Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-15
Automobile snnrkn.

Sixty-three miles an hour is what the
majority of foreign experts think the win
ner of the Vanderbilt cup will have to
average this year.
A dozen better ways of doing 1t have
been discovered since the race commission
picked the American team for the Wander
bilt race, but no ones hindsight acted in
| time.
Nazzari driver of one OF the Flat cars
entered for the Vanderbilt race after his
first trip over the Vanderbilt course, de-
clared 1t to be the best course for such q
seee ali eee noG racing TSds o
Eddie Bald who scored an almost un-
broken string of victories In hill climbs
and track races with a Columbia touring
car this year, says that he will surely be
, in the racing game next season With
| machine in which he can win sitting UP
and back pedalling"
An expert mechanic is not necessarily a
good race driver. Fourier made his repu-
tation when he hardly knew a commutator
elimination race Dingley and Jardine were
the only two men who did not show marked
nervousness before the start.
A Nutmeg state legislator thinks that
emancipated and idly multiplying horses
o 20 ioG as the negro oa problem. He does
not suggest that the state should try to
educate them and let them vote, but puts
the solution OF the matter up to the auto
mobilists.
Great Britain has two automobilists who
probably hold the age record. Their car
| any other motor vehicle in active service.
| The couple are Mr.. and Mrs. Wood Of
Mes wSoS i, e. While her
| younger by single year. Their car Is a
three and a half-horse power Benz Benz which
Application blanks for individual men,
bership in the American Automobile asso-
! citation are pretty generally distributed In
for the use OF motorists who recognize the
wisdom and justice or everyone supporting
ne ot eGSy the
name and address sent with 81 to the secre-
tary of the American Automobile assoeia-
| ton at 81 West Forty-second street, New
York, will secure membership for one year.
a decision in the test cases on the selden
patent is expected from the United states
pared in case Of losing, to appeal to the
United States supreme court. and II is
1 possible that a decision may be obtained
from 1t before the winter is over. AS the
cases have progressed the licensees appear
TO have grown more and more confident
pT ShtSS of i8dividSais who buy un-
licensed cars, which is being inspired by
the licensed association is one OF the signs
OF this certainty of the outcome.
After long hesitation the Automobile
| Club of America has applied for and OBJ
York armory. The show in Madison Square
Garden was sanctioned couple or months
and the club seted to protect If Pc
shows at the same time In New York dur
| ing the week of January 1890. The garden
| show will be known as the Sixth National
Automobile Show in Madison Square
| Garden, while the club will call the one
in the armory the Sixth Annual Automobile
Exhibition OF the Automobile Club of
| America.
| international recognition Is now accorded
| to the American Automobile associa ton
as the representative national Organization
OF the United States. Formal action has
been taken by the Touring club OF France,
I granting 10 members OF the American
! Automobile association the privileges of the
club house and of many OF the Invaluable
aids 10 tourists that is accorded to members
| OF the Touring club. This OF itself should
cause a boom in the Individual membership
OF the American national body new
suite OF Offices have recently been taken
for the headquarters of the association
but they are IN the same building, at the
old address, 81 West Forty-second street
New York.