The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1907, Page 6

the show is to be open. San Francisco will >0 |can be given of the success of the|Dance in 1831, followed by Gurney and "exhibuwm Obstacles Are Overcome In the beginning it looked as if the show could not be held, as no pa- iarge enough could be found; but une smiled and the Coliseum as securcd. Then came the question of decorating. A color scheme was adopted, and then it was discovered that there was not enough of the re- Q coast The committee, however, did red material in town or on the| Hancock, were all builders of steame propelled vehicles, but it remained for George B. Selden of Rochester, N Y to invent, build and operate the first internal combustion engine of ocome pressed 'type which was practioal road locomotion. Had Faith in Invention In 1579 Selden, patent lawyes solicitor, after years of hard work, tempted and succeeded in bullding am engine of sufficient nower, combined 18 the Stearns, with a cost of r hursepower. The most ex- style. These are mainly constructional features that are evident to the eye of the most cuuuj observer after his attention has been| called to them. Without them no “car- riage” can become &n “automoblle” | properly to be classed with the vehicles generally suggested to the lay mind by thet term. And with them no motor car commonly recognized as such can| jever become a mere carriage without! a horse. To these positive statements| there are certaln half exceptions that| merely prove the rule. Compared With Horse | their hubs. spokes the attac ed sprin tops, wind inanim ries o commeon ¢ the sa vehicl s, of impo into & B3 to anc easy not lose heart because of its many|With minimum of welght necessary foe difficulties, and it can now be said to|road use. He applied for a patent fow, | have triumphed signally. his invention, and, knowing as he &34 To consider what the automobile was |the fate of previous inventors whese| four years ago and its subsequent vie- | Product was far ahead of its time, took Frankiin, with a cost of $150 per horse-| To be sure there are many parts that are common, both to the horse-drawn | power. ‘ Other. cars that figure high in|, picle and the road car propelled by | this comparison are the “20” Franklin,| gther forms of power operating costing $140;. the Peerless, costing $180, | through mechanical means. In all cases, o chang - . and the Columbia, Matheson and Lozier | CUrlons ~as it may appear -at arst - hie desire to see and know the blle. Many per ons who as they nd see the hood of an automot raised can hardly re- pass along the street sist the te to stop and s : TS "°"| thought, the motive power can be ' ! . . % Phut the engine Tooke Uke Tre oor | 6ry. OREr all; obstacles; sanit! fts iclimp| SESHETSPS GL Ais Litw sl i SERBSS oars, costing $125 each per horsepower.| ¢riieq back to chemical action 29 & Substitute ] S e & o i P"|to an idolized pinnacle of success, it|and kept his patent allve for stxtesn Anottier, car, that goes over the $100 the machine be driven by electricity "o ra portunity is now afforded without @an-| o\, . jecessary to find the force|Years until in 1895, wheén. the intres mark per horsepower is the Pierce|Steam or gasoline, and, likewise, it i - : colaliotegr gt prbkicars t-?l“ which hes steadily and concertedly im-|ductory period of the automoblle was machine. :xgem:lct‘al ‘t;?!vt::: v (;—fu:r:ruf.)(t bot % will be 1aid havi IR s ® | pelled a forward movement in what can | tUFRINg into one of permanency. Of American light runabouts of the!bullding up the wnimal which 2 be safely termed the leading manufac-| NOVer Was the tendency toward The automobile shew which OPens | . e industry. The art of the gas|CSTS mOTre power, greater strength im| t¥pe in vogue two'years ago, only two|&ives it strength ta pull the n ! an automoblile driven by gasolin mekes selling at less than $1000 will ¥ - o g gl he gine the driving power is devels tomight will be = greet eduoator. “It|,.oine ts mot 0ldfor commercial prao-|fEauISE, mpee luxucioustsms 18- ekl te shotvn In the show. Severai