The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-10
So ARK PLUGS AND
SpEEOONETERS

New York. Nov. "a radical change
is 10 be made in the program for the
coming OrmOnue Beach meet. In The
Florida or twO-mhc record sprints will
be more or less subOrdnated to twl
big races. one for the racing cars that
were built for the abandoned Vanderbilt
cup race aud the other for strictly
stock cars Of sixty horsepower or
less. The exact distances for these two
races have not been decided upon. The
race for the stock cars Will possibly
be 200 10 259 miles
Land loops Will be- CONSTRUCTED at
both ends of the beach course, so that
the turns can be made n both a fast
and safe manner.
Secretary Brockway of the Ameri-
can Motor league is now sending out
revised list Of official repair and sup
ply stations appointed by the league
in prominent cities and towns through
which touring IL carried on. More
than 200 stations ana garages have
been lately added to the list and new
edition will be printed i'm october. Each
. proprietor OF ali Official station is IN
der contract with the league to main
tain a proper equipment and to render
good service at fair prices. Each menu
Der of the league is entitled, upon pre-
senting his membership card, to a dis
count of 10 per cent on all bills of 81
and upward. All official stations will
he listed in the hand books and tour
books of the A. NJ. L. and on the route
cards. of which 100000 have already
been distributed.
The American Motor league has been
organizing its state divisions very rap
idly within the last few months and it
now seems certain that the league will
develop great power and influence as a
national body State boards of Off
GERS have been appointed in thirty-sev'-
en- states. and in nine of these chief
consuls. have been selected who will
serve as executive heads of the differ
ent state divisions. State representa-
tives have been appointed In each state
in proportion to the number of auto
mobiles enrolled on the league list and
the members thus appointed will make
up the state boards in the several
states. These appointments have been
made with care-in nearly every case
upon the recommendation of response
bic citizens bankers. public officers
and we'll known league members), and
more than 1900 acceptances have been
sent in to the secretary by state board
representatives from all the states. The
boards thus chosen will carry forward
the work of the league in each state
under bylaws framed for that pur-
pose. and will select delegates to the
national assembly. The officers in each
state division will select committees to
handle different departments of diyis-
ion work. and a meeting of the first
national assembly of the league will be
held in December or January next. In
the meantime eleven national commit
tees will be appointed and the work of
the organization will, from this time
be pushed forward with renewed en-
ergy.
More than 900 accidents to motor car
tourists have been reported in the
United States and Canada since the be-
ginning of the year. many of them re-
sulting fatally. 1t cannot be claimed
that these accidents We're wholly due
TO rapid or reckless driving. for some
of the most serious ones happen to au-
tomobiists who are known 70 be pru-
dent and eeret in the arrangement