The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
PRESIDENT TAF 7
IS AN AUT0|ST
Chief Magistrate and His
Pierce-Arrow Car Familiar
Sight in Capital Purlieus.
BOTTERlLL SAYS MOTORING
IS CHEAPER THAN TRAIN
Recent Trip to Los Angeles, an
Economy Test, Is Cited to
Prove Theory.

President Taft's strenuous trip from
Washington to Manassas IN an auto
mobile. told in yesterdays dispatches,
is only one Of many automobile trips
the president has been taking TINS
The president is finding automonii-
inn pastimc rivaling golf in his IA
voT. according TO the dispatches. lie mas
heen going in his Pierce-Arrow touring
car wherever he can on his trips AVA
from Washington, and is spenolng
much Of his time in the capitat III iiu
ing about in this fashion. -
The president has two automopiles q.
his disposal. both of winch pear T.e nc
grc.. seal of the United States. Inc
White House stables are practically de
serted by the equine tribe, the buildlhG $
having been turned into garage Tor
Pierce.Arrow motor cars. Inc Pur
chase of these cars for the presidcnI
and the abandonment of the presi'
DENTAL carriage as a means oil CONVEY
ance was taken in Washington rs a
momentous step in the passing OF tne
horse.
Uses Pierce-Arrow.
One Of the cars is q Pierce Arrow ~
horsepower suburban, seating seven
Messengers. This is a closed car eA-
cent for the drivers scat. whlch the
nrcsideut s bodvguard usually occupies
with the chauffeur The other IS big
seven-passengcr is-horsepower flsiGe.
Arrow touring car. Mrs. Tart useo Lhe
closed car more. while the president has
liking. except during stormy Wea'ne,
for the open touring car. III Is .nis ar,.
chine which is being pressed INTO SCI ',
~ -roe;dential cross country
runs. ,+,x
AS result of the trip he reeentlN
took to Los Angeles in Pierce ARROW
touring car with ". V. Rice, John >
C.ritcbIow and r. C. Kittle. Frank BOZ
tcr;ll manager OF the Tom BotterIi
au,omohile Company. has figured 1t ou
that travelling through the, western
states is cheaper by automobile than
is by train.
In this trip the odemeter showed
mileage of 1850 miles. and the cosi pc
passenger for the actual Transportation
exclusive of hotel accommodations an'
meals. was 81 cents per mile
~ think this represents far aver
age of the cost of making the trip iron
Salt Lake via San Francisco to Lo
Angeles in a Pierce Arrow car, sal'
Mr. Botterill. 81 have compared th
figures with the cost of similar tril
made by Mayor Brsnsford and part.
and another one made by ;. A. Whitne
and party over the same route and mn
they check closely.
Cheap Transportation.
SIN this recent trip we went aroun
the north end OF the lake via Rene
Lake Tahoe. PlacervIlle and SacrameII
to to San Francisco. stopped over
San Francisco, and then went
through Paso Robles and Santa Bal
bara to Los Angeles. We had all kind
of roads and all kinds of grades. Th
gasoline averaged eleven miles to tb
gallon and 30 cents a gallon in pric
The cost of l52 gallons was S39.6O. Fly
gallons Of lubricating oil were used {
81 a gallon. In none of these triy
with Pierce-Arrows were any repai
necessary, so the total cost of tran
portation was S44.60. or .906 cents
mile for the party of four, or on
fourth Of that per mile per person.
"We stopped at the best hotels an