Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20

The sixth annual show at Buffalo. n.
Y, will be held during the week begin
ming March Q.
The FAR Weather Club Is the name
of the newest organization of motorists
of New York city.
A choked vaporizing nozzle can oft
times be freed by flooding the carbureter
and speeding the motor.
Polo on motor cycles has been seriously
taken up by enthusiastic sportsmen of
wealth in several European cities.
According to Attorney General Stead of
Illinois a resident of tkat state may drive
car owned by his wife without a chauf-
feur's license.
A Tennesseean who bought a two-cyl-
inder runabout six years ago still is using
the motor, but to drive a sawmill instead
of the car.
1t has been authoritatively announced
that the Long Island Motor Parkway
Will be completed in time for the Wander
bilt cup race of 1908.
Taxicab service was inaugurated at
New York city by parade of twenty-five
of the brilliantly colOred vehicles driven
by neatly uniformed chauffeurs.
Baltimore's first motor-driven police
patrol wagon has been assigned to the
central district of the city, where 1t also
will serve as an ambulance,
A more strict enforcement of the sign
board law will be demanded of local au-
thorities this coming winter by the New
York State Automobile Association.
State divisions of the American Motor
League have been formed in thirty-six
states, each with it's own executive Of
ficers and representatives to the national
body.
The automobile school of the West Side
Y NJ. c. A, New York, keeps fifteen
cars of as many different makes busy in
individual road instruction and road prac-
tice.
Besides having driven AUTOMOBILES over
AZ, 900 miles, Charles J. Glidden claims to
have written over 100000 words of motor
ing matter for one Boston newspaper.
An automobile, guarded by three armed
men, was used to transport S13,40O,00o in
cash and checks from the tax depart
ment of New York city to the City Ma
tional Bank.
A Florida race meet for early next year
is assured. Only the date remains to be
set, and, as the shows are earlier this
year than formerly, it probably will be
held in February
Beauty as we'll as durability is to be
considered in motoring costumes for
women this fall. Cheviots in al the close,
firm weaves are given first place for the
long, enveoping coats.
The city of Birmingham, England. pro-
vdes motor cars for the officials of its
tramWay, water. electricity and fire de-
partments, and is contemplating the use
Oh HlOlOT-uIlNeH IRE eHSilltS
Two recent additions have brought the
membership of the American Motor Car
Manufacturers Association up TO fifty
one, making it the largest automobile
trade organization in the world
So as to be able to arrest a Chicago
motorist who is alleged to have injured
two persons while driving near Magnolia,
Mass, and then left the state, the local
authorities had him indicted for assault.
in one year the number of cars in
Minnesota has increased from lob to
2215, and their value from. s697, IoS to
$1,000, $50. The average value per machine
is S455 for 1907. against SAB for last year.
Judge Ten Eyck of Newark, n. J., re-
Gently decided that only houses on one
side of a road could be counted in c!assi-
flying highway under the motoring laws
as one with residences 100 feet apart"
So pleased are farmers and motorists
alike with the o.ling of the old Butler
pike, the most popular drive out of Pitts
burg, that they have been beseeching
the county commissioners to extend the
treatment.
AT the interstate fair at Trenton. N. j.,
]. w. Parkin, jr., in the twelve-hour
endurance race. broke the worlds record
for 100 miles on haf-mile track by COW