The Arizona sentinel., 1911-09-21
(From Mondays Examiner)

les to Phoenix; Fred Fuller, Apperson
agent at Ell Centre; Louis Nickrent,
Buick driver in the race; Fred Nick
rent. Buick machinist; Felix Mcguire,
Fiat machinist, and G. Gilmore, Jr..
foreman of the Buick shops in Los An
geles, all drove into Phoenix Saturday
night about midnight, Messrs. Tets
laff and Nickrent having come OUT
from Los Angeles to mark the road
from San Diego to Yuma, and expecr-
ing to meet Bill Tremaine, of Phoe-
nix in this city and go over the route
from here to Phoenix with him, mark
ing the road.
When interviewed last night by the
Examiner both Mr. Tetslaff and Nj.
Nickrent were some sore, and that is
putting it mildly at that.
In the first place it will be remem-
bered that during Mr.. Tetslaff's last
visit to Phoenix, some weeks ago that
Bill Tremaine went to George Purd7
Billiard of mis- own accord, and told
Mr.. Billiard that if the Maricopa Au-
tomobile club would furnish the signs,
that he (Tremalne) would sign boal d
the road from Phoenix to Yuma.
Mr.. Billiard told him the signs wonlc
be placed at his disposal, and Ire
maine then took the matter up with
Tetslaff telling Mr.. Tetslaff that he
would meet him in Yuma about the
18th or 10th and that together they
would go over the road and place tie
signs.
So Mr.. Tetslaff picked up Mr. Nick
rent who will also drive in the big
race, and together they loaded the
signs into the auto and started to Yu-
ma. Saturday afternoon the Examiner
received wire from Mr.. Tetslaff say
ing that he would be here before Sun
day noon and about the same time DIR.
Ketcherside, president of the Yuma
County Automobile Club received
message from Mr.. Tremaine to Mr..
Tetslaff Last night Mr.. Tetslaff eX-
hibited this telegram to the Examiner
and it seems that Mr.. Tremaine had
gone off to Tucson, forgetting or not
caring anything about the marking of
the road and in the telegram to Mr..
TeIslaff he wanted to know if he
(Tetslaff) needed him and if so J e
(Tremaine) could leave Phoenix
Monday morning.
This wire made Tetslaff mad clear
through after Tremaine had made a
distinct promise 60 meet him here on
the 18th or 10th, and he end Nickrent
decided last night to take the back
trail at an ..early hour this morning,
and to leave all future explorations of
the route to their competitors in the
race, as they felt that they had done
enough.
Last night to the Examiner man
they unburdened themselves about as
follows:
That George Purdy Billiard had
gone over the route from here to FL
Centre on all official path-finding trip
and that having gone over the what
was supposed to be the official route,
had not left a sign or board to marx
the way.
That no one in the Imperial valley
seemed to be interested IN the race III
any way, and that aside from what the
Los Angeles firms were doing and the
drivers themselves, that nothing wa
being done over there to mark tie
road or fix the road.
That it was almost impossible to gel
car over the railroad tracks at An
drade, and that nothing was being
done to remedy this evil.
That Tremaine and Billiard had
promised to mark the road from Y
to CalieEte and on to Phoenix, but
that so far nothing had been done
With this.
That unless the roads were fixec
and properly marked that they intend
cd to get the drivers together and RE
FUSE to drive in the race.
The Examiner explained to then
that the Yuma county board of super
,isor5 now had Felix May hew out witt
wagon and some signs, and that the
county expected to spend some money
in fixing up the cad places between
Yuma and the Yuma county line to
ward Phoenix.
| The reporter also explained to then
| that tho hoard of control through Gov