The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
SPEEDOMETERS
AND SPARK PLUGS

Mexico is enjoying a good roads boom.
The auto racing fever has spread even
to Algiers.
The output of CleveIand's factories is
expected to exceed 5000 cars this year
In New York state the registration fig
ures for motor cars have passed the 49,
001 mark.
Five delivery auto trucks are now in
use for the delivery of books to the sub
stations of the Chicago public library.
Among recent recruits in the ranks Of
the autoists is Captain Lewis. master OF
whaling vessel of New Bedford, Mass.
The automobile factories of the German
empire have turned out cars valued at
$50, 600 in the last five years.
Automobiles are being successfully use1
in the campaign of the Camden IN. j.
Y. NJ. CA. to raise $4,000 building fund.
All told. 1900 miles of roads. cOmpris-
ing 285 routes. are covered by the New
England section Of the A. A. A. 1907 blue
book
A movement has been started for the
erection of large exposition building ia
Harlem, New York, specially for the COM
ing auto shows.
As a result of the remarkably cold,
damp spring season the limousine body
has enjoyed an unprecedented popular
ity for April and May.
Level as billiard table and brimful
of unique sights, Holland offers unusual
advantages for the tourist who seeks
recreation abroad.
Not only have the Chicago motorists
arranged to give the orphans of their city
an outing, but the old ladies of the public
institutions as well.
Apparently the heavy demand for autos
in Paris is over for a time, cars OF we'll
known makers being advertised for sale
on four months credit
A Wisconsin newspaper has devised the
novel advertising plan of printing extra
editions and distributing them within its
territory by automobile.
Twelve entries have been received by
the Automobile club of America for the
al st nay Tn0 urhr Ft
will last four days and cover 800 miles.
Motorists who are seeking pleasures IN
new and distant fields will find them IN
Hawaii where the roads are of coral ana
shell and ideal for automobile touring.
Determined to retain the Glidden tro-
ply, if possible, the Buffalo Automobile
club will enter at least four cars and
probably several more in the coming con-
test.
In lieu of a pony engine to switch freight
cars on its siding a Cleveland company
uses its five-t5n automobile truck with
thoroughly satisfactory results
The Vanderbilt cup race must be run
over public highways again this year. as
no section of the Long Island Motor
Parkway will be completed until Novem-
Der.
AS a result of the clashing over space
allotted in the Boston show the motor
boat and car will no longer vie with each
other there for compliments, but will be
exhibited separately.
A neat and handy way to lubricate tire
tubes when replacing them is to distribute
talcum powder by means of a small pow
der blower such as may be had at any
drug store.
There have been so many motoring ac-
cidents of late in Germany that the kali
ser has ordered the chauffeGrs of the i'm
perial cars to drive more slowly 70 set a
good example
According to latest statistics there are
more than 5000 automobiles in use in
Paris and the number is growing so rap
idly that il threatens to upset all the
ancient traditions of society.
The long campaign for the repairing Of
streets of New York City. waged by au-
tOmobilists. is at last bearing fruit. gangs
of wOTkmen being bUsily employed in
patching up the asphalt
The police commissioners of New York
City have forbidden their motorcycle Of
ficers making a speed of over sixty-tWo
miles an hour, although their new ma
chimes can do seventy miles easily.
New STYLES in cars create all sorts of
new fads The latest in New York an
pears to be the carrying of a fOOt-wOmsn
on the rumble seat of TunabOut. in
stead of fOOtman or a chauffeur.
f. q. Williams. the newiy-appOinted
chief engineer of the Long Island Motor
Parkway, is Yale graduate and has
charge of the tunnel which is being con-
structed in Washington in connection
with the new union terminal railroad sta
ton