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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
ORMOND BEACH RACES.
Loops to Be Made With Board as on
French Ira ckS

After a quick trip to Florida, where he
met the directors of the Florida East
Coast Automobile Association and report
cd as TO what had been done in the ar
engagements with the Automobile Club of
America for the joint conducting of the
forthcoming sixth annual Ormond-Day-
5tona Beach meet in March. W. j. Morgan
has left New York for Chicago. in order
To he present at the opening of the auto
mobile show there Saturday.
The Florida East Coast Automobile
Association directors warmly approved of
the entrance into the beach meet man.
agement of the powerful a. <. A., and
congratulated their representative on the
proposition and voted 10 accept the ar
Management. and appointed Mr.. Morgan
as the clubs representative to conduct
the meet with the officers o. the A. c. a.
it is the opinion of all Florida people that
the March meet VIII be the greatest of
all. and the listing of three long races. one
for stock cars, one for amateurs and the
other for the Vanderbilt cup cars. opens
Il new era in Florida beach racing.
MI records for the world from I to
100 miles are held by the famous sand
course. and it is now freely predicted that
after the March meets all records up to
800 miles for track and road will be held
by the Florida beach course. At the sug-
j.
man of the y \. y. racing board and
Vanderbilt cup commission, the +. L. G.
A. n VIII undertake to build the south
ern land loop for the race with board SIM
liar 10 the turns constructed by the Au-
tomoDile Club of France for their Grand
PriX race this year. which MIR. Thompson
saw when some Of the turns were built
of wood and were taken up after the race
was over.
The Ormond end of the course viii be
built by the Automobile Club of America,
but that material they will use has not
as yet been decided; but it is quite pos
sihle that they VIII construct the Ormond
turns with sand and oil. as the oil and
sand road now being built at Jacksonville
seems To be a success.
This viii give Il thirty-mile fast course
and fifteen miles straightaway and it is
fully expected that the speed of 1~ miles
uer hour will be attained and maintained
for most Of the journey. This Will be the
highest speed reached by amy drivers in
any other previous race in any part OF
the world.
The entries for tho March races arc
already coming in, although the entry
blanks will not he issued fC-' ten days, as
the Automobile Club of America contest
committee is now working on them. They
will first be submitted To the Florida East
Coast Automobile Association for its APP
proval through its representative in New
York
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Died Aged ITO Years.

WATERFOWL. n. Y. December -
George Obey. aged ITO years, lacking
eighteen days. believed to be the oldest
person in New York state. died at his
home in Great Bend. nine miles from this
city, last night. Obey was born in Stan
ton, England. December %, 1897, and
came to Jefferson county in 1925 He cast
his first vote for James X. Polk for Presi-
dent in 1874. and has voted at every cleo
ton since until last fall He attributed
his old age to moderation in everything.
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NEWS OF LAUREL.
Reports of Condition Of Parties In
jured in Recent Wreck.

