The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-09
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD


Automobile clubs have been formed
at Sacramento, Cal, and Beloit, Wis.
Tests made by Connecticut farmer
show that gasoline costs less than
horse feed at the prices of today.
Dealers claim to have sold from 1900
to 1900 automobiles in Indianapolis
this year.
Pennsylvania State Highway de-
partment expects to have issuel over
100000 licenses by the end of the
year.
Vienna has doctors motor club,
one OF the chief objects Of which is to
facilitate the hire of automobiles for
professional use.
Although the life of d tire is said to
be $500 miles, probably less than one
third are given the proper care to Sc
cure that longevity.
Commemorative of the Peking-PariS
race, French firm whose car made the
long run, displayed its machine within
"a Chinese pagOda at the Paris Salon.
The association recently formed by
the dealers of Hartford, Conn. will
hold its first show in an armory Janu-
airy IT and IS.
The association recently formed by
the dealers of Hartford. Conn, will
hold its first show in an armory Janu-
airy IA to IS.
When S. F. Edge made the worlds
record of practically 6 miles an hour
for ~ consecutive hours the shaft OF
Il; 1otn 1IrnI 4
times.
The Amateur Athletic Union has de-
cided to refuse registration as an anna
teur to any motorist who may have
raced for cash or against professionals.
! At it's last meeting the Chicago All
tOmobile club reported membership
of 5S2-47S active, 90 nonresident, five
| life and three honorary.
Within the three months ending No
vember IS, Boston's police arrested
49, motorists for violating the automO-
bile laws and collected S6,115 in fines.
Replacing the tonneau with a rotary
pump which is belted to the motor, a
New York electric light company has
handy machine for pumping out
flooded manholes.
| One Of the largest New York compa-
MES which has been importing Italian
machines has abandoned that branch
of the business. and will build its own
cars in this country.
John D. Spreckles. grandson of the
San Francisco Sugar King, who is
| touring in Japan with his wife, is us
ing an American car, which he took
with him across the Pacific.
Don't attempt to ford stream and
shift the gears in the middle. Start
in on low speed with the determine
ton of driving through without dis
connecting the clutch.
The District Attorney Of Oakland,
Cal, recently announced his belief
that automobiles should be barred
| from a new macadam road in that city
until it is six months old.
| To keep a leather-faced cone clutch
| in the best of condition it should re-
ceive an application of commercial
castor oil at least every three weeks;
oftener if the leather becomes dry.
! When radiator caps stick. a piece of
channels leather wrapped about them
often will afford sufficient grip to
avoid the necessity for using pipe
wrench or cold chisel.
French manufacturers have prom
ised TO exhibit at the show of foreign
cars at New York late this month, all
the racing cars which attracted so
much attention at the recent Paris Sa-
| Ion.
| A muff for motor car drivers, sort
of mitten large enough to cover both
hands and most of the steering wheel
as well. is a recent invention of an
Indiana autoist.
Leading hotels in Great Britain and
on the Continent are rapidly replacing
their horse-drawn vehicles with motor
buses to carry guests to and from rail-
road stations.
Mainly because the trans-continent-
al transportation facilities are so
slow that they would not receive the
1908 cars in time the San Francisco