The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN-FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1906, BALMY DAYS DRAW OUT THE MOTORISTS On Roads Bad and Good 1, &yougfiouz‘ State the Autos Spun Their car got de near Santa Barbara als a merry time getting here from Los Angeles in an ra River and was pulled’ out by horses. Lo stuck in the middle of the A land-_ o delayed them. : E D; NEVIN PARTY MEETS UNCOMFORTABLE MISHAPS Machine Stranded in Ventura River Until Horses Pull to the Shore. It ¢ E ss T € g s as ¥ s w ent for s t sped a, where they was made Obispo. a ds were d Los Olivos, e of t of commission to th out ccident made from L nd as the twice and had to itous gulch from n washed away it ake the run | made the their tires were run up from s made in one hutes. The party ng greatly accidents, twenty bridges the in eave this morning with Grand Canyon of the After a short visit ghter will pro- Arizona Nevin 4. dire in Pittsburg, d Mr a will return to this city. Mr. Nevin is now having the his machine taken off. He ex- here on Thursday, and south for Los Angeles on as had the tonneau removed ghten_the weight of the ma- chine, as on May 1 he will start for a ) -across the continent. He Intends king the run direct from Los Angeles New York. e will attempt to make a fast trip, and will try to reduce the present forty-eight days between the cific and the Atlantic. evin bought his machine in Paris and made an extended tour of Europe with it at that time. In the fall of that year he brought the auto to America and toured the Eastern States. Last summer he took the car to Europe again, and with four of his classmates if possible cord com- | Between | ave played such | Middle of the Rushing Princeton “ontinent s ss this continent. has traveled about 18,000 miles with | uto. Mr. Nevin's family until re- | owned the Pittsburg Leader. ‘ AR AUTOISTS ARE BUSY. Motor Enthusiasts Make Runs tn Balmy Weather on Many Roads. Prather and family, who arrived m Los Angeles last week in their which is now at the garage of | on Golden Gate avenue, are the sights about San Francisco machine, and on Tuesday will | for Lake Cour Mr. Prather is | uffeur and mountain roads do him. He expects to conquer County without much daiffi- e agent for the Cadillac, trip to Stockton. $- % % Renfro of Tonopah has concluded cars e Pacific Motor Car Company on is on D the purchase of two large Stearns G Gate avenue, which he w!li have pped to the mining regions. In com- 3 with his wife and two daughters and W. D. Frye of the Stearns garage, Mr. Renfro left for Del Monte yesterday in one of the cars, expecting to make a fast r and at the same time g achine as severe a test is | possible on the roads between this clty | and the Monterey resort | The Pierce Arrow hi s were flying roads yesterday. run to San Jose in one of these | made the a Cruz Mountains, 1 spend a where week autoing along the < of that beautiful section. tro and party crossed the bay 1 amidst the pretty scenery of »an country | S A | w the ofl man, is one of Porter, o think the ma Americ better e machine. He will the fame of this coun- automobile manufa touring the old world with a car, k for him. this city some time ter part of this month. His vill be shipped on the same vy which he takes passage. He seeing’ every part of Europe from to San Miller the automo- | He is one of the most d successful of the Califor- | s it ers of Model K Win- Rece tons A. Manlock of this city; J. J. Mullen, Tonopah, and Mrs. G. McCabe Francisce. A carload of three s been sent to Osen & Hunter, San Hellman has ordered one of the built four-cylinder Oldsmobiles. have a guaranteed speed of fifty > our. The body is buiit along | an lines, and will carry but LG » e E. P. Briniger and W. aturday and Sunday in y counties in a Thomas has announced his in- of spending all his winters tour- lifornia. “It is the motorist’s Par- declares the millionaire manufac- dise turer The Pionecr Company sold a carload of Buicks Saturday to J. D. Jacks of Napa, Dr. William Harvey, city, and the Santa Rosa Cycle Company, Santa Rosa. W A. M. Rosenstern will receive his four- cylinder Old s this week. , » 1. G mobile, ('phr:flss bought a “Merry Olds- but he declares it will be used | for business only, the song notwithstand- * e A. F. Brown, a real estate dealer of | Santa Cruz, was the first man to receive an '06 Buick. He ran the machine over- | 1and beyond Gilroy. He claims. that the | roads defy description. There was so | much teaming during the rainy season | that after drving the ruts are anywhere from one to three feet in depth. Motor- ists, take notice. . Frank Critchett received his new Buick yesterday, and spent his Easter in driv- | ing about Golden Gate Park and the Pre- sidlo. A s L ] | Fred Ward, the First-street hardware | man, and family made a run to San | Jose Baturday night in Mr. Ward's Win- ton, returned yesterday morning and ran | { to Palo Alto in the afternoon. Mr. Ward | says the roads are in fearful condition between here and San Mateo. recent car line construction having much to dol with their bad state. . o A. M. Shields of the Equitable Life made a fast run to San Jose and back with his family yesterday in his new White. