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Show s z ; i MOTOR MOTIONS Ezra Thompson and his son, L. H. Thompson, 'who has been attending school at Yale, and Frank Botterill returned early in the week from Buffalo, New York, driving Mr. Thompson's new six-cylinder, thirty-six house power Pierce Arrow car. J I And it may not be amiss to say that this trip from the Pierce factory to Utah is probably the most successful and fastest tour yet made by a I Salt Lake auto owner. It was a record run, and one that gave Mr. Thompson's new car a severe trial. Yet when the party pulled into the Bot-terill Bot-terill garage Tuesday evening not a single portion por-tion of the mechanism of the machine had to be i, replaced during the run, and not a tire had been .punctured. The party left Buffalo on July 7 and the run consumed thirteen days The car averaged aver-aged 200 miles a day, and. on some days covered as much as 250 miles. Speaking of the trip, Frank Botterill said yesterday: yes-terday: "It was a wonderful run, both for us and the car, and one that we will probably not forget- very soon. From New York state out we ran through a splendid section of the country, and every hour gave us some new scenery to marjl at. We found the best roads in the eastern states, though the Western roads were in fairly good shape, with the exception of Iowa and Wyoming. Here we foiind 'the limit of mud, muck and mire, deep ruts in the roads for miles, and general conditions con-ditions such that we were forced to proceed through those two states at a very slow speed. At Evanston, however, conditions picked up to such an extent that we arrived in Salt Lake one day ahead' of our schedule. "We encountered a number of touring parties, and at Opal, Wyoming, Monday morning, wo met a party 6f lour young ladies in a Maxwell car en route from New York city to San Francisco. Mrs. Ramsley, o New Jersey, has been at the wheel ever since leaving New York. We piloted them Into Salt Lake, and I must say that for a resourceful, resource-ful, competent, and, when need be, daring driver, Mrs. Ramsley is entitled to all credit. She has -brought her Maxwell through in splendid shape. "My trip east gave me no more information regarding the prospective situation locally in regard re-gard to cars for 1910 than I knew before leaving. Every automobile manufacturer in the east has planned and placed his output for the next twelve months, and they cannot begin to make the cars that will be required. There is not one single car left in the Pierce factory today. We get the first 1910 Pierce cars early in August, and in Salt Lake we get only twenty Pierces for the season. (Continued on page J 2 ) Ezra Thompion's New 6-6 Pierce Arrow in which Mr. Thompson, his son and Frank Bottcrill, drove fiom Buffalo to Salt Lake. i (Continued from pago 12) The two we get in August are sold, one to Mrs. Mary Judge and the other to Joe Geoghegan. Of the twenty cars we get, nine are already sold. " Thomas Kearns has ordered a 48-horsepower laudaulet model. We will have one of the new Hudson $900 cars in August and one or two of the 1910 Chalmer-Detroit the first week of next month. A 1910 Pope-Hartford is on the road, and in a week or so I will receive a Columbia elec tric, which I ordered for Mrs. Botterill during my trip." H. Vance Lane, president and general manager of the Rocky Mounta'n Bell Telephone company, is back after covering 800 miles in his automobile automo-bile on an inspection tour of the Bell properties throughout Montana and Wyoming. Despite terrific roads and rain storms, Mr. Lane averaged aver-aged 100 miles a day and with his party reports re-ports a most enjoyable and del'ghtful trip. August Stoker has received word from Mr. JH and Mrs. A. J. Bettles who are en route to the Bettles ranch in Alberta, Canada, in their nqw IH Peerless, that the trip has proven delightful and -H that Yellowstone Park will be visited before the H trip is completed. ' 5 v 5 Mrs. Humphrey Ward is about to write "Rob- 4 ert Elsmere Twenty Years After." What has Rob- M ert been doing? Takings Peruna? ,j ttiH |