ON THE SUBJECT OF CLOTHES
We had far too many! They were a perfect nuisance! Yet each traveler
needs a heavy coat, a thin coat or sweater, a duster and a rug or two,
and there is a huge bundle already. Then possibly a dressing-case for
each, and surely a big valise of some sort, either suit-case or motor
trunk. Added to this are innumerable necessities—Blue Books, a camera,
food paraphernalia, an extra hat—most women want an extra hat, and men,
too, for that matter—and though goggles and veils are worn most of the
time, they have to be put somewhere. All of these last items go too
wonderfully in a silk bag such as I described as having been given us.
It was of taffeta, made exactly like an ordinary pillow-case with a
running string at one end; it was about twenty inches wide and thirty
inches long. E. M.’s straw hat, Celia’s extra hat, and mine all went in
it, beside veils and gloves and other odds and ends. It weighed nothing;
it went on top of everything else and, tied through the handle of a
dressing-case by its own strings, was in no danger of blowing out. Why
hats traveled in it without crushing like broken eggshells, I don’t
know, but they _did_.
Offering advice on clothes for a motor trip is much like offering advice
on what to wear walking up the street. But on the chance that in a
perfectly commonplace list there may be an item of use to someone, I have
inventoried below a list of things that I personally should duplicate, if
I were taking the trip over again:
First: A coat and _pleated skirt_ of a material that does not show
creases. Maltreat a piece first, to see. With this one suit, half a dozen
easily washed blouses and a sleeveless overwaist of the material of the
skirt, which, worn over a chiffon underblouse, makes a whole dress,
instead of an odd shirtwaist and skirt. These underblouses are merely
separate chiffon linings with sleeves and collars, and half a dozen can
be put in the space of a pound candy-box—yet give the same service as six
waists to your dress.
On an ordinary motoring trip such as over the various well-worn tours of
Northeastern States or of the Pacific Coast or Europe, where you arrive
in the early afternoon with plenty of time to rest for a while and dress
for dinner, several restaurant or informal evening-dresses may be useful,
but crossing the continent, unless you stop over several days in cities
where you have friends, in which case you can send a trunk ahead, it
is often late when you arrive, and any dressing further than getting
clean and tidy does not strongly appeal to you. Besides one suit and
blouses, a very serviceable dress to take would be a simple house dress
of some sort of uncreasable silk. There is a Chinese crêpe that _nothing_
wrinkles—not to be confused with many varieties of crêpes de chine that
crease like sensitive plants at a mere touch.
If I expected to go through towns where I might be dining out, I would
add an evening dress of black jet or cream lace—two materials that stand
uncreasingly any amount of packing. Otherwise my third and last would be
a silk skirt and jacket—the skirt of black and white up and down stripes
with white chiffon blouses, and the jacket black. The taffeta should be
of the heavy soft variety that does not crack and muss. The skirt should
be unlined and cut with straight seams gathered on a belt; a dress that
folds in a second of time and in a few inches of space. With the coat on,
it is a street dress; coat off (with a high girdle to match the skirt),
it is whatever the top of the blouse you wear makes it.
A duster is, of course, indispensable. A taffeta one is very nice,
especially when you want something better-looking, but on a long journey
taffeta cracks, dirt constantly sifts through it and it can’t be washed
as linen can. In the high altitudes of the Southwest, a day of tropical
heat is followed by a penetratingly cold night. The thermometer may not
be actually low and the air seem soft and delicious, but it sifts through
fabrics in the way a biting wind can, and you are soon thankful if you
have brought a heavy wrap. When you need it, nothing is as comfortable as
fur. I took an old sealskin coat and I don’t know what I should have done
without it. On my personal list, a mackintosh has no place. If it rains,
the top is up, and to keep wind out, I’d rather have fur.
Nor are shoes under ordinary fortunate circumstances important. But on my
list are “velvet slippers.” Scarcely your idea of appropriate motoring
footwear, but if your seat is the front one over the engine, you will
find velvet the coolest material there is—cooler than buckskin, or suède,
or kid or canvas—much! And if you want to walk, your luggage, after all,
is with you.
