Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
NeWsy Gossip for Owners of Automobiles

been in use for years on some leading make
of car.
Probably the largest automobile in the
country is one used by a contractor laying
a sewer in New York 1t is a combinatio5
eXcavator and derrick, and even picks up
the tracks upon which ii runs and lays
IL to go.
Steam cars are certainly holding their
own IN this country. Some contend that
t me s snL car Is losing ground, but
type mas crossed the continent and one
or two new firms are butting into the in,
dustry to build air coolers.
The long wheel base seems to have come
again into favor, foreign manufacturers
having taken up this American idea and
turning out cars with 126 and l2s-inch wheel
base measuring 1872 inches, producing a
pronounced rakish appearance
The date OF Philadelphia first show
mas been changed to the week OF JANUARY
o-l2 In connection with the Indoor ex-
hlbltlon' Broad street for four blocks, in
G Guiding Automobile Row" will be elab-
orately decorated and Illuminated making
an immense automobile street fair
Never before have Parislans seen such
Wonaerrully beautiful electrical effects as
Inc entrance to the Grand palace, the
champs Elysees, the Esplanade DIES In
TManaes and the neighboring Alexandre
Irolse bridge are fairly bathed in light
As result Of a conference OF ofBcers
OF the Two organizations, the Pennsylvania
motor decorations, which is not afflliated
with the national organization, has agreed
70 work in harmony with the American
Automobile association for a uniform auto
mobile law and highway Improvement.
When the electric motor in the press
room OF the Staten Island Advance broke
down on a recent press day Editor John
Crawford jr., backed his thIrty-five morse
power automobile up TO the building, ran
q belt from the clutch to the drive wheel
time. va va
Detroit manufacturers who will exhibit
az New York in January are preparing 70
spread themselves in the presentation
or cars Of luxurious appointments Detroit
mas grown so quickly TO be the most inn
portant autmobile manufacturing center
OF the United States that its producers
are intent on making 1t synonymous with
motor car quality.
Anent the flood Of anti-automobile legis-
laton, which is threatened in many states
THIS winter Motor World says: at be-
moves moves every organization not to await
attack, but to carry the fight into the
enemy s camp by demanding those rights
which shall place the automobilist on the
nseIs pane OF right and privilege as other
Much OF the material abandoned at Pan
anna by the French engineers, who failed
sO 20 pLiIu 'he eahai, when sold as junk, was
the purchasers who recast II found ready
purchasers in makers Of automobile parts
Many motorists the coming year will thus
be riding In machines that are souvenirs
or the Inflated DeLesseps.
In the number of exhibitors and Of ma
chines displayed and in the volume 81
business done, including the sales mads
from booths, the show OF the Autoroobfis
S!up or America at New York DecembeF
1Z-ls never has been exceeded In America
Long before II closed several exhibitors
announced that the entire factory OUTPUT
Tor 1897 had been sold. There were over
1000 paid admissions.
In the stores of the dealers are now TO
De seen color prints of the color scheme
ana interior decorations as planned by the
artist decorator OF the Madison SQUARE
ness OF the whole suggests that even more
than the $4,000 Appropriated may be spent
on II and that IL will be well worthy OF a
visit from the president and the foreign
ambassadors.
Motorists unattached to any club win
be particularly benefited by the amend
ments In the constitution OF the American
Automobile association Under the new
rules person taking out an individual
membership at 81 a year will have his name
sent 70 the secretary OF the state organiza-
ton In which he resides and will get all
the dement's OF working with his own state
body, as we'll with the national body.
This ana the fact that in states where
there Is no local organization any 100 mem-
beers may organize one should appeal TO
all motorists and bring them into tie ranks
OF the organization that is working for the
general good OF automobiling
Cylinder castings In cooling are apt 70
draw out OF true, the more apt n the
quantity OF metal IN them Is unevenly dis
trihuted. In seeking TO obviate this and
have well balanced cylinders, many Of the