Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-23
Cole Makes Remarkable
Mountain Road Records

After covering route from the
edge of the blue Pacific to mile into
the sky and combating almost every
conceivable sort of road conditions.
two Long Beach, Cal. men drove into
the camp ct Pine Crest. in the San
Bernardino Mountains. on a recent
Sunday morning after smashing nearly
all the Southland's valley mountain
road records. Driving a stock Cole
eight, car that has created new
standards in the automobile world,
the two pilots. II. B. Palms and H. II.
Hunter, of the Palms Motor Company.
covered the near 95 miles from Long
Beaoh to the mountain camp in the
record breaking time of 3 hours and
y minutes. Their trip was simply
70 show the public the efficiency of
their car.
Reduced to minutes. their time for
the wonderful performance was 1S31a
minutes over a route 94.7 miles long,
or an average over both mountain and
valley roads of mile every time the
60 twice.
With Third street and American
avenue in Long Beach as their starting
point, the drivers were checked out by
committee consisting of w. n.
Mathews, c. Fl. Harding. Long Beach
for the go" the stop watches regis
tered Just so seconds after o'clock.
At 500, barely more than three hours
atterward, the car pulled into Pine
Crest, welcomed by the shouts of
many campers, all of whom knew of
the attempt to achieve record of dis
ttnction in Southern California auto
circles.
AT the mountain camp the car was
checked out by committee consisting
of Paul NJ. Entermann. w. f. Berry
and $. Stone. who signed statement
eerufylng to the time of the arrival
ana the registration of the speed
ometer, which showed total distance
of 94.7 miles had been travelled.
While the clear early morning sky
brought hopes of splendid atmospheric
conditions throughout the trip, the
drivers experienced their first big set
back from bad weather as soon as they
reached the Bixby hill on the Long
Beach boulevard. There they were
met by a great fog bank. into which
they drove for nearly twenty-five miles.
The roadway was rendered slippery by
the moisture. while the fog obscured
their vision so that extra care and
precaution. as we'll as lower speed than
Planned, were necessary to avoid any
nishap. Near Downey a detour of
about five miles was necessitated from
combination of a washout and road
at Bassett. on the valley road, the fog
clouds lifted and the problems of the
drivers We're simplifed.
Arriving in San Bernardino in
hour and 81 minutes, a distance of 70
miles as shown by their speedometer.
the pilots stopped for seven minutes
TO take on oil and inspect their car
From San Bernardino to Pine Crest
over mountain road is a climb of
1900 feet in altitude in a distance of
II miles over thoroughfares which pre-
sent grades ranging from to 23 per
cent. This portion of the drive was
made in 81 minutes.
The drivers made the trip in two re-
lays, Mr.. Hunter. being at the wheel
from Long Beach to San Bernardino,
while Mr.. Palms took the car over the
mountain roads of the switchback.
Beth faced conditions which would
have been the Waterloo of many good
drivers. but took their car through on
record time.
Commenting on the splendid show
ing of the Cole eight, Mr.. Palms said:
I consider this particular perform
ance or the Cole eight as being with
out par in the Southland. 1t was not
our performance-the credit belongs
to the car because of its splendid rec
ords for both endurance and speed.
The car used on the trip was simply
stock car. the kind that you and John
"oiASo tuS WITCH you Walk 1lIO our
salesroom and decide to let a Cole
take you home. On the whole trip we
never used low gear, making the heavy
grades of the switchback on inter
mediate or high. On arrival at the
camp one of the checkers put his face
to the radiator and found it just barely
warm. But one quart of water was
used, and that was obtained at our
Rowman's are local agents for the
Cole eight.
point of destination in the mountains"