The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
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IT'S RIGHT
PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS

than a main road beset with police traps
Encouraged by the success of their Or
phans' day parade, Pittsburg motorists
are now planning for a floral parade i'm
the autumn
To accommodate the great xemand for
Instruction the West Side " III c A
New York, has been compelled to open
night automobile school.
The postoffice department has author
lied Postmaster Ashhurst OF Phiiadel-
phla, to experiment with automobiles in
the collection of mails
At the Atlantic City Auto carnival be
ginning Aug ., about 5000 worth OF cups
VIII be distributed to the winners of the
sixteen events on the program
Officials of the Albany Automobile
club are fast completing arrangements for
the 1O0-mile road race set for Sept IA and
open to amateurs only.
The first person to be arrested and fined
Tor violating the speed law at Kittsning.
Pa, was the Rev. F. c. Hartshorne, rec
tor of an EpisCOpalian church.
Nearly $500 has been raised for the
erection of a memorial IN Paris to the late
NJ Serpollet, who did so much for motor.
ing both in France and in England.
record OF 5ola hours recently was
made from Los Angeles to RhyOIte, New.
by Fred IL Vahrenkamp. Most of the 400
miles lay through Death valley.
Corn peppers is the term invented BY
Philadelphia motorists for the motorcycle
policemen who blossom forth each spring
and flourish but for season.
The Automobile Club Of America. a New
the largest club Of its kind in the COun-
try. 1t has nearly 1880 members.
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 Il 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 it.
January and February are the hest
mont = fo D-rr7onT
because the northeast storms of Deem
Der leave the strand in excellent cOndi-
ton for speeding.
So many tourists are taking their Amer
lean cars with them to Europe this year
that one eastern builder has found IL
profitable to open an agency at Paris 10
. supply 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 armed
guard to each gang.
John D. Rockefeller according to the
tax assessor of Cleveland, rides in eight
machines in that city all valued at only
$3.50. In sharp contrast Mayor Tom
Johnson uses three machines worth 81, 100.
In an endeavOr to provide a dust-prOOf
road the municipal authorities of Gar
den City, L. l., will have d top layer OF
Nitrlfled brick placed on a macadamiZed
street much patronized by motorists.
Breaking away from a Pittsburg abat-
tor "a wild bull wandered about the city
lot three udg gel ing capture. until IT.
was chased into park and cOTnered by
a squad of police in touring car.
At the recent Semi-dnnual meeting Of
the Association of Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers, 5000 was appropriated to
be used at the discretion Of a good roads
committee. TO be appointed later
British autOists are having their trou-
bles with the oil trust. In response TO re-
peated demands the embargo on petrol
has been removed from ships passing
through the Suez canal Yet the price OF
oil keeps up
A New York capitalist who recently al
Vertised in PittsbuTg. offering 100000 for
a man with a practical idea for a pune
tureless tire. received 435 replies. One of
the ideas he believes Will prove feasible.
In spite of all pleadings Governor
Hughes has virtually put an end TO all
hope for the Vanderbilt cup race on LonE
Island roads. by steadfaSty refusing 10
permit the use Of state troops to protect
the crowds from danger.
Active steps are being taken by the
Royal Automobile Club Of Great Britain
to secure the cooperation Of its own
members, as well as Of the members Of
affiliated clubs. on the suppression o.
sirens and exhaust Cut-Offs.
Philadelphia autOists who pass through
fashionable Bryn MaWr, the pretty Penn
sylvania college town, have been com
PEELED within a few weeks to hand over n
large sum in fines-levied because they
tailed to toot their horns at certain
Probably the largest single order for
electric vehicles was placed recently by \
Brooklyn, n. Y. department store tt
was for fifty One-tOn delivery wagons.
five tWO-tOn delivery trucks and five one
ton wagons for special delivery purposes
A recent count Of vehicles passing
through Fleet street. London. in twelve
hours. resulted in a total Of 1922. or
which 1.125 were motor driven In 1881 2
count showed only 5.39 vehicles passing
through the great thOroughfare in twenty
four hours.
The original gas buggy" built by Geo.
". SeldeL in 1871 still is seTviceabIe. hav-
ing been run on the Gutenberg. \. J.,
track recently to satisfy counsel in q
suit over the Selden patent that it could
be operated under its own power.
Governors Stokes, of New Jersey. Stu
art Of Pennsylvania. and Hughes Of New
York. and Colgate HOyt. president of the
Automobile Club of America, are among
those asked to serve as Judges at the At
lantic City automobile carnival Aug. ).
s. T. Edge, who recently smashed
worlds records by the wholesale on the
new cement motor track at BrOOkand.
England, and who covered 100 miles i'm
"A hours, 81 minutes and II seconds, an
EOunces he viii attempt soon to lower
that record.
The banked corners. or rather bends. Of
the great BrOOklands track in England
are of 1000 feet radius, with hugh slopes
of saucer-hke curvature, so steep in the
SteepeSt parts that one cannot walk upon
them, the maximum gradient being one i'm
two.
DR.. S. N. Mclean of Cleveland will be
given q test this month by the United
States officers at Sandy Hook proving
grounds. The car will follow floating
targets its rapid-fire gun pepperfng
away at leo rounds a minute
Experiments made by London hospitals
show conclUsively that daily spins in
motor cars largely increase the red cor
puscles in the blood, as well as their
haemoglObin content The experiments
further show that autOmobiling is an ex-
cellent cure for insomnia.
When James r. Duke. head OF the To-
baccO trust, sails for Europe tomorrow,
where he will marry Mrs. William IN
man of Atlanta, he will take with him
an AmeriCan-built car. which cost so. 600
in which ne ard mis- bride viii tour the
continent.
One of the few cars to finish with
perfect score in the recent strenuous re-
liability contest of the Copenhagen Auto
club was an American two-cylinder ma
chine. The distance was 800 kilometres
over the hiliiest 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 Calabris
who for the first time saw a vehicle NOV