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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
HARRY A. LORD RETURNS
FROM TRIP IN EAST
Finds Eastern Dealers Are Doing
Good Business Handling
LoW-PriCed Cars

Harry A. Lord, manager of the Lord
Motor Car company, just returned
from a trip to the automobile factories
in the east, had this to say regard
ing business conditions there.
I'm every city L visited 1 found
nearly everybody handling l)w priced
cars reported business good. With the
exception of the dealers handling the
EMF 80 and Flanders 20, nearly all
of them had large stocks.
Business in Chicago and New York
for instance, has been proportionately
slower, 1 believe, than it has in Los
Angeles, due very likely to the fact
that the summer has been exceedingly
warm and a large number OF people
have left the cit yfor the summer
months.
"In Detroit I found the EMF and
Flanders plants working to their very
limit, the EMF plant shipping regu-
larly from sixty to seventy machines
a day and the Flanders plant shipping
sixty a day, which they expect to in
crease to 100 day by December l.
II was surprised at the way au-
tomobile conditions have improved in
the south. In New Orleans two years
ago automobiles had not made much
headyaw; today 1 should say one-third
of the traffic is represented by self
propelled vehicles. Every station ir,
which our train stopped was u motor
car of some make or variety at the
depot, showing that the people are re-
living more and moro upon motor cars
for getting around"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
SET ROAD RACE
DATE FOR NOV. a
Santa Monica and MOtordrome
Auto Contests Will Start
on Thanksgiving s
PRIZES WILL REACH $4,000
Trophies and Cash in Los An
geIes-PhOenix Event At
tract Fasteners

With a satisfactory adjustment as to
dates for the Santa Monica road race
and the Motordrome races, the former
on Thanksgiving day and the latter on
the Saturday and Sunday following,
preparations for these big events will
go forward with rush. and Southern
California will show to the world the
greatest series of automobile races yet
known For 1t is not to be overlooked
that the great Los Angeles-Phoenix
race takes place on November 5, and
as entries for that do not close before
October 21. it will give a chance for
every make of car in the racing game
to demonstrate it's worth under all
conditions of travel. 1t Is practically
certain that many cars that will enter
the two local races will be shipped
here from eastern points to compete
in the Phoenix race.
The total cash prizes for all three
race meets will not fall much short Of
$4,000, and the trophies, offered are
valued at more than $4,000. That the
Phoenix race will appeal to- eastern
drivers is not to be doubted, foS$the
cash prizes aggregate $3500 in gold, be-
sides the trophies, and it will be a
source of pride to any car to annex
any part of them. Prospective local
entries for the Phoenix race number
more than twenty, and the 450-mile
distance across the desert will be new
experience for most eastern drivers
and they will have the natural feeling
to try something new. Most of them
have made their regulations on we'll
kept tracks, but road going in real
4. race Will show them the mettle of our
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
LITTLE BRUSH CAR KEEPS
PACE WITH BIG RACERS
Photographers Machine Makes
Remarkable Record

The Boston Journal commenting on
the 'Munsey tour" in which two
Brush cars finished first and second
in their class, reports that one of the
most sensational incidents of the tour
was the performance of the little Brush
car which carried the official photog-
raphers. This little. machine started
from the morning stations along with
the high-powered cars. and kept up
with them. 1t carried the official pho
tographer down the line and back
again, and did its work in the finest
possible manner. 1t caused a great
deal of merriment up and down the
line when the driver was arrested for
speeding in Providence. After leaving
Providence several big cars were in
the lead. They tried in vain to shake
the little Brush. 1t was there at the
finish, and held the place of honor
Immediately behind the pacemaker car.
1t gave one of the finest exhibitions
of pluck and endurance in keeping up
with the high-powered cars, and it
seemed. impossible to prevent it from
being at the head of the procession
whenever the driver wanted to get
there.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
HANSHUE Off To DRIVE
IN VANDERBILT RACE
viii Also Pilot the Apperson Jack
rabbit in Two Other
Eastern, Contests

