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PART 111
MINER IN AUTO TO
PROSPECT DESERT
In Machine of His Own Design
H. W. Larsson and Wife
Start for Gold Fields
WORKED EIGHT YEARS ON CAR
Power Plant to Run Ore Crusher
and Generate Electric Light
for the Travelers
Positively -the most elaborate and
comfortable "sold Beckers train" that
ever started from civilization Into the
wilderness pulled out of Los Angeles
lnst Monday evening on Its way to not
only the known mining camps of the
southwest, but also Into the far reaches
of mountainous country In the gold
belt Included In Southern California,
Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Across
those same desert wastes where other
adventurous spirits, whoso equipment
was encompassed In . a well built
prairie schooner or entrusted to the
backs of > faithful pack animals, and
whoso bones lie bleaching beside the
trail or In some long forgotten and
overlooked gulch a new kind of mining
prospector Is now headed, and his
equipment Is the very latest known to
mining men; the sole result of his
knowledge as a mechanical engineer,
combined with the knowledge of the
mining engineer chemist and assaylst;
and his conveyance, the acme of auto
mobile construction, combining the
luxuries of a magnate's railway car;
the business aspect of a draughtman's
studio; the equipment of the most up
to-date machine shop, and the acces
sories of a complete chomlst's labora
tory. SH.EWT BtIIDER
STtENT BTTIT.DKR
The man who did it all Is a marvel.
For twelve months one of tho most
quiet, unassuming, non-communlca
tlve, yet one of the brightest minds,
has been working day by day to build
and equip a motor car and outfit that
would meet every contingency in the
practical side of mining life, without
any of the hardships attendant on his
predecessors. And the finished product
Is a triumph In the automobile world
and the forerunner of future mining
operations.
H. W. I,arsson Is the builder, ■ de
signer and sole owner of this wonder
ful car. For eight years he has been
a. practical mining prospector and has
prospered. Yesterday he parted with
his faithful pack mules that have ac
companied him on his rombltngs all
these ■ years, and today Is, headed for
the great mining unknown; with the
facilities ever at hand to quickly de
termine whether he has uncovered
dross or gold, and to smelt and mold
the gold bars away off there from
other habitations, absolutely indepen
dent of the crushers and smelters to
be found in the largest mining camps.
Till I'll OF MASTER SKILL
Delmarva Is the euphonious name
given to this miner's model traveling
palace, and It Is destined to be re
corded in the doings of the mining
world as tho one complete triumph of
master mining skill.
Purchasing only the wheels of the
car in their manufactured state, he
has drawn tho plans, made the pat
terns and superintended the casting of
every other part of his car. He has
constructed his own model of three
cylinder two-cycle engine with double
friction drive, with a proved 33-horse
power and a steady traveling capacity
of fifteen miles an hour under any and
all conditions of roads from the Bandy
■ desert to the most ragged wagon road
among the hills or to blaze a new
trail If necessary- The engine Is con-,
nected with a dynamo which will gen
erate and furnish electric lights for all
purposes,' and the engine when not in
use for travel can be run with the
miniature ore crusher, which will turn
out any ore to the fineness of 100
mesh, which, In conjunction with a
miniature smelting plant completes the
mining outfit. The car carries four
10-gallon tanks for gasoline and two
20-gallon tanks for water. The body
of the car Is built for all the con-
two folding bertha, a small kitchen
cabinet and triple cooking outfit, china
closet, folding chiffonier, pumping
plant for drinking purposes where the
water travels through chemically
cooU'd pipes, affording ice water In the
hotest weather, and various lockers
for provisions and other supplies, all
so nicely adjusted that the big house
car Is evenly balanced.
The car's oiling devise is another
original feature. The oiler will pump
against 100 pounds pressure, and jret
measures out certain and exact quan
tities, though there is one spring and
plunger in its mechanism-and will
freely use any grade of oil.
The car is equipped with Morgan &
Electricity Is Life
THE LIFE OP THE GAS ENGINE IS THE ELECTRIC SPARK. The
Vibration Coll delivers a direct spark, THE SEELEY COIL delivers a
spark like a spray, that reaches every niche of the explosion chamber and
produces perfect combustion, giving every impulse of which ftie engine is
capable, no lapse of-power being possible; continuity is maintained, thus
avoiding e.ll pulsating Jars that come from the vibrating coil.
