Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-14
NEWS OF INTEREST TO AUTOMOBILES

legged, caught a glimpse of Mr.. Lutz speed
ing along the Conduit road. and after TAX
ing the number of the machine turned the
same over to the marshal, who took him
in custody several days later. According to
Mr.. LutZ the several residents who testi-
fled were unable to correctly say just how
fast he was going. Some said ten miles an
hour, he declares while others were posi-
tive he was making his Odds travel an easy
sixty" Anyhow. Mr. Lutz was fined and
will probably make a test case.
The new army automobile invented by
DIR. S. N Mclean of Cleveland will be
given test this month by the United
States officers at Sandy Hook proving
grounds. The car will follow floating
targets. Its rapid-fre gun peppering away
at 1GO rounds to the minute.
Experiments made by London hospitals
show concusvely that daily spins in motor
cars largely increase the red corpuscles in
the blood as we'll as their haemoglobin
contents. The experiments further show
that automobiling Is an excellent cure for
insomnia.
When James B. Duke, head Of the to-
bacco trust sails for Europe tomorrow
of Atlanta, he will take with him an Amer
1can-bult car which cost $4,000, in which
he and his bride will tour the continent
One of the few cars to finish with a per-
feet score in the recent strenuous reliability
contest of the Copenhagen Auto Club was
an American two-cylinder machine. The
distance was 800 kilometerS over the hilliest
roads in the vicinity of the Danish capital
The members Of the American emigra-
ton commission, who recently toured Italy
in an automobile, were objects of great
wonder to the residents of many remote
sections of Sicily and Calabria, who for the
first time saw a vehicle moving without
horses
-Four autoists, two of them ladies, were
recently stalled in dense forest near
Middletown, N Y, while travelling from
New York to Buffalo. and spent hungry
night in the woods. Tney could not sleep
and were in a miserable condition when
found by a farmer at daylight.
Illustrative of the fad for brightly painted
cars the manager of an eastern automobile
manufacturing concern recently received
bright purple lead pencil, about three inches
long, from a customer, with the specifica-
ton that the ordered be finished in
that particular tint.
Falling a victim to "motortis," Alfred l.
Langfeld, Philadelphia youth Of twenty
four, sold his birthright to an estate of
$4,000 for a loan of $500 with which to
buy an automobile. firing of the machine
he sold 1t for mere song and has now
begun suit to recover his right to the es-
tate.
In vetoing a bill providing that no per-
son should be permitted to operate any
engine, irrespective of motor power exceed
Ing ten horsepower, unless the operator
be licensed steam engineer, Mayor Nc
Clellan of New York pointed out that II
would apply to automobiles and hence was
absurd.
In addition to its Lake Mahonac and
Long Beach clubhouses the CITY and
Country Motor Club is making arrange
mchts Tor another country home nearer
New York city, to provide rendezvous
Tor the club members who wish to make
short evening trips after business hours
While F. c. Whitney, the American horse
man, was in London recently he had an
urgent business call to Florence. He made
IN,
ering 5000 miles through France and italy
In less than seven days. Wherever nossi
bic he drove at the rate of fifty miles an
hour "
A competition for devices which will pre
vent cars from being stolen is being organ
lied by the French Association Generale
Automobile. 1t Is intended to devotion an
paratus calculated at once to prevent tam
perinS with cars, left unattended on the
street and also the clandeStine use of cars
left in garages by their trusting owners
Worse troubles than those experienced in
the Cobb Desert awaited the contestants in
the Peking-Paris race between Urga and
Kiahkta. Several cars became mired In
deep morasses, the passengers being at the
mercy Of semi-savage Mongolians, who,
however, were willing to help the motorists
out when money was shown them.
A new record from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg recently was made by Miss Elsie
Janis, the young actress, who drove her
car across Pennsylvania in forty-one hours.
Among members recently elected to the
Royal Automobile Club of England Is the
wealthy. powerful Duke of Portland, who
owns fine stud of motors" as the
Britons style ii.
January and February are the best
months for racing on Ormond Beach. Fla,
because the northeast storms of Deem
per leave the strand in excellent condition
for speeding.
So many tourists are taking their Ameri-
can cars with them to Europe this wear
that one eastern builder has found II nrof
liable to open an agency at Paris to sup
ply spare parts.
California has adopted the convict sys-
tenn of road building so successfully en-
ployed by other states. The convicts work
in gangs of twenty each, with an armed
guard to each gang
John D. Rockefeller, accorng to the tax