The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23

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IT'S RIGHT
SPARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS

Wilmington, DEL now has three COM
mercial firms using horseless delivery We
hicles
Chicago is to have aled-bonnot con-
test, but without the disqualfying clause.
There are 9.2l2 automobiles owned with
IN nifty miles of City Hall square. New
York City.
Vincenzo Florio already has offered
$1,000 to be given In prizes for voitU-
rette race next year
A prize of $4,000 has been offered bv
the Automobile Club Of France for a
substitute for gasoline.
Motorists Of Portland. Ore. plan To
nave club house OF their own before
the summer ends.
Business amounting to over s.. 00O 900 was
zone III New York last year by dealers
III secondhand cars
The medical services Of most Of the Eu-
ropean armies are experimenting with au-
tomobile ambuiances for use IN time Of
war,
The Sonoma County. Cal. Driving cI1t
Is arranging for an automobile race meet
July 4.
Despite the strictness Of English law
king Edwards cars are exempt from
numbering and his majesty needs no driv-
ing license.
Alarmed by the active competition of
Yankee manufacturers. Paris dealers are
besiegfng Americans in their hotels in
tho French capital.
a big 45-horSe power touring car fel!
through an elevator shaft in a Philadel-
phta building, a distance of scventy-twu
feet yet only bent it's frame
The Metropolitan Asylum board, which
has charge of fever and smallpox patients
in London, has placed orders for twelve
automobile ambulances.
The Automobile Club of France has de
clded TO give a place OF honor in all fu-
ture exhibitions to winners OF all great
races or contests.
Several owners of cattle ranches on the
Texas Panhandle now have high-pow-
cred runabOuts to use in chasing cattle
rustlers and horse thieves
President Earring, of the Chicago. Mi.
Waukee & St Paul railway, is inspecting
the route of the Pacific coast. extension
OF his line in an automobile.
ne worlds nonstop record for a two
cylinder car was smashed at Minneapols
recently by machine which had been
kept running steadily for 222 hours.
Beginning August 3. Atlantic City Wi.
hold an automobile carnival TO include
two days of racing a floral parade and
a three-day show on one of the piers
The beautiful duchess Of Sutherland has
qualified as chauffeuse, and has become
president of motor club. composed Of
London's titled society women.
At Los Angeles a company has been
formed to manufacture tires of a special
kind OF light leather. which is claimed
10 be resilient durable and non-punctur-
able
The st. Paul club will have as a cluh
house and garage this summer a substan-
tial twO-stOry brick building with dining
and smoking rooms, buffet and ladies
room.
The success of the twenty four-houf
race at Philadelphia was such that most
of the entrants are keen to have another
OF the same kind. which is planned for
June q and %
In 1901 France built Z3.7l1 cars to the
United States 314 In 1906, according To-
a French Statistician. The United State
produced 5000 to Frances 5000
Rub0erized, merCeriZed and crlvanettet.
materials have the call this year for sum
mer fashions Tor women motorists wear
leather costumes giving way 70 the light
er materials.
At a recent athletic meet at Buffalo
automobiles were used to patrol the track
TO keep the crowds in check. Two car7
successfully accomplished a task tn1t
forty policemen had given up in despair
The Great Western railway of England
has put into operation road motor buses
designed as feed rS Of suburban and in
terurban lines. and to deliver parcels and
freight directly to homes of patrons.
At Denver on June I the fifty-mile rec
ord for stock gasoline cars was broken
by r. l. Mathe vson, who won race iu
% minutes - 4-5 seconds with a tWO-year-
old car that had been driven q Coo miles.
Within the past two or three years the
use OF automobiles in Indianapolis has
resulted in the collection of $4,000 for
new public buildings and fraIernal asso-
Citations.
In investigating the death Of Albert
Clement, the wealthy young Frenchman
who was killed near Paris his fathef
learned that the road where the accident
occurred was banked the wrong way.
The Homeopathic hospital of Spring
Held, Mass, has put into service an cleo
trio ambulance, with fOrty-cell unslUnR
battery, supplying power for two motors
which work individually with each rear
Madame Pederneiras, wife of the mill
tary attache of the Brazilian embassy At
washington; and a popular figure in dip
lomatic society, is devoted to automobII-
ing, and loses few occasions to engage in
her faYorite sport.
Among die latest novelties used by fair
motorists is the motor parasOI It is
smaller than the ordinary parasOl in fact
resembles a childs sun-shade. and is made
IN any color the owners fancy may die
tate.
Indianapolis boasts of a woman pbv.i-
clan who uses an automobile IN making
her rounds. She is Dr. Hannah Graham
and has a garage at her home so that
within a few minutes after receiving a
call she Is on her way.
Summed UP, the Glidden tour will cover
1,5lS miles in fifteen days elapsed time
or twelve days running time making an
average Of 126 miles per day, althOugl
the longest days run will be ia miles anu
the shortest ninety-seven.
The Brooklands racing track near We
bridge, England. the first circuit of ifs
kind yet constructed abroad is nearing
completion A good portion of prize sum
OF $1,000 will be distributed on the open
ing day. July 10
The king of Siam who developed q pas
sion for autOmObiling during MS visits 10
england, Is determined TO make The
Otd1iSSS TAKE a more modern view Of the
motor car, and will take back with him
several CARS of the finest type
According TO a British authority the
number of cars in use in the world is
24S. 500, divided among the countries as fol
lows: America, $1,000: Great Britain. Is
eco; France, 5000; Germany. 1000; Aus
tTia and Hungary, 5000; Italy, 5000; Spain.
1000; other countries of Europe, including
Russia. $500: India, 2000; Egypt. Canada.
Australia and other British colonies. 2O0G.
Central and South America, loo; China,
japan and Eastern Asia, 500
The largest photograph of an automo-
bile ever made. an enlargement 12x15 feet
OF a picture taken of President Roosevelt
riding in car at Lansing. Mich is be-
ing used as an advertisement by the
builders of the car.
Demonstrating ears will be barred from
the side streets surrounding Madison
Square Gardens, New York, during next
falls show of the licensed manufactur-
ers. and there will be a section Of the
show devoted to motorcycles.
The new automobile ordinance prepared
by the legislative committee OF the Gin
cinnati Automobile club. at the sUgges-
ton Of city council, contains a clause