The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25
PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMET

A flat road cheereth the spirit. but q
flat tire ieereth il.
owatonna, Mimi, is among the west
ern towns with a newly-formed club
The infanta Isabella of Spain has Just
purchased her second touring car.
Plans are being formulated by the FL
gin ILL., Automobile club for an illumi-
mated parade.
It has been decided that the Targa
tloIio of 1908 will have the same rules
as the Targa of this year.
sir Chentung LANG Cheng is one Of
the most ardent motorists of the diplo-
mauc corps at Washington.
The new German law prohibits any
person under Is years of age from driv-
ing an automobile or motorcycle
In New York state there are 67s3 I'M
protected railway crossings, 10 1.9l0 pro-
tected by gates, flagmen or bells.
The work on the Long Island motor
parkway is going forward as steadily as
u there were to be cup race on it this
". L. Edison. son of the famous in
ventOr, Thomas 4. Edison. himself an in
Tentor of note, has entered the autOm0-
bile business.
Officials of the Florida East Coast Au-
tomobile association have asked the ma
there next March.
Never apply the brakes suddenly. There
Is always grave danger Of stripping the
tires from the wheels or Of straining the
motor.
The sum OF S1fOOO cleared BY the Au-
tomobile club Of France on the Grand
Prix, has been set aside as reserve
fund for future races.
Philadelphia new autobuses are ex-
act copies of the London vehicles in an
pearance, but are run by electric storage
batteries instead of by gasoline.
The Indiana Motor club of Indianapo-
lis has obtained a verbal option on a
bungalow and cottage at Broad Ripple
Creek, to be used a clubhouse.
OF $500 tons of rubber produced i'm
the world IN 1893 and 1906. more than half
1880 tons, came from America, of which
1000 tons came from Brazil
For killing a woman in an automobile
accident in Germany. 19-year-old Emil
Jerome Sloan. a New York college sopho-
more, was sentenced to three months in
Jail.
As a result of the troubles experienced
by participants in this years Glidden
tour, considerable doubt is expressed as
to whether there Will be a tour next year.
Inc expenditure of an average of 5000
VV0 a year for the past five years shows
now the good roads movement has taken
hold of the province of Ontario, Canada
h. II. Imam, J. 3. COnnely and two
mechanics recently drove a car from At
lanta to New York ESQ miles in 81
hours, using l46 gallons of gasoline and
6iz gallons of oil.
The Automobile and Driving club of
CarOnsville, Nd, a recently-formed or
ganizatiOn, has taken lease of property
in that city which It will remodel into
an up-tO-date clubhouse.
If every mOtorist understood how vital
~ important to the life of his car was the
fabrication il would not be so generally
neglected The regular use of oil saves
repair bills.
So successful was the recent Atlantic
city carnival and show that ALREADY
plans are under way for a similar event
at Easter next year, a season when the
resort always is crowded.
The American Motor league recently
completed a list of 80 official garages at
which members can obtain 10 per cent
discount on bills for repairs, supplies
charges and suudries.
Nowhere on the American continent has
the automobile trade grown more rapidly
in proportion to population than at Vic
toria, B. c. according to federal con-
sular report
d. F. Levy. the New York broker who
recently took four friends with him to
Chicago and back in his car. figured the
expense at S3'9 or 3 mills per mile per
passenger.
Hereafter applicants for membership in
the California WOmens Automobile clue
must prove their merits, for the club in
tends making a reputation by its zeal IN
the sport OF motoring
Beginning with the September term. the
West Side Y NJ. c. A New York; Auto
mobile school will require rigid physical
examination Of all persons applying for
instruction as chauffeUTs.
Taking the population Of France at 40
100000, latest Obtsina0le statistics show
an average OF one bicycle to each twenty
seven inhabitants. one motor cycle TO each
1873 and one automobile to each 2.34.
San Francisco automobile owners are
seriously discussing the ACCESSIBILITY Of
requiring their chauffeurs TO furnish
bonds as a protection against damages
caused by their inCOmpetenCy or neglect
Twenty-six cars recently We're burned I'm
a fire which destroyed garage al Brook
iyn, n. Y, among them one valued at SIS
900, owned by Hermann A. Metz, a comp
trOller of New York City.
In a test case a New York supreme
court justice has decided that city mag
istrates can fine offending motorists only
under city ordinances and not under state
laws, as has been their practice.
On the tour of the Albany. y Y. Auto
mobile club to Atlantic City and return
a distance of 200 miles, Miss Edith d.
Armstrong finished first, having driven
her touring car every mile of the journey.
The Wealthiest of all autOmObilists in
the national capital is said TO be Am
bassador Creel, of Mexico, who likewise is
said to be the richest man his country
has produced with a fortune of upward
of 500, 1900.
The car which bore the hoodOO number
'13'' went through the Glidden tour with
out scratch. IL pulled three disabled
cars out of bitches, helped others in case
Of tire troubles and acted the Good Sa-
maritan generally.