The Washington times., 1910-11-15
SEASONS LAST RACE 5.
ON THANKSGIVING.
Eight-Mile Course At Santa
Monica Being Put
In Shape.
By HARRY WARD.

I year 10 De run IN tnlS country Is
. scheduled for the eight-mile course
at Santa Monica, Cal, on Thanksgiv-
ling Day
The course is now being put in the
/ best possible shape and when il IS
turned over to the drivers for their
| first tTy-outs, the latter part OF the
week. there viii not be d bump or
rough place on the road from the
/ shores OF the Pacific back TO the turn
at the Soldiers Home. In racing CIR
cIes several WageFs at even money
have been made that the average Tor
the big car race will be over seventy
miles an hour Bert Dingley. VINO is
now on the Coast with his Pops-Hart-
! ford racer he used in, the Vanderbilt
/ cup. is sure better than seventy miles
an hour VIII be made, his opinion be
| ing confirmed by Harris Hanshue, the
| Apperson pilot. who also drove in this
years Vanderbilt
/ Several OF the contestants IN the
/ grand prize race at Savannah nave
/ been entered IN the California event
I Fred Wagner, the veteran starter VIII
drop the flag that VIII send each
driver away from the tape
c. r. Frknan. OF the Anderson Car
rage Company, makers Of the Detroit
electric. Is in the city visiting Emerson
I g. Orne, who recently secured the De
/ rroft electric agency While the eiec-
I tric has never been considered as a com
petGtor Of the gasolene car in general
/ sense said Mr. Erkman, owners OF
/ the latter are realizing the peculiar ap-
/ proprIateness Of this type OF car toE
: certain social and business CONDITIONS
Even men who manufacture gasolene
: cars themselves are becoming converted
Z FyrzHaured in Detroit
! the center OF the automobile industry
1 Among the prominent auto manufac-
I tVrers who are using Detroit electrlCs
are Hugh Chalmers, II. B. Joy. Henry
Ford. Clarence Black, y g L.eus Nm Nm
d I. Wills, b F. EveTttt, James For
roster, and number OF others
r c. smith, president Of the Over
! Iand-yV ashington Motor Company, re
/ cefved word this morning from George
4 w Bennett. sales manager OF the
I Wiilys-OveTland Company, that me tac-
tory In Toledo IS being operated twenty
FOUR hours per day. During October the
company shipped le2 cars
s T. Davis. ir., a former resident OF
l this city. who is now a high official in
the LsocOmobile Company OF America
/ has been elected vice president OF the
association OF Licensed Automobile
Manufactures
W Q Long annoJn this morning
/ that he would issue the call for the
dealers meeting to decide on a date
meeting viii be held a week from to
night at Eckstein's, and viii be followed
by a buffet lunch Every dealer In the
cifv viii be invited 70 attend
.'w. I. sliger and z. O. FIaherty, OF
Huntington. w Va. drove a mud-eov-
cred Thomas Flyer into Buffalo last
week after being on the road cOBc-ant-
Is for six months said David Hend-
rick. the Thomas agent They touch
/ cd practically every State in the Union
and were fun Of interesting stories Of
/ their adventures
Frank StewaTs, manager Of the REQ
Auto Company. is receiving many re
quests for L. l. WhitTna1's story en-
] titIed Coast to Coast in a REQ" It Is
) a handsome brochure Of twenty-fOuT
pages, and IS illustrated from cover 70
cover It viii BE- remembered that Whit
man lowered the coast-to-coast record
! on August 10 nearly five DAYS in a 1911
REQ touring car, his time being 10 days
Is hours and Il minutes
David Weaver. well known in Wash
ingtor real estate circles. has Joined the
sales force Of NJ T Pollock, the Olds-
. mobile agent Two OF Mr.. Weaver
brothers are also connected with the
auto business OF tEis city, Louis Weav-
er being with the Pope Auto Company,
while George Weaver IS with the Cook
& StOddard Company.
S. T. Davis, IT., president OF the Lo-
cOmobile Company OF America ana ,.
I)eKeir1. manager Of the PhiiadeiPhia
/ L.OCOmObfie branch, are in Washington
inspecting the LocOmobile agency re-
! Gently opened on Connecticut avenue
Sixteen days and nights OF continu-
/ Gus running by 500 Maxwell runaoOUt-
! without stop of the motor. was q fea-
/ ture OF the Texas state fair at Dallas,
which ended OF Sunday last simultan-
| eously with the conclusion OF the nom
stop motor car Tun,'' said John Thomas
manager Of the United Motor Washing
[ ton Company. The performance OF the
! Maxwell was one OF the spectacleS Of
| the fair, causing thousands to observe
its regularity in the long grind Not
I once did the car require any adjustment
! or repairs nor was the high gear olsen
] gagged from start to finish
1 The idea OF the run was conceived BY
! the United Motor Dallas Company as q
! feature Of the racing carnival and II
{ provided a pretty parallel TO the 1905
/ mile nonstop run by q larger Maxwell
= car in New England, few years ago
, / BY covering 3,162 miles during the six
, teen days. second member Of the Max
} well motor family becomes the nearest
3 rival for the worlds 1000 mile record
The motorists Of the Lone Star State
( we're amazed at its enduring. consistent
work for the reason that no other $50
, car ever made such a record, even with
{ the use OF low or intermediate gears
.