Arizona republican., 1910-10-27
YELLOW WASP
MADE GOOD
AbbOtt-OGlroit Gar Arrived
Last Night
SPIEGEL AND barry ON DECK
Encountered No Great Diff
ficulties and Had Fine
Trip = Met Hamlin at
Blythe and Tremaine Was
Near Winters Well.

Inc yellow wasp tHlSISu ny the
Abbott-Detroit company in the Los
Angeles-Phoenix road race, finished its
inspection trip last night, arriving at
The Republican office about o'clock,
nearly four days out from the Angel
city. Driver E. R Spiegel and Mechani-
clan D. B. Barry climbed out of the
machine and while the gathering
crowd indicated its sentiment of "Wel-
come to our city," they announced that
they were in fine shape, as also
was their desert steed.
The car used is the one they will
make the race with and is a 39-horse-
power stock car; one that has been
given a good tryout, as it had made
10000 miles before they left los An
geles. 1t is a demonstrating car that
has been in service some time and ma
turally they regard it as about the
most dependable gasoline servant a
human being can have at his command.
Spiegel and Barry left Los Angeles
at 10 o'clock Saturday night and went
as far as San Bernardino, where they
remained over Sunday, leaving that
city early Monday morning. Neither of
them have ever been here before and
neither of them had even been over the
road but they said they found no diff
Guilty in finding it, or rather in finding
where the road is supposed to be, for
some parts of it look like any else than
an automobile road. They say they
do not believe they at any time went
mile out of the accepted course of
travel Naturally the first thing
asked the men was how they found
the road. 1t is the usual first question
and was particularly appropriate in this
instance as it was the first trip over
for the drivers.
Mr.. Barry in a very modest and I'M
compromising manner ventured the OBJ
servation that 1T il not all that it
might be" Mr.. Spiegel said it was
Well, never mind what Mr. Spiegel said
for it was not original at all, some
gentlemen having previously used the
same expression. However, it showed
a remarkable unanimity of opinion con-
corning the fitness of the road as
severe test for machines and drivers.
Spiegel and Barry experienced no diff
ficulty at all except a little tire trou
BILE, which is always expected and was
quickly attended to. The only real
difficulty they had illustrates one of
many surprises that are liable to be
sprung on any driver at any time
They were at Blythe ranch below
Ehrenberg Tuesday morning and while
there Hamlin rolled in from Phoenix
on the way home in his Maxwell and
gave the high sign. They inspected
each others cars and found them both
in fine shape except for the dust, for
both were as dry as bone.
Hamlin told them what road to fol-
low toward Ehrenberg and described
just how they should thread their way
across the flats next to the river. They
started and in just a little while felt
the bottom of the road give way and
the machine sink in the mud up to
the aXles. 1t took three hours for the
Indians to pull them out and get on
hard road again. Between the time of
Hamlin's passing and their arrival, the
Colorado river had overlooked the flat,
begged everything down and receded
again. 1t is suggested that if the au-
tomObile club wants to have a nice
clean race it should get it's control
officials after the river and secure its
pledge to behave itself during the first
week or two of November.
Continuing on the regular route
through Quartzsite and Salome, a few
miles the other side of Winters we'll
they met W. d. Tremaine and his
mcci:an'cian, Mr. Gage, who left here
yesterday morning in the Pope
ford. All was well with them. From
Buckeye into Phoenix they found rath-
er rough travelling a part of the way
but learned later that they did not Sc
lect the best route.
Mr. Spiegel is an eastern driver. hav-
ing recently come from New York to
the coast and the Abbott Detroit is a
new machine in these parts. Mr.. Spie-
gel says the ride across the desert was
an intensely interesting one to him for
it was entirely novel as well as a
Sporty road from a drivers stand
point. Mr.. Barry, though a stranger in
Phoenix, says he is not entirely out of
the range of his friends for he is a
relative of Superintendent Goodman of
the Indian school. They propose to
return to Los Angeles by train.