Harris Hanshue and Fergie Ferguson
left this week for the Apperson fac
tory at Kokomo. They will spend
a couple of days there and will drive
from there to New York. and spend a
couple of weeks on the Vanderbilt and
Fairmont park race courses. These
two boys will be the crew of the APP
person Jaclxrabbit which was shipped
from here last week for the purpose
of competing in the Vanderbilt race
October /, the Fairmont Park race at
Philadelphia October and the Grand
Prize race on Long Island over the
Vanderbilt course October 10.
The car shipped from here is in
proper condition to enter these races
on arrival, and Mr.. Hanshue will not
use this car on the course until the
day before the race. Inasmuch as one
car is entered in each of these races
no chances of an accident with it in
practice will be taken.
There are a great many people in
this vicinity who think Hanshue has
more than an even break against the
crack eastern drivers, and his friends
are going to make up a big pot of
money to be sent Dack Tor Ine purpose
of backing him against any driver
entered in the Vanderbilt, Mr.. Han
shue will decide at what speed the
race should be won, and will drive to
that end regardless of the position of
any other car entered in the race.
After three quarters of the race is
completed he will ask for signals as
to his exact standing at that time,
and he will be flashed the simple in
formation as to where he stands as
compared with the leading car in the
race, or, if he is in the lead, just how
far he is ahead of the second car in
the race. Mr.. Hanshue states that
anyone can pass him at any time up
to the last quarter of the race After
that, providing it is necessary, who
ever passes him will have to be able to
do better than ninety-five miles an
hour on the stretches. This is Han
shue's last year of racing, as he will
go back to sales work, where the pay
is better and the work less dangerous.
With Dingley, Livingston, Hanshue.
stone, Fleming and Blgelow all entered
i'm the Vanderbilt, the eastern cracks
will have to show more dust than
they have ever been able to do before
to hold their laurels.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS
is GAME FOR YOUNG MEN

AS one of the best evidences that the
automobile business is young mans
game, some of the local dealers are not
vet through their college days. Tom
and Will Carrigan, trading as Carrigan
Bros, are among the most popular and
successful dealers on the "row." Their
father, T. j. Carrigan, the well known
mining man, insists on plenty of text
book knowledge, as an adjunct to a
business education; so it is up to Bill
to dig out his books and bic away
to GEORGETOWN university this week.
He will be accompanied this year by
All Mitchell. Both boys are excellent
football playrs. and will be seen on the
gridiron together this season Carri-
gan established a reputation for him
self last year at Georgetown, while
Mitchell wore the colors of Amherst
college.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
REGAL OF LATE MODEL
MAKES WONDROUS CLIMB
Machine with Four Passengers
ASCends Crown Hill Without
Straining Gear

Rugged hill climbing is decidedly
hard test to which to put any car. 1t
has remained for the Big Four Auto
company to find one of the most diff
cult hills in the city. It is Crown
hill, at Sixth and Union streets.
A new model Regal on Thursday.
driven by Roscoe Anthony, mado this
climb, up better than 25 per cent
grade. Not around by the carriage
road, but with a quick start, this
Regal "plugger," carrying four pas
sengers, went up the rugged side hill
over rocks and stubble field and put
it's nose over the crest without strain
ing a gear or heating the engine. In
making the descent it was necessary
to use the power of the engine to
prevent the cars coasting. 1t is really
perilous trip to make and has every
other local hill beaten, for there is a
rise of close to 300 feet in the short
distance of city block. A Regal "30'
will be seen in all the racing events
pulled off in Southern California this
year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
WESTERN DRIVERS
TO RACE IN EAST
Golden West Will Be Well Rep
resented at the Wander
biIt Cup Race
HARRIS H. HANSHUE is IN LIST
AngeIeno Will Have Charge of
ApperSon JaCkrabbit' In
National Contest
HARRIS H. HANsHUE is IN LIST

For the first time in the history Of
the Vanderbilt Cup race the Golden
West" will be we'll represented by
the Pacific coast. Realizing that the
sixth cup race will eclipse all former
struggles, the western drivers have
made a great effort to come east and
participate in the great event October
l. The latest to enter the list is Har-
ris H. Hanshue of Los Angeles.
William x. Vanderbilt jr, president
of the Motor Cups Holding company,
has just announced the entry of an
Apperson Jackrabbit, entered by
George H. Strout, sales manager of
Apperson Bros, KGkomo, Ind. Han
shue has been picked to pilot it.
Others from the western slope of the
Rockies who will fight things out with
Hanshue are AL Livingstone, the Ma
tional pilot, winner of the Illinois
trophy; Bert Dingley and George
Fleming, the Pope-Hartford team,
who made big names for themselves
on the coast; Bill Endicott, who has
won so many light car races with
the Cole "30," while there is a possibil-
ity that James B. Ryall and Harry
Michenor, who are now on the Pacific
coast, may go east to drive in the
Long Island classic. Inc middle west
will also have a large representation
in Edward 4. Hearne, Robert Burman,
Ray Harroun, Joe Dawson, Jack Ait
ken and others, who expect to show
the eastern stars a thing or two.
Hence the race is more truly national
in scope than ever before.
In Hanshue the Apperson entrants
have a driver whose reputation is en-
viable Last year numerous experts
picked this chap as one of the four
leading drivers of America. In 1909
he drove the Apperson in seven west
ern races, winning five firsts Qncluding
the Santa Monica road race) and one
second. In the Vanderbilt he will
guide a stock model.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT
BUYS CADILLAC AUTOS
Machine viii Be Used by the
Island Officials

