Los Angeles Sunday Herald

AUTOMOBILES

PART II

SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1910

EDITED BY W. G. L. TUCKER

Twelve Pages

AUTOMOBILEROADSIN GRIFFITH PARK

Continuous 35-Mile Run ThroughElysian and Griffith

Parks Planned

PARK COMMISSION'S WORK

Mountain and Woodland Scenesto Delight Citizens and

Tourists Alike

All the fascination of an automobiledrive through mountains and wildcountry, yet always within touch ofthe highest civilisation, in one of themany pleasures motorists can en.loyright at the portals of Los Angeles;for embraced In the two large parks—Elyslan and Griffith—it is possibleoven now to travel more than twentymiles with all the exhilaration andabandon of being in an Isolated coun-try in so fnr as inhabitants are con-cerned, but with all the natural beauty

enhanced by the architectural land-scaping of man.

Piloted hy Superintend^ of ParksFrank Scherer, a party of citizens.Including L. F. Block, superintendentnf the pood roads movement for theSouthern California Automobile asso-ciation, and a Herald representative,made a tour of lit»pectlon of these twogreat parks to determine where roadsigns should be put up In order tomoke safe and sure driving over themany miles of completed roads by thethousands of tourlst.s who will be herethis winter and will desire to take in

,:ill the beauty spots this great com-mon wealth has to offer.

Driving out Buona Vista street tothe Klysian park entrance at Fremontcate there Is a continuous up grade formore than five miles over as goodpark roads as is posslhle to find any-where. Winding in and out among thestately palms and the young forestsplanted by the city on the hundredsof acres in this park, you reach thesummit at an elevation of over K0(1feet above 1 Rea level. The descent ishy a different route and the total d's-tance covered Is eight miles.

This brings you out on Sunset boule-vard, west of Echo park. A detour ofseveral miles via Kast Hollywood am!nut the Los Felis road toward TropicoIs at present the best route to reach theentrance of that magnificent naturalpark of .101!) acres, called from Its do-r.or Griffith park. But It Is a part ofthe plan of the park commission direit-ly to connect the two parks by a newroad leading directly west from Elyslanpark, that portion to the extreme edge

of the park having been built in thepast several months, hut the furtherpart of the road just now Is in an al-most impassable condition, and is notwithin the city control. The connect-ive road that it is intended to build iseither partly through some city lands

lying in the bottoms; but what is pre-ferred—and a strong effort will be mad ft

to get—ls a right of way over privatelands through Grant pass and Wildcatcanyon. It is the intention of the park( ommisßlon to make a 35-mile circularride through these two big parks apossibility within the next year. But ItIs in Griffith park where road buildinghas been going on rapidly since thelast of June. There are now completednine miles of good road, except in someshort stretches where It has been foundnecessary to widen them and to hankup on the turns. Already a number ofmotorists are enjoying the pleasures-ofGriffith park on Sunday, but Superin-tendent Scherer states that it will notbe until about November 15 that allthis work will be completed, and thecommissioners are to he asked to namea special opening day about that time.

It is almost Impossible to believe thetransformation from a jungle to a wellkept park that has been going on hererecently. All the Griffith park work isl-elng done under the supervision of F.A. Frown, general constructing fore-man of city parks. Not only has hebcin keeping a number of teams atwork on the roads, but a force of menhas been busy in clearing away muchof the undergrowth at the prettiestpoints and installing playgrounds andpicnic benches and seats. Four rusticbridges have been put in over the. LosAngeles river, which passes throughpart of the park, and from which thecity gets its present main water supply.Park Patrolman Arthur Johnson is par-ticularly active in making the parksafe for visitors and preventing rowdy-ism. All in all. It Is a magnificentscheme for a city par!:, embracing as Itdoes thousands of acres, and travelsigns will shortly he rut up throughout

the completed portion of the park, un-der the auspices of the Southern Cali-fornia Automobile association.

One of the Many Beauty Spots and Rustic Bridge onNew Nine-Mile Scenic Drive Through Griffith Park

PARK SUPERINTENDENT BCHERER AND PARTY INSPECTING ROAI> BIII^DINO IN GRIFFITH PARK, WHERE SIX TEAMS

AND TWENTY MEN ARE AT WORK.

