The San Francisco call., 1913-08-09
DARE De Wis TUNE
CARS FOR RACE
Santa Monica Meet Will Be
Run Today Entire Ma
ton Awaits Result

automobiles were listed tonight for the
Santa Monica road race. The drivers
who will respond to the pistol at Santa
Monica tomorrow morning include Bar
ney Oldfeld. Teddy Tetzlaff and other
racers of reputation. The course was
said to be at least 10 miles faster than
on the three previous annual events.
Dihiculty was experienced in enter
| ing Fiat car No. 8. in which Frank Yer
beck won the Panama Pacific road race
July 4.
The consent of the road race COM
mittee was obtained, but verbeck was
compelled also to secure the permis-
sion OF every driver entered.
Car No. /, a Mercer, driven by CASTOR
Morris. will be sent away over the
445.25 mile course promptly at o'clock.
At 10 second intervals the other II will
start in the following order:
No. 2. Apperson. William w. Bram-
|.lette, driver; No. $. Mercer, Barney Old
field, driver; No 4. Fiat. Teddy Tetz-
| laff, driver; No. s. Mercer, Louis Nj
krent, driver: No. s. Speedwell, e. T.
McConnors, driver; No. Z. Stutz, Dave
Lewis. driver; No. $, stutz, Earl Cooper,
| driver; No. 3. Buick, John Opsahl.
driver; No. 10, Cadillac. Charles P.
soules, driver; No. IL. Apperson, Frank
Goode. driver; No. IL, Cadillac, T. j.
Beaudette. driver. and No. IS. National,
Frank Seifert, driver.
ALCo CARS ON WAY
The new 1914 Alec pleasure cars,
which will leave the factory on Sep
| tember l, are to be equipped with the
Rushmore electric starting device.
This report has just been received
by Max L. Rosenfeld. the head Of the
Auto Sales company. agents for the
Alec pleasure cars and trucks.
This is to be the year of self start
ing devices" says Rosenfeld. "A re-
cent exhaustive canvass was made Of
the factories building the standard
| make of cars. Only two factories an
nounced that they had not adopted a
self-starting device for their new
| models These two factories, however,
stated that they had not decided to
build without self-starting device,
but were seriously considering the
proposition"
"The big cities of the country where
an extensive jobbing business is car
ried on have always been regarded as
the biggest fields for motor trucks. in
the United States says Ivan de Jongh.
general manager of the Pioneer Motor
| Truck corporation the Pacific coast dis
tributers Of the General Motors line OF
trucks. In New York, and Chicago,
especially, the volume of business
transacted makes it absolutely neces-
| sary to use every possible means to
facilitate traffic conditions. In various
0rc CIV n hnf "a
York, Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas City
and San Francisco, where merchandise
of all kinds is extensively distributed
to surrounding territory. the need of
| tive. Contrary to the usual impression,
fsretail and jobbing--not manufacturing
centers-are the big fields for mechani-
cal haulage and delivery. Manufac-
| turers ship very largely by rail or
water but other classes of business In
stitutions depend to considerable e@x- @
moving of their goods.
The application of the motor truck.
says Mr.. de Jongh, TO present day
business is one of the most interesting
| most people realize the future of the
| motor truck in a general way. few ap-
preciate any of the reasons for it's
presence among us The truck is a
product of the laws Of necessity-not
a creature of mans Ingenuity. Assum-
| ing that a motor truck takes the place
or SIX horses, which Is fdlr average,
about 100000 motor trucks must be
produced within the next few years to
| take care of even 10 per cent of the
! transportation required by the present
business in oRr = big trade centers."
The Pioneer Automobile cOmuany just
received a letter from Hubert n Rowell,
NJ. d. of Berkeley to the effect that
he just COMPLETED a tour of Trinity
| and Humboldt counties in his Chalmers
"3s. and that the car came through
with a perfect score
Expecting to encounter bad roads /
naturally was somewhat skeptical as to
what the car would do. but if any one
doubts the ability of the .36' to take big
graaes and 90 it comlortahiy: refer
| gine. and never grade that was not
easily taken. all this. in the easiest
/ riding car that I ever owned. and they
have been five. is the record that I am
glad to he sble to Voluntarily report
for the Chalmers go