From Honolulu the Cadillac COM
pany is advised of the purchase of
three Cadillac cars for the use of the
government heads.
One of these cars is provided for
the governor of the islands, w. F.
Freer. The secretary of the territory
and president of the board of health,
e. A. Mott-Smith, is also provided
with a Cadillac, and a third one was
installed for the use of Superintend-
eht of Public Works Master Campbell.
Secretary -Mott-Smith, in addition to
the car assigned him by the govern
ment, has bought Cadillac for his
own private use
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
STEARNS CAR WINNER IN
NORTH YAKIMA RACES

The latest Stearns triumph was in
North Yakima, Wash A 30-60 Stearns
driven by A. c. Stevens won the fivee,
ten and twenty-flve-mile free for all
races. and then to cap the climax es-
tablished new track record, turning
the mile in sixty seconds fiat. The
Twenty-Five mile event was won IN 70
minutes and "a seconds.
To fully appreciate the wonderful
endurance of the winning car, it should
be borne in mind that it is conslderapIy
over two years old and has been
driven upward of 10000 miles Added
to the recent twenty-four-hour VIC
tory in New York, when the Stearns
broke the worlds record, the Baltimore
hill climb and the races at Seattle,
Wash, this last gala day for the
stearns is attracting attention on the
coast
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
MODEL "a OAKLAND 80
BREAKS TRACK RECORD
Sets Northwest Pace by Making
Mile in LOG 2-5

The Oakland Car company received
the following night lettergram from
their Seattle representative, the Arthur
Bunker Motor Car company:
"Model "a Oakland 80 breaks north
west one mile track record for cars
Selling under $500; time, 1906 2-5. In
25-mlle race the car takes second place,
time 28 minutes, being defeated only
by 60-horse power Stearns. The Oak
land defeated all entries in class
events, viz, Overland, Marion, Ford.
Buick and Chalmers. Cars went
through three days meet without sin
gle adjustment of any kind"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
BUCKS IN LIVELY DEMAND

H. ]. Coger Of the Howard Automobile COM
pany distributor OF Bucks, has returned from
an extended trip through Ventura, Santa Bar
bara and SAN Luis Obispo counties, where he
established a number OF new agencies. The
Bakersfield agent doubled his order for ten
cars in one week. There is greater number
Of Bucks in use In the oil fields than any
other make. for this car is particularly
adapted to the rough going to be found in that
section. The 1911 Bucks are in five different
noted,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
OLDFIELD CUTS TIME
ON HALF-MILE TRACK

X TOLEDO, O., Sept. 17.-Barney +
4 Oldfeld today lowered the worlds :
X automobile record for a mile on a x
X half-mile circular track from y
X 1:O6 3-4 to 1904 3-5. Oldfield's for :
X mer record was made at Findlay, y
4 Ohio, last year. y
K Ben Kerscher, driving his OAR +
\ racu car, went against time for X
< two miles, and made a record of =
& 2:2O, two secAlds faster than the <
\ track record
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
WILD RIDE BY GIRL FOR
HELP AS HOME BURNS
Covers Miles on Horseback Awaken
Ing People-They Arrive In Time
TO Save Buildings.

