Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-28

night of shows in the fall That NJ the
Au.oinopile Club OF America and the Amer
| lean Motor Car Manufacturers Associa-
| ton viii run from October ., 10 n and
the licensed" show Will begin two DAYS
| later.
| Few automob'lists in the country are
more enthusiastic lovers OF motoring than
Mayor f.. X. Taylor OF Almeda cal He Is
a warm friend OF Cot Hiram T. Bradley.
who claims to have been the original
| builder of automobiles on the Pacific coast
Harry II. Cox. Hartford Comm chem
Isl claims to have discovered after long
| laboratory researches. substitute for
| natural rubber. which can be compounded
! as reaahy as the natural gum and can he
| facility.
| H. Nj. Draper formerly head OF a Mich
lsan ofphanase. with his wife daughter
| ana SIX children. is touring the country In
| an automobile which literally is a house ON
Wheeis, In an endeayor to raise funds 10
estabiish an industrial school at Seattle
FRANCES recent racing rcversals the stir-
cessive losses of the British trophy. the
Iarga Florio. the Herkomcr race and the
kaiser's cup. have set all Fr,nchmcn to
| thinking with the result that more money
and effort than ever will be expended before.
4 next season.
| Mayor Mcclellan OF New York vetoed tho
| hlli providing that no person should bc per.
United To operate any engine exceeding ten
( horsepower. irrespective OF motive power.
unless ne be licensed steam eng neer. The
| mayor. who is motorist found II too
sweeping in its provisions.
! S. d. Waldron recently drove A ear from
Detroit to Rochester, N Y. :;g2 miles I'm
seventeen hours. including two hours lost
by being held up at Niagara Falls for yio-
| lating the speed laws. The next day he
| ran the All miles to New York in nineteen
hours and twenty-five minutes. making So:
miles in the two days.
One of the first light steam-road huCgtes
ever built was constructed forty wears ago
by DIR. j. w. Carhart, now of Austin Tex
at Racine. Wis. 1t proved such "A success
that the Wisconsin legislature offered a
| premium of $4,000 to any one who would
construct a self-propelled road wagon ON
more advanced lines than the Carhart We
| hice.
Illinois motorists generally express great
satisfaction with the new automobile law
which permits them to travel twenty miles
an hour in the country. fifteen miles In res
idential and ten miles in business districts:
takes away the right of cities and towns to
| pass or enforce speed ordinances of their
own and provides that state licenses shall
| replace city ones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Glidden of Bos-
ton. who have Travelled by automobile 30 TtiS
miles in thirty-sx countries. will resume
their globe circling trip leaving London
August for a 2,DpD-mile drive in England
and Scotland Following this drives will be
| made in Norway. Russia, Spain, Portugal
and in countries around the Mediterranean.
and the worlds tour of 5000 miles in fifty
countries will be completed in South Amer
! lea in 1911. The tour commenced In Lon
| don in 1901.
Harry Irwin. the motorst who purposely
was arrested for not having New Jersey
license, has lost his long legal battle The
| question raised was whether it was consti-
| tutional to compel citizens of one state who
! have complied with its laws To abstain from
! the highways of another until the provisions
| governing the latter have been conformed
| to. The New Jersey court of appeals has
| decided against Irwin and the case will
| not be carried to the United States Supreme
! Court.
| Following the example set by New Jersey
! and Florida. the Pacific coast has made a
| bid for the Vanderbilt cup race
Printed circulars containing suggestions
for visiting autosts are being prepared by
| the Victoria, B. G.. Motor Club.
! An organization known the Profess
sional Coored Chauffeurs' Club of America
has been formed at New York
| The use of rosin on a leather-lined clutch
! to prevent 1t from slipping wears out the
leather. Castor oil is preferable.
The automobile clubs of Schenectady CO.
hoes and the Adirondack Club Of Sandy
Hill, n. Y, are now in the q. a. A.
Two rural mail carriers running out of
Shelbyyille. Ind. have replaced their horses
and wagons with motor runabouts.
The rise in the price of leather from 20
to % per cent is attributed to the demands
for It's use in the automobile industry.
Cars representing the output of 30 Amer
| lean factories were represented in the
| Glidden tour. There was not a foreign car
| entered.
! 1t is probable that the next sealed mech
anism contest run by the Automobile Club
! of America will last for a week instead of
| four days.
An automobile omnibus line between Du-
buque, Iowa. and Pattsvie and Cuba
City, Wis. has been naugurated Regular
trips made daily.
Experiments being made in Paris
with what Is called steel pavement. but
which is really concrete pavement rein
| forced with steel framework.
New and exceedingly stringent regula-
| tons regarding the Introduction of foreign
| built automobiles into Germany by tourists
| have been placed in force.
The See America" League Is preparing
| a 35OOO-mile automobile expedition through
| the United States, 1t is stated. which will
| leave this city about August L.
Vigorous protests being made against
the efforts of the Big Four railroad to have
abandoned a portion of the national road
| near Indianapolis.
Carburetor troubles are almost certain to
| follow the too-cOmmon mistake of using
! the same funnel with which to fill both the
gasoline and water tanks.
OF great advantage to motorists driving
north from this city Is a new ferry over the
| Susquehanna river between Havre de Grace
| and Perryville, Nd.
Within nine years the number of auto
mobile builders in the United States has
grown from to 234. OF whom 2lS make
gasoline, 10 electric and II steam cars
Shotgun methods will not go any longer
| in Indiana. for the authorities have begun
a vigorous crusade against farmers who
have fired on automobile drivers
Police traps are so numerous in Great
Britain that one English motoring journal
recently published a map of the infested
roads, ninety traps being specifically de-
Scribed.