makes|in the cvlinders of tne angine be o . ¢ will teaoh the public many things that| oy, ‘uge ‘tn road locomotion, and dstes|SBA increass o peios Ao mudh 't ‘vl Wwill be shown selling between $1000|ical combusiion of the mixture of 4 it mever knew before. . Besides the |y, ‘only ifo 1879, When: the-inventor| dt008 AN AL!NIpSaI, Silcl thess and, §3000. while some models of hignline and alr; In o stsam venicw s Are display of the cars there will B & ¢ . internal combustion snsine’ of| Yl b brouskiout promioaatly b power with special runabout bodies| par o TGS FSPANSNS ere I ur s - e i o A TeTHOOR | compression type filed drawings and|2Utomobils show ‘Z:’::';:“m Iating up to, $5000 will be on view. | the combustion of sasalinn ke o . i Swputvs GRS avening the il be fin ftself | . ifications covering this new art in|&880line cars less . Of American gasoline touring cars| 07 50We other fusl (o Laat the wu g - - eastly worth the sdmisston price. H x and costing less then $2000 ? in an elettric car the sctien 5 ' e | the United States Patent Office. As far only a few models selling at less than | . > The arranging of an exhibit of the trade. In their place today roundaboyt, the currest dert i 3% Bhck ‘aa thh; Ieiterimant oL LN ML larger, handsomer, more 92000 will be exhibited. The -others|the storage baltery carvigd i+ ® » = . P 2 this kind is no easy matter, as the eenth oentury the sutonobile in & & if raqge up to $7000. hicle having Sess fest geee » - that has charge of the | vague way could be claimed to bein & “:"' ‘"“; h“""";'" runpiag wp s found out The committee | conceptive state, for according to exist- ;:‘g' :: svc:l:‘::o"hllb ave American gasoline machines vesy some stationary plant. ofher Since automobiles have become better | o' " oy known, the early appellation of “horse- | of sume ~ Je#s carriage,” that was first populariv |~ - RN 160 Tome 18 posed of Homer Bushey of the ing records a steam carriage was built Hovey-Boushey Company, Fred J. in Paris by Cugnot In 1770. Oldsmoblle fed to them, has been displaced by Bower liberated b the Lins of the Linz-Samborn Automobile| Cugnot operated this machine with a|Price from $650 for an b Tors sppropriate marme of autemo. |10 AC8 @eecent has o chew cal sou. asete gle cylinder runabout to $15,000 for traceable a mere distance of e 95 . Company, 8. G. Chapman of the Ploneer | certein degree of success, being able ks ta The P Bile or motor car. It is probable, how- | 000,000 miles—that is, to o sun. for it . - Automobile Company and President J.|to maintain & maximum speed of two ”n ""“l ““h fhs ik e 3 ever, that to the average man in the|!s the heat of the sun, dve to chemlical > -~ 8 gjoe ‘W. Leavitt, and it is their first experi- |and & half miles per hour, although P street the motor car is still but an action, that evaporates t water and Sou . e 7 Loxzier, listed at $7000. The cause A raises it into the sky, v n- = ¥ ence In the way of giving shows. But|the meximum endurance is recorded to eleborate and expensive “carriage” that ¥ ¥ gnce, It falls [, e Bk 4o mck 3 y increased prices is sbowna In & on the elevated portions of the land. - . : b- despite the handicaps they have suc-|be of only two hours' duration. In| ¥ = LTl L te O Moves Witheut harses: : | | Capit A ceeded admirably. There has not been 1784 James Watt built and operated|’ . . .. 2 i . ~ s There ‘are, mevertheless, a namer ‘ot | Of Much- Practical Use = serious hitch in any of the plans|a steam-propelled vehicle, which 1s|High Prices for Cars ‘Y ebmracteristics besides -mere ~appear- | The features of construction ‘hat au- e thus far. Thousands of dollars is|said to be still in existence and oper-| Comparing 'price Wwith powez, ; and an engine that distingulsh '-omobu-’; and hprlv):mwn CarTiages | value of (e s q f; 594, ~ " ted, Trevith ; “‘the e S B T | poaness: wwtbmmma.t’ooo; numW* € e ia e B e being expended, and already assurance |ated. Trevithicks in 1502, Sir Charles | most expensive of the Amerioax {matomobile from a horse-drawn: Ve [difference An -forme——ice wicels, witalUntted Sta % 1060 .