New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-02
TIMELY AUTO TOPICS.
Routes Suggested for the Gidden
Tour Motor School.

As bone OF contention the Glidden tour appears
TO be just as meaty as ever. and the suggestions
concerning II are becoming OF infinite variety
The executive committee of the American Auto
mobile Association has recommended that the run
start from Chicago and go to Washington DC
A number Of active Chicago motorists are opposed
10 TINS They do not want the TO start from
the Illinois metropolis but TO start from New York
and finish at Chicago. This suits u number of
New Workers and many other Easterrers who say
that the run should either start or finish there
There is a growing sentiment however. OF
frightening the tour. and If this is done a route
could be selected that would please every one
One good suggestion comes from w w Burke Of
New York. who proposes start from New York
and go by way Of the lake cities TO Chicago thence
TO Pittsburg. and back 10 New York by wav of
Harrisburg and Philadelphia. At the time OF the
New York show Philip s Finn, the Pittsburg en-
thuslast, suggested n route starting from New
York going TO Cleveland, then to Plttsburg and
by way of Chambersburg To Washington thence
back to New York. This route. If modified SO as 10
have the virtue Of being compromise that would
touch all the points suggested by ell the other
thoroughgoIng contest. It will he hard TO please
the majority except by long run
sixty-one automobiles were imported last month
their total valuation being SlS9 COL IS as aqoI,st
ffty-fve cars. valued at $lS6.961 So for Febrrory
1906 and forty-tive cars, valued at SlC7367 * for
February. 1905. This shows n slight Increase brt
when the two months January and F,obr,,~,, -
taken for each of the three years a deci5ed a.
crease is shown this yeac from last Durine- The
two months in 1905 123 cars came in valued az
S4i6,S0O g. while the figures for 1906 were 1ql ~
and 1921 4GS 81. and fer 1907 only l7g cars or e-ro
76l 81. The appraisers sta tcmcnt cOntat1s No 49,
ment on these figures. but they vonId $500
seem TO give Indication of the recent eHeirS
neht OF the American automobile industry
The adoption Of the six cylinder engine for motor
boats is further step toward the vindIcation Of
this type of motor. When it is employed I'm high
grade product it appears to be the exact balance of
power. Every experienced man who has handled a
six cylinder car comedies that II Is the correct
too infrequent and eight cylinders being prone To
overlap.
1t is not difficult 10 understand why automobillne.
is sovereign remedy for brain flag ana nervous
ills. A man cannot tool big along tho road
properly and worry about business affairs at the
same time
The automobile school Of the West Side Young
Mems Christian Association. which Is run under
tho general supervision of advisory committee
OF which Dave II. Norris. Winthrop E Scarritt
and A. r. Shattuck. representing the Automobile
Club Of America, and Augustus Post represent
ing the American Automobile Association. are
members, will start its spring term March G.
Since the school was started, in 1904 under the
patronage and advice of the Automobile Club OF
year II had $50 students and this year the total
enrolment is expected to reach nearly eight hun
dred before the end OF the season. About half OF
these students are owners of machines, ana the
other half young men who wish to secure
places as chauffeuTS in other mechanical caDac-
tiles connected with thu automobile business.