The San Francisco call., 1910-12-14
ohio Wins Wager
BY Climbing Hill
Motor Car on Way From New
York to San Francisco
Shows Power
BY R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU


To Journey ell the way from New
York to the wilds of Alabama to dem
oaatrnte tho ability of an automobile
and to climb mountain heretofore
regarded ms inaccessible is feat that
has Just been accomplished by a party
of automoblists en- route from Gotham
to San Francisco on pathfinding tour
by way Of the southern states. The
mountain In question is known as
Sandy mountain, 2e miles south of Tus-
cumbla, near the town of Courtland,
Ala, and the automobile that climbed
1t Is the Ohio cur conveying E. L.
Ferguson of the American automobile
association, who is collecting the data
for the new southern route from coast
to coast
TIE successful climb was the out
come of wager made between John
T. Hall, q former Alabaman, now a
New York theatrical man. and ]. w
McCrtcheon. one OF this years Glidden
tour entrants. Hall, who has toured
the west and south extensively in his
automobile, once attempted to cross
Sandy mountain with disastrous re-
suits He has since regarded it as
graveyard" for automobiles When
he learned of McCutcheon's interest in
the Ohios pathf1nding tour and that
the party would cross Alabama he of
fered to wager $1,000 that Sandy
mountain could not be climbed. Ac-
cordingly the route through Alabama
was altered to make the attempt
It is climb of a mile and a half up
a steep, rocky road full of gulleys and
ruts- and exceedingly dangerous for any
vehicle, and is avoided even by farm
ers driving mule teams The Ohio
pathfnding car negotiated it in AS
minutes, counting time lost in hauling
the car back to the roadway after it
had skidjed down a five foot embank-
ment.
The pathfnders, who. besides Fergu-
son, include G. w. Finney, represent
ing the Ohio motor car company;
Charles Thacher and Fred d. Clark,
left Memphis December for Helena,
Ark, en- route to Dallas, Tex.
ALBANY, N Y, Dec. 18.-Receipts
aggregating s75o.OoO are expected next
year from the op-
New AutO Law Grafton of the so
= A-1 1nrIcnes sIa1e tomobile law, pro
viding for the IL
censing of chauffeurs and the registra-
ton of motor vehicles. This estimate
is based on the receipts from the new
law for the first six months of its
operation this year.
All licenses this year expire on De-
cember 81.
During the six months the new law
has been in operation this year 63 600
owners and 1900 manufacturers regis
tered their cars with the secretary of
state, while 27,000 chauffeurs were
licensed, the total receipts aggregating
$685. 900.
Hughson & Merton, the local dis
tributors of motorol, have received a
%-- letter from Port
MotoroI Makes land announcing
Boats Go Fast that in the recent
<--------------- regatta held IN the
northern city, the
winner. Wolf. and the second motor
| boat used this oil as a lubricant The
letter also says that motorol is becofn-
ing most popular among motorboat en-
thusiasts as well as motorists in the
north.
The Chalmers motor company officials
sprang quite a surprise on the dealers
a the banquet last
Chalmers Gets Thursday evening,
Ont Pnner this banquet be-
~ . !" "p ing the concluding
feature of a four
day dealers convention The surprise
was in the form of a fake" newspaper
the Chalmers Exhaust"
Lee Anderson was managing editor.
and he and Gail Murphy wrote the
greater part of the stuff and did most
of the work. The cartoons were done
by Burt Thomas of the Detroit News
This paper was brought into the ban
quet hall just as the banquet was rea DIV
to break up by real newsboys. and they
created some noise and sensation.