Every woman knows the kind of hat she likes to wear. But does every
woman realize, which Celia and I did not, that a hat to be worn nine or
eleven hours across a wind-swept prairie must offer no more resistance
than the helmet of a race driver? A helmet, by the way, made to fit your
head and face is ideally comfortable. A hat that the wind catches very
little won’t bother you in a few hours, but at the end of ten, your
head will feel stone-bruised. An untrimmed toque, very small and close,
and tied on with a veil is just about as comfortable as a helmet. It
has the disadvantage of having no brim, but yellow goggles mitigate the
glare, and it is the brim, even though it be of the inverted flower-pot
turn-down, that is a pocket for wind that at the end of a few hours pulls
uncomfortably.
[Illustration: ON THE FAMOUS “STAKED PLAINS” OF THE SOUTHWEST]
A real suggestion to the woman who minds getting sunburnt, is an
orange-colored chiffon veil. It must be a vivid orange that has a good
deal of red in it. Even with the blazing sun of New Mexico and California
shining straight in your face, a single thickness of orange-colored
chiffon will keep you from burning at all. If you can’t see through
chiffon, but mind freckling or burning, to say nothing of blistering, sew
an orange-colored veil across the lower rims of your goggles and wear
orange-colored glasses. Cut a square out of the top so as to leave no sun
space on your temples, and put a few gathers over the nose to allow it
to fit your face. Fasten sides over hat like any veil. The Southwestern
sun will burn your arms through sleeves of heavy crêpe de chine, but the
thinnest material of orange—red is next best—protects your skin in the
same way that the ruby glass of a lantern in a photographer’s developing
room protects a sensitive plate.
[Illustration]
Wear the thinnest and least amount of underwear that you can feel
decently clad in, so as to get as many fresh changes as possible in the
least space, because of the difficulty in stopping often to have things
laundered. What they put in the clothes in Southern California I don’t
know, but in any mixture of linen and silk, the silk has been apparently
dipped in blue dye. A cream-colored silk-and-linen shirt of E. M.’s that
happened to have the buttonholes worked in silk, is now a stippled green
with buttonholes of navy blue. It is rather putting your belongings to
the test of virtue—as those which are pure silk wash perfectly well. If
I were going again I should take everything I could of thin crêpe de
chine. It seems to be very easy to launder, and is everywhere returned in
a clean and comfortably soft condition, whereas linen often comes back
uncertain as to color and feeling like paper.
Although of more service on boats or trains, or in Europe where private
baths are not often to be had, a black or dark silk kimono and a black
lace bed-cap, if you ever wear bed-caps, are invaluable assets to anyone
who dislikes walking through public corridors in obvious undress. My
own especial treasures, acquired after many unsuccessful attempts, are
a wrapper cut the pattern of an evening wrap, of very soft, black silk
brocade. It rolls up as easily as any kimono, and takes scarcely any
space. The cap is a very plain “Dutch” one, of thread lace with a velvet
ribbon around it. A wrapper that isn’t obviously a wrapper, is sometimes
very convenient. You could make believe it was an evening wrap, if you
were very hard pressed.
And above everything, in traveling you want clothes that are
uncomplicated. The ones that you get into most easily are the ones you
put on most often. Underblouses, such as I have described above, are a
perfect traveler’s delight, because there is no basting in, or trying to
clean collars, cuffs, etc. A fresh underblouse with lace trimming, rolled
like a little bolster, measures one and a half inches by seven.
And remember: Plain skirts crease in half-moons across the back, pleated
or very full ones don’t. An orange veil prevents sunburn. Western climate
is very trying to the skin, so that you need cold cream even if you don’t
use it at home. A lace veil of a rather striking pattern is at times of
ugliness a great beautifier.
Clothes for men are a little out of my province. E. M. had some khaki
flannel shirts, breeches and puttees that seemed to be very serviceable.
At least he was able to spend any amount of time rolling on the road
under the machine, and still brush off fairly well. He had a sweater and
an ulster and two regular suits of clothes to change alternately at the
end of the day. His evening clothes, tennis flannels, etc., were sent
through by express.
To send one hundred and fifty pounds from New York to San Francisco costs
fifteen dollars.
