The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-11
AMONG THE AUTOKOBASTS,
MORE TALK Of A BIG OUTDOOR
SHOW NEXT YEAR.
Plan 10 Hold Dine on Route OF Motor High
way About the Time OF vanderbilt
Race-thaurreu spine. the Latest
Disease Discovered by the Lancet"

NenlDeTS Oh Ine american hOtOT I AZ MANU-
facturers Association are 80 well satisfied
with the results Of the early show" idea OF
the Uub Of America that there
seems TO be a possibility that the club will
be asked TO go itself one better and cooperate
In a big outdoor show next fall about the
time of the running OF the 1907 contest for
the Vanderbilt oIp. IL is pointed out by
the advocates OF such a plan that every one
in the country who Ia interested in auto
MODELLING will be on Long Island at that time
and that there could not possibly be any
better time at which to hold an automobile
show. They say that its distance from New
York will be a blessing. rather than other
wise. as while II may serve TO keep away a
great many who annually visit the shows
that are held in New York city the ones
who are really intending purchasers of cars
will not be seriously bothered by the short
journey into long Island.
The outdoor show advocates draw atten-
ton to the fact that there we're 5000 auto
mobiles. averaging at least three passengers
each, on Long Island on the day Of the last
contest for the Vanderbilt cup and that II 10
a matter Of public and general knowledge
that a multitude variously estimated at
200. 900 or 800 900 persons witnessed the race.
II Ia asserted that II such a show were opened
a week before the Vanderbilt cup race and
continued until the day OF the contest or a
day or two later il would be visited by
even a larger number Of visitors than we're
attendants at the Grand Central Palace last
week. with the added advantage that a mucn
larger percentage of them would be able 10
buy new cars II they so desired.
The fact that the Long Island Motor Park
way. Inc. will be ready for use about that
time is but another incentive to hold an
outdoor show. in the opinion OF those who
have advanced the plan. as the parkway
will enable automobilists to make rapid and
.aar NrS1. a. .nA fzz,. skg. 10. 10 49,. L. -
wish 10 stay at any of the many hotels on Long
Island.
c. r. Mabley. OF the show committee having
in charge the automobile show which will be
run in Madison Square Garden from January
~ to "a. is a believer In the much discussed
"early show" idea-but from the other mans
standpoint. not his own. Mr., Mabley says
that while the exhibition in the famous old
building under the auspices Of the Associa-
ton Of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
next month will not have az many exhibitors
OF automobiles az did the Automobile Club
OF America show in the Grand Central Palace
last week he believes that the Madison
Square Garden affair will be a more represen-
tative show. In that IL will have the older
American firms as participants.
Enough was seen ~ the late club show to
assure every one that the automobile ia still
moving on its career Of conquest. said MIR.
NAubAN1 NoNNANhs NbuN Nv ClAlhli "
motor vehicles OF all sorts Ia increasing and
that II is destined to be all perveslve. The
Garden show will, as usual, ne the show de
luxe. in my opinion, with regard to cars. as
well as decoration and the social character
OF the attendance. While IL is an I'M
must have been done by the exhibitors In
the Grand Central Palace, 1t Is my personal
Wait for the Garden show before definitely
making up their minds just what sort Of car
they Will have next season. Especially do |
machines. as buyers OF this class OF cars are
great hands to shop and in a majority of
until after the close Of the Garden exhibition
There is to be a meeting Of the board Of
Inc, to-day at the Lawyers Club. After the
regular meeting the finance committee will
have a session.
Automopiling has produced a new disease.
"chAuffeur's spine, which il Rravely de-
sCribed in the LondOn Lancet. There il
scarcely an occupation which has not some
afiiction peculiar TO il, as witness the fact
that literary persons have writer's Cramp.
scrubwomen have housemaid's knee. deco
wheelmen have the bicycle heart" and opera
singers have sore throats. The symptoms
Lancet as persistent. acute pain in the hip.
becoming so intensified by pressure that
the sufferer is unable TO lie on the side affected.
a dull aching, pain across the lolns. inability
TO move the leg and such tenderness of the
leg that the weight of the bedclothes causes
intense suffering. Drawing the finger across
pain and makes the man cry out loudly
and draw up ~hisgfoot, an action which he was
disease IS proba ply due to the incessant Earring
TO which the chauffeur is exposed. II is said
that sutOmo6ilis,s N general are subject
American motorists have escaped It's ravages
up to date.
Uba Doaaih{IitIaa Of antNpnnhfIa atona lina0
in the Southwest are well illustrated by a story
that comes from Nevada. Early In May
of this year a big Pope-Toledo touring car
ives put on a stage route about eighty miles
long, connecting a railway terminus with a
new mining camp. The car made the trip
times carrying eight persons and 700 pounds
Of baggage. The roads were very rough. and
covered between $4,000 and 1000 miles and
with a fare each way of t25, earned about
$4,000. ~ was kept on the route mntil a
and since then has been used for special trips
to the country surrounding the mining camp.
In discussing the movement for improved
highways that + spre aiding all over he country
a prominent Chicago motorist recently said,
Without entering into a long exposition OF
country. their cost and their maintenance.
one has only to know the results that have
been attained in isolated cases 10 realize the
vast benefits that could he derived from a
general agitation all. over the country. The
wealth that IL in evidence. owing TO the pros;
perity hat In abundant on every hand. could
carry on the building. of good roads without
hardship TO individuals or sections. The tax
necessary could be originated by grading the
cost first on the State. second. on the county.
third, on the township and fourth, on the
individual whose property faces the improve
ment and who receives the immediate bene-
fits. The first roads to start on should be the
national highways, under Government super
vision and expense. As this progresses each
State would branch out on a public highway
between important cities. Then local pride
and ~expediency will assert itself in rural
districts, and before we would know il this
country would be inteTsected with improved
highways.
As a matter Of conceit let us suppose that
Chicago In the heart Of the country and from
II arteries. or public highways. 70 be more
exact, stretch out in every direction. Main
roads will lead to New York in one or more
directions, while others would lead 70 .he
south, the West and the Northwest. So
much has been accomplished in suburban,
and city road Improvement, as well as more
country highways. that We have failed to
some extent 10 realize that the popular
termed good roads Improvement il already
an assured fact. and ! Will warrant the state
ment that there are now hundreds and hun
dra1s Of n1ilas Of yoaH rnals ip this cO,ptr,.