New-York tribune., 1910-07-17
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Little Bits of News That Interest
the Dealers in Cars.

C,15r Of seventy starters. embracing almost
every. prominent make OF motor car, N the
AtIanta-to-New York endurance run, the
Speedweu enjoys The distinction of being
one out Of a scant half dozen in the big
car classes TO receive a silver cup for su-
perior road performance. having gone
through with q clean score This announce
ment comes late. but is especially deserved
because. owing 10 a clerical error in the
/ checkers list, II was made 10 appear that
the spedweH had finished as a technical
/ non-contestant-
/ Seventy miles an hour and better over
! Colorado roads was the feat of an Apper-
! son Jack Rabbit racer used as the official
/ car in The Denver Posts recent reliabil-
/ ity run. according TO g. r Blanchard, the
/ manager Of the eight-hundred-u2iIe tour
/ M. Blanchard has written q letter in which
/ he praises the Apperson work in the high
! est terms
! After having been submerged for six
hours IN the Pacific Ocean, q Cadillac
Thirty was given a fresh supply of gaso-
/ lene and started on its own power. This
remarkable incident occurred recently at
Aberdeen Wash F D. Demning and d.
party were driving on the beach, when sud
denly The car sank 10 the frame in quick
sand The tide was rising at the time. and
before assistance could he summoned the
car had been enguIfed. When the tide be
gan to recede and il was possible TO reach
the car il was drawn up on solid ground
4 fresh supply Of gasolene was procured,
the caI buretor drained 10 get all the water
out OF the system. and the car was started
as readily as though II had not been buried
in salt water for half day. No water was
case.
One Of the largest contracts ever made
for high grade automobiles has just been
closed between the Apperson Brothers Auto
mobile Company, Of Kokomo, Ind, makers
OF the Apperson Jack Rabbit. and Leon T
/ Shelter. Of Los Angeles. Shelter has pur-
/ chased 800 Apperson cars for the 1911 sea
son. and has been made the exclusive Ap-
person distributor for the Pacific Coast
/ territory.
statement was recently made by a
/ prominent authority on motor topics TO the
effect that the pathhnding business is being
very much Overdone- While this is proba-
bly, true TO a certain extent. and II is true
also that the newspapers have been flooded
with descriptions of such tours. there are
q
which are practically unknown TO motor
lists In making a trip from his home, in
Pensacola Fla. 10 Lansing. Mich, in his
Oldsmobiie touring car. r. {. Packard
claims 10 have traverSed highways where
motor cars were never seen before. Ac-
companied b. ". Barendt and travelling
bv way Of Atlanta. Chattanooga, Knox
Vile Lexington Louisville. indianapolis
ana Toledo, Mr.. Packard made the trip in
his Oldsmobiie Special in eight days and a
half. being in no hurry it was passing
over the Blue Ridge Mountains tnat Mr.
Packard encountered people who had never
seen q motor car. and this was the state
nent Of several white settlers whom ne
met.
/ Completing the first one hundred miles of
/ their >. 2.4s6-rlile "Trip from New York TO
/ Oklahoma City. the tiny bronco-busting
sons of Eat En- Alive Jack Abernathy.
/ United States Marshal for Oklahoma, sped
! through the Mohawk Valley in their Brush
77Inab bout with as much delight as they
took in their horseback ride 10 New York
10 greet Colonel Roosevelt Louis. the nine
vear-old boy. drove the car. and he is quite
certain that the overland trip in an auto
1 mobile IS as interesting a ride asIrlde his
country pony
The winner Of the Star" trophy in the
ST Louis endurance run was the National
- driven BY Charlie Merz. the racing
/ driver. The run was a 41s-mile reliability
contest over roads almost iupassable from
the continued rains in the part of
Missouri covered by the tour. The contest
was run under the rules governing the
f7Iidden tour and sanctioned by the Amer
/ lean Automobile Association