FOOD EQUIPMENT
Don’t take a big, heavy, elaborate lunch basket. If you want to know
what perfect comfort is, get a tin breadbox with a padlock, and let it
stay on the floor of the tonneau. In the bottom of it you can keep
tins of potted meats, jars of jam, and a box of crackers, some milk
chocolate, or if you like better, nuts and raisins. And on top you can
put everything you lay your hands on! Books, sweaters, medicine case,
and a pack of oiled paper to wrap luncheons in. We had a solidified
alcohol lamp, a ten-cent kettle, and thermos bottles, a big thermos
food jar, which we filled with ice cream if the day was hot, and one of
the bottles with cocoa if it was cool. Coffee (if you put cream in it)
has always a corked, musty taste, but cocoa is not affected, neither is
soup. Food tastes better if you don’t mix your bottles. Keep the jar for
ice cream, if you like ice cream, a bottle for cocoa or soup, and two
for ice or hot water. On long runs in the Far West, a canvas water bag
is convenient. You can buy one at almost any garage, and it keeps water
quite wonderfully fresh and cool.
On top of our permanent supplies we put the daily luncheons we took from
the hotels: sandwiches, boiled eggs and fruit and the above-mentioned
cocoa or ice cream. Cocoa we bought at the hotels, but our favorite place
to buy ice cream was at a soda-water fountain.
The tins in our bread box we hoarded as a miser hoards gold—as a surplus
that we might need to keep us alive; and, as is the common end of most
misers, when we got to San Francisco and our journey was over, the
greater part was still left—to give away.
EXPENSES
The following pages of actual expenses copied out of our diaries may be
useful as a table of comparison by which other travelers can form an idea
of what their own are likely to be.
For some the trip will cost more, but on the other hand, it can be done
for very much less. In every case we had the kind of rooms that are
assigned to those who, without questioning the price, asks for “good
outside rooms with baths.” Undoubtedly, there were in many cases more
expensive ones to be had, but in all cases there were cheaper ones.
Our restaurant bills, however, were comparatively light. We seldom
ordered more than three dishes each, and the restaurant charges to people
of very substantial appetite, will run more rather than less. On extras,
of course, anyone could add or subtract indefinitely, but the details
noted may serve as a scale of current charges.
The garage bills speak for themselves. Each man knows how far his own car
can go on a gallon, and how often he wants it washed. No one can count
his repairs in advance, but our garage bills, however, were certainly
very much heavier than average. E. M.’s car is at best an expensive one
to run, and on this trip it was at its worst, having been driven without
overhauling for two years.
DAILY EXPENSE ACCOUNT
PREPARATORY EXPENSES
6 Repub. staggered tires, 6 tubes, and put on $347.04
Warner speedometer 51.00
FIRST DAY’S RUN, NEW YORK TO ALBANY
(MAP NO. 1)
PERSONAL MOTOR
_New York._ _New York._ 49th Street Garage.
Lunched at home. 15 gals. gas $2.70
160 miles (should have been 150).
_Albany._ Ten Eyck Hotel. _Albany._ Albany Garage Co.
2 hallboys carrying up 18 gals. gas $2.70
luggage $ .50 Storage 1.00
Dinner, for three 4.60 Washing 1.50
Tip .50 1 gal. oil .80
“Movies” .30
Postcards .10
Stamps .10
Soda water .30
Telephone home .90
Double room and bath (hotel
full, couldn’t get three
singles) 5.00
Single room (no bath) 2.00
Coffee and toast for two
(in room) .80
Tip .20
Breakfast (E. M.) .70
Tip .25
Luggage carried down .50
Tip, chambermaid .75
SECOND DAY’S RUN, ALBANY TO FORT PLAIN
(MAP NO. 2)
_Fort Plain, N. Y._ _Fort Plain._
Lunch, for three $1.50 Broke bearing; towed to
Tip .30 Hoffman & Adams’ garage $3.00
Chocolate, postcards, etc. .40 Hoffman & Adams’ garage at
3 R. R. tickets to Utica 2 .22 _Fort Plain_.
New bearing valves $9.09
Time labor 12.30
9 gals. oil 1.15
Gaskets, telephone, etc. 3.00
(A remarkably good garage;
intelligent, efficient
and good-natured men.)
_Utica._ Hotel Utica. _Utica._ Hotel Utica garage.
3 fares Utica Hotel omnibus $.45 10 gals. gas $1.20
Telephone home 1.20 2 qts. oil .40
Dinner (delicious) for three 3.50 Washing 1.50
Tip .40 Storage 1.00
Tip, 1 hallboy (most of (Wind shield broken in garage.)
luggage left in the car) .25
“Movies” .30
Soda water .30
Double room (very big, and
lovely; did not wire ahead
and could not get three
singles and baths) $6.00
Single and bath (small but
attractive) 2.50
Coffee for two (in room) .90
Tip .20
Breakfast (E. M.) .90
Tip .25
Telephone home 1.20
Lunch (for two) 1.60
Tip .30
Valet, pressing one suit,
E. M. 1.00
Hired motor 3.00
Tip .50
Second night and morning Utica about same as above.