NEW HALLADAYAGENCYFOR IMPERIAL VALLEY

Will Demonstrate Construction toArmour Institute Students

The newly organized Halladay MotorCar company is one of the busiestfjrnis on automobile row. Halladaycars were recently delivered to Mrs.Lawrence Holmes and Mrs. Clara M.Gilbert, Los Angeles, and two cars, aroadster and a touring car, to FrankM. Salisbury of Imperial to be used inhis real estate business. So pleasedwas Mr. Salisbury with his cars aftertrial that he has taken the Halladayagency for Imperial and placed anorder for six cars for early delivery.

The new model Halladays ar"e con-structed on classy lines, and two m( theprettiest seven-passenger, fore-doorcars in the city are now on their floor,and two carloads will arrive duringthis week, including both thirty andforty-horse power touring cars.

Manager Whltcomb states that theArmour institute of Chicago has justpurchased from the Chicago branch aHalladay Forty chassis which it willuse this winter in showing the con-struction of automobiles and the dif-ferent merits to its students. The Hal-laday Forty chassis was selected aftera careful inspection of all of thechasses on •"tomobile row in Chicagoand is simply another evidence of the

careful attention paid to designingHalladay cars.

CUTTING CAR RACEDRIVER COMING HERE

Plans to Take Part in Aviationand Motor Car Meets

Immediately after the close of thecurrent racing season in Southern Cali-fornia George Clarke, the Cutting Carcompany's driver, who will be enteredin all of the races in this territory,

will turn his attention into aviating

channels.The Cutting Car company has al-

ready established experimenting quar-ters for aviating in its factory at Jack-son, Mich. The Cutting racing carswill winter at the local company's gar-age and while here Clarke will conducthis aern experiments.

Driving a Cutting forty Clarke hasmet with exceptional success this sea-son on( the mile circular tracks of the.east and middle west. He will makehis first appearance locally on the LosAngel';; motodrome on November 26and 27.

Clarke's most notable performance ofrecent date was at the lowa state fnirthis month, when he negotiated five

miles in 4:22:4.

JERSEY'S PROFITS FROM AUTOSNew Jersey profited to the amount of

$238,880 for the twelve month* precedingOctober 1 from the receipts of the statedepartment of motor vehicles. The amountpaid In came to 1323.880.35. but It costto maintain the department something like140.000.

From December, 1909. to October, 1910,27,374 registrations have been issued as fol-lows:. First class, 3383; second class, 11,870;third class. 12.141. There have been ;|I7B

licenses to motorcyclists; 13.913 tourists'licenses; ,ri63 dealers' and manufacturers'licenses, and -517 transfers. The numberof drivers' licenses Issued was 34,078, ofwhich 17.71.1 were first class ana 16,363second _ class. .

STANDARDIZED FRAMESAUTOMOBILE KEY NOTE

Best Engineers of the Country

Pass on Best Plans inConvention

A division of tho standards commit-tee of the Society of Automobile En-gineers met in Cleveland last week.It was a session of the subcommitteeon frame sections, and the followingwere present: W. H. Van Dervoort,Moline Automobile company. East Mo-line, 111.; James H. Foster, HydraulicPressed Steel company, Cleveland, O.;L,. R. Smith, A. O. Smith company, Mil-waukee, Wis.; W. F. Kennedy, Stude-baker Automobile company. New York,and Coker F. Clarkson, general man-ager Society of Automobile Engineers.

1451 Broadway, New York. J. G. Per-rin, Lozier Motor company, Detroit,Mich., was unable to attend.

The current practice in frames formotor cars has little uniformity insizes and proportions of the sections.A smaller number of sections wouldbe sufficient and give the followingadvantages: (1) Reduce the tool cost,(2) increase the output of all pressesby reducing change of tools, (3) reducethe number of different sizes of stockrequired, (4) reduce the number ofvariatons in the rizes of all partsfastened to automobile frames.

