The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07

non-freezing liquid. will supply the motive
power.
The autodrome suggested by the
kaiser. which will eclipse anything of the
kind in the world. will be equipped not
only with several straight-graded tracks
for shOrt-diStance racing, but with a mag
nificent long-distance course fully thirty
one miles long. There will be a series of
dangerous curves. descents and hazards.
while the grand stands will accommodate
100000 persons. Privy Councillor Won
Friedander is raising $5.O00O00 for the
project.
In response to a strong demand. the
Touring Board of the American Automo-
bile association has decided to allow ma
chimes in the Glidden tour to carry two
small pennants telling the make Of car.
To secure uniformity and neatness the
committee will supply the pennants.
The Automobile Club OF America has
offered TO the district attorneys of two
counties in the vicinity of New York the
assistance of its legal department in aid
ing the conviction of two chauffeurS
whose recklesness recently caused the
death of one man and the serious in
jury of several persons.
A sample of the petty grating to which
travelling motorists are subjected has
cropped out in Knox county. Ind, where
a ferryman having the only boat crossing
the White river on what is known as the
Evansville road. charges s. to ferry mo-
tor cars and 10 cents for horse and
buggy.
The principal thing for woman to do
when lea rning to drive automobile
is to learn the use of the steering wheel.
the brakes. etc. getting these firmly
fixed in her mind. and then to be allowed
to use them in practice without worri-
ment or annoyance from her instructor
while she is guiding the car.
More than 10000 tons OF concrete were
used in building the Weybrdge, England
motor track, which is three and a quarter
miles in circumference and 100 feet wide
The curves are scientifically banked so
that a car travelling at high speed will
round them many feet above one running
at slower rate.
The automobile school recently started
by the West Side Y. NJ. c. A. in New
York is attracting students from west Of
the Mississippi Many rich men also send
their cOaChmen there to be trained as
chauffeurs. One recent student was full
blooded Zulu prince, who is studying at
Columbia university.
The Automobile club of Buffalo. is or
ganizing d vigilance committee to assist
the police in running down viOlatOrs of
the speed laws and the other drivers who
endanger the lives of pedestrians through
reCklessnesS. Ihey will have power to
make arrests. and campaign against
dangerous driving will be conducted.
Autos de luxe are planned by a Paris
firm which seeks to cater only TO the Gus
tom of the wealthy. They will hire out
luxuriously appointed town cars manned
by chauffeUTs whose livery will be
airy employers. who thus will be able to
present the appearance of owning high
class cars.
The Florida East Coast Automobile as
sOCiation is determined to get the Van
deTbilt cup race run over the Ormond-
DaytOna beach course if such thing is
possible. II is understood that if proper
protection in the guarding of the Long Is
land course cannot be secured the first
chance will be given Florida to hold the
race.
The supreme court of Iowa in handing
down an instructive decision in regard to
the law governing automobile travel. de-
clared that owners Of automobiles possess
the same rights on the highways as other
users, but that they must use the new
means Of loComOtiOn with due regard for
the rights of others who travel on the
highways.
A new way Of catching breakers of the
speed law has been devised by Police
Commission Bingham of New York. The
sign showing his high-speed car is an Of
fetal vehicle is removed. while two pO-
licemen in civilian attire ride around in
localities frequented by speed sharps. who
fan easy victims to the men in the in
nocent looking machine.
Heretofore using only French and Ger
man cars. William X. Vanderbilt. jr.. do
nor of the Vanderbilt cup and a leader
in motor sports, has purchased his first
American automobile. E. r. Thomas. the
New York banker. whose first experience
with domestic cars was i'm the season of
1906. has added another TO his garage al
ready well supplied with foreign cars.
The following circuit of meets has been
arranged by the United States Motor Rae
ing association: July 81, ST. Louis; July
8. Milwaukee; July 10. Cleveland: July
1913. Chicago; July 1920, Indianapolis:
July 2e-H, Pittsburg: August %, Provi-
dence, r. l.; August $40. Brighton Beach.
n Y. These events will be open only to
stock touring cars, racing machines being
barred.