THIRD DAY’S RUN, UTICA TO BUFFALO
(MAPS NOS. 2 AND 3)
Lunched _Geneva_. Hotel Seneca. _Geneva._
Lunch for 3 (very good and 2 gals. oil $1.20
beautifully served) $3.00 (218 miles.)
Tip .35
_Buffalo._ Hotel Statler. _Buffalo._ Hotel Statler garage.
2 hallboys carrying up New glass in windshield $4.00
luggage .50 Storage 1.00
Dinner (for three) $3.95 2 gals. gas 2.60
Tip .40
3 single rooms (very nice
and each with bath) 7.50
Tip, chambermaid .75
Telegram to Erie .26
Sundries .80
FOURTH DAY. BUFFALO TO CLEVELAND. BROKEN BY STOPOVER IN ERIE
(MAP NO. 4)
Lunch at _Niagara Falls_. Drove out to _Niagara Falls_,
(At R. R. lunch counter to back after lunch, and to
save time) $.50 _Erie, Pa._, 93 miles.
Tip .20
_Erie, Pa._ Hotel Lawrence. _Erie._ Star Garage.
Hallboys up and down 1.00 Storage $1.00
Chambermaid .75 10 gals. gas 1.30
Dinner 4.95 2 gals. oil 1.20
Tip .50 (Very nice garage.)
3 single rooms with baths 9.00
Coffee and toast (in room)
for one .65
Breakfast, C. and E. M. 1.60
Tip .25
Telegrams and sundries 1.00
Lunch (for three) 3.15
Tip .35
_Cleveland._ Hotel Statler. _Cleveland_, 102 miles.
Dinner (three) 4.80
Tip $.50 Hotel’s Garage.
Theater (three) 6.00 Storage $1.00
Ice-cream sodas .30 10 gals. gas 1.30
3 rooms with baths (lovely) 13.50 1 qt. oil .20
Coffee in room (2) .80
Tip .20 _Toledo_, 120 miles.
“Club” breakfast, E. M. .75
Tip .25
Valet, press two suits
(E. M.) 2.00
All tips—2 boys up .50
Down .50
Chambermaid .75
FIFTH DAY’S RUN, CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO
(MAP NO. 5)
_Cleveland_
Lunched Statler $3.75
_Very_ reasonable! Most
delicious food.
_Toledo._ Hotel Secor. _Toledo._ United Garage.
Dinner 3.40 Storage $.75
Tip .40 12 gals. gas. (15c.) 1.80
“Movies” .30 Wash and polish 1.50
Ice-cream soda .30 Fill grease cups .75
Telegrams, newspapers, etc. .80 Pair of pliers .50
3 rooms, 2 baths 10.50
Coffee and toast (for two) .70
Tip .20
Usual tips, hallboys 1.00
Chambermaid .75
Telegram to _South Bend_ .26
SIXTH DAY’S RUN, TOLEDO TO SOUTH BEND
(MAP NO. 6)
Lunch _Bryan_
Christman Hotel (3) $2.25
Tip .25
_South Bend._ Hotel Oliver. _South Bend._ Lincoln Garage.
Dinner $4.10 Storage $.75
Tip .40 1 gal. oil .80
3 rooms, 3 baths 9.00 17 gals. gas 2.38
Coffee and toast (2),
breakfast (1) 1.90
Usual tips 1.75
Sundries .80
SEVENTH DAY’S RUN, SOUTH BEND TO CHICAGO
(MAP NO. 7)
Chicken dinners and tip $1.75
_Chicago._ The Blackstone. _Chicago._ “Down Town” Garage.
4 bellboys (or porters) Storage, three days $2.25
luggage up $1.00 Ground valves 6.75
[6]Dinner for two (E. M. 2 spark plugs 2.00
out) and tip 4.00 Wash and polish (3 days) 6.00
Theater (2) 5.00 17 gals. gas (13c.) 2.21
Telegram .52 2 qts. oil .40
Coffee (2) and tip 1.10 20 gals. gas 2.60
Breakfast, E. M .90 1 gal. oil .80
Tip .25
[6]Lunch (2) 2.60
Tip .30
Beautiful big double twin
beds and dressing room 7.00
Lovely small, single room
and bath (E. M.) 3.50
Laundry 4.75
Valet 2.00
Tailor, pressing two dresses 2.00
Average one day’s expenses,
less extras than above.
