The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15
SPARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS

French exports of automobiles during
the first four months of the current year
were valued at so, 100000, or 100000
more thar for the same period last year:
Twenty prominent business men Of
Washington, d. c., will start from the
capital next Sunday in five cars for a
ten days tour of Maryland and Penn
sylvania
Waterproof covers for the lamps and
searchlights not only protect the brass
from corrosiOn, but also keep the road
dust from entering the ventilators and
clogging them
In most instances disorders affecting the
commutator may be considered as result
ing directly from some accidental source
unless the bearing surface be very much
worn.
Automobiles. other than those carrying
official guests of President Roosevelt
have been barred from the drive leading
to and around the presidents home at
oyster Bay. n. Y
The autodrome commission of the I'm
perial Automobile club of Germany has
been investigating a piece of land near
Aix-la-Chapelle as the site for the pro-
posed motor track.
Media, Pa, officials have begun a cru
SADIE against boys under IS running auto
mobiles, making arrests and imposing
fines under an almost forgotten clause OF
an old law.
Rabbit hunting by night from automo-
biles is a new sport in rural France. The
bunnies. blinded by the glare Of the head
lights, are readily pursued and shot from
the moving cars.
L. L. Benedict, of New York. who re
Gently returned from a European trip,
covered 1900 miles in his car within the
four months he was abroad, 1000 Of which
were in Great Britain.
To prove that an automobile accident
is no new thing an English magazine re
Gently reprinted picture of the explosion
of John Scott RusselPs steam carriage IN
Scotland in 1884
The great BrookIands track is proving
anything but the financial success antict-
pated. and the promoters may call upon
the British public for subscriptions to
keep the affair alive.
So well patronized is the automobile
school of the west side Y. NJ c. A, New
York that it has been necessary to puT-
chase fourteen cars Of as many different
makes for purposes of instruction.
postal card canvass of the nOn-resi-
dents. cottagers and Motel guests of Bar
Harbor, Me, shows that they still are
unreservedly opposed 10 the admission of
motor cars to that resort.
At the Readville Mass, track Aug. 81,
Walter Christie clipped a second from the
one-mile track record, covering the dis
lance in his front drive Vanderbilt cup
racer in 81 seconds.
The London Daily Express calculates
that $1,000 Americans have visited the
British capital this season, leaving behind
them s7,50OO00, of which a goodly part
was spent by motoring parties
The most nerve-wrenching contest in
motoring history" is the way Louis Wag-
race terms that event in a book describ-
ing it which he recently published.
A temporary garage for the use of
automobiles owned by the quarterma ster
generals department of the army has
been erected in the court of the state,
war and navy building at Washington.
leading manufacturers reason for ca
tering to feminine taste in the designing
of his cars is that he believes IS per cent
of high grade automobiles in this country
are purchased by women.
The Automobile club Of Portland. Ore,
has gone on record as favoring legislation
forbidding persons under IS years of age
driving cars and requiring rigid tests OF
chauffeurs before they are licensed
That women make the best pupils was
recently declared by an instructor in a
Chicago automobile school. He said he
found them more quick to learn and more
apt to retain what they had learned than
men.
That early shows are meeting with pop
ular approval is shown by the fact that
the applications for space at the Id
censed' show to be held at New York
Nov. 2 to were p per cent more than
last year.
In Mexico the automobile has invaded
the bull ring. a venturesome picador re-
Gently driving runabout into an arena
to test the courage of young bulls. The
courageous beasts charged the car; the
timd man fled.
When a change speed gear which is
mounted in plain bearings begins to ex-
ude grease from the outer ends of the
bushings it is well to examine the waste
to see whether it contains any aDpreci-
able amount of brass dust.
Holding that automobiles develop good
roads, the Farmers union of Floyd coun-
ty. Georgia, has put itself on record as
opposed to any drastic legislation which
would prohibit motor cars from using the
highways of the state.
Three men and a woman recently were
seen to stop motor car along a country
road near Chalons-sur-M Marine, France
stand up and fire shotguns on a cOVey OF
quail They then alighted. bagged theil
game and sped away.
Automobiles will have a chance I,
show their speed at the interstate fai
at Trenton. n. J., during the week be
ginning September 80, the management
offering 5000 in prizes. There will be
twenty-four-hour endurance contest.
Ex-Judge Dugro of the New York su
preme bench, who has just completed
European automobile tour. says he en-
joyed it immensely, adding humorousl,
that ''the roads in Spain were so bad tina
they reminded me Of home"
Some of the more enterprisiug citizen
of Royersford Pa, who have becom
tired of waiting for a proposed trolley lin