SECOND SECTION SECOND SECTION 9 TO 12. PAGES HOT PAGES 9 TO 12. ESTABLISHED JULY 2, 1S56. HONOLULU, HAWAII TEUSITOP.Y, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1910. From Sacramento Read what Charles Mitchell, to Reno in a CAtRTEIRCAtR who drove the car, says: . following ridge overlooking the to Speaking of their experience, Mitchell said: All this time we had been the came a standstill. From there it was but a short jog did not know it at the time. The to store, "From Sacramento through Folsom to Auburn we ex- Sacramento valley, but a where we secured more gas. That night we by led to east in general direc- Allin perienced nothing out of the usual. At Auburn, however, new road taken us the the stopped at hotel. in which we must go, but after running across a canyon "Next morning we we struck a cold north wind, colder than snow itself, and tion started again for the summit and up grade we turned west again along a new found snow of to add to the general discomfiture, we found the road very and another increasing depth. The wheels were sunken way above hubs in badly broken up as far as Colfax. From Colfax to Dutch ridge. the places and the radiator.threw a fury like an angry snow plow. It in Flat we found the going better, however, and to that point was the midst of this first we found a large tree had but little snow with which to contend. After taking "It was there that we decided to turn back, the sun across our road. 'We first took the off lunch at Dutch Flat we put chains on our wheels, expecting having already gone down. We first climbed to the top of chains the wheels and hitched the tree to our car, hoping to to make the summit by dark. As we proceeded, however, a cliff in hopes of seeing from it some trace of the snow pull it out that way, but found sufficient traction for the wheel impossible we found more and more snow. No rigs of any kind had sheds, but found only miles of trees loaded down with snow. without the chains, and so replaced them I and a rope of been over the roads since the last fall of snow and, conse- Before starting back took another peek into the tank and made the canvas car cover, and with this equipment quently, there were no tracks to mark our way. Conse- found only one inch of gasoline1. This gave a genuinely the car pulled the tree to one side. quently we often held to what we thought the right direc- serious aspect to things, but all we could do was to take a tion in general with no regard to roads. On reaching Em- chance on reaching a new supply before that inch gave out. igrant Gap I looked into the tank and found that we had From there to Bear Valley I drove the machine on less gas "Some idea of the strain under which the car was run- enough gasoline to make 23 or 24 miles and so, without than I ever ran a car on before. We still had the stiffest ning all this time can be gathered from the fact that on con- replenishing it, started out on the long c'imb to the summit. of all grades to make, however, and an inspection showed sulting our watches when we reached the summit we found quarter-inc- h Right here our first misfortune began. At the snowsheds that about a of the now precious fuel still re- that we had been nine hours and a half in making twenty-tw- o the flagman directed us to take the left hand instead of the mained. ' Prospects for a cold night of it looked likely enough miles. Although we had to plow our way down on the right hand road, which was the correct one. We followed to make things worse and an ugly looking wolf stood up the other side of the mountain to Truckee and on to Reno, we this mountain road through snow for fifteen miles when we slope eyeing us. By good fortune and safe driving, how- had no trouble with the car and arrived at Reno safely after came to a fork in the road and took the right hand branch. ever, we succeeded in reaching the top before the engine a very strenuous trip." ROYAL HAWADDAN GARAGE i? as the and business as good an investment records data for Motor Age's you cross the Snake River and follow Don't confess your sins to the chauf- a gold mine. annual says: "Unquestionably the the river banks for five miles through feur; he is not sworn to secrecy. road-racin- g campaign of 1010, not only Increased Business. heavy sand, iu fact, river bottom sand, Don't parade the family skeleton any- - developed a champion in Ralph iM'otor re- driver the road being strewn with large boul- , tne wired The Packard Car Company Mulford, but brought'out forcibly iei bones disinte- ports that "their business has exceeded it the ders amisharp rocks to the extent that grate and mingle with dust Row speed and stamina of the Lozier, which is the Gasoline best per fast driving very dangerous. Owing of ages. their previous year by sixty as o a stock ear pure and simple, made to the heavy sand on portion of i-- ; cent. The wonderful in this Don't around collecting family-skeletons- Paekard plant the best record of the season, although is Detroit, even though en- the route it almost impassable for the blame owners who it has been pitted many cars were things store The automobile trade in Honolulu and manv private want their larged to thirty acres of floor space, against that many cars. Leaving the Snake River badly. time possible. built for racing only and which in- in the Islands generally is growing so cars done in the shortest can hardly pace with the tremen- the road follows up what is known as Don't be 'grieved if there are The sheds ears are well fitted and cluded not only the cream of the Amer: Alpowa Canyon miles, things on the. for dous demand which has been made on for about ten that you do not understand; the fast that the manufacturers the usual supples of motor requisites ieau fleet, but the pick of the foreign- this route up the Canyon being all stiff longest difficulty the Pac';arl Motor Car Company for list is in the keeping of mainland are. finding great in; will be kept on hand. more and more cars. ers as well. To Mulford in the Lozier grade from five to twenty per cent on the wisest man. weekj belong the driving honors of the year a narrow road. with many in coping with the demand. Every Its Busy Week. Overland Runabouts. turns, fact, Don't destroy your standing among are arriving as is evidenced by a study of the statis- a road, the average driver would not your friends of machines g by new shipments Matters around about the Koval Ha The von Ilamm-Youn- Company tics which have been compiled." care suspecting their be- - to drive at all in the dark and motives; you may here and being sold as soon, if not waiian Garatre have been verv busv shipped this week another of the popu- Commenting ou the consistency of would drive not be big with great caution in the enough to attract their notice fore, they land. The number of cars, during the week with a good turnover lar Overland runabouts to the Volcano the Lozier 's various performances day time. From the top of the hill A fine Marmon roadster Don't stop at a farmer's house and registered has now reached 6:1:2, while of business. Stables aad Transportation Company in Motor Age goes on to say: "An idea at Alpowa to Lewiston the road fol- flash a sold a local buyer and should of dollar when you ask him the Dumber of driver's licenses issued,' was to lino. mis car lias oh en sold to sam the merit of Mulford 's performance lows a rolling country constantly up to "of within the next eight or ten Pua, sheriff Hilo, who, is had is trot out a glass milk; he up to yesterday, amounted to O4o.j arrive f now armed when it remembered that iu arid down hills, with an elevation of might not ; da vs. workshops the mechanics an is a every have less than an These figures when worked out in pro-- In the with Overland runabout, worth one of his races he did better four to five hundred feet, there being "eagle" been keot busv throughout and half-doze- n ou than with which to make the to the number of haoles showj have sheriffs foot. sixty miles an hour, and his grand practically no level road in, the entire change. portion the work which has come in all Another Overland roadster of the average for the 110S.2 miles covered by that one out of every sixteen owns ail extra route, except along the Snake River Don't be arrogant to show how popular automobiles same type as the one driven by Doctor him iu the Hlgin, Fair-mou- in any event; you while about one in every; noes Vauderbilt, bottom out of Lewiston. To those fami- are not so automobile, islands.