobiles year. From
400 TO 500 mechanics viii be added to
the present force The increase in
the plant will cost about $4,000"
The Automobile dealers association
of southern California has issued the
& entrance b n
Rules for the which contain the
Bir Road Race rules and condi-
- ions governing
the Santa Monica
road race to be held July 10. The as
be of the stock bore and stroke, with
no compression plates or long pistons
The chassis must also be stock and be
the product of a factory which -
months prior to the date of the event
has produced at least so cars regardless
of model, and must have built or have
under construction, at least % cars of
the model entered. The three winning
cars in each event shall be subject to
committee OF three appointed by the
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

Abraham Doyle, 50 years old, of In
diana is said to be the Oldest motorlst
in the United States. Doyle has pur-.
enased touring car and insists upon
driving it himself. He was formerly
a farmer
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Among the motorists who made the
trip to Aetna springs the last week
is E. G. Schmiedell. Robert Tibbetts. and
"a White steamer; L. J.. Holton. John
Fuller. in a Locomobile, and N. An
.drews in Rambler.
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AUTOS WAIT FOR
STARTING SIGNAL
Everything Is in Readiness for
the Twenty-four Hour En-
durance Contest
Entrants Have Been Given Their
Official Numbers by Chief
Official Observer
BvR r. PHOM.MEDIEU

Everything is in readiness for the
a bour endurance run Of the auto
mobile deal lers' association which starts
TODAY At p. m. over a course begin
ming at San Leandro and finishing at
the same point. The fact that the pace
has been set faster than that of last
year has greatly increased interest in
the contest. 1t is not expected that
there will be as many perfect scores
as were recorded last year. In fact.
many Of the experts believe that there
will be no perfect scores at all. Sol d.
Rogers. chief of observers, has given
The cars their official numbers, which
are as follows:
Annerson 9-Mitchem 30 Il. p.
2-Buick 20 r. P. l0-Autocar
mitchell % II. ?. 1l-Auburn
4-Studebaker EMF ilz-DurocT
5-Winton l5-SpeedWeu
6-Nelie il4-lnterstate
T-Studebsker 30 HIP. l3-Acme
S-BQick White l6-Studeoaker ~ h-f-
streak''
There will be I'VE minutes between
the starting of each car, which viii
mean that il will take ! hour and 20
minutes to get them away, and VIII
also mean that il win be 20 minutes
.ast before the last car finishes
Monday afternoon.
c. kirkpatrick. the chief timer, has
announced his assistants as follows:
A z. Berg. George Faulkner, f. Hunt,
I. Beilheis H Holmes, and H NJ.
Carlton.
Dealers and repsirmen who pay COM
ia OH a
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" x Cowan. Rambler dealer in Los
Angeles. has written to the Thomas B.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30
Motorists
Pass I'D UI<iab

resting automobilists Ben Noonan Of
Santa Rosa road race fame was re-
Gently taken in for speeding and was
held whole day, and then fined s25
As a result the motor tourists are pass
ing up Ukiah, and are going by way of
Pseta- into Lake county.
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Fav Beal. secretary treasurer and |
general manager of the PACING taxi /
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

Dealers and repairmen who pay COM
missions 10 grating chauffeurs. Il To-
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z LOtOTnODIIe COm-
has received word
that the Locomo-
bile company is to
increase it's fac
tory facilities. The
letter from the
aPla hnN-a hnan
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

Thirty-fve deliveries of Buick auto
mobiles were made by the Howard au-
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

The Phoenix rubber company reports
the month OF May as the best month
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

An important announcement has been
made by Chairman F. B. Hover of the
A M L a
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30
New Home
of LocomObile

The Automobile dealers association
of southern California has issued the
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

Norman de vaux of the Auburn mo-
tor car company returned yesterday
from the east De Vaux went back to
the factory to obtain more of the Au-
burn cars, and returns with two car
loads.
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Loco" TO Have
a New Home

street Work viii begin this week on
a three story concrete structure, which
will cover so feet in Van Ness avenue
and los feet in Hayes street The
L0comobile company viii occupy the
entire building.
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The LocomobiIe company Of Califor-
MIA has let the contract for its new
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

l. J. Morse OF the LOGON
pany of California has rec
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

George Osen of the Osen & Hunter
night for the Mitchell factory at Ra-
cine. Wis, also for visit to New
York. He will be gone about three
weeks
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

If you would consider extreme
comfort and silence In your
car you should consider the
Peerless for 1910 =: :; ::
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The motorists of Sonoma county are |
making loud complaint at the actions |
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

Acme Stearns Thomas, RenauIt.
Thomas entered by Z. r. Schmidt,
Stearns entered by Charles Watson and
Garford.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

to reach there at 8 o'clock. and thus
clip As minutes from the Thomas mark
A splendid suggestion has come to
the automobile owners of California
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

