The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-06
PARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOME

Salina, Kan, has a newly organized
club.
Don't allow your electrical wires to be-
come oil-soaked
Berlin'S four motor omnibus lines car
ried 2,G23,5T passengers in May.
The board of public safety of Akron,
o., has ordered a powerful high speed
car for its fire chief.
With a membership of over fifty the
Blue Grass Motor club has been organ
lied at Lexington, Ky.
All roads within fifty miles of Roches-
ter, n. Y, in every direction are being
posted by the Rochester Automobile
club.
Despite the croakings of pessimists.
new automobile factories and additions
to old ones continue to be built on all
sides.
A Pennsylvania manufacturer who re-
Gently embarked in business for himself
is giving a five-year guarantee with the
cars he sells.
road 10 miles long, connecting Rock
Springs and Fayette. Colo, exclusively
for the use of automobiles, soon will be
ready for use.
The Pennsylvania state highway de-
partment has issued about $4,000 licenses
far this year-abOut $500 more than
last year
With twenty-five charter members.
club has been organized at St Cloud.
MINI. 1t has become affiliated with the
Minnesota state association.
There probably is no state on the
well constructed and cared for as in the
Hawaiian Islands.
An ordinance prohibiting the of
searchlights on automobiles within the
city limits has been passed by the city
council of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis city council will be
asked to pass an ordinance allowing To-
cal physicians to break the speed laws
in answering emergency calls.
Philadelphia also will have an early
show this year, Nov. to 16 being the
dates selected-just week after the
licensed" show at New York.
Whistles for motor boats and sirens
for automobiles. operated by rotary blow
ers driven by friction contact with the
fly wheel of the motor, are a recent IN
vention.
The building of a one-mile cement
track, to be the fastest of its kind in
the world, at Coronado, Cal, is said TO
be contemplated by J. d. Spreckels, the
sugar magnate.
The worlds record for a nonstop mo-
tor car test has been made by an Eng
lish six-cylinder fifty-hOrsepower ma
chine running between London ana Alb
erdeen. The run totalled 1851 miles.
A simple method of testing tires to see
If they are sufficiently inflated is to
grasp the wheel by the spokes and shake
It well. AS the car rocks ii can he seen
how hard or soft is the tire
The rumoTed return of WI Ting rang
as Chinese minister to the United States
recalls the fact that he is an ardent mo-
tOr1Str being one or the firSt OF ms ma
tionality to master the intTicacies OF the
automobile
A road for motorists leading downward
800 feet into the crater of Kilauea. where
it will cross a cooled lava bed two or
three miles in eXpanse is to be built on
the island of Hawaii by convict labor.
Among distinguished spectators at the
recent BreScia circuit contests, the last of
Italys great events for 1907. were Puc-
chi. Mascagni and Franchetti. the great
music masters, and d Annunzio, the dra-
matist.
William X Vanderbilt. jr.. has present
ed to the Automobile club of France three
bronze bas-reliefs in commemoration of
the Vanderbilt cup races won in this coun-
try by French cars in 1904. 1905 and 1906.
When the automobile of the German
empress recently broke down and she
was forced to seek refuge in a tavern.
her royal highness was chaffed unmerci-
fully by loungers, who little dreamed of
her identity
Next in importance to the ability to go
Is the ability to stop; therefore the brake
mechanism should be watched carefully
poth Tor broken parts and to see that no
other parts of the machinery interfere
The = attempt on IA part of Lieutenant
Graetz of the German army to cross
Africa in an automobile was halted $50
miles from the starting point by the
cracking of a cylinder. The plucky off,
Ger will try il again.
FIFTY shells of shrapnel were recently
Internationally fired on a couple of mo-
florists while they were touring near
battery at practice, near Nancy, France.
The motorists hid beneath their machine
and escaped unhurt
British motorists. who are bothered by
bicyclfsts Selling the rear of their cars
frequently Insulting in injury to them
selves and attendant damage suits, are
endeavorlng to have a law passed max
ing the practice a misdemeanor.
A chemical fire extinguisher using
liquid that is said to quench the flames
of burning gasoline instantly mas been
invented for use by motorists. 1t is small
enough to be carried on an automobile or
motor-boat conveniently
Much success has attended the expert
ments made by E K. McConkey of York.
Pa, an enthusiastic motorist. with the
use of a combination of tar and sand as
dust preventive on roads. The mixture is
applied at boiling temperature.