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27 [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Chronicle 5-17-09]] Make San Jose in Mile-a-Minute Clip [[image - photograph of two men in a car]] [[caption]] FRED WISEMAN AND M. PETERS IN STODDARD-DAYTON THAT ESTABLISHED A NEW ROUND-THE-BAY RECORD ON SUNDAY. [[/caption]] STODDARD PUTS UP NEW RECORD [[line]] Remarkable Run to San Jose on Alameda Side of the Bay. [[line]] By W. H. B. FOWLER. FORTY miles over a California road in forty-one minutes–that's going some. This was the feat of a Stoddard-Dayton car in the early hours of yesterday morning, when it established a new round-the-bay record and won the privilege of having its name engraved upon the Tourist trophy. The total time for the trip from Twenty-third and Fruitvale avenues, in Oakland, to the ocean beach in this city, a distance of approximately ninety miles, was 2 hours 9 minutes and 13 3-5 seconds, which clips ten minutes from the time made by G. C. Murray in an Auburn car a few days ago. The Stoddard-Dayton car was in the hands of Fred Wiseman, the veteran Stoddard driver, who took third place in the road race at Santa Rosa last week, and his companion was M. Peters, who rode with Ben Noonan in the winning Stoddard at Santa Rosa. The car was sent away from Oakland exactly at 5 o'clock by H. L. Pelton, manager of the Northern Tourist branch. "I never traveled so fast in my life before," said Peters after the race. "On that stretch of forty miles to the St. James Hotel, in San Jose, we had some beautifully long stretches of fine road, and Wiseman opened the throttle to the limit and sat tight. The speedometer at times showed seventy miles an hour, but the going was so fine that we would not have known we were going so fast except that we hardly saw something in the distance ahead of us before it was away behind, hidden in our [[?dust]]. Space was simply annihilated, and when we pulled up at the St. James to register our time it was forty-one minutes for the forty miles. "With good luck we should have come back almost as fast on this side, but it was not to be. Somewhere about Santa Clara the body on the car decided it had had enough speed for the day and started to leave us. This interfered with our gasoline tank, and pretty soon the tossing body broke the gasoline pipe. Wiseman and I taped the ends of the pipe together, and then began the really strenuous time. "I got a good grip on the rear body with one hand and grabbed the dashboard with the other, trying to hold things together while Fred used his best skill and judgement to make the fastest time and still keep us all together. You can appreciate his task if you will imagine me spread out from the dash to tonneau, hanging on to everything that was loose. Seven times the gasoline pipe got apart, and each time meant more delay and then still more 'hurry up' when we got moving again. After a while I got so tired and numb that I didn't much care what happened. "All the time we were losing gasoline, and occasionally, when we were nearing the end of the run, the engine didn't cough just right. We knew we were shy on gas, and toward the end Fred forced her for all she had. Finally, after a run up the ocean boulevard that made a mile a minute seem slow, we shot by the finishing point. We had just enough gas to turn and run back to the timers, when the engine went dead for lack of fuel. The run can be made in one hour and fifty minutes under right conditions, and that is the mark that we will put on the cup soon." [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Call 5-17-09]] RECORD IS AGAIN LOWERED BY AUTO Fred Wiseman Drives the Stoddard-Dayton in Fast Time Clips Ten Minutes off Mark Set by Auburn Car in Run Around Bay By R. R. L'HOMMEDIEU Fred Wiseman, in his Stoddard-Dayton, yesterday lowered the record time from Oakland to San Francisco. He clipped 10 minutes 14 seconds from the record made a short time ago by Gordon Murray in his Auburn. Wiseman covered the distance in 2 hours 9 minutes and 18 seconds. It was a flying trip–one that will make the capture of the cup much harder. The start was made from Oakland at 5 a. m. sharp. The roads were in good shape. After leaving San Jose Wiseman was going through Santa Clara, and he had passed the telegraph pole he struck on the last run when he ran into a rut that give the car such a bounce that it tore the seats off the body. This made it difficult riding for Peterson, who was in the car with Wiseman. During the bouncing the gasoline feed pipe sprung a leak, and during the run up this side of the bay seven stops had to be made to get the gasoline to feed into the carburetor. When Wiseman went over the line he had only about a quart of gasoline left in the tank. The run on this side of the bay