Special Correspondence of The Star,
LAUREL, Md, December Z, 1907.
The following residents of Laurel, who
were injured in the wreck on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad at Hanover sta
ton, several miles from Laurel, last
Wednesday morning, have been received
as follows:
George F. McCeney. a former teacher of
the Laurel High School, both legs broken
ana lacerated arm; at Maryland Univer-
SHY Hospital of Baltimore; condition i'm
proving. Walter d. Lanahan, injury to
loot and lacerated forehead; at Hopkins
Hospital; expects to return to his home
here in a few days. John Odenwald,
shoulder and back bruised and head cut :;
greatly improved and expected to be out
In Il few days. Victor J. DeVouges, in
jury to left hand and face cut; now out.
Miss Lillian Spilman, ankles sprained;
still confined to her home, although very
much improved. Edgar Spilman, leg in
jured and hand cut; able to be out
Eugen DeVouges. leg bruised; now out
Harry S. Phelps, legs sprained and
bruised cut about face and hand: still
confined to his home, but much improved,
and expects to get out in the next few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Penn have closed
their home here. and will spend the win
ltI III "
Rev. NJ. l.. Beall and family of Balti-
more county have been visiting the for
mer's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Beall.
Misses Estelle and Marie Travers of
Washington were the guests recently of
relatives here
DR.. j. N. Mccormack of Bowling Green.
Ky, secretary of the state board of health
and chairman of the organization COM
mittee of the American Medical Associa-
ton, delivered an address here at the
Academy of Music last evening, under the
auspices of the Prince George County
Medical Society. Although for the dis
cussion of medical topics, this meeting
was by no means for the physicians alone,
as large number of private citizens at
tended and were greatly interested in
DIR. McCormack's address. The American
Medical Association, which the doctor
represents. is carrying on systematic
campaign for pure food. pure drugs and
better sanitary conditions throughout the
country Representative classes from all
phases of society were present, including
physicians. lawyers, ministers, teachers.
and large number of ladies.
Mr.. r. z. Berry and family have re-
moved from Alnwick. near Laurel, to
Washington for the winter.
Mrs. Shelton of Washington is visiting
Mrs. NJ. B. Miller on I'd street.
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MOTOR CAR TEST.
White Mountain Trip Planned
After the Trials in Scotland.

NEW YORK. December What will
probably be the most satisfactory test of
motor cars that has ever been held in
this country will be that scheduled for
the last week in June, 1908, in the White
mountains. 1t will be patterned after the
famous Scottish trials given each June by
the Scottish Automobile Club through the
hills and dales Of Scotland.
The present plans propose to divide the
cars into five classes and give the win
nSr of each class a principal prize, with
awards for the second and third in each
class also THE trials will last for six
days. the first five days being devoted to
runs which will take the drivers through
five states, the start being made each
day at Breton Woods. The return will
he made each night, so that the partici-
pants will have ample hotel accommoda-
Uon. as well as iirst-class garage facil-
tiles.
ON the sixth day will occur the climb
to the Clouds" up the eight-mile carriage
road 20 the top of Mount Washington.
GOO feet above sea level In 1914 and
1900 such climbs were held. but they
have been discarded during the past two
summers, and il is thought that, as the
climb is the hardest possible test and
greatest of all hill climbs, the entry list
will be very large. 1t is quite possible
that the prizes for the five days trials
Will he called state cups. in honor of the
states which the competing cars and
their drivers visit.
The trials Will probably be held under
the auspices of the White Mountain Good
Roads Association. with a board of man
agemeut selected from the principal New
England clubs. The preliminaries are in
charge of W. ]. Morgan. Breton Hail.
y. Y. who originated the climb to the
clouds and Florida beach races.
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TO HOLD AUTO FINES.
Mayor Of Glen Echo Will Await
Higher Decision.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December Not
withstanding that Mayor Garrett of Glen
Echo is being importuned on all sides to
return the finest and forfeited collateral
of the numerous automobilists who were
arrested on charges of violating the auto
mobile regulations of Glen Echo, he says
he has mo intention of complying unless
forced 10 do so by legal process or until
the recent decision of Judge Henderson
to the effect that the Conduit road is not
a public highway within the meaning of
the Maryland statutes and that conse-
quently, the laws of the state regulating
the running of motor vehicles do not APP
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MOTOR BOAT SHOW.
Big Exhibition Opens at the Grand
Central Palace

NEW YORK, December When the
doors Of the Grand Central Palace, at
Lexington avenue and 43d street, opened
10 admit the public this evening to the
national motor boat show the interior OF
the huge building presented a spectacle
that far outclassed anything that has been
seen in the palace heretofore. Blazing
electric lights and a generally apparent
unity of effort to beautify greeted the Wis
itOrS' eyes. This years motor boat show
is noteworthy in many respects. 1t Is the
only national motor boat exhibition that
will be held in New York city, and the
industry in general has so deeply appre-
Ciated the event that the exhibits in num-
her. quality and also in their representa-
tio1 Of the state of the allied arts leave
nothing to be desired. So well have the
builders and manufacturers backed up the
enterprise that nothing short of the larg-
est building to be had suffices.
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pIv-is upheld by a higher court.