THE SEELEY IGNITION SYSTEM is growing In favor among the
owners of automobiles and motor boats, and Justly so, as IGNITION
TROUBLES ARE PRACTICALLY ELIMINATED by using this System.
We invite anyone who has ever used the Seeley System on their car to
detract one word from our statements as to the reliability of the Seeley
Ignition System.
Demonstrations Daily at
Seeley Specialties Co.
124-126 East Ninth Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
AUTOMOBILES
H. W. Larsson and His Original Motor
Car Equipped for Mining Prospecting
Wright tires of the broad tread non
skid type, and the fine mechanical
work is the product of the F. W.
Braun Manufacturing company.
OFT FOR DESEHT
Mr. Larsson Is accompanied by h!s
wife, and they do not expect to return
to Ix>s Angeles for many months.
Their route lies through San Bernar
dino, Vlctorville, Daggett, Randsburg.
Death Valley, Arizona and up and
down the Colorado river. Wherever a
trace of gold Is discovered the crusher
and semelter can determine its value
in less than an hour, and no time need
be lost in prospecting unprofitable lo
cations. The accompanying Illustra
tions of the car were taken Just prior
to the beginning of the Journey by this
man, who by his original automobile
construction has set all the motor
world guessing.
DRIVERS ARE RECKLESS
ROUNDING SHARP TURNS
Wheel Tracks Always Irrefutable
Proof of Way Corners Taken
Even the most expert drivers of
cars are liable to censure for the man
ner in which they turn corners. There
is evidence of this in the tracks of the
wheels which can be seen at almost
any short turn. One will find that
very many cars fall to hug closely
to the right-hand curb and make the
mistake of not swinging out far
enough.
No doubt there are a few drivers,
amateur or otherwise, who would be
insulted if you called them unintelli
gent, and would think you were mad
if you called them reckless, but the
evidence of the wheel tracks which
some leave behind shows the lack of
forethought at least, for it may be
used as Incriminating evidence In case
of accident, now that the traffic or
dinance is In force.
It must be believed that In case of
an accident on a blind curve, or a
short corner In the city or out, that
the blame can possibly be fixed on one
of the drivers participating. One may
be driving at sufficiently low speed to
avert a catastrophe, but the car com
ing In the opposite direction might bo
operated by a driver who is not so
careful and who endeavors to take the
turn at high speed.
Now, the evidence as to the speed of
the reckless man's car will probably
be regarded as guesswork. He may
swear that he was going at ten miles
an hour and it may be difficult to dls-'
prove it; on the other hand, there may
be irrefutable and most damning evi
dences of wheel marks to show that the
other car was being driven around the
corner on the wrong side of the road.
If, added to this evidence, charges are
made that the latter car was also be
ing driven far too fast, so fast that It
could not bo turned onto Ha proper
course without colliding sldewise with
the other vehicle, It Is more than prob
able thnt it will bo believed and de
cided that a driver who would drive
on the wrong side of the road might
also drive too fast.
This long Imaginary case Is given to
impress upon the owner, whether he
drives his car himself, or instrusta it
to a hired chauffeur, the importance of
keeping constantly in mind that an au
tomobile generally leaves a trail of the
pneumntie tire behind It as a telltale
evidence of the direction in which it
has been driven.
Los Angeles Sunday Herald
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ORE CRUSHER RUN BY AUTOMOBILE'S POWER
THREE DAY RUN LAST
OF JUNE AUTO BOOST
Pathfinder Car to Leave St. Louis
May 16 Beginning Its
Tour
The official pathfinder Buick car
started Monday to find a road for the
three days' reliability tour of the St.
Louis Automobile Manufacturers and
Dealers' association for the Star tro
phy. The Buick "seventeen," with
lialph Del.iney to drive it, has been
selected by the contest committee and
it will be the only car so authorized
to undertake this task.
The contest committee, Messrs.
