The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-17

moment the locomotive was being
dragged along the tracks The engine
number 40, is on the regular passenger
run over the Salt Lake road. 1t is the
first locomotive ever to be hauled by
motor car.
/ Orders Car by Wireless.
The demand for f. NJ. F. cars is so
strong that they are ordering them by
wireless now, said Gustave \. Schuman,
of the Schuman Carriage Company yes
terdav afternoon. The Coney Garage
Company OF Lihue, Kauai, flashed rim
one earlier in the day. The f. NJ. f.
ears are also very popular on the Big
Island. Schuman says there are new
tWenty-six Z. NJ. f. machines IN use
about Hilo, which is by far the largest
proportion Of any makes over there
Two more of these cars have been ship
ped to tIiIo on the steamer Enterprise
direct from SAN Francisco and are noav
on the way. These ears, Schuman ex-
planned. are particularly suitable for
the roads on Hawaii, being durable and
of medium weight The Volcano
Stables. located in Hilo, are now using
seven f.. NJ. f. cars in their rental ser
vice, and there are sixty of them il
use throughout the Islands The Schu
man Carriage Company received two F.
NJ. F. automobiles on the I.urline We'd
nesday and both of them have been
sold to local parties.
\ white -enameIed closed panel tor
delivery wagon with bright red wheels
Is the next sensation to hit gasoline
row. This vehicle is made by the
Brush Motor Company of Detroit, anC
has been ordered by the Sch1man Car
riage Company for a local bakery. The
Honolulu Gas Company has a Bush run
about and this is the only machine OF
, this make now IN town. The delivery
| wagon is a swell piece of furniture. II
| is equipped with a one-cylinder engine
which generates ten horsepower, has 8
capacity for thousand pound load ant
! Is cheaper to maintain, it Is claimed
than a horse rig.
Frank Baldwin slipped in an order
! this week for one of the new shaft
! drive siX-cylinder sixty horsepower
! Locomotives which has been the talk Of
/ the trade since It's recent perfection
Frank has stuck to the LocomobiIe fol
J Il
model from the Schuman Carriage Com
pany when they first came out Tina
same machine is now owned by Mana
ger Walsh of the Kahului store and il
rendering good service yet. Baldwin
bought another Locomoble in 1908 ant
! the one he has now ordered makes hi
! third. The first car was twenty horse
power, the second thirty and the on,
for which the order was cabIed thi
: week is sixty horsepower machine
The Schuman Carriage Company ais,
sold a Ford runahout to J. NJ. Giles.
reporter on The Advertiser, this week
and received another one Of those nifty
+ Flanders twenty horsepower roadster
on the Lurline. which is still on sale.
Breaks World Record.
+ All world s mileage records for elec
/ trir motor cars were broken by Emil
/ GrUenfeldt, at Cleveland, Ohio. N0vem
her 9. when a Baker Electric Victoria
made the remarkable record Of 2445
miles on a single charge of the batter
| les, The total running time was ~
/ hours and % minutes giving an average
Of 12G5 miles an hour. The run was
made n rainy weather over wet, slip.
perry roads with the wind blowing
/ twenty miles an hour
! The car was equipped with an Edison
I 10 cell battery and the remarkable mile
AGE made j. evidence of the high eff
/ fcieucy of the Edison battery and the
absence of friction i'm shaft driven
Baker Electric This test run was made
3uudcr official observation ana the odom
+ afrr, an NJ (Jrurnfpl1t : r9r was check