ST. LOUIS, Mo- May 17.-Miss Ca
milla Forman, formerly of East st.
Louis, daughter of z. p. Forman, and
a niece of Hamilton A. Forman, former
president of the st. Louis city council,
saved her fathers dairy near Nash
vile, ILL.,, by Paul Revere horseback
ride in which she summoned neigh
bors to help. in fihting the flames.
From the dairy farm to the town OF
Beaucoup. several miles distant, the
young woman rode, calling the neigh
Gbepeuaeunnn llxH.nRAae sannmantraatiRG
them to 60 to the help OF her father
and his fire fighting force. They re-
sponded, and by their help a bucket
brigade was formed, and buildings
were saved which would otherwise
have taken fire.
BY the work OF the bucket handlers
in keeping the buildings wet down,
the fire was confined to one building.
Miss FormaU. who was a favorite IN
East st. LOUIS society before the fam
lily removed to the country, in an ac-
compiished horseweman. Since she
has been living at the farm, she has
entertained number of st. Louis and
East st. Louis friends at house par
ties.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
STICK P0KED IN GIRLS EYE
AS SHE PEEPS THRO' FENCE
Little Annie Hertzenberg Likely to
Lose Sight as Result Of
Her Curiosity,

NEW YORK, May 17.--Seven-year
old Annie Hertzenberg, of No. lot
South Fourth-st., Williamsburg, will
probably lose the sight OF her left eye
by having the sharp point OF stick
of wood showed into 1t by an unidenti.
fed girl In yard adjoining her home.
Annie was playing by herself in her
yard when she heard a noise In the
next yard. She peeped through a
hole in the fence, and as she did 30
the point OF a stick OF wood In the
hands OF the other girl was jabbed
into her left eye.
Annie screamed and her mother
who rushed to her aid, found several
splinters In the child's eye. Mrs. HerJ.
zenberg. upon learning what had hap
pened, looked for her daughters as
sailant, but the mischievous girl was
nowhere TO be seen.
The injured girl was carried to the
Eastern District hospital, where the
house physician was occupied for an
hour In removing the splinters from
her eye. He fears the sight is de-
stroyed.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
IS coNvIcTs PERISH
IN FIRE IN ALABAMA
Prisoner Sets Fire to blockade In e.
fort to Regain His Freedom-one
Man 10 Shot.

CENTERVILLE, Ala, May IL
Thirty-six Negro convicts lost their
lives early yesterday when the stock
ade OF the Red Feather Coal Co, at
Lucille mines, Bib county, Alabama,
about Is miles north Of Centerville,
was destroyed by fire set by one OF
tho prisoners in an effort to gain his
freedom.
Thirty-five Of the convicts were
burned to death and another was
fatally shot by guards while trying to
escape. Among those burned Is the
Negro who started the blaze.
The fire spread rapidly throughout
the structure, which, on account Of
the extreme dryness OF the material,
was quickly consumed. 1t was with
much difficulty that the unframed
convicts in the stockade were prevent
ed from eluding the guards.
All the convicts at Lucille mines
are state prisoners, leased to the Red
Feather Coal Co., for working the
mines.
II. w. Perry is president OF the
company and ]. II. Taylor superinten-
dent The financial loss will reach
several thousands of dollars.
II is reported that all the convicts
at the Lucie camp we're Negroes. SO
far as known. none OF the workmen
escaped
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
Race Track Man Commits Rash Act
at Mother-in-Law's Home.

Race Track Man Commits Rash Act
at Mother-in.Law's Home.
WASHINGTON, May frank
Fenton, race track follower, we'll
known to New York book-makers,
killed his wife at her mothers home
here yesterday afternoon and then
committed suicide by firing a bullet
into his own head.
Mrs. Fenton was the divorced wife
of Dick" Taylor, well-known secret
service man, who, for many years,
served as one of President Roosevelt's
personal guards on his trips about the
country. Taylor was one of the secret
service men who was with President
Roosevelt when a trolley car hit the
Roosevelt coach at Lenox, Mass, kill
ing bill" Craig, one OF the presi.
dents guards.
The shooting occurred at 1880 New
Yorkave., the home of Mrs. Mary
Riley. Mrs. Riley runs a boarding
house and her daughter had been liv-
ing with her. Fenton had been living
apart from his wife, but turned up
at the boarding house at o'clock in
the afternoon. He found his wife sit
ting with another woman in a beer
garden across the street from the
boarding house. There were some
sharp words between them and Fen
ton followed her across the street to
her mothers home. AS Mrs. Fenton
stepped inside the hall he pulled a
revolver and shot her. Mrs. Riley, her
mother, rushed downstairs and found
husband and wife lying on the fioor,s
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
TWO SALOONLESS TOWNS
HAVE SOLD THEIR JAILS
One Is Converted Into a Dwelling by
the Buyer, and the other IL Used
az a Chicken House.

