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| California Digital Newspaper Collection > San Francisco Call > 18 April 1909 > LOWERS RECORD IX WILD AUTO RIDE |
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Please take this brief survey to help us improve the CDNC and its text correction tool. Thanks for your feedback! San Francisco Call, Volume 105, Number 139, 18 April 1909 — LOWERS RECORD IX WILD AUTO RIDE [ARTICLE]This text was automatically generated using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is not 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original publication and its condition at the time of microfilming. Publications with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy. Correct this text to improve its search and retrieval by other users of the CDNC. LOWERS RECORD IX WILD AUTO RIDE Ruess Makes Fast Time From Los Angeles to Santa Barbara [Special D'upalch to The Call] . >L£>S ANGELES. April 17.— 1n- a wild ride,. beginning at midnight last night, "Bill" Ruess set a new mark for the automobile run from I^os* Angelea to Santa Barbara. Ruess drove his flvo passenger Pope-Hartford runabout racer over the 100 miles of mountain roads 'in '3. .hours 33 minutes. The former, record was 3 hours and 57 minutes. Ruess left" the Lankershim hotel at midnrght, with * four, occupants .in his machine. He lost 24' minutes on tho way. ; He wal seven minutes at"Hollywood -trying. to ': fix lamps, which were useless,'-, and later a spark plus blew out." This -cost him five minutes. On .the, West Reseda plank road he found the way - ; obstructed by an abandoned .wagon.**": It "took ;12 *minutes to ditch the derelict. With a poor headlight an<J in a; dense fog a i collision with wagon; was, narrowly averted. ■'■: I*os Angeles ; motorists believe Rues* has 'set'a'imark on this run ao low that It '* will stand for years. The passengers in the machine declare it the wildest experiehco of .their .lives. - .'■'•, ACCUSED O!" J. BTTBGI^AST— Jostph . Esan, « roof«r r " . was « arreste«l ; yesterday - on ' a ehaixe «C burslarrl --.♦ He i» aceu*?a of - break injf iot« th« r«<td«iic«* of J Mr?. Elizabeth ; Hnebes., 2021 P«lu "■ str«»«t." '■' February- ■5 • anil stealing: ■ a sealjbin »acaue, ' eeTeral 'dresses; an J two ostrich -plumes, ■ •-• ' Wlfl |lI WWHT|| lill 'IIIiIIMBI |