It was the sense of the meeting thatthe frame as an element of automobiledesign should receive more attention inthe initial stages of laying out a carmodel, with relation to the dispositionof other elements of the machine, suchas power equipment, transmission me-chanism, springs, -ixles, body, etc. Asan extreme case of putting the cartbefore the horse, designers have beenknown to order their motors, transmis-sions, hodies and other parts beforegiving tho frames, to which they areattached, a thought. Of course, thisis very much of an exception.

The committee in a report to bemade at an early date will recommendquality of steel to bo used in frames,specifying tho chemical composition,physical properties and heat-treatmentdesired. Ths is one of the two broaddivisions of the subject of standardframe sections.

The other broad division is the de-sign of. frames generally, and herestandardization can be very effective,without in any way throttling progressor the development of meritorious newstyles of frames. In other words, theframe section standardization will havethe absolutely essential characteristicof adequate elasticity.

The matter of design will be sub-divided somewhat as follows:

1. Main section, side bars, includingthe topics (a) thicknesses of metal, (h)thickness relative, to depth of section,(c) width of flange.

2. Standard front ends. Hero ap-p»;irs to be a point in which great goodcan be accomplished. H is said thatthere «if a tlintKir.il current deihjrnaof frame front ends. Tbeae the com-mittee will reduce tremendously to pos-sibly a score of front <>n<l curves.Naturally this involves a good deal ofwork hy the subcommittee

3. Standard taper for rear end.4. Uniform radii of curves and depth

of drop for drop frames and double-drop frames.

5. Main width of frame (at rear end).6. Offset of side rail to produce front

AUTO WORKMEN TO SHAREIN COMPANY'S PROFITS

Profit sharing plans are sufficient of anovelty in the automobile industry to at-tract attention and commendation, espe-cially when the company concerned is oneof the largest In the country. It is a factthat heretofore the Industry has been sin-gularly free from serious labor troubles anddisputes. One of the reasons for this Isthe unusual standard of intelligence and,

skill which prevails; and the prevailing nighrate of wages. Workmen In automobilefactories are. as a rule, picked men; theyare well paid and well treated and theusual causes for disputes do not exist —except in rare cases. Several years ago,before the 1907 panic, there was a generalcomplaint that whereas the demand forskilled workmen was In excess of the sup-ply and employers of this class of laborexperienced great difficulty In obtaining

sufficient for their needs, the automobilefactories were not hampered in the sameway. In fact, there was a complaint thatthe automobile factories were steadily

draining other establishments of valuablemen. Tho latter were tempted by tholure of higher wages and yielded.

The contented, welt i)aid workman is theone who turns out the best, as well as themost work. If. In addition to his con-tentment ho is srlven a fresh incentive —isalloted a share In the profits of the bus-iness—lt Is obvious that he will strive yetmore earnestly to Increase hoth the qualityand quantity of his output. Furthermore,

he becomes doubly eager to improve thearticle to which he is devoting his energy.

The vista of Imarovement !\u25a0 a wide oneand extends clear to the marketing of thecomplete machine —for obviously the better

a car is and the greater value for theprice, the better it will sell.—AutomobileTopics.

end width. Proportion of length ofoffset to amount of offset.

Cross members:7. These are straight and curved. As

to the Conner, matters to be consideredare .standard radium and length for in-tegral sussets, which should preferably,as a matter of cost of production, beon the cross bars Instead of on theside, rails, as to the latter (curved crossbars), standard radii and amount Ofdrop of front member. And in generalharmony of design with relation tostrength and welgnt of side bars.

Subframes:8. Dividing into (a) amount of drop,

(b) width between engine bars and (c)taper of engine bais.

General matters:Diagrams will be produced showing

,waya of economizing on material toarrive at minimum waste without in-terfering with merii of design; amount.and place of material trmt should re-main after holes are drilled for as-sembling cars; preferred path for holes;advisable lips and lugs on cross mem-bers and outside fittings; spacing ofrivets.