Extras bought in Chicago:
Supply of potted meats, etc. 9.35
At Woolworth’s:
Kettle .10
4 doz. plates .20
Oiled paper .10
2 doz. spoons .10
Solid alcohol, lamp,
saucepan (complete) 1.25
Bread box 3.45
Padlock .30
EIGHTH DAY’S RUN, CHICAGO TO ROCHELLE
(MAP NO. 8)
Stopped by mud at _Rochelle, Ill._,
77 miles, May 6-7.
_Rochelle, Ill._ Collier Inn. _Rochelle._ Garage next door to
Inn.
(Typical day.) Storage, two days $1.00
(No bellboys.) Wash car 1.50
3 telegrams $1.48 Chains (2) 3.60
3 rooms with bath, one at 8 gals. gas 1.20
$3, two at $2.50,
including board $8.00
Tips to waitress .75
Tip to chambermaid .50
“Movies,” etc. .80
Left _Rochelle_, May 8
EIGHTH DAY’S RUN, CONTINUED. ROCHELLE TO DAVENPORT
(MAP NO. 8)
Lunched _Rochelle_.
_Davenport, Iowa._ Black _Davenport._ Black Hawk
Hawk Hotel. Hotel’s garage.
Dinner (3) $3.40 10 gals. gas $2.20
Tip .40 1 gal. oil .75
Hallboys, luggage up Storage (night charge) .50
and down 1.00 Wash car 1.50
(Went down to river bank and
spent _nothing_.) Started on road of mud to
Enormous twin-bed room and _Des Moines_. We went to
bath, very attractive _Cedar Rapids_, but as it is
furnishing 4.50 out of the course between
Single room and bath 1.50 _Davenport_ and does not
(Best rooms for least price of belong on this route, it is
any hotel we encountered.) omitted. There was an
Breakfast .60 A1 garage there, but our
Tip .25 experience in mud cost:
Coffee and toast (2) .80 Vulcanizing 3 tires $2.25
Tip .20 Take off radiator, repair
gear case 5.60
Car in shop (no storage),
wash 2.00
20 gals. gas 4.40
1 gal. oil .75
NINTH DAY’S RUN, DAVENPORT TO DES MOINES VIA CEDAR RAPIDS
(MAP NO. 9)
_Des Moines._ Chamberlain Hotel. _Des Moines._ Bernhard & Turner
Auto Co.
Tips, bellboys, etc., as Vulcanizing tire $.75
usual $1.75 Storage .50
Drive in the converted 20 gals. gas. (22c.) 4.40
jitney 5.00 2 qts. oil .30
Dinner (3) 3.75
Tip .35
Breakfast, E. M. .75
Tip .25
Sundries .80
Coffee and toast (in room)
(2) 1.10
2 single rooms (bath
between) 5.50
1 single room and bath 2.50
Lunch to take with us 2.25
Ice cream .30
TENTH DAY’S RUN, DES MOINES TO OMAHA
(MAP NO. 10)
_Omaha._ Hotel Fontanelle. _Omaha._ Guy L. Smith Garage.
(Typical day.)
Hallboys, porters, Storage (2 days) $1.50
chambermaid $1.75 20 gals. gas 4.40
Dinner (3) 3.80 1 gal. oil .80
Tip .40
3 single rooms and baths
(at $3.50) (lovely) 10.50
Coffee (1) .30
Tip .15
Breakfast (E. M.) .50
Tip .20
Lunch, ladies’ dining
room (2) 2.70
Lunch (E. M.), club
lunch, men’s café .60
Tip .25
“Movies,” magazines, soda
water, etc. 1.30
Lunch to take with us 1.80
Ice cream .40
ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DAYS’ RUN, OMAHA TO NORTH PLATTE
(MAPS NOS. 11 AND 12)
Lunch in car. Independent Garage, _Grand Island_.
15 gals. gas $3.30
_North Platte._ Union Pacific _North Platte._ J. S. Davis Auto
Hotel. Co.