Frank R. Tate, C. E. Michel and John
H. Phillips, has had several meetings
during the week and the decision was
reached to have the proposed tour
cover two days in Missouri and one
in Illinois. Tentatively the route will
be for the first day from .St. Louis to
Mexico and Moberly, the latter being
the night stop. The second day's run
will be from Moberly through Macon
and Hannibal to Louisiana, Mo., stop
ping for the night at the latter town.
The run of the third and last day will
be from Louisiana across the .Missis
sippi river, through Roodhouse, Oar
rollton, Jerseyville and Alton, back to
St. Louis. The dates set are June 28,
29 and 30.
Secretary Lee of the. Automobile
Manufacturers and Dealers' associa
tion has applied to the American Au
tomobile association for a sanction for
the run. This sanction will probably
have to come through the Automobile
Club of St. Louis, which is affiliated
with the A. A. A.
The committee has planned to make
the run for each day about 150 miles.
The tour will be made as rigid and
tough as possible so as to try out the
cars, but in addition to that it will
prove t° be a big boosting trip for tho
automobile interests of St. Louis all
along the route. The territory through
which the run will be made naturally
belongs to St. Louis frorn^ a general
business standpoint, and it is the pur
pose of the motorists to show the peo
ple that they can also depend upon
St. Louis for their automobiles.
SIMPLEX IN DEMAND
The recent success of the great "Simplex"
car In winning the 24-hour endurance race at
Brighton Beach, has stirred up a lot of In
terest In this wonderful racer among the
local automobile enthusiasts, anil Mr. Werner
of the Golden State garage has ordered three
of these big 90-horse power cars, one of which
Is already sold to a Los Angeles man. An
other will be reserved for the Santa Monica
road race, and the third will In all -prob
ability go to a Pasadena motor enthusiast.
At the same garage will also be seen next
week the first of the 1911 "Little Six" Palmer-
Singer cars of 40-horse power capacity, as can
of this type la both five and seven passenger'
bodies are due to arrive.
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' Betty Rrav is comlnar tn Ii« .Ammli".
SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1910.
'MERCER MERCURY' ON
WAY HERE FROM GOTHAM
Auto Dashing Across Continent
Toward Pacific Coast to
Make Record
The 30-horsepower Mercer car has
left New York on its trip from coast
to coast, with Los Angeles as its ob
jective point. The car is in charge of
C. H. Bigelow, a well known western
pilot who expects to set a new world's
record for the distance. Mr. Higelow
hopes to open a new route to the coast
and to .secure appropriations for new
roads so that within a lew years mo
torists can make the trip from the At
lantic to the Pacific coast through the
most picturesque part of the country in
comparatively less time than Is now
possible over the present unsafe trail.
Asides from the missionary road work
Mr. Bigelow intends to lower tlie time
I record from Now York to the coast,
' held at present by a Franklin car,
Which went the distance in 36- hours,
' alternating drivers and running night
I and day. Mr. IJigelow will travel but
' twelve or fourteen hours daily and will
drive the car as far as New Mexico,
where if he arrives on schedule time
he will be met by Harold Hanshue, the
famous road and track driver, who will
run the Mercer part of the remaining
distance of 800 miles. The distance for
the entire trip of the transcontinental
endurabillty run is approximately 2000
miles.
The route as outlined by Mr. Bigelow
will pass close to the petrified forests,
the Grand Canyon and many other
points of interest of world renown.
Already the car has been dubbed the
'•Mercer Mercury," because of a flying
trip made to New York from the fac
tory at Trenton/
GAUDY COLORS ARE NOW
RAGE AMONG AUTOISTS
Freak coloring will be among the
novelties in the new cars for next
season; and in fact some of the late
1910 models are now being turned out
at the factories along these lines.
