The San Francisco call., 1910-07-15
Driver of Under Three Flags Car Tells Of His
Costly Experience With Indians
BY r. r. L'HOMMEDIEU

over the steep mountain grades. Glenn
is one of the satisfied owners of the
Shrewsbury cars. Frederick Till
man in his big six cylinder Stevens
Duryea and w. H. Wilby in his four
cylinder Stevens-Durye spent Sunday
at Del Monte.
Of the Regal cars, reports placing the
agency for the Regal in sacramento o
With Nth p. II. TrWyon; ~ Isaac Cuiberg of
have purchased Regal "3o's"
G. S: Richardson of the Reliance au-
tomobile company has just received n
letter from j. B. Mitchell of GazelIe.
which states: Everything satisfac,
tory. The car is running fine. We
have travelled 1915 miles So far. we
just got back from Crater lake in Ore
gon, 3S miles through snow and ice ana
not mfshap.
]. L. Meredith recently drove Hud-
son roadster up a hill with As per
cent grade. The hill is located near
Mason city, Ia Meredith in writ
ing to Calvin c. Eib of the Pioneer
northern California, said: '"The car
went up splendidly without a mishap
OF any sort. 1t attracted attention and
admiration for miles around, being the
first car as we'll as the last car to climb
successfully this particular HILL"
The mes-Harris-Neville company.
which keeps Franklin for the use of
statesmen. has just had the car equipped
tires.
Just taken delivery of a Haynes car.
Gage-Mills & Co.. lumber dealers, have
Just taken delivery of a Haynes car
q y-Tln xrri11 hn 1a<J
upon for some particularly hard serv-
ice.
The Standard motor car company is
in receipt of a telegram from Detroit
Mich. advising that Ford model IT,
won its class event in the McKeesport
hill climb. The little car also bettered
the time made by the majority of the
high priced cars and won third from a
large entry list in the free for ALL
tires at the North Wildwood meet July
9TH. The Stoddard- Dayton won two
events, mile each, on Firestone tires
and demountable rims.
Worlds speedway records were again
broken on Firestone tires and demount-
able rims. Eddie Hearn at the Speed
way, indianapolis, Ind, on July 4, in
famous speedway helmet from Burman.
broke Oldfeld's and Robertson's best
records beating six racing cars and
making the fastest time Of the meet
Time, ten miles. minutes 13 seconds:
Is miles. 10 minutes 25.17 seconds; 20
miles, IA minutes 6.O7 seconds.
In line with the policy of the Colum-
bia motor car company to enter the big
touring events of the year is the entry
of a Columbia in the 500 miles reliabil-
ity tour, TO be held September Z. 8. 8
mobile club of Buffalo. This run. com
prising as it does four continuous days
of running with an average of 200
miles per day, is expected to prove one
OF the hardest and most severe dura bill
1ty contests of the season. The contest
Will be held in accordance with the
American automobile associat ton con-
test board rules such as governed the
recent all Connecticut durability run, in
which Columbia car obtained the only
perfect score out of the q starters.
1t is interesting to note the number
OF persons taking motor excursions
into the country during the summer
months and the makes of cars owned
by them. The following is a list of the
owners and their cars that arrived at
Del Monte recently:
II. &. Cruickshank W. H. Wood. C. Page:
g. ]. shardock. White; Maud Lillian Berri;
Peerless: F.. Marriott. Winton; R. ". Gig
noux: Frank Preston. Buick; R. H. Smith.
LOGON poeomobie e.,o s. B. Toby; r a. Brge; E. D.
G. Crane, Rambler: A. Judell. Locomobile: f.
e. Noyes. Lozier: n. II. Neustader Doctor Nc
Emery. Cuyler Lee: ". t. Mcdonald. Peerless;
M. Warren; Walter Hoag and E. F. Adams
Peerless; s.. l.. Goldstein, Lozier; Mrs. George
Howard.
In the recent 'Montauk Light or
Bust endurance rum a Franklin motor
car, bearing the contest number "13."
which. as is well known is the lucky
for the Franklin, covered the
course with a clean score. The model
used was the AZ horsepower close
coupled car and it was driven by Paul
Harvey. The first days run of the
contest was from New York to Montauk
light, at the eastern end of Long island,
and then westward as far as Shelter
island. where the night was spent The
York. Part of the route of the first
day was in a very bad condition as to
roads, as there were stretches of mud
and in other places stretches of sand.
Seventeen miles of mud were encoun-
tered into which the cars would sink
to- their axles. Notwithstanding the
bad roads the Franklin kept pegging
away and had no mechanical or tire
trouble, making. all controls, and final
ord without penalty.
The fire commissioners of the district
of Columbia have appealed to the
of the United States treas
ury to determine the question as to
whether any of the $500 recently ap-
propriated for the purchase of a fire
apparatus can be used in the purchase
of an automobile fire engine Bids for
an automobile to be used by the chief
of the fire. department were opened on
July /.