ply--is upheld by a higher court.
The mayors stand WAS. at meeting
held last evening. Endorsed by every MEM
Der of the Glen Echo town council. Mayor
Garrett says that every dollar of the
$50 collected from Automobiles is stu
in the towns treasury. As means OF
having the questions involved In the re-
cent litigation passed upon by the court
of appeals. tile Glen Echo town council
has decided to continue to enforce the
automobile regulations. No arrests Will
be made by the officers of the town, nut
evidence will be collected against all
who run their machines faster than twelve
miles an hour or who in other ways iG-
more the law. and the March grand jury
will be asked to indict.
The plan is to have ono of the indict-
mentS demurred to on the ground that
the allegation contained does not. in view
of Judge Henderson s decision, constitute
violation of law. Such contention
would of course. be sustained by Indigo
Henderson and the case would be taken
to the court of appeals on this decision
and all the questions passed upon in the
famous decision of Judge Henderson re-
viewed.
At the meeting last evening. Walter =.
Shaw was appointed town marshal. IIo
takes the place of Leo j. Nelson, who
succeeded Marshal Collins and who sew
eral days ago followed tire example of his
renowned predecessor and skipped tho
town without the formality of resiGning.
Shaw has for several months served Glen
Echo in the capacity of a deputy marshal
and is understood to have made an eX-
celent officer.
George w. O'Brien Of Glen Echo will
not have to pay the $500 which he obll-
gated himself to do in case Walter Love-
less. formerly proprietor of Rock Springs
Hotel. who was under indictment for
violating the local option law of tho
county, failed to he in court when his
case was called for trial Lovcless could
not be found when his case came up and
Ii. "a
feited. In view of the fact that Love-
less later appeared and furnished a new
bond Judge Henderson and States At
torney Peter suggested 10 Gov. .Warfield
that O'Brien be relieved of his obliga-
ton and this the executive has agreed to
do
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TWentY-Four-Hour Supremacy.

The proposition OF Emanuel Cedrino to
fight out the question OF twenty-four- nour
supremacy ut Ormond in twenty-four-
hour race TO be run during the six days
following the Ormond meet. four hours
daily. meets with the commentator of
others interested in the matter. The Fiat
driver who won the last Morris Park
Neutrality-suspicious. race in sensational style,
believes that on the tde-rolled sands at
Ormoud the first and second men in all
Of the twenty -four-hour races of the last
year might battle, for supremacy to a
finish and without urtoward instances
Interfering or conditions which might
prove adverse to 4 final. settlement.
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Chalmers a Motor Manufacturer.

The most notable newcomer for some
time in the ranks of the manufacturers
OF motor cars is Hugh Chalmers, formerly
vice president and general manager of the
National Cash Register Company of Day
ton, Ohio Mr.. Chalmers has long been
a student of the progress of the automo-
bile industry. and this past week has
allied himself with one of the most sue
cessful OF the younger automobile con-
cerns-the i. Il. Thomas Detroit Com
pany. He has purchased Q teavy stock
int rest and becomes president of the
company. +. Z. Thomas of Buffalo re-
tains his stock holding and his member
ship on the board of directors. and in no
way loses his identity with the organiza-
non. The product will continue to- be
marketed by the T.. X. Thomas Motor
Company OF Buffalo. whose sales depart
neut has already made contracts cover
ing the season output.
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CLARA BLooDGooD oBsEoUIEs.
Many Handsome Floral Offerings at
Funeral in New York.

