Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-17
Automobile SPARKS.

Honks: He always was sure-thing bet
tor. He'd better wait till he can get one
that will run without an engine.
Chugs: Blimn says he won't get motor
car till they will give him forfeit guaran-
tee against accident or breakdown.
News from Paris to the effect that the
Automobile club OF France has decided in
favor of holding several races next sum-
mer makes II seem possible that the clup
may decide not to return the Vanderbilt
cup. Formerly the French club declared
itself in favor of only one race during the
year
1t is a settled fact that IL denaturalized
alcohol Is put on the free list by congress
this term that the organized engineers OF
the licensed factories will begin experiments
to use II as fuel. The denaturalized alcohol
used abroad is poisoned so as to be unnt
to drink and given 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
an eastern race and is now in charge OF the
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 a number of times each
season. Some of the steamer owners In
this city-Mr Brandeis, Mr. Nash Mr.: c.
cars and his remarks BILE knowledge of
the machine and skill in handling same
always attracted attention
thing that a man considers for longer
time beforehand than he does the buying
of a hat. Most specimens of the genus
homo need to be annually reminded to be-
gin thinking early about their Christmas
purchases. Advertising reminders by deal
ers will greatly help along their mid winter
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 asso-
citation will be able to travel to the New
I'D. NArNn afNaV lin
Is experiencing a 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
hand and the railroads have become very
strict on this point. Not everyone appre-
ciates this, but enough do to keep Secre-
| Offices at 81 West Forty-second street, New
York, are being flooded with inquiries,
For full hedged touring cars, the four
| cylinder engine will be more the thing in
/ 1906, more than ever. Where the four-cycle
| 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 runabout and the two-cyl-
| 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 recognition OF
| this.
1t is more than likely that tile auto
mobile show of 1905 In Madison Square gar
Qen VIII result In the ADOPTION OF "A 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 a decorative scheme OF
unexampled gorgeousness has been worked
| out and the great amphitheater will be I'M
| recognizable by its best friends. The in
means of paintings with fine perspective
| 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 drawing nigh when
| the public will begin to buy cars for 1906
! relative merits OF American and imported
| machines. In this connection one OF the
most important items TO be taken into con-
| sideration Is 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
maehined and put together by hand, but
they neglect to tell you that in most cases
IT would be Impossible for you to obtain
machined ready for use use on the other her
hand. nearly ali of the American manufac-
turers make their cars, not one at a time
but in hundred, and even thousand lots
| and every piece entering into their con-
struction lie so accurately machined that
| any one out OF a large bin will be found 10
NJ into its particular place, resardless OF
whether IL 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
sbor OF measuring and laying out the
work 10 a mere mechanical proposition
requirtng practically no head work. In
| works, sprocket wheels. connecting rods
and various other small parts are put
trough ton or twenty at a time and one
| ,an see row after row of bins filled with
parts ready for the assembling room
| When they are ready 10 build a car all
| hat Is necessary to do is to collect from
hese various bins the component parts
| md put them together. striking thing
| lbout the whole process is the fact that
| absolutely no attention Is paid 10 the par
1 icular piece which Is selected as they are
| I'll like 50 many pease in pod-absolute
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