-Oas AASt4 10 70
be ] o c a [ e d at
the northeast cor
ner of Van Ness
veune and Ho-aa
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New YOrlz-Se-
attic Entries
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no longer of particular interest. al
though the frequency of these is a
ularity of the seif-propelled vehicles.
As an indication of what may be ex-
pected of the commercial vehicles
branch of the industry. the Studebaker
automobile company has just made a
contract with the ii G. & Al. Piercy
company Of New York city. agreeing
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30

OF tne marsnaI OF
L k / a h f. W h o Is
m a kin & himself
particularly o b =
n 0 xi o u $ by ar
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Among the 13 entries that nave been
made to date for the New York 70
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Rules for the
Big Road Race
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-29
UT-0F-0RDER KIDNEYS ACT FINE
AND bACKACHE SIMPLY VANISHES

ton a. directed. With the knowledge
that there IL NO other medicine. 1t any
price, made anywhere else In the world
which will effect so thorough and
prompt a cure n . fifty-cent treatment
Of Pape's Diuretic. which any druggist
can supply.
Your physician, pharmacist. banker
or any mercantile agency will tell you
that Pape, Thompson & Pape. OF Gu
cinnsti. il q large aud responsible med
icine concern. thoroughly worthy of
your confidence
Don't be miserable or worried an
other moment With . lame hack or
clogged. inactive kidneys or bladder
misery. All this goes after you start
taking Pape's Diuretic. and In . few
days you feel and know that your Kid
neys. liver and urinary system are
healthy. clean and normal. and all
danger passed.
Accept only Pape's Diuretjc-fifty-
cent treatment-from any drug store
anywhere In the world.
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Items Gathered in
From Far and Near
THE CRAVING FOR DRINK.

Alexander Lambert, NJ. d.. in
Hope for the Victims of Narcotics
printed in Success Magazine, says:
The causes and effects of alcohol
ism form vast subject about which
much truth and many falsehoods have
been written. The falsehOods have
been more than passing harm, for
they have caused in the minds of the
ignorant disbelief in the truth, and
the strict truth displays a terrible pic
ture. The use of alcohol is the most
common and widespread OF all the mar
cotics, and unlike morphine and CO.
caine, it may be INDUCED in modestly
without ever being taken to excess;
but, also unlike morphine and cocaine
when used even in moderation it may
cause pathologic changes in the body,
and when taken to excess invariably
produces degeneratve changes in the
various viscera.
Alcohol has a curious selective &C
ly to equal doses, 50. too, do individuals
show different patho'ogic changes from
equal indugences. The man who in
dulges in alcoholic excuses is like a
man who recklessly signs sight drafts
which he never expects to be cashed in
but when over taken with acute disease
or accidents these drafts are cashed in
with pitiless insistence. The actual
thirst or craving is not inherited. but
the weaker moral character which is
bequeather easily gives way to any
temptation and quickly forms habits
of excessive indulgence.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-29
WALNUTs ON OAK TREES.

Up in Calaveras county there is a
new wind of genius who might be call
ed the walnut wizard. His name is
E. M. Price, and he grows not only the
biggest walnuts ever, but grows them
on oak trees. STATE Superintendent of
Public instruction Hyatt discovered
him while attending a teachers insti-
tute in Calaveras county last week.
From all accounts Price has done
something almost as startling as Lu-
Their Burbank. Burbank made the
peopling of the desert with spineless
cactus possible, and Price hopes to
people the forest with walnuts.
Price does not mean to plant walnut
trees in the forest. hut to graft branch
es on oak trees and let them bear His
experiments so far have demonstrated
the feasibility of such an enterprise.
The oak trees all about his home in
the Calaveras hills are engrafted with
walnut stocks and some have grown
fruit None of the nuts have matured
as yet, however. and the puzzling ques-
ton has ariZen, when they are ripe
what will they lock like. walnuts or
acorns? And what will they taste like,
acorns or walnuts?
The walnuts Price has grown on or
binary trees are three times bigger
than the walnuts in the markets. This
result he has achieved by a long series
of experiments. Price has improved
the quality of other kinds of nuts
Sacramento Bee.
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FREDERICK REMINGTON

The death Of Frederick Remington
takes away one OF the real American
artists who did not disdain to incor-
porate in their work the, real spirit of
this country. He was known for a
long time as merely an illustrator, but
withou. changing his work. his style
or his subjects he was speedily rec
ognized as an artist.
Gone are the frontier days, the buff
falo is long since practically extinct.
the white covered emigrant wagons
have been supplanted by the railroad,
but still We have them always with us,
faithfully and feeling set down with a
masters skill.
Frederick Remington knew and low
ed the wiry little pony OF the prairie.
and immortalized that little spirited
beast. And so 1t is with all the breezy
western life effervescent with the best
that is in America. His pictures were
epics in which the adventurous spirit
Of American progress, nervous and
steadfast, careless of self and faithful
in crisis are monument to the
country which gave him birth.
For this reason this country loses
more than an illus' rator. more than an
artist-he was the finest flower of the
land. who will leave his impress of all
that IL best of former generations to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-29
HAD AN ODD CAREER
Col. Gordon Named United
States Senator, Was For
merIy an Outlaw.
REWARD OFFERED FOR HIM