3 rooms (no baths), supper Storage .50
and breakfast for three $7.50 17 gals. gas. (22c.) 3.74
Tips, postcards, etc. 1.35 1 gal. oil .60
Lunch to take with us 1.60
THIRTEENTH DAY’S RUN, NORTH PLATTE TO CHEYENNE
(MAP NO. 13)
_Cheyenne, Wyo._ Plains _Cheyenne._ Plains Hotel garage.
Hotel (brand new).
Tips, as usual $1.75 Storage $.50
Dinner and tip 3.85 20 gals. gas 4.40
3 single rooms and bath 9.00 2 gals. oil 1.20
Coffee and toast (in
room, for two) .90
Breakfast (E. M.) 1.00
FOURTEENTH DAY’S RUN, CHEYENNE TO COLORADO SPRINGS
(MAP NO. 14)
Lunch _Denver_. Brown’s
Palace Hotel $3.60
_Colorado Springs._ Antlers _Colorado Springs._ Mark
Hotel. Sheffel Motor Co. (highest
class garage).
Usual tips $1.75 Take off pan, stop leak, crank
An average dinner (3) 4.80 case and gaskets $8.80
Drive over “high drive” Vulc. case 4.50
(motors not allowed) Greasing and tightening bolts.
(for 3) 6.00 7 cups grease 1.40
Tip to driver .50 1 pt. kerosene .05
Enormous double room with 1 pt. cylinder oil .05
dressing room, bath 6.00 3 days’ storage 1.50
Single room and bath 3.50 35 × 4 B. L. Republic red
Coffee and toast (in room) .70 tube 7.35
Tip .25 4½ B. O. patch .90
(Especially attractively served.) 22 gals. gas 3.30
Breakfast (E. M.) (averaged) .95 3 gals. oil 2.40
Tip .25
Valet (pressing all our
clothes) 8.00
Laundry 6.20
FIFTEENTH DAY’S RUN, COLORADO SPRINGS TO TRINIDAD
(MAP NO. 15)
Lunched, _Pueblo_.
Vail Hotel $3.00
_Trinidad._ Hotel Cardenas Trinidad Novelty Works Co.
(our first of the Harvard
chain of hotels).
Am. plan, 3 good rooms with Storage $.50
3 baths and good “American 14 gals. gas. (15c.) 2.10
cooking” meals ($4.50) $13.50 2 qts. oil .40
$1.50 deducted for lunch
we were not to have. _Las Vegas_, 145 miles.
Tips 1.75
Incidentals, movies, etc. 1.30
Lunch to take with us 1.60
_Las Vegas._ The Castaneda. Las Vegas Auto Co.
(Did not telegraph ahead, so
could not get baths).
3 rooms ($3.25) $9.75 Storage $.50
American plan (lunch deducted). 15 gals. gas. 2.50
Lunch to take with us 1.50
Tips 1.75
Telegrams, sundries 2.50
SEVENTEENTH DAY’S RUN, LAS VEGAS TO ALBUQUERQUE
(MAP NO. 17)
Lunched _Santa Fé_.
(Own lunch.)
_Albuquerque._ Hotel Alvarado. Santa Fé Transcontinental Garage.
Usual tips $1.75 2 men, 1½ hours, patching
Telegrams and sundries 2.80 muffler and exhaust and
3 delightful rooms, 3 baths, tightening bolts, etc. $2.25
supper and breakfast
($4.25 each) 12.75
Extra amount of food to take:
Eggs .60
Cake .80
Sandwiches 2.10
Cocoa .20
Ice cream .30
EIGHTEENTH DAY’S RUN, ALBUQUERQUE TO WINSLOW
(MAP NO. 18)
Leave _Albuquerque_. Out in _Albuquerque._ Coleman Blank
desert. Garage (A 1 garage).
2 men, 4 hours each (night labor,
double rate), mending leak in
radiator, taking off exhaust,
filling grease cups, etc. $6.00
1 front spring shackle bolt .80
18 gals. gas in tank 5.40
10 gals. in cans 3.00
4 gals. oil 2.80
(First-class garage.)
_Winslow, Ariz._ Harvey Hotel. _Winslow._
Rooms, including meals $10.50 Car shipped, via A. T. & S. F. R.
Tips (most of luggage R. Freight to _Los Angeles_.
shipped with car) 1.25 Perfect system for motor
3 tickets _Winslow_ to shipment, no crating and no
_Los Angeles_ 65.85 delay. Freight charge $151.20
Extra tickets _Williams_
to _Grand Canyon_ 22.50
BY TRAIN, WINSLOW TO GRAND CANYON
(MAP NO. 19)
Lunch, _Williams_ $3.30 Car on freight.
