The San Francisco call., 1910-07-05
MOTOR CLUB DOES
CREDIT TO CITY
Visiting AutOists Find Valuable
Bureau Gf Information at
Offices
Organization Makes Strides To-
:: ward Leadership of Coast
Organizations

Organizations
The members or the san Francisco
motor club and the dealers do not ap-
:lpreciste what the oficials of the for
*1ner are doing 10 promote interest in
california touring The present regime
of the club is daily placing its name
Far beyond the confines of the state
This can be more fully appreciated
when it is understood what good work
the club is doing
: Not long ago George Wilder of Steam
sted park. Ellsworth. Sussex. England,
called on Assistant Secretary J. A. Slark
OF the club. inQuiring the best roads
10 Denver. Wilder had brought his
motor car from Ceylon. where he had
been hunting. and wished to motor
overland to the capital OF Colorado.
Through Slark. he found that it was
impossible TO make the trip. as his
car had but eight inch clearance, ana
had TO make the journey to Denver by
way OF train. He viii return shortly
N" ~ -i-H AAAAANA al MAlNll IhcdtS
a sojourn in the Rocky mountains. and
e visit TO Canada for hunting. 1t is
learned from the secretary's Office of
The club that this is but one of many
cases that constantly come up for con-
.sideration.
These facts show conclusively that at
last san Francisco has motor club
that is going to be a credit to the city.
II also means that TO carry on this
work every man who owns motor car
should be a member Of such an or
81 nization, and those who are not mem
bers at the present time should feel
81 their duty at once 10 make appIi-
cation for membership.
Not very often is a set of tires called
upon 10 endure more than one or two
. such terrific tests
Fine Work on as the recent Har-
FirestOne Tire TIsbnrs ,oons and Norris
ally take the safe side and equip the
tar with new tires for each contest of
such strenuous character.
:. However. according TO telegrams sent
t1e Elrestone company by the Pullman
motor si5 ear company, il al depends upon
- gain be intrusted with the success of
the car IN its further contests
They advise that the identical Fire
stone tires used by their model X in
burg run and later on in the Norris
rewn event OF 326 miles were left on
I - car untouched when 1t entered the
AeW York 10 Atlanta good roads tour.
The tires justified III expectations by
'csrrying the car through to the end of
5he lleo mile tour with the only clean
score IN class 3 over what is said to be
tire worst travelling in the east. They
gre still on the car, ready for future
:eyients.
- George A. Bastanchury Of Los Ange-
les. accompanied by George .Rogers, is
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+" 6%a2F 5Si an RsSort. SlSs E2aaf is Rons to 5@
S- --s attic in his Olds-
In a letter received by G. S. Howard. Of
the Howard automobile company,
agents for the Oldsmohile in this city.
Bsstanchury reports that although he
Iln worst roads imagina bic in places
he has only had one puncture, and pos
1tiFefy no engine or mechanical trouble
V hatever. Despite the fact that the
northwest. the Oldsmobile is averaging
between $50 and 200 miles each day.
Bsstanchary reports that the roads
in the northern part of California are
IN Wretched condition. In some places
Efforts have been made TO I'LL up the
chuckholes but the efforts were evil
IDENTITY not OF the right nature. for the
holes still remain. In other places
there is merely trail to follow where
Bestanchury is blazing a new route
10 Seattle. hoping to be able to shorten
lie distance and lessen the difficulties.
= The ranks Of the woman motorists
are constantly growing, and il is by
no means an un-
Runs Car for usual sight to see
= a a car over the city
streets or the
roa DIS Of the country. bursit is given to /
few TO actually have her services in
demand One Of the few may be named
}p Mrs Frank Zelinsky of Los Angeles. !
wife Or q prominent physician of that
city. Mrs. Zelinsky recently purchased
2 four cylinder 10 horsepower Auburn
touring car and. after a few lessons and
careful study OF the mechanism. has
become skillful driver. Doctor Ze-
Hnsky does not know how to operate
the car and depends entirely on his wife
ii---i ~ - '1,lus. 80 Vhiig II
Mrs. Zehnshy busy during the day,
when the doctor is making his calls and
answering summons, but when night
CO lis are necessary she is not averse 10
2 fast run in the dark From Mrs. Ze-
linsky's knowledge Of the Auburn and
! s. mechanism il is always in perfect
condition and ready TO start with the
turning OF the crank She is able to
nal ke repairs the road or I'm the
X rage. and thoroughly understands the
engine. transmission and other impor-
tant parts. The car has already been
driven over 5000 miles and during this
mileage the tires have not been pune
Aufel once, ana MIS-. LelnSkN sees that
tile proper air pressure is always in
Them. This clever woman driver drove
her car to Camp Badly three weeks
after she purchased it, making the
round trip without trouble and without
= ppsrent fatigue.
John ". Bate, designer and factory
manager OF the Mitchell-Lewis motor
company Of Racine,
DeslRper Rate Wis, has returned
Has Refurned from his extensive
= ------ . trip through Eur
there is nothing in the manufacture of
the motor car abroad that has not
been adapted, tried out, rejected or ex-
plotted by designers in the United
states. Since his return to the fac
tory. Bate has cIoseted himself in the
L sboratory. Not even President William
Mitchell Lewis, Sales Manager James
". Wilson and other officials of the
company care 10 disturb him while he
Is making his final search for any
new features to be used in his 1911
Mitchell Lewis machines.
Q. c. Mcfarland. Pacific coast sales
manager for the Osen & Hunter auto
company. distributors of the Mitchell
Lewis cars. has received a letter from
Bate in which he says:
While not yet ready to announce to
the trade and the dealers IN Mitchell
Lewis machines the specifications for
the 1871 product. I may add that every
principle Of refined development that
had been agreed upon for our 1911
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