The Brown Motor Car company, lo
cal agents for tho well known "Knox"
machines are in receipt of advices that
In the carload of this make that will
arrive in a few days a 40-horse power
tonneauette done In royal blue with
silver striping, and a contrasting shade
of blue upholstering, all parts nickel
finished. Another Knox car will be
done In gray with green striping and
green upholstering, parts nickel fin
ished; and the third machine in the
carload will be a 40-horse power, sev
en-passenger toy tonneau with thistle
green body, Napier ,green running gear,
reversible striping, blai'U uuholstery
and nlr.kal finish. - .... —
TWO CYCLE ENGINE
BEST, SAYS SNYDER
Makes Ideal Motor When Proper
ly Designed and Well
Constructed
SOME OBSTACLES OUTLINED
Tells Why Engineers Are Unable
to Build Autos Just as
They Would Like
Written for The Herald by
OK. CHARLES XV. SXVlir.lt,
Local Agent "Mlddleby" Car
The clearance space, or, more prop
erly, the combustion chamber, meaning
that space remaining in the cylinder
when the piston is at its heighest point,
theoretically should be a sphere, be
cause the sphere of any given capacity
has the smallest surface possible.
The gas engine being a heat engine,
it is most desirable that the heat caus
ing the expansion of the gas be re
tained as much as possible, and the less
radiating surface there 'is in contact
with the gas at the time of ignition the
greater the temperature developed and
• the more efficient the motor.
This spherical shape of the combus
tion chamber would be a difficult me
chanical construction to secure, out
modifications are in general use.
The two-cycle engine, having no
valves In the cylinder head, is often
built with the cylinders having a hemi
spherical dome, and the piston with a
fiat head, a near approach to the ideal
condition.
The four-cycle engine with the valves
in the cylinder head also is a good de
sign, and all other things considered, it
will give more satisfactory results than
the TorL head motor, for the simple
reason that the area of castiron sur
rounding the burning charge is nearly
the minimum. The surface surround
ing the charge in the TorL headed
cylinder is about twice as great as in
a motor with overhead valves, which
means twice the radiation.
The automobile engineer very rarely
ever builds the "best he knows how."
He is always up against the commer
cial problem, and this is governed to a
marked extent by price, appearance
and custom.
WHKRK ENCINE OUGHT TO BE
If a man designed the most perfect
(mechanically) machine possible, at a
high cost, which did not have a good
appearance, and was built in a manner
the people were not accustomed to see,
how many of them would he sell? For
instance, the engine at the front of the
car under the hood is poor mechanics;
but if a car came out with the engine
over the rear axle, no hood, and the
driver sitting between the front wheels,
though you knew it was a perfect de
sign, how many of you would buy it?
And this is the way with the auto
mobile engine the designer starts on
his car. The public demands an en
gine under the hood. He must make a
motor that can be placed there, be
handy and fairly accessible. To have
the public buy his car he must fix a
given price, say $2000. Now only a
portion of the $2000 can be allowed for
the engine, perhaps $400; and it's up to
this automobile engineer to produce an
engine of a given size, to go into a
given space, at a given price, and with
these and several other minor consid
erations in view he "designs the best
he can."
TWO-CYCLE ENGINE BKST
As before stated, the two-cycle en
gine lends itself to the most satisfac
tory form of combustion chamber; In
fact, the two-cycle engine, if well de
signed and well constructed, is the ideal
motor. The only objections to those In
use at the present time are that they
arc a constant compression engine, and
therefore do not throttle as readily as
the four-cycle, and there is always
some loss of the charge, which is
"sucked out" by the inertia of the ex
haust. But this latter defect is nearly
nviri'ome in the best designs, as for
instance in the American Simplex (now
the "Amplex"). With these manufac
turers the cost of the engine is but lit
tle considered, and the result is a near
ly perfect motor from the mechanical
standpoint.
The Franklin people have been con
sistent advocates of the overhead valve,
and the most satisfactory perform
ances of their cars speak fur them
selves. This arrangement has been tak
en up by several other plants during
the last few years, some showing de
signs with both valves in the cylinder
head, while others place only one valve
above and the other in a pocket. The
objections to this overhead method of
construction are that it requires two
valve cages, two rocker arms, two
pushrods with the necessary brackets,
.screens, etc., for each cylinder. And
Air Cooled Motor Car
Delivered in Los Angeles at Moderate Prices
The MIDPLEBY is the car for the business or professional man. as its construction is 8° .^P^/^ordero^
not require a mechanical education to run it; and the parts are so few that the risk of getting out of order is
reduced to a minimum. The engine is two-cycle, air-cooled and develops the maximum of power.
