Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-21
January l another IS fee will

| of the year. January another IS fee will
| be required
A new rule of reciprocity. courtesy, hos-
| pltalty, or whatever IL may be called
| that is coming into observance in the east
is that or the guest or guests doing all
| the spending when out on n trip In the
| automobile Of a friend This has the
| stamp OF common sense. for 1T has been
II, IN the nature Of rubbing it in" to have
! the man who furnishes the car gasoline
| ana driver do all the spending at the road
| side stops
Hartford. Conn. is unusually we'll
| equipped for a city of it's size with motor
vehicles for public service In addition
| TO runabout for the fire chief recently
| purchased. another runabout has been or
dered Tor the assistant chief. also COM
| nllation motor chemical and hose wagon.
| me pollce department has used an cleo
| trical patrol wagon for several years and
gasoline high-power machine to replace
II Is now building.
| The American Motor Car Manufacture
/ ers Association has decided upon a sixty
| gay guarantee as the standard to be given
| by lts members on cars they sell.
| The coaches of the rowing crews of Sew.
| eral Of the eastern universities have de-
| clded that there is nothing so restful to
| the men under their charge after a hard
| pun In the shells as ride In an automo-
| bile. Gasoline tonic has been added as
| IL We're, to the training table diet.
| Senator Chauncey M Depew and his wife.
| who recently arrived in Paris intend
making long automobile tour through
in Paris.
In connection with Boston's Old Home
| week celebration an automobile parade will
| be held August /, followed by fishermen's
race and athletic games ON the historic
| Common.
The Automobile Club Of Indiana has re-
| Indiana state fair grounds at Indianapolis
on the ground that the track was not fit
| for high speeding.
Among the thirty new members elected
| by the Automobile Club of Philadelphia
at ITS last meeting was James McCrea.
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
| who is an ardent motorist.
| Probably the largest contract for auto-
| mobiles ever made was signed recently by
a Philadelphia company. which agreed TO
supply 300 cars year for five years to a
| firm in Florence. Italy:
Under the auspices of the Marquis de
| Dion great test for touring automobiles
| soon will be run in France. the winner to
| receive a magnificent silver trophy known
| as the Press cup.
The Imperial Automobile Club of Ger
| many lost $4,000 by the emperor's cup
! race. huge sum being expended TO put
the Tanus course. over which it was run, in
| condition to erect grand stands.
The ascending of Mount Wilson the high
| est accessible peak in the Sierra Nadre
mountains, is feat that is attracting
| Automobiles of southern California. The
mountain is little over a mile high
| In one day recently at Portland, Ore J.
| II. Wallace broke two records winning a
| twenty-fve-mile race on a circular track in
, - minutes . A. seconds and a ten-mie
race on the same track In ten minutes 50
! % seconds
The automobile speedway at Lakeside,
San Diego county, Cal: is one of the fastest
| in the country, owing largely to its shape
that of a great egg-two miles around and
| with the long curves banked high for speed
ing.
A novel feature of the race for the
kaiser's cup was the painting OF the cars.
tie German being white: French. blue;
Italian, red: Belgian. yellow: English.
green: Austrian, orange and black, and
Swiss. red and yellow.
Chicago autosts are most gallant. Be-
cause damp weather prevented the taking
of old ladies of public institutions out on
Orphans day, the Windy City motorists
are planning special outing for them
later in the summer. =
Declaring that the only way to prevent
the Vanderbilt cup race from lapsing is to
hold it on the beach at Ormond members
of the Florida Automobile Association are
pressing the matter upon the officials OF
the A. A. A.
In Pennsylvania 15.424 automobile IL
censes were issued the first six months this
year as against HOSP all Of last year The
state uses the profits obtained from the
fees for survey work and experiments with
dust-laying materials.
To get the best of a private detective
agency which set traps to catch unwary
motorists. in whose fines they shared. the
Norristown Pa. Automobile Club erected
signs and stationed members along the
roads to warn strange drivers
During a recent fire near Larchmont l..
l., the horses were unable, owing to the
heavy roads. to drag an engine to the blaze.
Unhitching the team the fire chief sent for
an automobile, which lowed the engine to
the fire in quick time.
The Chicago Automobile Club will hold
show of cars tires and sundrles in the
fall Independently and probably before the