The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

will find their machines will run better If
every time the car is washed the chains
and sprOcketS are brushed off thoroughly
with kerosene and rubbed over with a
light coat of graphite and grease
Honduras has only one road suitable
for autos, but that road, which leads
from San Lorenzo I'D among the noun
tains TO Tegucigalpa. 5000 feet above the
sea, is considered the finest in Central
America. 1t cost 81. 10000 in gold to build
In addition to establishing a registra-
ton bureau for chauffeurs the Cleveland
Automobile club is compiling for pubIi-
cation a register of the numbers and
names of machine owners in the city and
vicinity, as well as the makes of their
cars.
Automobiles Of Milwaukee snd Chi
cagO and of the cities along the shore
of Lake Michigan between the two are
planning to revive the project of COM
pleting the famous Sheridan drive, which
now extends from Chicago as far as Wan
kegan. Ill.
new car for King Edward of England
was totally destroyed in a fire at Bar
ritz. on the Spanish-French boundary.
The fire is said to have been started
by a customs official breaking his Ian
tern. over an open gasoline can or tank
on the car
In an edition of Victor Hugo's ''Ies
Miserables, published in 1862 the word
Chauffeur IS given this definition: "A
band of felons who. about 1T94-95, burned
the soles of their victims feet to make
them confess where they kept their
money"
Colonel William c. Greene, of the
Greene Consolidated Copper company
purchased an armOred automobile for use
In travelling about his mine and lumber
properties, some of which lie In country
infested by hostile Indians. A Calling
gun is mounted in front.
The Massachusetts supreme court has
decided in favor OF motOrist a suit for
damages against street railway com
pany which used such a powerful head
frcrhr 49, A0. $500
porarily blinded and ran into an obstruc-
ton, wreckfng his automobile.
1t should be remembered that dlkalies
have considerable corrosive effect on
aluminium or alloys containing it, and
that soapy water sp1ashed on crank cases
and other parts of a car made of that
metal is liable to have pitting effect
and afford place for the lodgment Of
dirt and dust.
The supreme court of Massachusetts,
has ruled that a traveller on highway is
not bound to be continuously looking or
listening to ascertain whether motor cars
are approaching, under the penalty that
his failure to do 50 will constitute con-
tributory negligence, precluding recov-
cry for injuries sustained in collision.
A Chicago alderman proposes that all
cars owned by the city. except those for
the use of the fire and police chiefs, be
kept in municipal garage and sent out
on call from any city department head
When a machine goes out the time will
be registered, and also the use for which
it is taken The return also will be
checked.
The first car designed especially to use
denatured alcohol has been built for A. H.
Renshaw of Norton, Conn.,, a friend of
Professor Luckey of Columbia university,
who has done so much to make the new
fuel available The carburettor is slight
ly smaller and the compression chamber
slightly larger than in gasoline motors.
With 1000 taximeter cabs awaiting Off
cial sanction to begin operations at Lon
don. the old hansoms and four wheelers
seem doomed to extinction. They will ada
a lively touch of color to the streets. for
they have red bodies with yellow wheels
and the drivers will wear gorgeous blue
uniforms with plenty of brass buttons.
A number of New York importers of
foreign cars favor holding separate ex-
hibition next January open 10 every make
of foreign car. The early dates of the