-ajt-^-^ Phone 51334 for a Demonstration. It doesn't obligate you to buy. If the
/l*ifl^Vi' :3 car does meet your approval, you can get an immediate delivery. For a
Cf|-(j||£r light, easy running, reliable car—you want a "Middleby."
DR. CHAS. W. SNYDER, Coast Agent lZ.\^fi
that after considerable wear the en
gine becomes noisy. This noise, how
ever, can be and is stopped in some
designs by a simple little spring which
takes up the wear.
INCREASES ENGINE HEIGHT -,'.',
The overhead valve Increases the
height of the engine a few inches,
which may sometimes be a disadvan
tage. In the T or L head engine there
is nothing above the cylinder unless it
is the spark plug or piping. The valves
are seated In pockets at the side of
the cylinder, and are opened directly
by the tappet. There may be one or
two cam shafts, depending on whether
the form Is L or T, but the total num
ber of small parts is considerably less
than in the type with overhead valves.
So far as efficiency is concerned, the
T and L, designs are about on a par.
The necessary pockets on the sides of
the cylinder head greatly increase the
area of the combustion chamber, but
under certain conditions, where a low,
compact motor is required, they form
the best design.
Cylinders are cast separately, in
pairs, or "en bloc" (all the cylinders
of an engine in one casting). The en
gine with each cylinder cast separately,
and machined all over, inside and out,
like the Cadillac, has the most perfect
construction, because to have a motor
work perfectly the cylinder must al
ways be true and straight, and unless
the cylinder be evenly heated all round,
the expansion due to the different tem
peratures in different "spots" in the
cylinder will "warp" It out of true; and
unless the metal of the cylinder has
the same thickness all round it will not
all be of one temperature.
In cylinders cast with jackets this
true and even thickness of the cylinder
walls is impossible to secure.
But in designing your particular en
gine there are a lot of other things to
be considered. The separate cylinder
is expensive to build, it makes a long
enging. The "en bloc" is the shortest
motor possible, under modern foundry
methods it can be built at a low price,
and while it may not be perfect, yet it
does the work. '-;'-' ■ • -
HAYNES OWNERS WILL BE
WELCOME AT LOCAL BRANCH
Policy of Company Makes it Easy
for Buyers
•The new Haynes home, which lias
just been erected In Los Angeles by
the Haynes Auto Sales company, is de
signed along lines that will place it
high among the most attractive and
best appointed auto buildings in the
west The salesroom received particu
lar attention and is extremely spacious
and most suitable for the care of cus
tomers. The ceiling is beamed and the
other furnishings of the room and ad
joining offices made to harmonize
The shop and parts room is designed
and especially equipped for satisfactory
and complete care of privately owned
Haynes cars. The services of this room
and Installed department will in no
way be limited to cars purchased from
the Los Angeles branch, but will be
open to all machines bearing the
Haynes name, irrespective of the place
of purchase. This policy of the same
treatment to all Haynes owners, no
matter where they bought^ is a policy
that every branch of the Haynes Auto
Sales company is required to respect
The outside of the building is to offer
a very attractive appearance. One of
the features will be the name ' The
Haynes," made with deep red brick,
oluined with white mortar This feat
ure is to be used by all the Ha>nes
buildings throughout this western ter
ritory including San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento, Seattle,
Portland and Rel}°-_
HANSHUE WAITING FOR
PRIZE WINNING RACER
Harris Hanshue is awaiting his new
Apperson racing car, which was shipped
from the factor on the 20th This
classy racer is of 55-horse power, and
the same model was used last year in
the Santa Monica road race.
Hanshue is perfectly confident that
this car will be in for its share of the
i rises in competition, and states that
it will be entered in the Santa Monica
road race, the Mt. Baldy race, the
"Portola" races and the Los Angeles-
Phoenix race. A "baby-jumper- will
not be in it for real action when this
young Apperson "Jackrabblt' gets in
the running.
