The San Francisco call., 1910-02-03
AUTO PROVES It's
VALUE IN THE SNOW
During Heavy Storm in New
York Earns More Than a
Horse Drawn Vehicle
Carried Away Four Times as
Much Snow as Any Other
Kind of Truck
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

The work OF moving the last fall Of
snow from the streets OF New York
was materially facilitated BY the en-
ployn1ent OF The modern motor truck
Street CoInmissioaer Ed9-ards secured
the services Of three ton gasoline
truck and put il to work side by side
with the horse drawn Wa soas. so that
the comparison between the two might
be based on similar conditions of serv-
ice. The official figures show that the
truck did al leas. four times the work
of the ordinary two horse truck The
rate paid by the city was SO cents a
cubic ward, so that the truck earned
$40. while the best OF its horse drawn
Joe onier, coast factory representa-
tive OF the EMF company. has had
busy time since
Flanders Francisco. He has
- closed with 13
agencies. ThO~e who have contracted
A. Brizard OF Arcata, o. II wineke
of Susanville, San Jose Implement
company of San Jose. W H. Ward OF
Vallejo. Hanford garage of Hanford.
Lyons Morgan company of Fresno. r.
". Whyers Of Lodi Z oPpe9Ehfs3im Elm, =? OF
gan. Pioneer CARA OF Napa and P. <
c. auto company OF Santa Rosa
ceived two of the big Stoddard Day
:. ton touring cars
Church Come. One q Of them gn1its Is foF OF
From south Berkeiev 3 Ei smlSh w "
G5nrcb of Los
Angeles. representative OF the Stod-
dard Dayton on the coast, arrived in
the. city yesterday for conference
with j. W. Lesritt.
J. F. MeLain. manaeer Of the Frank
lia automobile company. returned yes
Artistic Car. visit to the fac
in Big show. tory and the east
.: ern shows. The
features. from his viewnoint. were the
torpedo body and the artistic finish OF
some of the cars in the exhibits
c c. Eichelberger. manager of the
Firestone branch in this city. has had
--- s,r q nIsy i time rdlt OF II
pr.--o az .-ae- were opened at
4l2 Van Ness ave
nue.. The usiness has been a great
sur-rise to him. for he was almost
swamped With business before he got
his quarters settled and his force lined
up.
IL EIdltr stOdSl AL4olt1ect rAOt INT
Fisk rubber company has gone east
- TO attend the Chi
Pratt Goes to cago show. The
Chicago show LIZ. lip Vas W ,he. nlaoe zoe. by
wesf
Pratt visited the AGENTS in his terri
tory.
L. Y. Lyr h OF the Speedwen motor
car company reports that, carload OF
Speedwelis 5
speedwelI Sent shipped 10 Seattle.
10 se"'ue sisted Of a seven
passenger a FIVE
passenger and baby tonneau touring
car
William Powers OF the Howard auto
mobile company. who has been down
In Los Angeles
Powers Returns helping the sell
branch sell Bucks
in that section.
has returno to the city. Powers re-
ports splendid business in autos down
oCth.
Billy Knipper. the famous driver Of
Chalmers racing cars. who is now in
Makes Record In gained fame last
Chalmers Car spring by plotting
Patbs1e{ns f5se - car bss
set his first record for nonstop driv-
ing and mill climbing. A special from
the City of Mexico says:
"knipper has made his first record
run: that from Mexico City TO the city
OF Toluca and return The distance is
20 miles. up over the mountains In the
first p miles the road rises 10 an alti-
tude Of 1900 feet Toluca itself is at
an elevation of $500 feet Total elapsed
time was hours and 10 minutes. Act
ual running time, / hour and Is min
utes to Toluca; I hour and IS minutes