The San Francisco call., 1910-08-14
COLE'3O ATTRACTS
THE AUTOMOBOLIST
Many Enthusiasts Visit the
SaIesrOOm to See the Lat
est Arrival

est Arrival
The arrival of the Cole 80" in au-
tomobile row yesterday brought out a
large number of the enthusiasts to see
this popular priced car. The shipment
of roadsters shows one of the sturdiest
cars that has reached the coast this
year There is a wonderful amount of
attention paid to detail. The cars are
finished well and from ali appearances
should be one Of the best sellers of the
season
The announcement made by A. J.
smith that the 1911 high duty Elmore
cars had started
Hfgh Dufv west has been re-
EimOres Coming Sreat esiyed do.T Win ia a
terest by the auto
mobile public. The new two cycle en-
gine is something out Of the ordinary
and the experts are anxious to see its
practical workings. The cars should
arrive the latter part of the week
The AIorrison-Cole motor car COM
pany yesterday closed with Carl Chris
e--------- . teIscn OF Oakland
Christensen Has for the Cadillac
the Cadillac agency across the
~--% bay
The Palmer and Singer SiX-sixty car
which ran recently from New York to
S-----------~ Dallas driven by
iP'TS PaImer-SiSser aeSigo e4 Lsn,h6urg. contin-
~-----, 1ed its ran 10 Mex
pleting its original tesc. and has just
returned 10 LyncAbErE.
Miller reports MeN.can road condi-
tiOns In frightful shape. the car being
-
that il was impossible to see a particle
OF the under body. one road had been
pre-empted as d new road bed by
good sized stream through which the
car had 10 run. While on another occa-
sion, a Fat car Of g passing freight
train had TO he impressed 10 cross a
mile wide raEiue because the bridge
connecting the road on either side had
been destroyed by fire.
Miller advises against touring Mexico
for pleasure
With st. Louis Mo, ss the place and
october 9, I and S az the dates. extern
Good po.s- i5e s5te oamaTd P5aRs are sor @r
convention tae third national
5000 GOOD, roads "a con
cd in by the American automobile as
sociation. National grange Farmers
union, American road builders aSsocia-
uon, lnited States office of public roads
and the National Association OF Auto
mobile Manufacturers
The convention viii be divided into
TWO parts. one devoted 20 the roads
The ether occupied with technical pa
pers prepared by the most noted ex-
perts.
Among the many interesting expert
nents tried during the encampment of
o----------------A the regulat army
White Truck in a az. a. Cnlckamauga !ls3
------- past was one tried I
bv Major G. @.
Bailey quartermaster of tho depart /
menI of the gulf \ White motor truck 1
was installed to transport provisions I
from Clattanooga to Chickamauga. a I
distance of some eleven miles. OWING 4
10 the continuous rains, the road con- /
uitlOns during much OF the time were
unLaF0rable, ana Yet the truck made !
daily Trips TO Chattanooga and on many !
occasions TWO or three trips. The aver /
age time for the trip Of - miles was
two and a half hOurS-the best arera ee /
by army teams seven and a half hours /
IN TACT SO satisfactory 10 the army 4
ohlcers was the operation Of the truck !
that they stated that the one truck 4
easily replaced six mule teams Of four I
penses, Of course of theF motor truck 1
as compared with "A mules. was very /
much in its favor. After the demon /
strations Of the truck had progressed /
TO q certain point where it was said
by many of the army officers to exceed /
az expectations various other expert
fnents We're tried.
For instance, during the army ma
neuvers the truck was used to dis
tribute ammunition to the Gray army
This work was started about o'clock
In the morning and completed at 10 a
demonstration Of speed never before
accomplished in army maneuvers. it
laNins been stated by the officer in
charge that six TO eight mule teams,
a. the greatest possible speed. would
nave required until or 1 o'clock in
the afternoon The advantage of the I
speed in actual warfare IS almost bee
1ond calculation, often meaning the
saving Of corps or the entire army
from defeat. So great was the enthu- |
SiaSm among the officers that IL was !
confidently stated by them that it would
be but a very short time until every
army post in the country would he
equipped with at least one of these
White trucks
Recently returned from an extensive
trip in South America, where he placed
. >------------~ agencies for his
Rogers Arrested company. secre-
in Buenos Aires tary George Yer
Mitchell Lewis
motor company of Racine. wis. min
s.es tales q adventure interesting
travel, business progress and economi-
cal research with stories Of some i'm
pressiOns Of life in Buenos Aires that
reflect the possibilities Of American in
T. saslons a OF the land Of pampas and
Rogers languished three DAYS in a
buenos Ares jail before the ponderous
Of the court was put info
motion in his case for the ferribIe
crime OF brushing apedestrian with
the fender of an automobile he was
driving.
A great hubbub was caused by this
eNcl1able individual. who was not in
ured Ia any way remarked Rogers
and I found myself in CUSTODY the
lnest looking policeman / have ever
seen in all my travels around the
world making the arrest They are
he Aruncal police from Bolivia, tain
muscular and impressive. and of old
PatagOnian stock
1T was an obvious attempt 10 ham
2er Stranger and I naturally rebeIIed !
he effort TO measure me under fhe
Sertlllon system was frustrated bv nv
arguments. Obeying the custom.
500 to hear the alleged in
ured man say he had lied to the polfce
reed W a.
The agency for the entire Argentine ! {
'epubllc was placed at Buenos Aires |
With Senors OdelI. Hijos & Cia. At {
lonteVidee the agency for ali of IRA
quay was placed with Senors Luis
)aglio & Cia. :
Not little of the spectacular feature
II Rogers travels in South America
vas furnished by the Journey from
8uenos Aires over the great Cordil-
eran range Of the snow clad Andes of
lille. With the Mitchell Lewis offioisi Z
we're Mrs Rogers nd q,