BROOTON, Mimi, May Livery
business man at Buffalo, Paynesville,
Sedan, Glenwood, Starbuck, Lowry,
Alexandria and other towns where the
fight for or against license is now on
has received from the business men
CT Belgrade and Brooten q joint cir
cular which says In part:
I'VE deem 1t our duty to inform
you that after four years at Brooten
and Ave years at Belgrade without
saloons the results, both from a finan-
cial and moral viewnQipt ara .slleA
that the question OF license Wills NOT
even be voted en- in either villege this
spring, and we are absolutely certain
that the saloon question has forever
passed into history so far as our two
clean villages In western Stearns
county are concerned.
For about fifteen years each OF our
towns had four to five saloons, which
took approximately $4,000 to $4,000
annually away from legitimate trade
channels. With the elimination OF the
saloon trade has steadily m
creased, bad accounts contracted In
the saloon regime have nearly all been
liquidated, and poverty is unknown In
either village.
1.-The Brooten jail was sold two years
ago and converted into dwelling; the
Belgrade jail was sold for chicken
house.
LET us respectfully urge that for
the good of your home, your fellow
beings, your own temporal and eternal
welfare, and that of our state and the
American nation you help to clean out
the traffic at your earliest oppor-
tunity."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
$4,000 FIRE IN SAGINAW
Cooper shop on West Side Burns,
Making 100 Men Idle.

SAGINAW, Mich, May 1.-THE
cooper shop and heading mills Of
James Malcolm on the west side We're
destroyed by Are, which started In
the furnace room at 6 o'clock last
night.
owing to a heavy wind, the insufii-
cient supply of water and the pres
ence of a large quantity OF heading
material, the fire gained considerable
Roadway despite the efforts of the
firemen. The loss is estimated at 49,
900, fully insured.
The building was a frame structure,
SOxl50 feet, two stories high, and
turned like finder. One hundred men
are out of work temporarily. From
the cooper shop the fire spread to the
salt block, but was extinguished with
but little damage to this building.
Michael Leopold, fremen of Co.
Is, was caught In the smoke by a
back draught inside the building and
nearly suffocated. He crawled to a
window and, breaking the glass, reach
ed a place of safety. His hand and
wrist were badly cut.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17

with beer bottles. They absolutely
refused TO worry about the comet. IF
we're gone, we're gone" said one
roisterous chap. but the world can
never come To an end while there is
so much good beer. No, that Is no
good business, to have the world come
to an end. Well be drinking beer,
Thursday morning"
The Romanians, deeply religious
people, who spend much OF their time
on their knees. haven't even heard OF
the comet, for the most part. And
when they are suddenly confronted by
the spectacle. II they happen TO be
awake when II arrives, there will prob
ably be no qualms. Those who did
know about II, expressed the intention
OF getting up to see II, but they had
no fear OF II.
An old Negro. trundling home a
wagon load OF wood, showed two glist-
ening rows OF ivory when asked why
he stored up his wood when the comet
as coming Wednesday.
"Ah'm going on storing up wood,
and the comet can keep coming" said
the dusky optimlst.
Over In the heart OF Little Africa,
mere mention OF the comet brought
on a camp meeting OF religious dis
cussion
One had a clincher argument to ex
plain why his people were not afraid
Here's a cIlneher.
Don't the bible say that the Lord
going to come on a cloud before the
end Of the world?" he asked HAS
anybody seen the Lord on cloud
Well, then the world amt a comm 70
no end now" Which grave decision
was received with mods OF assent from
those present.
In vain did one argumentative Ne
gro rty to impress on his hearers that
this time the comet was coming closer
than ever before.
Every time 1t gets closer said the
comet agitator. Maybe, % years from
now, it'll hit the yearth. But this
time, Wen probably get just some of
the gas as IL goes past"
IF 1t goes past the earth. close.
it's goin' to go In the water. amt it,
asked the decisive person who quoted
scripture. And he wouldn't believe
anything else. He figures out that
Halley's comet is going to come to a
miserable end by drowning, II 1t really
does head toward the earth, and miss
es II.
In the Polish district, three we'd
dings were being celebrated, within
blocks radius of Russell-st., and
Forestave. The throngs In attend
ance were carefree, and absolutely
without any premonition of evil, OF
any fear OF the celestial tramp, The
Poles view the comets approach calm
ly, and are not even curious about the
composition of the comets tail
Many Hungarians in the Delray col
ony have received letters from the old
country. telling OF the appearance or
the comet there. and asking whether
It has been seen here, too.
All of the old country letters state
that the comet Is an omen of world
war. That Is fully expected by the
old country correspondents, who warn
their peope In this country, to pre-
pare for the big fight.