was made in 1 hour 28 minutes 18 seconds. [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Calf 5-]]17,-1909.]] [[double lines]] RECORD IS AGAIN LOWERED BY AUTO [[line]] Fred Wiseman Drives the Stoddard-Dayton in Fast Time [[line]] Clips Ten Minutes off Mark Set by Auburn Car in Run Around Bay [[line]] By R. R. L'HOMMEDIEU Fred Wiseman, in his Stoddard-Dayton, yesterday lowered the record time from Oakland to San Francisco. He clippd 10 minutes 14 seconds from the record, made a short time ago by Gordon Murray in his Auburn. Wiseman covered the distance in 2 hours 9 minutes and 18 seconds. It was a flying trip-one that will make the capture of the cup much harder. The start was made from Oakland at 5 a. m. sharp. The roads were in good shape. After leaving San Jose Wiseman was going through Santa Clara, and he had passed the telegraph pole he struck on the last run when he ran into a rut that gave the car such a bounce that it tore the seats off the body. That made it difficult riding for Peterson, who was in the car with Wiseman. During the bouncing the gasoline feed pipe sprung a leak, and during the run up this side of the bay seven stops had to be made to get the gasoline to feed into the carburetor. When Wiseman went over the line he had only about a quart of gasoline left in the tank. The run on this side of the bay was made in 1 hour 28 minutes 18 seconds. [[line]] George E. Johnson Pacific coast [[boxed]] Wiseman ^[[Calf]] After Record [[/boxed]] [[line]] Fred Wiseman, in his record breaking Stoddard-Dayton went after the record around the bay yesterday morning. He made San Jose inside of the record time, and was starting out on a rush up this side of the bay when his car skidded into a post in Santa Clara, and his attempt came to an end. Wiseman was working on a two hour schedule and was forcing his car when the accident occurred. Luckily none of those in the car was hurt. ^[[9-13-09]] [[line]] [[image - photograph of man in race car with #12 on front]] [[caption]] A snap-shot of the winner at a 72-mile clip. [[/caption]] [[newspaper clipping]] [[cutoff]]sco News Letter APRIL 3, 1909. RULES FOR PEDESTRIANS CROSSING THE STREETS. Rule 1–Pedestrians crossing boulevards at night shall wear a white light in front and red light in the rear. Rule 2–Pedestrians, before turning to the right or left, must give three short blasts on a horn at least three inches in diameter. Rule 3–Pedestrians must, when an inexperienced automobile driver is made nervous by a pedestrian, hide behind a tree until the automobile has passed. Rule 4–Pedestrians shall not carry in their pockets any sharp substances liable to cut automobile tires. Rule 5–Pedestrians shall not, in dodging automobiles, run faster than twenty miles an hour. Rule 6–Pedestrians will not be permitted to emit cigarette smoke on any boulevard in a manner offensive to passengers in gasoline automobiles. Rule 7–Pedestrians must register at the beginning of each year and pay license fee of $5. Numbered license tags will then be issued to them. No rebate will be allowed if they do not live through the entire year. Rule 8–Pedestrians, before license tags will be issued to them, must demonstrate before an examining board their skill in dodging, leaping, crawling and extricating themselves from machinery. Rule 9–Pedestrians not wearing numbered license tags will be held responsible for all damages done to automobiles or their occupants by collision. [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Chronicle 5-27-09]] RACER WISEMAN HONORED. Signal honors have come to Fred Wiseman, the clever California boy, who has brought fame to himself and the Stoddard-Dayton car through his many victories on track and road during the last couple of seasons. The Eastern factories have been watching his remarkable success with interest, and yesterday J. W. Leavitt of the local Stoddard agency received a telegram from the Stoddard-Dayton factory at Dayton, O., asking if he would loan Wiseman to the factory to handle the Stoddard-Dayton car in the Cobe stock-car race, which is soon to be held under the management of the Chicago Automobile Club, and which promises to be one of the greatest races ever held in this country. Leavitt said yesterday that it was probable that Wiseman would make the trip. In spite of the published reports to the contrary, neither Wiseman nor Peters, his mechanic, was seriously injured in the wreck of their car at San Jose on Sunday morning. Both of the men arrived in the city yesterday "under their own horse-power," as Leavitt remarked, little the worse for their experience. Later in the day both of the men left for Santa Rosa, where they will spend a few days at the home of Wiseman's relatives. They will then return to their work in this city. [[line]]