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Reis and a party of friends made the run to the Reis ranch, back of Livermore, in a new model K yesterday and returned by way of Walnut Creek. Mr. Reis says the roads are very bad the other side of Haywards and in the vicinity of Wal- nut Creek. S e John Daly and Alfred Bowen toured J. A. Marsh | rs. F. C. Talbot and a party of | started for the southern part of | te, Intending to take in Del Monte way. J. D. Brown, in his new ve horse-power machine, took the ip. T. B. Potter and family | | f \ R/ D T Bvims TN THEIRS, PLANS TOUR TO THE EAST E. Corey, magnate, Mrs burg W. steel wife of the Pitts- has become so at- | tached to the touring car that she seems to be restless unless she is experiencing | the exhiliarating shaking up that the springy rubber tires administer to those who loll above them as they roll over the country roads—and, in tdo many cases, over bad city Mrs. Corey d with con- quering the sage s of Ne- vada and the highw California; she is now to make a trip to Pittsburg by way of Chicago in her Pierce Great Arrow and will then ship a machine Europe and tour the old world. be accompanied by Mrs. W, to She will her mother-in-law, C. Corey, and her sister-in-law, 3 known as one of the ex- p(»l[ chnufleurs of the State, will be at the helm of Mrs. Core; car. He has steered the machine bearing her and her party over many thousands of miles and has met with no accidents. He is sail- ing onto an unknown sea when he at- tempts the trip across the country, but has perfect confidence that he will get through without any mishap and on good time. “We nesda: sald Volkel, “and will make the start from there in a rfew days for Ogden. From the latter city we will go to Chicago and from there to Pittsburg. At Pittsburg Mrs. Corey will purchase a Deitrich machine, which she will ship to Europe and will begin the tour of the old world some time in July. “I don’'t know what roads we will travel from Ogden to Chicago, as I know nothing about that country, but we will get through all right. I'll find the roads and we'll make the trip flying. The run to Pittsburg will have no difficulties at- tending it.” This means that Mrs. Corey is getting ready to return to her home in the smoky city. It is sald that she is full of antici- pation of the pleasure of her long aute run. Her greatest attachment to the motor car as a vehicle of pleasure, though she has been a devoted autolst for several years, developed at Reno while a self constituted _ exile in that clity. For some time she found diversion in racing through the bracing air of the high plains in her motor car. From there she went to the southern part of the State, where she has been seen on all the roads frequented by the auto enthusiasts. Her run to this city a few days ago was made in fast time and she has been out a great deal in her machine while here. By the time she has done this continent and Europe in an auto she will have rank among the motorists who are famed for the ground they have covered, as the In- dian for the scalps he has taken. S — the park and the Presiflio in their new model Ks vesterday. Mrs. W. F. Barnes and family ran to Palo Alto in their White machine. ¢ e+ . Yesterday was a great day for the au- tomobilists. The Jefferson Square gar- age reports that out of fifty-one \ma- chines only three were not sent out with parties. . . Robert Martland, the electrician, and his wife left yesterday on an extensive southern trip in their new Glide touring car. They will stay a week at Ventura, where Mr. Martland will attend the ses- sion of the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons, and from there will go to San Diego. They will return about May 15. 1 ship/the car to Reno on Wed- | B Lerrs ~ Jazspo. | BER OF THE PROMINENT AUTOMOBILISTS WHO ARE TAKING AD- NTAGE OF THE BALMY DAYS TO MAKE TOURS DESPITE BAD EOADS AND EWOLLEN RIVERS HERE AND THERE. Motorists are encouraged by the inter- est Mayor Schmitz Is taking in the new highway to be constructed in connection with Nineteenth avenue from a point near Ingleside to the county line in the vicin- ity of San Bruno. The Mayor says the road shall be constructed as soon as prac- ticable, and he urges that all preliminaries be arranged at once. He has stirred up | the city engineer on the matter and asked him to prepare the plans for the road. The construction of this thoroughfare will greatly facilitate the journeying to and from San Francisco of all motorists living between San Bruno and Palo Alto. The roads as far north as San Bruno are in good condition, but from San Bruno in they are in extremely bad condition during three-fourths of the year. The proposed highway will form a new route for the autoists, and also amore direct run for them to- the city. Around New York, and in fact all the large Eastern citles, the business men are in the habit of running to their offices in their autos. They find it a great conven- ience and comfort, as they can take their own time and avold the discomfort of trains. When the road from Ingleside is completed it is supposed that the men who do business in San Francisco and live at Palo Alto and other suburbs down the peninsula will form the habit of go- ing to their offices in their horseless car- riages, and the roads will have a proces- sion of rubber-tired cars rolling over them every morning. The forming of the habit will help the sale of automobiles down the peninsula, and the agents are hoping that the road will be ready for business before many weeks have e by. The Automobile Club of California has gathered nearly sufficlent funds to do its ;MAYOR URGES BUILDING OF ROAD T0 COUNTY LINE. part of the work. beyond the county line to San Bruno. This will cost about $30,000. Nineteenth avenue is one of the most béautiful short automobile runs in this vicinity. = There.is a view from various points along it of the