Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Kansas Citys first show will be held the
first week In March.
Providence. y r b Il will hold its first show
The annual show at Portland. Ne, will
be held from February "a to March 2
The Williamsburg Automobile club has
joined the Pennsylvania Moor Federation.
Charles Jeantaud, the pioneer French
electric vehicle builder, died at Pals le-
Gently.
The annual show of the Automobile club
Of Maryland will be held at Baltimore jan
uary 10 to 8.
Many Of the best known coachmen of
New York are qualifying themselves TO
drive motor cars
Automobile raiment, once the most hide
Gus OF DISCUSSES, is taking to the most
fetching coquetries.
Don't try to rebuild your car, as your
method of construction may not colncide
with the original plan.
The three days tour and economy. test
Of the New York Motor club is likely to
be repeated In May or June
( A New York insurance firm did mo than
twice as much business insuring automo-
/ biles in 1906 than the previous year
| France proposes to make a ccnsc. ipt roll
! OF motor cars, to harnes them, as II We're
1 IN an emergency 10 the chariot OF war.
| In Great Britain SIS $500 is inve tied IN
I the automobile industry. During 1906 IL ~
vehicles were turned out, valued at SA'SSs''
/ The Motor Boat CLUB Of America will have
| a Handsome headquarters on the Hudson
river in time for the opening of the sprins
season.
Jamaica is a paradise for motorists, 9
| network Of roads covering the island, bull
| by the British government being excep'
/ tionally fine.
! Springfield, Mass, is to motorize its fire
department A combination hose and chem
/ zeal wagon has proved its worth and mor'
will be purchased.
! strong argument in favor Of u=ing de,
/ natured alcohol in place of gasoline Is thai
when II catches fire water easily extin
cuisines the flames.
Baltimore has equ pp.d a squad of police
with high power motor cycles 10 run doWf
chauffeurs and careless motorists whS
break the speed law
The state Board Of Highway Comm.s
sioners OF Minnesota Is endsayoring 70 hays
the time-honored custom OF working out
road taxes abolished
/ w. II. Moore who Yves elected pres e 4
OF the National Good Roads association, a.
Muskogee q. To meeting, Is stauncf
friend OF automobilists.
! Cincinnati is to have an automobile show
during the week OF January p 70 g. u dei
] the auspices of the Automobile Dea eTs
Z association OF that city.
! H NJ Rowe, Baltimore motor s., has
I donated a perpetual challenge trophy fol
annual competition by members OF the Au'
tomoblle club Of Maryland.
A Joint committee OF the Arkansas Farm
ers union and Arkansas Good Roads as
ISOLATION will ask the legislature to allow
convict labor on highways.
! AT the ormond-Daytona Beach tourna'
ment phc tOgrS piers will have cime as
equal to speeds OF twenty-five seconds 4
{ the mile. the most rapid ever made.
Z The Automobile club of California has
Z put its foot down on road races between
D San Francisco and Los Angeles and short
/ distance sprints over public highways.
I The Niagara County IN. " Board OF
Supervisors has ruled that no wagons with
Z tires less than two and five-eighths inches
wide win be allowed on improved high
ways.
| Secretary Shaw has ruled that automO-
biles repaired abroad shall pay duty at full
value on their return 20 this country II
! the repairs exceed 10 per cent OF the origi.
4 nal cost
! Consular reports say there is great de-
mand for automobiles In Singapore. IN,