Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
AutnmnhiIr snnra..

Honks: He always was sure-thing bet
tor. He'd better wait till he can get one
that will run without an engine,
Chugs: Blmn says he won't get a motor
car till they will give him forfeit guaran-
tee against accident or breakdown.
News from Paris to the effect that the
favor OF holding several races next SUM
mer makes It seem possible that the club
cup. Formerly the French club declared
itself in favor OF only one race during the
year.
1t is a settled fact that If denaturalized
alcohol Is put on the free list by congress
this term that the organized engineers OF
the licensed factories will begin experiments
To u ,pe il as fuel. The denaturatized alcohol
used abroad is poisoned so as to be unht
to drink and given a brilliant purple or
pink hue in the same process.
Mr.. Webb Jay, the noted driver and
sales manager, has fully recovered from
the injuries received the past summer In
Chicago branch of the White company.
Mr.. Jay has many friends among the au-
tomobilists here In Omaha as he has been
out this way number of times each
season. Some of the steamer owners in
this city-Mr Brandeis. Mr. Nash Mr.. c.
II, Brown-have had MT Jay out In their
the machine and skin In handling same
always attracted attention.
An automobile as n purchase is some
thing that a man considers for a longer
time beforehand than he does the buying
OF a hat. Most specimens OF the genus
homo need to be annually reminded to be-
purchases. Advertising reminders by deal
ers will greatly help along their mid winter
sales, A New York agent for Oldsmooiies
who advertised cars for Christmas gifts
last year, sold twenty runabouts and ten
touring cars before the arrival OF the holt
day that celebrates Good will 10 all.
Because OF the reduced rate at which
members OF the American Automobile assoc
citation will be able to travel to the New
York shows, the individual membership
Is experiencing BOOM. No one Will be able
to get the advantage OF the rate by joining
the American Automobile association at
show time. They must he members before
strict on this point. Not everyone appre-
ciates this. but enough do to keep Secre-
1 tary A. @. Batcheder very busy and the
ofices at 81 West F'orty-second street, New
York, are being flooded with inquiries.
For full fedged touring cars, the four
cylinder engine Will be 5 more the thin, thing IN
type OF motor Is used an engine of less
than four cylinders will hardly be used for
pass where ii may be said that the one
cylinder car is a runabout and the two-cyl-
inder car touring runabout, or light
tonneau" car. while only the machine with
| a four-cylinder engine is a full fedged tour
! ing car. The plans OF the biggest concerns
In the country indicate a recognition OF
this.
II is more than likely that the auto
mobile show OF 1906 In Madison Square gar
den will result in the adoption OF new
policy and new methods OF decoration in
that historic building for shows OF all
sorts in the future. For the annual show
OF next January decorative scheme or
uneXampled gorReousness has been worked
out and the great amphitheater will be un-
recognizable by Its best friends. The In
terror will present perfect illusion by
| concealing the ends and sides. The effect
| will be that OF an Italian garden. the chief
| color scheme of the pillars and other stan
work being white and gold
Now that the time is draw nigh when
the public will begin TO buy cars for 1905.
it might be well 10 call attention to the
relative merits Of American and imported
machines. In this connection one OF the
most important items to be taken into con-
| sideration II the matter OF obtaining parts
readily. The European method Of manufac-
| ture was, and is still to a great extent
! so conducted that nearly all OF the cars
are built one at a time and not in large
numbers as is the case in the leading
American factories. The European makers
will tell you that everything Is carefully
they neglect TO tell you that I'm most cases
II would be impossible for you TO obtain
exact Duplicates of parts drilled AND
| hand. nearly ali OF the American manufac-
turers make their cars, not one at time
| and every piece entering into their CON
struction IL so accurately machined that
| any one out OF large bin will be found 70
whether it has been assembled before or
| not. All OF this is made possible by the
use of special tools. called "jlgs," upon
which the parts are machined These tools
IRE equipped with guides which determine
| the location OF all holes and reduce the
abOr OF measuring and laying out the
work 10 a mere mechanical proposition
| requiring practically no head work. In
| large factories, such as the Odds Motor
works. sprocket wheels. connecting rods
md various other small parts are put
trough ton or twenty at a time, and one
AN see row after row OF bins filled with
| 1arts ready for the assembling room
| When they are ready 10 build a car ali
| hat IL necessary to do f. to collect from
hese various bins the component parts
md put them together. A striking thing
Nbout the whole process 10 the fact thai
absolutely no attention Is paid 10 the mar
iculsr piece which is selected as they are
| I'll IKE 20 many pease In a pod-Absoiute
j duplicates.