NEW YORK. December I'm st.
Georges Protestant Episcopal Church.
where five years ago she was married to
William Lainbeer. funeral services for
Clara Bloodgcod. the actress. who COM
mitted suicide last Thursday. in Baltimore,
were held early today. The services wers
conducted by Rev. Hugh Birkhead, who
performed the wedding ceremony when
Mrs Bloodgood was married to Mr.. LAIN
beer.
Manv handsome floral offerings from
friends and relatives of the dead actress
surrounded her bier. The interment was
at Woodlawn cemetery.
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Confidence Man at Work.

Louis Reed. colored. of 800 w street,
was the victim of a confidence man last
night He was near the corner of 9th and
1 streets, he told the police, when a COL
ored man who was a stranger to him
exhibited $50 bill, and said he was 60
ing in a house there to transact some
business He wanted SIS in change, he
said. promising he would return and set
tie in few minutes Reed handed. over
SIS and waited on the corner until he
realized he had been swlndled. Then he
sought the police and made complaint.
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KING NEAR TO DEATH
Oscar of Sweden Has Sunk
Beyond All Aid.
FAMILY AROUND HIS COUCH
Has Had Only Intervals of Con.
sciousness All Day.
HAS BEEN UNDER 0PIATES
Vast Crowds Have Braved the
Weather Outside the Palace,
Awaiting Bulletins.
FAMILY AROUND HIS COUCH
HAS BEEN UNDER OPIATES

STOCKHOLM, December 1.-THE follow
Oscar was issued at 10 o'clock this even
ing:
1.-The king to all appearances passed
painless day. No essential change in his
strength has been noticed since The last
bulletin. His respiration is still irregular"
Although the theaters and other places
of amusement were open as usual this
evening, the crowd, numbering thousands,
front Of the palace. testified to the pop
ular sympathy for the aged monarch
whose life is slowly ebbing.
Within the palace members of the royal
family, high ecclesiastics, the premier and
the minister of foreign affairs had been
assembled for some hours in the kings
study, to which room his majesty had
been removed in bed at noon when still
unconscious. This measure was taken to
enable all the family and the officials to
| be present at the last moments without
| undue crowding.
Monarch Was Thankful.
The physicians In attendance admins
tered stimulants consisting Of saline So
luton camphor and digitalis. which were
injected at intervals, and they relieved
also as far as possible the vesical trouble
from which the king has suffered severely
| all through his illness. They could &C
| complish, however, very little more than
| the bringing back of their patient to mo-
mentary consciousness. Every effort was
made to reduce the pain to minimum,
and this apparently was successful.
The last bulletin from the sickroom to-
night indicated that the end Is not far
Of. THE king, to all appearances, passed
a painless day." the bulletin read, and 1t
was significant of the fact that the mon
arch remained throughout the day prac-
tically in a comatose condition. Once
after the ministrations Of the, physicians
he was able to murmur his thanks in
hardly perceptible voice.
Bishop Of Lund Summoned
The condition of the king is such that
physicians state recovery is impossible, al
though they still have slight hopes of
keeping the spark of life burning until
morning. The breathing is weak and the
pulse low and irregular. The blood ves-
sells of the heart and other organs are
hopelessly affected.
| Bishop Billing of Lund has been sum-
moned by telegraph to come by special
train to the palace to pray at the bed
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Brought Here for Treatment.

Virgie Raeburn, fourteen years of age.
whose parents reside at Ingleside, Fairfax
county, Va, was taken to the Georgetown
University Hospital last night about 8
O'Clock to be treated for a wound in her
right cheek. The injury, it is said. was
accidentally inflicted by her brother while
removing a rifle from a wagon. 1t was
stated at the hospital that she was not
seriously hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

greatest of the early amateur riders of
bicycles: Dan Canary. the greatest of
trick riders of olden days; Barney Old
field, the greatest automobile driver of
history. and John L. Sullivan. still the
champion of bare knuckle fighters. with
Jake kilrain. whom yours truly beat
in his memorable bare knuckle fight in
Mississippi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Charge of Carrying Razor.

