The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08
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Wilminton. Del, viii spend $4,000 inn
proving its streets
Don't screw down battery connections
with your fingers. Use pliers
No matter how carefully the gasoline IS
strained. some dirt will find its way into
the tank. which should be thoroughly
cleansed every once in a while
ne flrsJ reliability contest for 1905 cars
viii be held by the Automobile Club Of
ton. this month
Marion county. Indiana. intends oiIing
us entire 800 miles of roads II the dust
laying experiment to be tried on one
stretch proves a success
The WOmen's Automobile club OF San
Iahclsco IS 70 have quarters in the new
nome or the California club as soon as
the building is completed
The automobile burglar" who used a
touring car when he robbed several Long
Island residences. was sentenced to forty
years Imprisonment at hard la bor
ne recently organized Motor Car Rae
ing association Of Baltimore held its first
day.
All freak cars. such as entered the con-
tests last year. will be barred from the
races at OrmOnd Beach Florida. this year.
one Of the oldest stage lines in tho
country, that connecting Worcester and
Paxton. Mass, is to be made to give way
TO an up-tO-date motor car service
one thousand miles. from Paris to Ma
rienhad. in two and half days recently
were covered BY A B. Graves. a New
Ork broker. who is touring Europe
The attorney general Of New York state
has ruled that automobile collision fnSr,r-
snce can be written only by general cas-
ualty corporations.
From London emanates the suggestion
that the rules of the road" at sea De-
made to apply to automobile traffic Par
lament is considering the idea
The Royal Automobile club of Grea.
Britain has decided to give up its annual
tourist trophy contest on the Isle Of Mar
and hold 1.000-mile contest on The
The automobile clubs Of Tacoma and S.
attic are lending aid to the Portland COrel
club in securing the construction Of a
ElaVeled boulevard connecting the three
cities named.
One of the oldest yet most enthusiastic
lovers Of motoring in the country is Mrs
;. P. Root Of SOmers. Conn. who AL
though y years old, is very fond of the
sport.
Northwestern automobiles have gained
much-sOught concession by the action
Of Secretary of the Interior Garfield in
permitting automobiles to enter Mount
Rainier National park.
by working in RELAYS five drivers Sue
ceeded IN bre9k king the record from Chi
cago TO New YORK. covering the distance
in 80 hours and 50 minutes The best pre-
vious time was s. hours flat
Only after several years Of experiment
an automobile freight carrier has at last
conditions of the KOngO tropical climate
A man with a passion for figures has
estimated that 1000 Americans at pres
ent are touring Europe I'm automobiles and
home
Only thirty-fOUr of Louisiana's q Sq7
miles of public roads are cIassed as i'm
proved, and campaign has been fnauE-
urated 10y the Motor league Of that state
for better highways.
Arrangements are being made for "A
tWenty-four-hour race at Philadelphia
late this month, the second for the Quaker
City this year. New York also may try
it again.
A hunting and fishing trip of five
weeks duration in the widest country OF
northern California and southern Oregon
was accomplished recently by a partv or
san Francisco motorists in a touring car
cracked cylinders were noticeably alb
sent from the recent Atlantic CITY beach
races, While at OrmOnd they were nu-
merOus. a fact which shows the advance
made along that line by builders in less
than year
On the list day Of August. three months
after the Automobile Club of America
took possession of its new club house and
garage at New York $4,000 of the second
mortgage bonds were redeemed and can
1t is important that the little bolts used
IN connecting the master links of driving
cnalnS be securely fastened, otherwise
there is danger that the outer end Of q
age.
Secretary Drought of the AIiIwarl,ee
club IS compiling a vest-pOcket booklet
containing the new Wisconsin state law
recently signed by Governor Davidson
and bearing the approval of the clubs OF
the state.
At test at Canton. O.. witnessed ~,
manufacturers from several cities. vana-
dunn steel was shown to withstand 4
tensile strength OF 225.0O0 pounds tn the
square men, about three times that of
ordinary steel
The Touring club Of France and tho
Automobile club have arranged 10 di-
woe their country into eighty zones ir
each of which will be a first-cIasg mod
ern hotel for the accommodation Of mo
tOrists
Collectors Of customs throughout the
country are notifying owners of motor
boats of every size that they are re-
qulred to carry on their craft two comics
each OF the Federal Dlacard pilot rules
and the rules for lights.
Although he was far away when his
chauffeur participated in a serious acct
dent at SevTes. a French court has hell
the owner responsible for damages be
cause the chauffeur was using his car
with his permission.
national agitation on the part OF no
florists looking toward the removal Of
telegraph and telephone poles from tho
roadside is in sight as the result OF z1
many serious accidents which have re-
suited from sWerVing cars striking uOln-
Individual instruction In road work Will
conducted by the West Side Y NJ c. A
of New York City. Last season the schoo-
had 81 students. making it the largest
of its kind in the world.
Sixty-four different methods Of LAYING
the dust and of preventing automobile
tires from destroying the top layer Of
macadam roads recently were tried by
the municipality of Paris. Each Of the
compositions which proved successful had
coal tar for its basis.
Ohio motorists pay only a local tax
on their cars at present, and the State
Automobile association will try TO have
a uniform registration law passed so that
the cars will not have to be literally Gov
cred with tags as they go from one town
to another
After spending sixteen days I'm a Swiss
jail. the chauffeur Of Heinrich Couried.
the New York imDresariO. who ran
down and killed a peasant. was released
in s1000 bail pending a trial on a charge
of manslaughteT.
So many serious automobile accidents
have occurred in northern New JERSEY
that State Senator Frelinghuvseu, author
of that states automobile law, is expect
ed 10 ask the next legislature 70 add thu
revokal Of license to the penalties FOR
recklessness.
A Brooklyn mOtorist in cleaning his