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Los Angeles Sunday Herald PAGES 1 TO 12PART 111

SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1909.

POPE-HARTFORD ISIN GREAT FAVOR

A WEEK AFTER INTEREST ISSTILL INTENSE

Many Sales Recorded During Week

as Result' of the PopularityGiven It by Wild

Bill

The exciting event during the past

week, of course, in automobile circles,

has been the wonderful run made by

William R. Ruess in the Pope-Hart-ford, when he captured the Fenner cupand the well sustained honor of win-ning the Mount Baldy race.

Ever since Automobile Row has beendiscussing the race from every phaseof the event, and all are now readyto give to the winner the full creditof his remarkable run that broughthonor to himself and credit to the carhe drove.

The wareroom s of the Ruess Auto-mobile company have been crowdeddally with eager, prospective buyers,and the visits of these people haveborne fruit, for no less than seven di-rect sales were made of Pope-Hartfordcars, effected by the evidence of en-durance and the staunch structural as-sembling of the parts that make themachine desirable for Just the condi-tions of roads that are peculiar to Cal-ifornia, where the roads are far frombeing the best in the world. /

A visit to Santa Barbara by Ruessand Captain Jargstroff has added fur-ther sales to the record of the firm, sothat when Bill Ruess "wildly" sitsdown to figure up the chances he tooklast Sunday morning In that terrificbut successful ride, he can safely lookto the credit side of , the ledger andsmile that broad smile for which he Isknown with the good feeling that, how-ever great the chances taken, it wasprofitable to do so.

Nothing gives "Wild Bill" morepleasure after all the excitement at-tendant upon the race than to give theutmost credit to Harris Hanshue, whodrove the losing Apperson In the Baldyrace, and many times expresses hissympathy for the losing driver of agood car. These two fearless fellowswere and are the very best of friendspersonally, ' and none congratulatedRuess more heartily at the conclusionof the run than Hanshue, although thelater had made one of the most desper-ate attempts Jo win that he has evermade in the time of his racing career.Hanshue's heart was In that race forhimself as well as for his dead-gameemployer—Leon T. Shettler—a manwho thoroughly enjoys the sport aswell as the lessons that are learnedfrom endurance runs such as are af-forded in Baldy courses, and with char-acteristics enterprise is always one ofthe most willing of all Los Angeles

dealers to advance the interests ofautomoblledom. In calm and easy man- jncr Shettler says, "I have forgotten i-.1labout the Baldy race," showing therealthe true sportsmanship of thedealer In the well known and favor-ably considered Apperson and Reocars, for which he is the distributor;for Southern California.

30,000 FORD CARS WILLBE COWING YEAR'S CROP

Company Erects Largest ReinforcedConcrete Building In World —Floor

Space Is Over Six Acres"

Tlie highest producing mark yet set

In the automobile Industry will be. es-tablished by the Ford Motor companyof Detroit, which will produce the stu-pendous total of 30,000 cars for 1910.

That this enormous production canbe made possible, the Ford company isspecialising on one car, and except forImprovements and refinements, the 1910cars are duplicates of the 1909 modelwhich met with such widespread suc-cess during the 1909 season.

A proudction of this magnitude can-not be turned out under any ordinaryconditions, and to accomplish it theFord company has erected a splendidnew factory in the Highland Park sec-tion of Detroit.

The factory is the largest reinforcedconcrete building in the worldbeing

862 feet long, 75 feet wide and four sto-ries high.' Its totAl floor space is 6%acres. The building Is a marvel of fac-tory construction, being composed ofstreet, concrete, brick and glass. Be-tween the concrete columns and reach-ing almost from floor to celling of eachstory, the walls are glass, so that everyfloor is flooded with light.

In addition to this wall will be themachine shops, 840x136 feet and onestory high, and the three-story officebuilding 300x60 feet.

To Insure ample room for future ex-pansion, the company purchased a six-ty-acre tract of land before buildingoperations were commenced.

This land was formerly the state fairgrounds and Includes a mile race track,which will be used by Ford testers.

The new factory building will be fullyoccupied by next November. The ca-pacity of the new plant as now out-lined will be 500 cars: a day.

Bulck Wins Seven FirstsThe Buiek won no less than seven

firsts out of the ten events contestedduring- the carnival, leaving only threefirsts to be divided among twenty man-ufacturers and thirty drivers of na-tional reputation, who made game butunsuccessful stands against the speedand power Buleks, Many went to bedhungry while the Buiek boys feasted attheir banquet of first honors.

Bounties Pay Gas BillsCoyote hunting in motor cars is a

favorite sport at valier, Mont. Thesport is exciting and the bounties oncoyote scalps pay the gasoline bill.

Road Signs Being Erected by Automobile Club

AUTOMOBILE CLUBOF SO. CALIFORNIA

SPLENDiD WORK BEING DONEIN MARKING ROADS

In Riverside County Twenty.threeHundred Dolars Being Spent in

Indicators of New andValuable Design

There arc but few automobile owners

and drivers but will greatly appreciatethe good work the Automobile club ofSouthern Calitornia is doing in mark-ing- the roads of the several countiesof the southern section of this greatstate.