MOTORDROME IS ASSURED
Jack Prince, who has built several
saucer tracks, announced Friday after
noon that a motordrome for Salt Lake
City was assured. It will probably be
one-third of a mile and will be con
structed for automobiles as well as
motorcycles. Prince says that he has
met with encouragement from many
quarters and he expects to announce
his plana In the near future. Since he
has been in Salt Lake, Prince has se
cured the option on three pieces of
ground and he will choose his site from
them.
Look for Betty Bray.
PAGES 1 TO 12
LOS ANGELES GETS
ONE MORE RECORD
Thirty-Two New Automobile Cars
Bring 169 Buicks to City
in Record Time
EIGHT DAYS FROM MICHIGAN
Charles S. Howard, Local Agent,
Declares He Needs More
of Them Already
The history of Los Angeles is bright
with big things it has done. What
ever the city him undertaken, its
spirit of enterprise has achieved. "Get
there" ideas have made the city the
cynosure of the eyes of a nation, and,
In fact, of the world.
Bank clearances and saving deposits,
election of buildings, purchases of
large blocks of real estate keep piling
up, so that the financial world and
business departments of firms and
corporations over the country are
amazed at what Los Angeles is doir.g.
It is but a short time since that Los
Angeles surprised the world with an
aviation meet which drew hundreds of
thousands to the field where the great
est bird-soaring; inventions of man at
tracted their attention.
Scarcely had the aviation meet
passed before another innovation was
Introduced. This was the construction
of the now famous Motordrome, upon
whose circular surface world's records
for automobile racing were made.
But Los Angeles had other records
to make, and this time it required the
nervy, plucky, brainy head of the
Howard Automobile company to turn
the trick. Charles S. Howard, presi
dent of the company, is responsible
for again breaking a world's record
with his favorite Buick cars. Assisted
by the Santa Fe company he made a
wo.rld's record for freight transporta
tion across the continent.
The occasion was the arrival last
Wednesday of a full trainload of
Buick cars of all models, which were
transported across the continent by
the Santa Fe railroad in thirty-two
big, new automobile and furniture
cars, their first trip to any part of the
country. To the railway men find
others the train was a sight to delight
the eye, because every car was of uni
form size, and the time made in tho
moving of the train stands today a
world's record.
Thirty-ltwo cars loaded with Buicks
left the factory at Flint, Mich., May
]0 at 4:20 in the afternoon, consigned
to the Howard Automobile company.
Without a hitch of any kind the
Buick special arrived in Los Angeles
thirty-three hours ahead of the fast.
schedule prepared for it by the train
dispatchers and general superinten
dents of the Santa Fe, and the time
was a little less than eight days from
initial point to destination, and almost
as good time as the ordinary train
which does not bear the legend, "Lim
ited."
In tl-ose thirty-two cars were 169
Buick automobiles of every model
turned out by the factory. The freight
bill alone was something more than
$10,800. The valuation of the contents
of the freight cars was close to a
quarter of a million dollars, the largest
single shipment of automobiles ever
made to any individual firm in the
world. It only illustrated again what
the Buick people can do.
It Is not to be marveled at, either,
because there is a reason for Buieks
being popular. In all of the races In
which tho Buieks have participated—
and they are In everything they can.
enter —they have won 91 per cent.
"Look about you where you may,
and everywhere you will see the
Buieks," says Mr. Howard. "Business
men, bankers, merchants—all like tho
Buicks—because they are dependable,
reliable, speedy and powerful, and ths
Buieks just love hills and hard work.
Thej' are so constructed that no other
car of any make, regardless of tho
price, can beat them on the road —cer-
tainly not in climbing hills or in road
work of the severest kind."
Mr. Howard stated to the newspaper
men that although the shipment of
Bulcka just received was rather an
extraordinary thing he would have to
duplicate the order because those are
almost all sold already.
An automobile agent at Padua, Italy,
has devised an arrangement which pro
tects the driver and passengers.Of motor
cars when passing through districts
known to be infested with stone throw
ers. It consists of wire netting similar
to that used on bird cages in the zoolog
ical gardens, fitted to four upright
tubes and joined to the wind shield, the
glasi plate of which it helps to protect.
In the tropics the wire net may be
made so fine as to exclude the bother
some insects.