Drunk and carrying a razor were the
charges filed against Clarence Hancock,
colored, twenty-five years of age. detained
at the third precinct police station last
night. The prisoner. who gave his ad-
dress as 1925 o street, was arrested for
being disorderly in the vicinity of Scott
circle by Policeman LOTUS. and when
searched at the station a razor was taken
from his pocket.
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Girls Climb Popocatapetl.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

MEXICO CITY. Mexico, December -
Two plucky American young women,
Miss Hortense Edy and Miss Octave
Woodward of Rockford ILL.,. have arrived
here. from a successful ascent of Popocat-
apetl volcano. They made the dangerous
trip without the aid of guides and are the
first foreigners. either man or woman. to
accomplish this feat. The weather was
severe on the summit of the mountain and
the other members of the party and the
guides declined to make the ascent on
account of the risk.
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Dragon Company Changes.

An announcement of interest in the au-
tomobile trade is that the Dragon Automo-
bile Company of Philadelphia has been
superseded by the Dragon Motor Com
pany, new organization, with capital
ization of 81 200, 900.
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Love Feast of HAS Beens. ;,

Chicago. was the rendezvous last week
Of more has bens" than were ever before
drawn together. Pop" Weston came into
Chicago on his great tramp from Port
land. Me, to Chicago. beating his record
of forty years ago. From the side lines
came y. ii. Van Sicken, probably the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

The Amateur Athletic Union has de-
cded to refuse registration as an amateur
to any motorist who may have raced for
cash or against professionals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

Although the life of a tire is said to be
$500 miles. probably less than one-third
are given the proper care to secure that
longevity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Sparks.

Pennsylvania state highway depart
ment expects to have issued over 100000
licenses by the end of the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

When S. F. Edge made the worlds rec
ord of practically siXty-SiX miles an hour
for twenty-four consecutive hours the
shaft of his speedometer revolved 4,039,20O
times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

Within the three months ending Novem-
Der IL Boston's polio arrested 1877 mo-
florists for violating the automobile laws
and collected $6,115 in fines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

Don't attempt to ford a stream and
shift the gears in the middle. Start in
on low speed with the determination of
driving through without disconnecting the
c1,1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

The district attorney of Oakland, Cal,
recently announced. his belief that auto
mobiles should be barred from a new
macadam road in that city until it is six
months old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

To keep a leather faced cone clutch in
the best of condition it should receive an
application of commercial castor oil at
least every three weeks; oftener if the
leather becomes dry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

A San Francisco philosophic motorlst
laws down three rules of action to avoid
running down pedestrians. as follows:
IF it be man, steer behind him. for he
is sure to run ahead; if a woman, steer
straight ahead, for she will stop every
time; if one boy, slow down. II two boys,
turn back and go around the block.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

The petrol which Lieut.. Shackleton or
the British navy will use in the car in
which he will attempt to dash over the
ice to the south pole next sprung mas
been produced by chemists of the Brit
ish government and tested at remarkably
low temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

In the historical section of the Paris
Salon the first Renault, a car of one and
a half horsepower, and prehistoric Pan
hard ct Ieyassor were shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

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
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

Although the principle seems wrong. II
frequently is advantageous to lubricate
the working surfaces of service brakes
On the cheaper type of brakes it prevents
dragging, and on the more powerful forms
it prevents the bands from gripping toe
suddenly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

J. NJ Carson, northern California mo-
toring enthusiast. drove his car fifty-three
miles up a mountain road rising to an ele-
walton of 800 feet to place called Snow
Camp There a man who owns ranch
little farther on said he would give it to
Carson if he could drive his machine TO
it, but the road was too rough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

The rapid advance made in automobile
power is shown by the fact that only
eight years ago cars of two and three
quarters horse power were considered
quite up to date, whereas today six-cylin-
der cars with ratings of forty, fifty and
sixty horse power are common.