No work in which they have . beenengaged, however, will begin to meas-ure up with their performances in Riv-erside county, where the club Is ex-pending the handsome sum of-twenty-three hundred dollars in the most com-plete system of marking the roads ofthat county ever attempted anywherein the United States, and so simplethat the most obdurate wrong roadtaker cannot but take the right wayeven though he be deretermined to gowrong. The illustration given in thephotograph of this splendid work ofthe Automobile club shows the sim-plicity of the new method adopted toplace these signs, and in the informa-tion they contain. Instead of following

the old fashioned plan of the post andcross sign, with even the emblemsupon them, the new signs adopted forRiverside bear'the Indicated directionat cross or diverging roads and thengive the traveler the full Informationas to the exact distance to the next !place, figured down to tenths of miles, j

Another feature Is the change of |color of the back-ground of the sign |boards. For example the tourist comesto a diverging road and a glance atthe board .-hows white ground with i

blue letters, he at once knows that this i

particular road has been marked the i

entire distance. If, however, he ob-serves that the background of the Iboard Is blue with white letters, while |the sign at the diverging point gives

the distance to the place to which theroad leads, it alto tells him that ttteroad has. not been marked over its 'course. -"•'- ••- \u25a0

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Every road and cross road that Iseither new or old has been Incorpor- ,ated also in the new maps of the club,go that the rooms of the members will Igive every- information concerningevery road in the southern part of .California. .'_•.•••••. I

In working out this scheme, the ,members and officers of the club have ifound ready assistance from the verybest of citizens along the roads, theyfully realizing that well marked roads ,add to the value of their holdings and |makes property all the more valuable, i

This must be apparent also that each Iyear the number of visitors to Cali-fornia Increases materially. Many oftbe.e. are Vestslrln* for ular--- to Innate,

possibly establish winter homes andresidences and when they have roadsproperly marked it shows the enter-prise of the inhabitants, the characterof the residents and adds to the gen-eral Interest taken in the places .visited.

The work referred to here has beenin the hands of Leonard F. Block, whois superintendent of roda signs for theclub, a man enthusiastic in his workand with a thorough and - practicalknowledge of what he is about; whilethe practical assistance of Cotton A.Smith, assistant secretary of the club,working heartily In harmony with allthe other officers of the club, is doingso much to make this organization oneof the most desirable in the country.'

The officers of the Automobile cftibof Southern California are as follows:

George B. Ellis, president; R. P.Ilillmah, vice president; Charles B.Hopper, secretary-treasurer; Cotton A..smith, assistant secretary.

Directors—L. D. Sale, Fred L. Baker.H. W. Keller. Charles G. Andrews, F.O. Johnson, J. J. Jenkins.

BACK FROM EASTERNTRIP TO FACTORIES

NEW CAR WILL BE THE "SIX-SIXTY-SIX" COLUMBIA

Will Be One of the Handsomest CarsEver Seen In This Section

and Wonder of aMachine

C, E. Bireley of the firm of Bireley& Young arrived back in Los Angelesafter a most extensive trip through theeastern cities during the past sixweeks, whither he had gone to visitthe factories of the Columbia and Her-reshoff cars, and is more than de-lighted with the result of his visit.

Mr. Bireley, during his travelsthrough the eastern states, visited Bos-ton, New York, Philadelphia, Cleve-land, Chicago, Detroit and- many otherof the larger cities, making carefulnote of everything appertaining to theautomobile business, how it • is con-ducted in the great automobile centersand -noting the improvements in thecars for which his firm are the sellingagents as well as those of other makes,and after a careful study of all thatappertains to the business, is morethan satisfied with the machines thefirm are selling here and have madeso popular.

An innovation to the trade here willbe the new series of the Columbia car,which will be the new four-cylinder forsix and seven passengers, and the new'Six-Sixty-Six." which will, from whatMr. Bireley states, be one of the hand-somest cars ever seen In California, inpoint of graceful lines, colors and fin-ish, while the high standard of thecars themselves for endurance and ca-pacity will be greatly enhanced.

None will observe these things moreeither than in he new series of the lit-tle Herreshoff car, upon which the ob-servations of the manufacturers havebeen centered for the past year, andthe improvements will make theHerreshoff a machine that the publicwill notice favorably.

Of course the Columbia, whicHi hasbeen doing some stunts hereaboutsof late, will rank with the highestclass cars of the country. The takingof the San Diego record for whichothers have ever since been trying withall their might to wrest, stands as anexample of what the Columbia can do,for scarcely had she come with the SanDiego record safely tucked away inher packing case, till with the sameidentical outfit, without a repair or ad-justment of any kind, she went to Red-lands and brought home the Burris cupfor the time made to the marble quar-tie of Burris, and none seem anxiousto take a chance at wresting that cupfrom the Columbia's lockers. Whenshe competed that twenty and a halfmiles of 7500 feet mountain climbing,the Columbia had gone where no othercar had climbed, thereby proving hercapacity and endurance and the littlecar Is fit as a fiddle to make either ofthe runs over again and probably cuther own time off a considerable.