jackson, Miss, Dec. 29.-Sought at
one time by the federal authorities
under a $4,000 reward for his cap
ture, dead or alive. for his alleged
conspiracy IN the murder of a presi-
dent of the ;5oited States, and now
appointed as a member of the legisla-
tive body of that country, is the
strange experience of Colonel James
Gordon. of Okolona. who has been
named by Governor Noel as successor
to the late A. J. McLaurin.
Colonel Gordon was one of the sew
eral Confederate leaders suspected OF
being in conspiracy with J. Wilkes
Booth to kill President Abraham Lin
coin. He escaped arrest and probably
death only through the Intervention.
it is stated. of a Yankee Colonel with
whom he had crossed swords in a
fight in Virginia.
During the earlier years of the war
Colonel Gordon had formed an init
mate friendship with Booth, and after
the assassination of President Lincoln
the reward of $4,000 was offered for
his capture Colonel Gordon went to
Canada, and it was several months af.
ter the close of hostilities before he
found it safe to return home.
During one of the campaigns in Vir-
ginia Colonel Gordon had fought with
the Colonel of a New York cavalry
regiment. Both were wounded, but
they afterward became fast friends.
Colonel Gordon wrote a letter to
this New Yorker denying that he had
any part in the Lincoln conspiracy
and stating that he desired to return
home. The former foe took the mat,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-29

While in Germany meat is subject to
ante-mortem and post mortem exam
ination by government inspectors, ever
piece of meat approved being stamped.
the authorities exercise no control
over the methods employed by the
meat preparing establishments, and
so nothing prevents Objectionable
products from entering into it ex-
eept the generally high characte of the
exporters themselves. For home con-
sumption the German food laws do not
allow coloring matter or injurious pre-
servatives, but manufacturer can ex-
port without officia, interference arti-
cles for a character the sale of which
would be prohibited or restricted in
German territory.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-29

In 1891 there we're in Europe only
twenty-one cities which had more than
100000 inhabitants. These were Lon
don. Dublin, Paris, Marseilles. Lyons,
Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna,
Naples, Rome. Milan, Venice. Palermo,
Madrid, Barcelona. Lisbue, st. Peters
burg, Moscow. Warsaw, Copenhagen
and Constantinop,e. Two only of
these cities had more than Jn.OOO-
London. 10000. and Paris. 10000.
Naples came third. with 10000, and
Vienna fourth, with $4,000.
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be an inspiration to those who will
come after
THE ST. GAUDENS EXHIBIT

Those who may be in Indianapolis
in the next fortnight, will do well to
look in on the st. Gaudens exhibit of
sculpture. American art has no bet
ter things to offer and st. Gauden's
work holds it's own with the best of
modern art. The greatest lesson to
be derived from his work is not from
those things for which he is celebrat-
ed among artists-his handling of
modern costume nor yet his setting of
his subjects in an appropriate back
ground. He rises to the highest point
in art because he is nationally sin
cere.
Take his Lincoln, his Shaw memoir
ial, or the famous Puritan, and in
them all is a sublime recognition of
his native land. Those modern art
lists who have been ashamed of their
nativity and have endeavored to make
their work cosmopolitan have fallen
short of the mark because they had
not enough depth of spiritual feeling.
Therefore they have turned out mon
grel form of art tinctured by the
schools of Paris and Munich. st.
Gauden's should be honored by the
America he made sublime.
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Some Money.

Some Money.
The sources of the banks OF the
United States are today $21 900, 000, 900
Bank Report.
Tweuty-one billions. Great Scott.
What lot
OF money we fortunate Yankees
Have got.
We're all Rockefellers and Morgans, it
Richer than ever we've dreamed in our
dreams.
Twenty-one billions! Let's roll it
around
Our tongues, as we gloat on the ele-
CANT sound.
Twenty-one billions. Oh, gee!
Why, We
Have money to burn. it is easy
To see
Money to feed the birds,
Money too much to express in mere
words.
Twenty-one billions: The sweet phrase
we turn.
Money to scatter, to sQuander to burn.
Twenty-one billions. Wow WOW!
But how
Can each get his share Of the, Doodle
Right now?
For if twas divided, it's easy to see.
Two hundred and forty each portion
would be.
Twenty-one billions! Oh, jubilant
sound,
But what is the use il it's not passed
around?
Paul West in New York World.
Sarcastic.
81 am afraid Dulby is putting an en-
envy into his mouth to steal away his
brains"
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne;
land it's case of petty larceny, at
that "-Washington Star.