Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12

All doubt regarding the running Of the
Vanderbilt cup race. it is said, was set at
rest at the recent meeting of the executive
committee of the American Automobile As
ISOLATION, when Chairman Jefferson De Mont
Thompson of the racing board announced
that the race will positively be held over
the Long Island Motor Parkway. at about
the same time as previously. A meeting
of the racing board will be held May 15
Mr.. Thompson said, at which time the
rules, which are undergoing Some changes
will be adopted and definite arrangements
will be made for receiving entries. The
| race occurs in the fall.
William X. Vanderbilt, ir.. attended the
meeting, and he presented a slight modifi-
cation of the deed of gift, placing the con-
troll of the event in this country in the
hands of the executive committee of the A.
A. A. racing board. This was rendered
necessary from the fact that the board has
been so enlarged this season, due to the
number of new associations admitted to the
national body, that it has been necessary to
form an executive committee of the board
to take charge of the cup race and other
matters of more or less national Importance.
Mr.. Thompson named the members OF
the committee William X. Vanderbilt. jr,
E Russell Thomas, Dave H. Morris, Frank
G. Webb, A. r. Pardington, r. l.. Lippitt,
Samuel NJ. Butler A. G. Batchelder, Geo.
l.. Weiss and Ira NJ. CODE, with Frederick
II. Elliott as secretary.
President William H. Hotchkiss of Buff
falo presided at the meeting, and those
present in addition to Mr.. Vanderbilt,
were Mr.. Thompson, A. G. Batchelder,
Frank B. Hover, Charles t. Terry, Lewis
r. Speare of Boston, George F. Harrington
and Secretary Elliott.
Although we have trebled our state
membership President Hotchkiss said, las
We only had five state organizations on the
first of the year, the work is still going on,
and plans are in progress to form state
bodies in Delaware, Iowa, Vermont and
Kentucky
The municipal council of Paris has grant,
ed the use of portion of the Place des
Invalides, the Series on tie banks of the
Seine and the Avenue Dutuit to the pro-
moters of the tenth annual salon from Oc-
tober l to December 81 al rental of 81 ,OOO
The salon will open November II and close
December /.
The Albany On. " board of supervisors
has granted permission to the Albany Auto
mobile Club to close state roads, extending
in a nineteen mile circuit, south of the city,
on the afternoon of September IA, when the
club will hold an amateur automobile cup
tournament. The route will be traversed
five times.
So successful did Kansas City's expert
mentS with crude oil prove last year that
several Missouri counties will sprinkle the
ma cadam roads this season. Roads which
were treated with oil four times during
1906 did not need sprinkling with water the
entire season, showing that the Oil treat
ment is an economical one.
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State organizations representing Ken
ri (yolo do ichi
Vermont have applied for membership in
the American Automobile Association; Della
ware motorists are organizing with view
to entering the national body, and the Auto
mobile Club of Washington, d. c., Will
make an effort to be admitted as repre-
senting the District of Columbia.
That the federal government has taken
an interest in the movement to popularlZe
American cars abroad is shown by the fact
that the bureau of manufactures OF the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor has Sc
cured for distribution entry blanks for the
Scotch reliability trials, which will be run
from Glasgow to Inverness, distance OF
755 miles, June % to %.
A st. Louis dealer has supplied the gypsy
king of Kansas with one of the most unique
motor vehicles in the world. 1t is COM
bination of the old gypsy wagon and the
modern motor car, and will be used by the
king and his family on their continuous
camping-out The motor Is of immense
power. and, owing to the cars great weight,
the wheels have been equipped with solid
tires.
The automobile has been the primary
cause behind the national movement for
better roads; it has made summer hotels
remote from railroad stations more accessi-
BILE; 1t has given many country youth with
a mechanical turn of mind good, steady
position as a chauffeur and has been In
strumental in increasing the permanent