Mr. Bireley reports the greatest ac-tivity in every section of the east andespecially among the makers of auto-mobiles, the estimate being 200,000 carsfor the season of 1910 and with this

enormous output, it is not even sus-pected that the supply will begin toequal the demand for motor cars. Fac-tories are running to their fullest ca-

pacities, and even overtime in a greatmany of them. However, his firm havoarrangements made for deliveries forOctober and thereafter, assuringprompt delivery of all cars sold to buy-

ers, a pleasant anticipation for the ad-mirers of the car with Columbia'sname, fully sustaining the reputation'ot this house for prompt dealing andsure and certain carrying out of allassurances given to buyersa satis-faction that must prove valuable aliketo buyer and seller.

PORTOLA EVENTSREADY FOR ENTRIES

FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL-LARS FOR PRIZES

Automobile Races to Be Chief Eventof the Carnival, and Course

Is the Best Any.where

Entry blanks for the Portola roadraces, to be held on the Oakland courseat Oakland, Cal., Saturday, Oct. 23,1909, have been made public and areto be one of the chief features of thePortola celebration.

The following are the events sched-uled for this race and will be foundInteresting to many of this city:

Event No. I—Free-for-all for carshaving a piston displacement In ex-cess of 600 cubic inches, and also opento cars which have regularly qualifiedfor the following events, Nos. 2 and3: Twelve laps of course, about 258miles. First prize, $2000; second prize,$600; third prize, $400.

Event No. 2—Stock chassis having apiston displacement of from 451 to 600subic inches and minimum weight of2400 pounds (Class B, sub-class 1 of A.A. A. classification). Ten laps ofcourse, about 215 miles. First prize,flOOO; second prize, $400; third prize,$100.

Event No. 3Stock chassis having apistol displacement of from 301 to 450cubic inches and minimum weight of2100 pounds (Class 11. sub-class 2 of A.A. A. classification). Seven laps ofcourse, about 150 miles. First prize,$700; second prize, $200; third prize,$100.

Entry fee In each of the above eventswill be 10 per cent of the amount offirst prize, which fee must accompanyapplication for entry. In' event ofbona fide start fee will be returned toentrant, otherwise fee will be retainedby promoter.

Entrants in events Nos. 2 and 3 -com-peting in event No. 1 will be requiredto complete the full number of laps of,their respective "Stock Chassis" eventsto bona fide qualify for event No. 1and must have completed the full num-ber of laps prior to the official calling-off of the contest in order to so qualify.

Prizes will be awarded to entrantsof winning cars and will be either incash or plate at option of winner.

Leslie R. Burks. 532 Mills building,San Francisco, Cal., -is the managing'secretary, to whom all communicationsshould be addressed concerning thisroad race. - :

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1 Still Holds theSan Diego Round Trip Record —

320 Miles in 10 Hours and 21 MinutesThis record was made with the roads in the- worst condition imagina-ble, and was not the result of several attempts, but was the FIRSTATTEMPT. We do not expect this record to stand forever, for therehave^been numerous attempts made to lower it. Keep on trying,boys—you are welcome to it—we did not get it t» keep, simply madeit harder to get. \ ' \

Remember we still hold the Burris trophy for the best time fromRedlands—2o^ miles, elevation 7500 feet.

C ._-*.* t* c 'for dependability, for low cost of up-keep, good work-manship and high grade material, there is none better.

We are now booking orders for the "New Series" Columbia forOctober delivery. You should see the style and know the specifica-tions. We are surely in the "FRONT ROW."

Are you interested in a six cylinder? See our "six-sixty-six"—six cylinders, sixty horsepower, six passengers—l32-inch wheel base,36-inch wheels.

; Place Orders Early— Get Busy

BIRELEY & YOUNGSTATE AGENTS

1231 South Main Street

JOHN'S PIPE SHOP130 West Fifth street, between Spring and Main streets. Maker ot Meerschaum andBriar Pipes. Repairing, coloring, remaking, silver and gold mounts. Largest as-sortment of Meerschaum and Briar Pipes. The best 90c pipe in town. Every pipeguaranteed. Sensible prices. Buy jour pipes of the pipemaker. See the NorthPole Pipe in John's window.

The 1909 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Has Arrived4 TO 7 H. P.—PRICES, $225.00 TO $340.00

LEE RICHARDSON AUTOMOBILE COMPANYAgents wanted. 821 So. Main St., I_os Angeles. Cal.. also Hedlaaida, Cal.

"Look at This"

The Oakland Forty

' TOURING CAR— TONNEAI—RUNABOUT J »i*** ;

40 H. P., MAGNETO INCLUDED, $1700No changes, but refinement, simplicity and finish, reliability and perfect design make up thegreatest car on the market at the price. 40 h. p., 112-inch wheel base, 34-inch wheels. '

A $3000 CAR FOR $1700 A $3000 CAR

Also sensation of the year, the 4-cylinder, 30-horsepower, rfj» -| f\f\f\selective Transmission Magneto included f0r.... , «JJ)A\JvJv/

Catalogue Upon Application _Wm Deliveries in October

Woodill Auto CompanySIXTH AND LOS ANGELES STREETS Agents Southern California . and Arizona

Reliable Hubarentt Wanted. ,