The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
Plucky Girl, Who Has Driven Overland Across
Continent, Due To Arrive Today
By R. R. rHoMMEDIEU.


is retained. so there is never any dan
ger of Rambler owner not being able
to get parts
These depots of parts are not only
located in the Rambler factory and
Rambler branch houses in Boston, Chi
cago. Cleveland. Milwaukee and San
Francisco, but at many other impor-
tant places where agencies are estab-
lished.
3. II. Pratt. Pacific coast manager of
the Fisk rubber company, has returned
- = from the factory
Makes shoes of and brings back
Pure Rubber very interesting
rubber shoe that
looks like rubber boot cut off at the
ankle. 1t came to the factory with an
other OF the same size and one a little
smaller with the crude product
ceived. 1t is interesting from the fact
that it was pure rubber and in better
condition than the crude product. The
natives who gather the rubber make
these shoes out of the pure stuff. and
after they tire and show signs of wear,
instead of throwing them away they
are shipped to the factories, meaning
so many pounds extra rubber Pratt
has the shoe on exhibition in his office
in the salesroom in Golden Gate ave-
nue..
William Bogen, with his wife and a
party of friends. left yesterday for Santa
cruz, Monterey and
VIII Tour South also the prominent
in jackson places in San Be
nito county. Bogen
will use his new
SO horsepower Jackson touring car.
In view of the considerable number
of tires used on cars participa ting in
the recent Glidden
Diamond Tires tour, the fact was
!. IN ollooen Hun E. Mathewson, Pa
cifc coast manager
of the Diamond rubber company, that
even after slight punctures, the Gid
den1tes changed both casing and tube
of the injured tire and never conde--
punctured tubes or castings at the end
of the days run. Il would venture
to say, remarked Mathewson, that
notwithstanding the abnormally severe
road conditions, the average tourist
could go over the whole course of this
years Glidden contest with no extra
equipment other than couple of inner
tubes and Diamond sleeves, or blowout
patches, making his own repairs on the
road Or, by carrying plenty of tubes
and one l5 or two extra castings, he could
make the entire trip without the neces-
sity of doing any roadside work" In
the whole 1850 miles of the Glidden
tour only two Diamond tires were re-
T..
Driving a 1910 Franklin car of 2s
horsepower, which had been run since
April without tire
IRE -.ecoro n Y, recently made, made
and back without damaging the perfect
TIRE record OF his car He has written
a letter to the Fl. H. Franklin manu-
featuring company copy of which has
been forwarded to the Franklin auto
mobile agency here, in which he says
I'VE made fine, leisurely trip and ran
the car almost all the day for several
days around Detroit before we started
back. Long ago we stopped wondering
if anything was ever going to happen
to the tires, and now we do not expect
that anything will. They are still in
excellent condition and look as if they
were good for several thousand miles
more. Every cent we have paid on the
machine since April has been for wash
ing it, The company writes that
few days after his return to Syracuse,
the home of the Franklin, after visiting
Detroit, Oberdorfer took his family for
a trip of several days about central
Cortland, Binghamton, Rexford Falls
and Utica and on the return home it
was found that the. car had completed
tires at the factory was still being
used
u,
neer automobile company, is in receipt
the information
Hudson Contest that the Hudson
Is Postponed experience contest"
-------- originally Sched-
uled for July 16 and
II has been continued until July % for
the benefit of California owners. 1T
is hoped" said Brinegar Yesterday.
that large number of Hudson own
ers who We're unable to participate in
the contest on July 16 and II will be
<I1r -ir,-r
We will supply entry blanks at our
headquarters in Golden Gate avenue
The annual convention of the officers
and representatives of the United States
%- motor company and
i United states of its affiliated COM
Motors Meeting 6adar 6eadles p1;1t was held at
~. During the con-
large selling organizations were dis
cussed. One Of the matters which re-
ceived unusual attention was the huge
sales system and the supervisory Or
ganization by which the United States
motor company will cover the entire
country This plan consists of selling
districts. each embracing large terri
tory. and each having a district super
visor Such is the selling system for
handling the aggregate output of the
company, which will be $4,000 cars,
ranging in price from S4S5 to $4,000
The meetings of the convention were
presided over by Horace de Lisser. vice
president of the company. in charge of
sales Among those present were Ben
jan1in Briscoe, president of the United
States motor company; ]. D. MAXWELL
F. d. Dorman; H. w. Nuckols. vice
president of the Columbia motor car
company; f. e. Dayton. sales manager
of the same organization: Frank Bris-
coe. Morris Grabowsky, j. l. Jameson.
sales manager of the Stodda rd- DAYTON
company; Charles e. Stone, commercial
vehicle expert, Alden Sampson manu-
featuring company, and a number of