The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

More than 100 cars have been sold by
Seattle dealers since the beginning of the
present year
Nearly 10oO pupils are in attendance at
the automobile school of the West Side
Y. NJ c. A. New York.
The directors of the Long Island Auto
mobile club have voted unanimously to
admit to membership women who own
cars.
President Underwood of the Erie rail-
road has a touring car fitted with Hanged
wheels for use on inspection trips.
Most autOmObilists are barred from TuT
key. as the Ottoman empire does not per-
nit the use Of gasoline within its borders.
The New York police department has or
dered a number of motorcycles capable of
q speed Of 100 miles an hour for its bicycle
squad
Norman Selby. known in pugilistic cir
Giles as kid Mccoy has purchased
racing ear and expects to enter the next
Vanderbilt cup race.
A German has invented a motor. the
power for which is provided by the sue
cessive explosions of small quantities of
guupOwder in a cylinder.
Despite the number of six-cylinder cars
on the market the makers of the one and
two-cylnder machines report doing as
much business as ever
Park commissioners in Spokane, Wash,
are ready to receive bids for the Mantle
park boulevard, which will be one of the
best driveways in the northwest.
Queen Alexandra's private automobile
which bears her name in which she and
King Edward will tour the Mediterranean.
The Dixie, owned by Commodore r. J.
Schroeder of the Motor Boat club of
America. will be sent abroad to try for
the British inteTna tional cup in races on
the Solent August g.
Following the lead of W. Z. d. Stokes,
several New York motorists are sending
their cars one day each week to hospitals
in order that the patients may be given
airings.
There are more automobiles in the state
of California for its population than any
state in the union. There are more high
priced machines sold in California than
any other state.
An Indiana clergyman. Rev Il. T. Swee-
ney has been granted permission by the
state to construct railway to be operat-
ed by automobiles between Seymour and
BrOwnstOne. fifteen miles apart
Missouri good roads advocates are en-
deavoring to have the legislature approve
a bill providing for the use of convicts
in building two Translate highways,
from east to west and north to south.
For the month of January, 1907. the to-
tai value of automobiles and parts export
ed from the United States reached the
sum of $of6 49,, as compared with S291,694
for the corresponding month of 1906.
In purchasing a closed carriage one
should examine the glass very closely.
Imperfections in windows are very an
noying when a person is travelling through
country where the scenery is one of at
fractions.
To obtain the horsepower of an auto
mobile divide the total capacity Of the
cylinders. expressed in cubic inches by
ten The figures of the quotient will very
nearly represent the horsepower in a ma
jority of cars.
Fast automobiling, it Is contended by
an expert is the best form of exercise
for lung development, for a man who
constantly has to face gale of necessity
keeps his lungs filled with air that is
changing every minute.
For the Peking-Paris endurance con-
test for which no entry fee is charged,
eighteen cars have been entered The
cars will be shipped from Paris to Picking
about April IA and the participants will
follow a month later to begin the return
run
Owners and drivers of chain driven cars