ocean far off over the sand dunés and on the slopes above and below are verdure, while it plunges into thick woods at its southern end. The grades are not bad for autos and the road is always in good condition. With a con- nection with the roads down the penin- sula it will form a picturesque and pleas- ing entrance Into the city, a portion of the park intervening before the heart of the city Is reached. ‘The new highway will be separate from the one that fs now in use down the peninsula, and there will be no cars or 'heavy teaming to cut it to pieces and create dust and ruts. Light horse vehicles will be allowed on it. g o NEEDED A MOTOR BOAT. The man who goes touring during the worst of the Bouthern California ralas looks for trouble, say those who know. E. R. Thomas of Buffalo, now at the 8t. Francis In this city, started from San Diego for Los Angeles last week and he found his. At the time it was no laughing matter for Mr. Thomas, but when he was once more comfortably housed at the Cali- | rushing torrent- came down through the | ! through. 3 superintendent of the Thomas fac- and the driver started for Los An- There were many wet places in the road, but the “filer” made good progress until it arrived at the little creecks near the Pala Mission. These creeks had become swollen rivers and a mountain. When the automobile chuggad | by the little mission the word spread rap- idly among the Indians at the reservation | that it was going to swim the river. | There were soon several hundred wildly curicus braves lined up along the bank. An Indian on horseback went across to locate the ford and came back with the | information that the car could 59(| With power on, the machine | plunged in, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Haas crouching low In the tonneau to ave'd the splash of water. The car seemed (o be golng all right until just in mid- stream, where it ran into a bed of quick- sand “and held firm. There was water on all sides, and, to the alarm of the oc- cupants. the car began to sink slowly. First the wheels went down, then the hood began to fade from view under the water. Water began rising along the sides of the éar and the occupants perched themselves on the top.of the rear )RR of the tonneau. “Come on with that horse and take me out of here,” yelled Haas to a red man on the bank. The Indlan came and with more or less trouble the Buffalo man got aboard the pony. They started for the shore and suddenly without warning the Indian stuck his spurs into the pony's flank. The animal gave a lunge and Mr. Haas made a beautiful dive Into the stream. He was rescued and Mr. Thomas was then brought to shore. e Gt CHAUFFEUR'S ASSOCIATION, The problem of how to keep chauffeurs ard motorists in general within the lmits of the ordinances that hedge about the buzz wagons is to be solved by the chauffeurs themselves through their or- gznization, the California A: fation of Chauffears, No. 1, of which T. P. Jarvis is the president. The strictest measures are to be employ- ed to prevent cny but expert handlers of | the machines joining the association, and | any member who acquires a bad reputa- | tion for violating the ordinances will be expelled and prevented from acting as a | chaufteur. The first examination will be held to- night at the assor jon’s headquarters, 3% Golden Gate avenue, and they will take place every Monday evening there- after. The examiners are R. V. Smith, D. Cole and R. Higgins. “We will co-operate with the Chief of Police and the Supervisors,” said one of the members yesterday, nd have al- ready asked that a report be made to the organization of any member who breaks the ordinances in any way. Offenders will be warned and when they have over- stepped enough to show that they do not care to keep within bounds, they will be expelled. We are anxious that all rules laid down by the city for the operating of motor cars on the streets and in the | park be observed.” The Chauffeurs’ Association has about 200 members. R it Stuck in the Vemtura River. Morris Vehon and a party of friends of Chicago also got stuck in the Ven- tura River while en the way here from Los Angeles. Taey reached here yes- terday and are at the St. Franeis. Their shouts for help when they found their machine standing still in the mid- dle of the stream brought a farmer with a team and they were hauled to the bank. Tovrist Slecpers To the Easl Twice Daily You may leave San Francisco at9:00 a. m.or - 6:00 p. m., and Sacramento at 12:50 p. m. or 11:35p. m, any day this Spring in a Pullman tourist sleeping car and travel right thro’ to Denver without a change or delay. fornia Club he only laughed and sald it was all In the game. “I came West for winter amusement; I am surely getting plenty of it. This was my first season in the sunny clime and we all have to learn certain things. 1 wired East East - yesterday for a motor-boat for my tours next year.” Mr. Thomas, in company with H. J. The route of these cars is across Great Salt Lake, thro’ Salt Lake City, passing the mag- nificent scenery of the Rocky Mountains, thro Colorado Springs and Pueblo to Denver. Afteratwelve-hoursizht-seeing stop-over in Denver, you get aboard a thro’ tourist sleeper running via the Buriington to Omaha and Chicago, or to Kansas City and St Louis. Personally Conducted Excursions lcave San ' Franciseo 9:00 a. m. every Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday. It will pay for detalled W.D. you to call-or write information. SANBORN, General Agent, C.B. & Q.Ry. Room 100, 6§31 Market St, San Francisco.