ALL EYES ARE NOW ONATLANTA'S SPEEDWAY

Great Two-Mile Course Has theLine on All Fast Tracks

in the, Country

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 29.—The largestgathering- of automobiles that aver tookpart, in a racing event of any char-acter in America ft promised for theAtlanta speedway i I of November3, 4 Miid 5. Even with a force of menemployed in adding to the old garages

and making arrangements for now onesit la going to tux the Speedway's re-sources to accommodate the sixty ormore cars that will take part.

The Speedway meet will open Novem-ber 3 with a strong card, the feature ofwhich will be the Coca-Cola cup, thelast big track event of the year formachines of the 30x-450 class. This isat lnO miles, and Uie card will Ik- enlivened by a world if short racon.

The second day "ill have its quota ofdashes, and the main event will be th«contest for the valuable City of Atlantatrophy, in which will be gathered thepick of the 451-600 curs of America.

The closing day, Saturday, November

6, will have an especially strong card.The three regular events will be thepursuit race, the amaeteur event attwenty miles and the Atlanta SpeedwayGrand prize, the big 250 mile race inwhich the cream of the American free-for-all cars will struggle for first hon-ors in what is undoubtedly the supremetest of the year.

These Atlanta races, like all on speed-ways, will have the tremendous advan-tage over road races in that everymove of every car nt virtually all timescan be observed from tho stand. Onlya few hundred yards of the two-mileAtlanta track caiviot bo seen from thegrand stand. For this reason every

step of every rac" call be watchedevery minute by tvpry spectator, andthere will be none of the waits for carsand none of tho guessing about whathas become of the machines that isnotable in road events.

CROSS CONTINENT TRIPATTRACTS WIDE ATTENTION

Western Motor Enthusiasts Are

Watching Westgard

The transcontinental good roads tripwhich A. J. Westgard is now making

on behalf of the Touring Club ofAmerica for the purpose of laying out.

I the b<-st touring route from the At-i lantlc tn the Pacific coast via thesouthwest, leading Into Southern Cali-fornia, has not only aroused the great-

,lest interest iti nil the towns throughi which Mr, Westgard has already

pass 'il, but Is attracting widespread' attention throughout the west.

Since the start of thr long 4000-mile, trip three weeks ago the Touring <'lub

of America, New York, has receivedmany inquiries from motoring and

, other organizations in the fai westasking- if Mr. Westgard is coming

, their way, as they are preparing toescort him on many miles of the jour-ney. H. K. Frederlckson, a prominentautomobllist of Omaha, Neb., say.s thathe is planning to meet the transcon-tinental car in [owe and pilot Mr.Westgard over the best roads in Ne-braska.

c. ff. Scott of Hutcblnson, Kas.,writes a very enthusiastic letter to theTouring club stating that he in secre-tary of the new Santa Fe Trail, ag0,,<l roads organisation having for itsobject the construction and main-tenance of a good dirt road from Kan-sas City, Mo., to Colorado points, or700 miles from the former city toCanyon City, Colo., half of which is inthe valley of the Arkansas river. Mr.Scott is arranging a relay piloting partyto meet Mr. Westgard at different lo-calities and travel with him fromKansas City to Trinidad.

"We will have a car meet him," hesays. "In all of the towns and serveas his pilot to the next. We have anorganization to do this, and wo willmake it our business to get him overthe road rapidly or as slow as he maydesire. We will show him a route thatfollows closely to the old Santa Fe trailand parallels the Santa Fe railroadlines."

G. A. Wahlgreen, the well knownmotorist of Denver Colo., has sent arequest that Mr. Westgard make a de-tour to Denver, saying that the motor-ists of thnt city i.re keenly alive tothe importance of the trip and its in-fluence upon the good roads develop-

I ment in the far west In the interest oflong-distance touring.

Mr. Westgard found the roads andgeneral conditions splendid in NewYork, Pennsylvania and Ohio and washeartily received by the motorists ofNewburgh. Kingston, Binghamton,

Watklns Olen. Rochester, Batavia, Buf-falo, T3rie, Cleveland, Columbus andAkron.

CLASSIFICATION RACEIS PUZZLE TO INDIAN

"Running a road race by classification may

be all right, but It is hard to figure why aman finishing third does figure in the prizemoney, when the fourth to finish gets away

with fiOOO." Thus soliloquizes Tobin DeHy-mel, the Aztec Indian, who finished third Inthe recent Falrmount park 200-milo road raceIn Philadelphia.

