The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-29
WOMAN MOTORIST
HOLDS Big RECORD
Mrs. A. w. Seaman Covers So
600 Miles in Her Franklin
Car in Six Years
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEu

Mrs. A. W. Seaman of BROOKLYN is an
automobilist who has driven more than
$4,000 miles. taking entire care of her
car. In her experience Of six years,
however, she has had no trip more
strenuous than one which she finished
a few days ago, when she drove into
Brooklyn after 800 mile drive from
Syracuse over roads which by reason
of floods had been left deeply covered
with mud and which were marked in
the Mohawk valley by a massive ice
gorge.
Mrs. Seaman had gone to Syracuse to
visit the Franklin automobile factory.
there to get a new car. This was a
rs horsepower, five passenger. four
cylinder touring car finished in battle
snip gray with pearl gray trimmings.
Although this was her first expert
ence with a 1910 Franklin, it was by
no means her first with Franklins of
other years. In 1904 she secured her
first Franklin, and she drove it 10000
miles in two years Thereafter she
secured a 1906 car and with it made
10000 miles in four years.
Mrs. Seaman has acquired reputa-
ton not only as a driver on tours, but
in contests as we'll Last year as a
Women's motoring club of New York
from New York to Philadelphia and
back she drove her car so successfully
as to secure the award of the Hol Tan
trophy.
She started out from Syracuse with
her new car after personally putting
1T in shape. With her husband who
accompanied her on her trip, she had
spent part of the previous day in an in
- he
Hardly had she reached a point east
of Utica when evidences We're to be
seen on all sides of recent floods In
places the waters had all but destroyed
the highways, making the trip one of
constant struggle with road conditions
Speaking after her arrival home of the
most picturesque part of the flood area,
she said:
The ice gorge at Herkimer was full of
interest. Great masses of ice piled every
where. Trees that had been stripped of
their bark by the force of the ice flow stood
on the river bank, mute evidence of the mer-
CHESS forces of nature.
A house that had been torn from it's foun-
dalton stood aslant In the pack ice They
had cut single track road for about an
eighth of mile through the ice that blocked
the road The ice was above the We
drove through if.
1hen the road led along the river for a
way, and logs, brush and all kinds of debris
had been stranded and foated up on the
road. The track of the road has been
cleared, but fear it will be many day
before all the marks of the disaster will be
obliterated.
We left Amsterdam at IL the next day and
made leisurely to Poughkeepsie. Some
fine roads. but we brought our share of real
estate in on our car. We came home
through the beautiful Ramapo valley. We
glided into Brooklyn at night with nothing TO
trip and the in fine shape, ex-
cept some paint rubbed of the axles by
dragging over the mud and ice.
Mrs. Seaman always refers to her car,
just as a seafaring man does his ship.
as she Speaking further of the run,
she said:
AS for the trip down TO New York, it was
inspiring. Such trips give confidence in
ones machine when one goes through them
From the covered bridge few miles west
of st. louisville to Fonda the roads
only an apology for roads, just a sticky.
black clay. into which she sometimes sank
10 her engine apron and sometimes climbed
on top for while. only TO slush down into
a unudhole beyond. Her flexible wood chassis
frame had a chance TO show Its worth. Her
engine never faltered.
After nine miles of continual work on first