The San Francisco call., 1910-09-12
TRUCkEE WOMAN
EXPERT AUTOIST
Mrs. Emma Ludwig i'm EMF
Sets Difficult Pace for
Rival Drivers
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

One of the latest recruits to Califor
MAS rapidly extending list of women
automobile owners and drivers is Mrs.
Emma Ludwig of Truckee. and al
though she has been driving only
few weeks she has the reputation of
knowing the game to the finish"
Mrs. Ludwig is the owner of an
EMF 80" of the latest model The
fair motorists chief delight is in hunt
ing out the most difficult and toughest
roads In the state for travel, conquering
them and then coming back and relat-
irg her experiences. Nine times out of
osity of other motorists who seek to
duplicate her accomplishment, and as
often fail. Motorists who know Mrs
Ludwig say there are two reasons for
this; One is that the machine with
which the attempt was made was not
qualified to do~the work by reason of
lack of power, being too light or too
didn't have it in her. to do the work
another reason is that the driver lacked
the nerve to tackle the job. All of
winch, gives Mrs. Ludwig distinction
attained by few women motorists.
Speaking of her enthusiasm over mo-
torins recently Mrs. Ludwig said:
am very enthusiastic about motor
ing, nevertheless mean always to
hold down my enthusiasm enough to
respect the rights of all other vehicles
and pedestrians who cross .ny path. I
1ully appreciate the thrill of speeding
up nice piece of road or tackling a
run over roads where danger turks on
every side. l find the secret of success
Iul orlVlng is in making haste slowly"
Ralph c. Hamlin. dealer in franklin
air cooled motor cars at Los Angeles,
maintains t h a t
Auto Trade In there is greater
South State ppoporuon or the
California active in
automobiling, and that the ratio of cars
owned TO population is larger than else
Where In the world. He says that in that
ssection OF the state are 750,000 inhab-
itants. and this, on a basis that five
constitute the average for a family,
the first of January 800 carloads of
automobiles, averaging four to the
load, have been received, this adding
$500 machines to the total, which has
thus been increased to $4,000 Hamlin
maintains that, with one motor car to
each 10 families, or so persons. no
other part of the world can equal the
record of the south end of this state.
While we do not make a practice
OF entering contests. says H. L. Owes
Winton Owners the San Francisco
Do conte.tins f9a bpapGh ntor OF the the Win Win
customers enter as individuals and M as
a rule they win out This is true of
the Wfnton that was entered in the
two days reliability run at Brooklyn
two weeks ago when a Winton Little
Six, driven by William Braden, came
through with clean score"
Austin Kansee of the Phoenix rubber
company, agents for the Republic tires.
has received word
Staggard Tread that of the 28 con-
Wins Prizes testing cars en-
%-----.- tered in the Mum
sey historic tour
company, agent for the Republic tires,
We're equipped with Republic Staggard
tread tires. OF the contesting cars en-
tered in division A one, a Washington
car driven by w. D. Arrison. made the
long run of 1900 miles over the hardest
kind of roads without road penalties
and without replacing a single inner
tube. winning the trophy offered to the
winner in that class. while the other.
also a Washington car driven by A. G.
carter, took second prize
NOTES OF THE AUTO
A. l.. Dutton, who has been con-
nected with the publicity department.
as manager of the WHY'S s-Overland
company, has resigned to become sales
manager for large Chicago concern.