* * —^—^^»^»«.^^»MM^^^^^^M^M^aw*^^MMi^BM*W^"^Ef^*W^W^p**^*MWM^^^*H'^W^^By^^^^^^_'"?T7f"'^^_LJj^^^^TT^^^^^fcljj^^^^Yft^^^^^^^^^ I ft*~i% 2>H> \rJKg£skr\'^ I iVI w CJI a—fa- 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 BH^ hk* ■*■■'— "mi ■:; ' ,v - - 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. .■•.-.. «-*« '■■.. ' 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.