The San Francisco call., 1910-07-07


Miss Blanche Stuart Scott of Roches-
ter, N. Y, on whom at present the eyes
OF the motoring
Miss ScoftI r. world are centered,
Nearing the City - Wen Ne. t Oh liei This mas
in tr e pi d young
woman driver. at the wheel of her Lady
Overland roadster. already has sur
to her present stopping place, Salt Lake
City. Miss Scott is not trying for
speed or time record, but is establishing
a record for skill and endurance i'll
plotting the modern vehicle on long
distance tour, with positively no as
sistance whatever from mere man. AS
every point of interest is being taken
in and the trip is one of pleasure, aside
from the pleasure of driving the car
and making q record.
Miss Scott, accompanied by her COM
panion, another young woman, VIII
leave Salt Lake today and probably
will reach San Francisco the early part
of next week, as she has altered her
route to a certain extent Instead of
going to Los Angeles and then up the
valley to this city. she will come direct
through from the present stage of her
journey TO her destination Any one
who has made a tour of few hundred
miles can appreciate what 1ncon-
veniences and obstacles are met with
and have to be conquered but no one,
unless he has made the trip across the
journey means and what hardships are
met with. Through snow she, has
plodded. sometimes on the mountalns,
sometimes ion low ground, through
sand, even harder to negotiate; in heat
that makes breathing almost an effort,
or cold so intense as to numb the hands
on the steering wheel of the car;
through mud. which a number of trans
continentalists have considered the
most trying ordeal, and from which 1t
is necessary to pryi the car and then
fao,t Il xryffl ND
over rocky roads, which in their rough
ness seem almost to shake the life out
of the car and its occupants out OF
them; still she has forged ahead, en-
with a feeling of satisfaction, for she
is more than pleased with the perform
ance of her car and the way IL mas
withstood the trip. When she reaches
San Francisco it is needless to say this
dauntless young American girl Will be
extended a reception betting what she
has accomplished. Miss Scott is purely
a feminine woman, and this task is not
the result of a feeling of independence
or 'woman's rights. but to +isn snow Nv TO 70
at large and to the Overland company,
that no woman need be dependent on
man for the pleasures to be derived
from that most healthy pastime, motor
ing.
Miss Ray Alexander of 3O21 Washing
ton street motored in her Stoddard
Dayton car over the
Tour. over santa Santa Cruz noun
Cruz Mountains oaihs 10 boiidav HifiIe rim
Her mother and
Donald Burgess Beadles of Alameda ac-
companied Miss Alexander.
Another popular priced car is likely
to enter the local market. A. 3. Costi--
gan. president of
anotber New Car the Pacific motor
for Local Market car coiiipa t,' ny, G;so3,ss yss
ing the future. of
his company. said that at present they
had no popular priced car, their stew
grade trade. The company, at the pres
ent time. is considering three different
makes of the popular priced car, one
of which will be selected Within the
next fortnight. Just what cars are
under consideration Costigan declined
to say, as he had not yet closed nego-
tiations.
carried The Call to Reno in a Mitchell
car, breaking the
Fast Time Of record Eranciscd from m San San
----e place, eclipsed his
own record in his
return trip to his home at stockton.
He came down on Monday in nine hours
and Is minutes, leaving the city in the
Sagebrush state at 3 p. m. Taking
into consideration that on the trip he
made Stockton in hours and 20 min
utes. added to his running time on his
return would have placed him in San
Francisco in IL hours and 35 minutes.
or 35 minutes faster than his first rec.
ord. Skinner, when he arrived home
in Stockton, telephoned that he had
not made a single adjustment on the
car from the time he left San Fran
cisco, and that it seemed to him that
the car ran with more power and speed
than when he started out.
Combining business and pleasure is a
popular movement among stock holders.
directors and Off
- Rfaa oe cials of a number of
' Torier % oficiaIs theautomobile man
a ,-L-s ufacturing compa-
nies. Recently a
number OF the prominent Detroit stock
holders and directors of the Lozier mo-
tor car company visited the Plattsburg
works of the company on tour of in
spection After the big factory was
thoroughly gone over and business
transacted, H. A. Lozer took the party
on trip throughthe Adirondacks in a
Lozier touring car The party Of seven
tour through Chestertown, Schroon
Lake, Lake George and Albany, from
which city the Detroit party returned
home by rail.
Another instance of where business
has outgrown even spacious quarters
may be cited in the
accessory Dealer eaee OF the third
Ha. 10 Enlarge supply house in the
---~-e United States and
- the hrsI on the Pa
cific coast, the we'll known pioneer
house of the Moore motor supply COM
pany, with its main office in San Fran
cisco and branches in Oakland and Los
Angeles. IT is in the latter place that
change of quarters has become neces-
sary. and ]. j. Avis, general manager
of the company. has just returned from
the southern city, where he has secured
a new store in Olive street
message has been received from the
Thomas 3. Jeffery company of Kenosha
Inau,hIn. 11-ins ga" won the tio