_Grand Canyon, Ariz._ El Tovar Hotel.
2 rooms, bath between $10.00
1 room and bath 5.00
Including meals.
Mule down _Angel Trail_
(E. M.) 4.00
Moving pictures exhibited
at studios of trip through
Colorado river 3.00
Tips, per day, about $1.25
Sundries, etc. 1.80
BY TRAIN, GRAND CANYON TO LOS ANGELES
Drawing room, Pullman $14.00 Car on freight.
Lower berth, E. M. 4.00
3 breakfasts 2.60
Tip .30
3 lunches 3.15
Tip .35
_Los Angeles._ Alexandria Hotel. _Los Angeles._ Smith Bros.’
Garage (highest class garage).
1 hallboy (most luggage in
car) .25 Result of desert:
Dinner (very simple; for 1 front spring $11.00
three) 7.80 Tire and tube vulcanized 2.50
Theater 6.00 Exhaust pipe brazed 6.10
1 room and bath, _inside_ Exhaust pipe welded and
and _dark_ 7.00 repaired; install new
1 _very_ small outside gaskets and assemble;
room and bath, but dismantle muffler,
perfectly good room 4.50 repair and assemble;
Breakfasts and tips and paint muffler 21.50
luggage down 2.70 2 gaskets .90
Hiring a motor to move to Wash and polish 2.50
_Pasadena_ (while ours 21 gals. gas. (8c.!!) 1.68
being repaired) 10.00 1 gal. oil 1.00
Stopped with friends, but To charge battery .50
beautiful hotels in _Pasadena_.
RESUMED MOTORING. SHORT RUN LATE IN AFTERNOON, PASADENA TO RIVERSIDE
_Riverside._ Mission Inn.
(The _most_ enchanting hotel!)
3 rooms, baths, and food $18.00
Tips and sundries 3.60
TWENTY-THIRD DAY’S RUN, RIVERSIDE TO SAN DIEGO
(MAP NO. 23)
_San Diego._ U. S. Grant Hotel. White Star Motor Co.
Dinner $3.00 Storage, 3 days $1.50
Tip .35 20 gals. gas 3.20
(Average day.) 1 gal. oil .80
Hallboys, luggage up and Wash car 1.50
down 1.75
Chambermaid .75
3 rooms and baths 14.00
3 entrances exposition
(night) 1.50
Electric chair 2.00
Breakfast (3) 2.95
Exposition, 3 entrances
(morning) 1.50
Electric chair (_whole day
and held all 3 of us_) 4.00
Lunch at Exposition
restaurant (3) 1.50
Tip .30
Indian Village .75
Panama Canal (3) .75
Various side-shows, etc. 6.30
TWENTY-FOURTH DAY’S RUN, SAN DIEGO TO SANTA BARBARA
(MAPS NOS. 23 AND 24)
Lunched in car on road.
_Santa Barbara._ Hotel Potter. _Santa Barbara._ El Camino Real
Motor Co.
3 rooms and baths, a day, 25 gals. gas $2.50
including meals (none of Storage, 3 days 1.50
which we took; lunched and Oil (1 gal.) .80
dined out every day) $21.00
Bringing coffee to room
and tip .45
Lunch to take with us the
day we left 1.50
Ice-cream at druggist’s in
thermos jar .30
Sundries and telegrams 3.10
TWENTY-FIFTH DAY’S RUN, PASO ROBLES TO MONTEREY
(MAP NO. 26)
_Paso Robles, Cal._ Paso _Paso Robles._ Pioneer Garage.
Robles Springs Hotel.
Rooms with baths and two meals; 15 gals. gas $3.30
no luncheon charged for $12.75 Storage .50
Lunched at the R’s on our way.
Much farther _out_ of our
way than we thought, and had
supper at _Salinas_; had cocoa,
toast and omelette, plenty of it
and very good for 75c. for three.
TWENTY-SIXTH DAY’S RUN, MONTEREY TO SAN FRANCISCO
_Monterey._ Hotel Del Monte. _Monterey._ Hotel Del Monte Garage.
Rooms (perfectly _vast_) and 14 gals. gas $3.08
baths, American plan $18.00 Storage .50
Tips and breakfast tray 2.50 Oil .90
Lunch to take with us 1.60
Sundries 2.00