The event was run by piston displacementclasses, and while DeHymel did not win hisevent, he finished third In the entire fleM. Thefourth car to finish did not make us fast timeas did the Indian, but in winning its classwon (Win. The Aztec since the race has beentrying to settle In his own mind why thefourth car to finish heat the thinl.

licHymiM Is not the only one who In tryingto solve this condition.

DECORATION SCHEMEFEATURE OF N.Y. SHOW

The U. S. Classic in Motor CarShows to Be Without a

Duplicate

For many years Madison Squaregarden has been the scene of great,

exhibitions, entertainments and events

in which society has played an im-portant part, but in the procession ofits many and varied affairs nono haayet succeeded in effecting more com-plete transformation of the interior ofthe building than the automobileslmws. Without doubt, the most bril-liant spectacle ever presented withinthe walls of the old show building willgreet the visitor on the occasion ofthe eleventh national automobile show,to be held January 7 to 21, under theauspices of the Association of LicensedAutomobile Manufacturers. Just whatthe decorative scheme will bo for theforthcoming show, which is to bedivided into two parts, has not as yetbeen made known, but judging fromthe plans formulated by the show com-mittee and decorator general, W. W.Knowles, it is certain that the. 1911affair will he the most splendid andclassical of any ever held in this coun-try.

Always it has been the aim of th»show managers to provide a scheme ofdecoration suitable to the exhibits,and at the same time furnish patrons•with a spectacle as artistic as Is prac-tical for so short a period. From arecent discussion with the decoratorgeneral it was learned that alreadycarpenters, woodworkers, painters andother tradesmen are at work on sev-eral decorative pieces that will adornthe balconies, exhibition hall, concerthall, rathskeller and basement of thegarden. One of the ornate effects nowreceiving finishing touches is a bit?pergola-fountain, in the form of anexedra, which will confront the visitorat the entrance to the amphitheater.

The fountain is In the form of a lowabutment of gray stone in the frontof which is carved a long setee forthe visitors. It has a troughllke basinand at each end water will spray fromthe mouths of griffins and gargoyles.The splashing water will be electricallyradiant, martp so by iridescent and.cunningly hidden bulbs. Artificialwater plants from which will radiatevari-colored lights will be in the pool,and natural water lilies and gold fishwill be mingled with them. The foun-tain is overhung with wistaria, whichclings to a netting of lattice work andgracefully entwines itself about theeight marble-Tr^'*-> Doric columnswhich support the pergola. Four baytrees adorn the front of the fountain.

TIRE WITH ORIGINAL AIRAFTER MAKING 18,000 MILES

Still containing the air with which It wasInflated when applied to the car, a Diamondtire usad on one of tho front - wheels of ademonstrating car by the White Garage com-pany of St. Louis was recently removed fromthe wheel, after having covered nearly 18,000miles. During the period of service In whichthe tire rolled up Its remarkable mileage rec-ord there never had been any occasion to re-move it from the wheel or to use the tirepump. The other Diamonds originally equip-ping the car all covered more- than 12,000miles. '

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CUTTING CARSAn Auto Story

CHAPTER I.

MODEL A-30 ROADSTER, $1100For two passengers. 115-inch wheel base. Wheels 32 inches. Tires" 32x3%inches. Motor, bore 3% inches; stroke 5 inches. Thirty horse power. We

1 put 36-inch wheels on this model.

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MODEL B-40 TOURING CAR,' $1350Five passengers. 115-inch wheel base. Wheels 34 inches. Tires 34x3V4inches. Motor, bore 4% inches; stroke 4% inches. Thirty-five horse power.

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MODEL C-50 TOURING CAR, $1650Five passengers. 116-inch wheel base. Wheels 36 inches. Tires 3fix3«A incheß.Demountable rims. Motor, bore V/t inches; .stroke 5 inches. Forty horsepower,

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Model "F" Vestibule or Fore Door Car $1800

Model "R" Roadster $1750

Model "L" Limousine Complete $3000

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