The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-13
IE 1T HAPPENS
IT'S HERE
VIBRATORS FOR
AUTO OWNERS
Gossip of the Chug Wagons
Notes of Interest to DriV-
erS of Automobiles.

As an example Of how justice is dealt
out to automobile men I'm the country
districts. the experience of Harry Tate
at Buffalo serves a good purpose He
was running through Kenmore, a Buff
falO suburb, at slow speed, one morning
recently, when he was stopped by the
village constable and arrested on
charge of speeding. He was Informed
that he had gone through the opposite
side OF the town at the rate of forty
miles an hour before. At the trial none
OF the four witnesses were able TO say
that Tate was the man who was doing
the speeding. Nevertheless he was
fined s..
Later a court official explained the
whole matter by saying: I've held a
meeting last night and decided that
this speeding must stop. This man was
the first to come along slow enough for
US TO catch so we arrested him.
New Blood in Racing Game.
one virtue that surf beach racing has
rs that Of introducing new blood into
the game. for men will venture to i've
al speed on the packed sand of the sea
side who would not enter for track
race. J. E. Bristol. who won the tour
ing car championship at the Atlantic
city tournament, and beat out both DO
n este and foreign cars of high horse
power. is prominent restauranteur of
New York and new conner in the
SPORT He drove his maiden race 1T Or
n,ond With plenty of beach racing
there is apt 20 be plenty of high class
amateur sport.
Will Race Abroad
on the steamship Patricia. for Ham
burg, leaving Hoboken May >. sailed
Percy Pierce of Buffalo. the only man
who will represent America i'm the Zig
International tours abroad this summer
He Is entered first for the HerhOmer
trophy in Germany and then for the
circuit European in France.
American Cars Invade Europe.
The turn of the tide seems ID be at
hand. While European touring mas been
steadily increasing among the autOmo-
bilists Of this country. American cars
have not been familiar sights OH fer
eign roads. Except in the cases of men
identified with the industry. nearly all
those making long trips abroad have
been prone 20 use foreign cars. Now
this class of particular buyers are dis
covering that the continued purchase
Of foreign cars is mostly an expensive
tad. a number of prominent men. for
merry patrons Of French cars. Lave
picked American winners and already
they have begun to Introduce them
~brOad. G. Vanderbilt BARTON Of New
York. who has just sailed for Europe
took with him a forty-horse-p power, in
which he proposes to make a tour If
So Vcral thousand miles. Others. equally
prominent. are preparing TO follow Mr..
BaTton's move. and before fall the peo-
ole of Europe will be quite familiar
with the best American cars.
Christie Has Fast Machine.
II is believer by those who saw it
perform on the beach at Atlantic City
that the special front-driviHg racer Of
Walter Christie is capable of doing Il
mile in thirty seconds, under favorable
circumstances.
Automobile Hot Air.
Suobbs--I declare. if there isn't more
hot air than ever about autOmObiling.
BObbs-Well, ye-es. You see there
are more cars agog and more air-cooled
engines heating the air.