The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-15
GARAGE GOSSIP
FOR AUTO OWNERS
Rival Shows Preparing Big Ex-
hibItlonS in New York
This Winter.

New York is promised an interesting
time with its two shows, as the new or
Sanlzdtion of Independent makers in
booming their December exhibit, is dis
posed to do what it can to detract from
the show in Madison Square Garden I'M
der the auspices of the Association of Lii
censed Automobile Manufacturers and
Doth sides are aggressive. The unlicensed
makers. under the protection of the Au-
tomoDlle Club of America which was
shut out from profit in the regular Gar
den show when the A. l.. A. NJ. took
IL over, are advertising their affair as
the clubs seventh annual show former
Iy held in the Garden" while the old
guard OF makers, united under the Selden
patents advertise theirs as ''the national
| snow OF the old makers i'm the Garden,
now as always. Each side has some
ground for its argument, but the stu
alton is confusing to the newer element
in the motoring world. The club once
did have an interest in the Garden shows,
and also it is true that the Oldest and
best known firms that started the shows
will conduct the one in the Garden, Jan.
12-l0. The December show will have the
new makers. the novelties. and more of
the popular priced" cars, while the Gar
den affair will beyond doubt be the show
| de luxe.
Indian summer is an aggravating sea-
] son TO the mag3 whose car is in the re-
pair shop
| Engine vibration and the comparative
| merits of four and SiX-cylinder motors is
/ the theme to be discussed by the engi-
neers and factory superintendent of the
/ thirty odd members of the Association
of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers at
/ their monthly meeting in December.
! Now approaches the season when all
cars in the north. whether they have
| water jackets or not, will be air cooled.
| To prevent too much air cooling of wa
| ter in the radiator a solution of one-third
wood alcohol or glycerine. either one,
4 and two-thirdS water is an anti-freezing
mixture that is effective down to 10 de-
| grees below zero
Scorchers should remember that a man
| killed by accident is just dead as
! though he were the victim of premedi-
| tated homicide.
| A sentiment that should have wide
/ spread echoings was uttered by a Jer-
Seyman who walked into the offices OF
the American Automobile association at
/ / Madison avenue New York, one day
| last week. Handing over 81 for years
membership. he said: 1--WE concluded
/ that I've been deadhead long enough
body that is helping all of us. ] didn't
! know for a while that ] was such a
CRATER. but one of your members re-
Gently pointed out to me / W the A A. A
! has fought pernicious legislation, pro-
| NOTED the good roads and sign board
movements and has in various way beer
benefitng all motorists. After a man
realizes this he is skunk-mean if he will
not chip in paltry g a year to keep
the pot a-boiling."
! WagnerS Darracq. with which he won
the last Vanderbilt cup race. has been
shipped back TO France. but it probably
| will return here after the Paris show in
December. to be exhibited with the other
foreign racers at the national show in
! Madison Square Garden, Jan. 1913. The
! Darracq car that won the Vanderbilt race
! in 1905 has been bought by s. B. Stevens,
| who is expected to race in Florida.