The San Francisco call., 1910-07-18

lights. At 10:O4, the car and occupants
were ON the top of the mountain.
Braving the dangers of instant death,
the party made it's way back down the
mountain. 1t is needless to say that
an enthusiastic crowd was awaiting
them on the hotel veranda, and hearty
cheers. and congratulations were given
the intrepid trio and words of praise
heard over the feat of the little Ev
eritt go
Manager Pratt of the Fisk rubber
company has just returned from his
annual visit to the
For Fisk Tires most enthusiastic ntn9;tfats
~-------- ststgne 9se eGndlti4hs' f6st }hs
company is enjoying a 80 per cent in
crease in business over last year. The
factory has been working night and
day trying to keep up with orders, but
so far has not been able to get far
enough ahead to lay in reserve stock.
E. C. Collins, manager of the Carter
car automobile company, reports the
sale of the follow
Ne" of carterear- last week; noI 81 70 II. +
city. one delivery
car; five passenger Cartercar touring
cars to DR.. B. F. Mardis of this city:
Ed Hanley, Montague; E. Viechmann of
Fort Jones, John Cook of Montague.
and DR.. A. NJ. Taylor A Cartercar run
about was delivered to Phil Wager of
San Francisco and taXicab to j. Null
doom of Oakland.
The Diamond rubber company has
just received the following letter from
j. W. Hoag of Han
/ Wins Races on / ford: Just won the
Diamond Tires Hanford to Layton,
--~ July 4. road race
on four cylinder
Pierce motorcycle, equipped with 2Sx21a
inch regular Diamond motorcycle tires.
The distance was IL miles, over very
turns, four high railroad crossings and
20 bridges / made the trip in the
remarkable time of 14A minutes. My
Diamond tires held the road in grand
style. They are the most resilient and
easy riding tires | ever owned and /
owe great deal to winning this road
race to the way my tires held up, as it
surely was a very hard test.
"P. S.-This pair of tires had run
1000 miles before entering the race"
NOTES OF THE AUTO
The plans which have for some time
been formulating in the minds of mo-
tor enthusiasts of greater New York
are about to result in wooden track,
which will be constructed Immediately.
The site of the track will be in easy
access to the city and is planned along
lines that Will Insure success from an
engineering standpoint. The first con-
track, and it is for this reason that
wood has been decided upon as the
material to be used. The wooden track
has yet to be credited with a fatality.
Following the lead of so many of the
large cities of the country. Denver is TO
build motor speedway 1t is estimated
that the new track will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The track is
to be ready for preliminary races Au-
gust 6. 1t is located eight miles from
Denver, in the little town of Sablo, and
is situated in a natural amphitheater
three and half miles long. of dirt
home stretch will be mile and
quarter Straightaway, and will be $50
feet wide. The steel grand stand is to
have seating capacity for 10000 per-
sons.
The registration compiling. depart
ment of New York state has just
in regard to the gradual growth and
present condition of the motor indus
try The total New York registration
figures for the first six months of the
last five years are as follows: January
1 to June 80, 1906. 6,S03; same period.
1907, S,456, showing an increase of
1868 cars; 1908, S,17O. sowing a de-
crease of 2s6 cars; 1909. 1874 increase
of 5271. and for the first six months of
1910, 1883, an increase of 5,147 cars.
The decrease in 1908 was but 2S6 cars.
small percentage. when it is taken
into consideration how other industries
suffered. Another interesting set of fig
Hres fpe yeaTs rs enine IN u1 The actual
figures are as follows: Year ended
July July l. 1912 2s1ss; year ended T5I7 July ieds I
(panic year,, 1851. and year ended
July /. 1907, 1875 cars:
Consul Benjamin F. Chase of Leeds
has just given out through a report
the invention of what seems to be
punctureless automobile tire. invented
by an Englishman. Chase describes. 1T
extensfbIe heavy canvas lining, the
crown being packed with puncture
proof material and placed between the
outer cover and the inner tube of the
ordinary pneumatic tire. The lining is
so made as TO cause low pressure on
the thread and to equalize the pressure
on the inner tube. The lining is thick
edge at the rim. The external appear
ance is like the ordinary tire The in
made several gashes and cuts on the
outer casing of the tire through to the
patent lining, and with these has driven
his car 500 miles without puncture or
the necessity of repair to this tire, al
though wheels on the same machine
fitted with other tires had the usual
difficulties. Other tests on heavy cars
without the special gashes have been
equally satisfactory. An inspection
of the invention impresses one with
the simplicity. and the carved outer
that it is great development
in tires for use on automobiles. APP
parently simple and practical solu-
tfon of the ordinary tire troubles has
been found. The invention has been
patented in England and the United
States. The same man has also in
vented a bridge tire Of keyed chamber
design for use on heavy motor vehicles.
In an all rubber tire of almost square
section is nodded a double series of
small triangular air chambers so keyed
into each other that a radial line drawn
from the hub of the wheel to it's periph-
cry at any angle must pass through
at least one of the air chambers
Though every chamber is separated
from its others by dividing walls they
are al connected by air vents and may
be inflated to any pressure. Twenty to
thirty pounds of pressure is sufficient
to insure all the advantages given by
a continuous air tube. with none of the
disadvantages inseparable from high
pressure. These two inventions seem
upon examination and some investiga-
tfon to be of practical value in the
growing use of automobiles and other
motor vehicles.
With $500 inhabitants the city of
Monroe, Wis. now boasts 122 motor
cars. The Green county automobile
club of Monroe has IS members, and ii
is expected there will be $50 before