The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-04
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IT'S RIGHT
SPARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS

bS uSeQ LOT street improvements.
The Automobile club of California.
acting in conjunction with the Chauf-
feurs' Association of California, is in
terested in securing a law compelling
the taking of an examination by ali
persons who drive machines
Declaring that the 'toot-toot'' of the
modern motor car is out of place, VIII
liam Waldorf Astor has issued an
edict barring automobiles from the
Tudor village which he has built about
Hever castle. England.
The county commissioners of Allie
gheny county, Pennsylvania. which in
cludes the cities of Pittsburg and ALLIE
gheny, with many miles of rough and
billy streets, have purchased a touring
car for official use.
The City and Country Motor club OF
New York, one of the wealthiest auto
mobile organizations in the east, own
ing two club houses in the city and
three in the suburbs, has reincorporat-
ed as the New York Automobile club.
Unless the turnDikes of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, be put in first
class condition by the middle OF this
month the companies owning them
will be prosecuted for maintaining
nuisances by the Lancaster Automo-
bile club
The motor car now figures in the
war between American are collectors
and the Italian government, a machine
recently being used to spirit seven
valuable Van Dyke paintings from the
palace of the CattaneO family, at Ge-
noa
New Jersey may as we'll be elimin-
ated from the possible localities for the
Vanderbilt cup race. should il be held
this year. Although the assembly
passed a bill to aid it the measure has
been declared to be unconstitutional
of Is
ace show, New York. which will be
held in October say enough applica-
tons already have been received for
space to insure it being the most COM
plete display of automobiles ever Of
fered
The automobile ''rubber-neck wagon"
has invaded Oyster Bay. It makes
daily trips between that village and
Huntington, stopping al all places Of
interest and tarrying longest in front
of Sycamore Hill, the presidents es-
tate.
During the second week in September
f. c. Fenner and A. J. Smith will race
their cars for $1,000 a side from Los
Angeles to the Big Horn mine of
Mount Badly, trip noted for its diff
culties in the way Of bad roads and
grades.
Stoned by a peasant while he was
driving through a district affected BY
asrarian disorders, Crown Prince Fer
dinanG of Roumania chased his assail-
ant with his automobile and after
capturing him, turned him over to the
police.
The state law governing the sale.
transfer and operation of motor vehi-
cles in California requires an owner
who sells a car to send back the reg
istratiOn seal TO the secretary of state,
under penalty of fine or Imprisonment.
A g
minutes was recently established be
tween POTtervile and Deer Creek, Hot
Springs, Cal, a distance of thirty-fOur
miles, but up a mountain so steep that
but two cars ever attempted the climb
before.
A handy tool for a private garage is
a new portable electric drill which may
obtain power from an ordinary mean
descent lamp socket. Emery wheels
also may be attached and IL makes a
perfect polisheT for lamps and metal
work.
Scarcely week passes without the
recording Of the fact that some build
er, well known through his standing in
the American industry, has found eX-
pansiOn Imperative in order TO keep
pace with the demand made upon his
manufacturing department.
According to a recent decision of
Omahas city legal department own
ers of private automobiles are exempt
from paying a city automobile tax. An
ordinance is pending to require an an
nUal license fee for every automobile
used for rental purposes.
A new PROFESSIONAL chair. as yet I'M
supported by any university, has been
established in Paris by Professor
Pierre BrOnsset, who teaches foot
passengers how to walk safely in pub
lie thoroughfares' and to dodge auto
scientific manner.
K. Okura, son of a wealthy Japan
csc iron manufacturer, is on his way
home from Cambridge university, Eng
land, by way of the United States.
with four of the swiftest automobiles
that he could buy in Europe. He in
tends to try to popularize motor rae
ing in Japan
When E. c. Richards of Buffalo. y
Y, was held up on a charge of speed
ing across a bridge at Columbia, Pa.
he avoided arrest by offering to go to
Jail until he could obtain money from
home to pay his fine. The local Off
Gals decided his board would cost
more than the fine.
The Missouri board Of agriculture
has appointed an engineer to make a
survey for a 100000 macadam road
from St. Louis to Kansas City, for
which the last legislature made an ap
propria ton. It is believed that the
road, which will he sixty feet wide,
will be finished inside of two years.
Three Boston business men, George
G. Reed, George K. Schiller and Harry
w. Brown, recently completed one Of
the most remarkable automobile trips
on record in America, travelling from
Death valley, California, TO their home
city, covering $500 miles. Their motor
was covered with more than LOCO aU-
tograDhs of persons who wished them
pood speed on their journey.
ConnecticUtS new automobile law
will do away with cOnstables' graft. 1t
provides that cars shall not be operat
ed lat a speed greater than is reason
able and proper, having regard to the
width, traffic and use of the highway.
nor so as to endanger life or limb OF
any person. Apparently Il makes the
driver Of a car responsible for what
ever happens. and leaves judgment re-
garding his action entirely to court
CLEVELAND FANS USE HAMMERS
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