The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28
BUBBLES.

Messrs. H. Kerhl. G. Hooper. C. Stop
per and Charles Walter, jr., took a trip
Friday to Barnegat Bay in Charles Wal
ter's Auburn car, driven by c.. II. Waters,
of the Meyer garage. They returned Sun
day by way of Point Pleasant, Asbury
Park and Long Branch. They caught a
number of fish.
]. J. Meyer leaves today for Auburn,
Ind. where he win visit the Auburn
Automobile Factory. Mr.. Meyers Is the
eastern representative of this concern. He
expecrs TO sell about thirty Auburn cars
the coming season.
The Brush McLaren Motor Company, AZ
William street, the New Jersey agents
for the Brush Runabout, announce that
they have taken the local agency for the
"F. N" four-cylinder motor cycle made by
the big Belgium gun makers The cycle
is high priced and claimed to be high grade
in every way. Mr.. MeLaren. the manager
of the local company, says that his first ex-
perience with the cycle was when he got on
Hit in front of the New York Office on
Broadway and rode it to Newark via
Fort Lee, Hackepsack and rutherford.
A Stearns car gave a good account of
itself in the riot the other day which at
tended the Tammany primaries in the
nineteenth Assembly ulSlrlcL IN front OF
the rooms of the John f. Curry Associa-
ton. Alb West Fifty-seventh street. Man
haitian. At the height of the melee Acting
Chief Inspector Titus hurried to the
Wyckoff. Church 4 Partridge office and
asked for a swift car to use in summoning
the reserves and in getting help. One of
the Stearns demonstrators was placed at
his disposal, and proved OF great assistance
In carrying the inspector from place to
place.
The use of the automobile for business
travelling is we'll illustrated IN the case OF
" ]. Dihgee, of New York and San Fran
cisco. a capitalist who is heavily interested
in the cement industry. Mr.. Dingee di.
vldes his time between the East and West
owning cement mills In Pennsylvania ant
California. He does all his travelling be.
tween his offices in the two cities and his
mills In his S0--horsepower Mathewson car
During the past few months he has beer
in New York, and has made weekly visits
to his Pennsylvania cement mills. using
his car not only to travel back and forth
but to inspect the different mills and quar-
ries. Mr.. Dingee and his Mathewson ar
now on their way to the Pacific coast fol
a two months visit.
E. l.. Seeley, the veteran autoist Of Pitts
burg. is a thoroughbred sportsman of thu
RpPhihI AyPts witch ut DfOkt Tue IdSleS
worlds record for two4cylinder TOURING
cars with his REQ in the ifty-mile rae,
at the recent Plttsburg meet, he did no
at once fully realize the full Significance
Of his splendid performance. He woult
not give the word out for publica ton unit
he had thoroughly investigated the posi-
tive assertions of his friends among tn
two-cylinder fraternity that his was in
deed a new worlds record. The of1cia
record hnVpXspr 9hnuvG thai hp nppOffHfal
the first fifteen miles at a steady, swift
pace In eighteen minutes and forty sec
onds, thus establishing a new high-spee'
mark for two-cylinder cars. The enor
nous strain that fell on Seeley's car b.
reason of the unfavorable condition of tn
Brunot's Island track adds stil create
luster TO his brilliant performance. Leo
T. Shelter still holds the fastest hve-mil
worlds record for two-cyiinder cars, whic
he won with his REQ at the Los Angelo
race meet in February. 1906.
Motorists who are not members of an.
club affiliated with the American Automo
bile Association can obtain an individual
membership for 81 by writing to Secretar-
F. H. Elliott. 4Ss Fifth avenue, New Yorl
city.
1t seems probable that the time is nea
at hand when touring cars will carry o.
their running boards tires fully initiate
and attached to their rims, instead G
merely the outer shoes now carried. Tn
Improvement of detachable rims has bee
going on steadily, although quietly. and
new detachable rim Of the Fisk pattern
now being put into commission that make
/ the foreign creations look like complicate
puzzles. With this RIM an amateur ha
been able TO replace a punctured tire wit
an inflated one in one minute and ten sec
onds.
While the modern motor car no longe
needs any test or Demonstration to prov
| that It is a practically perfect road vehicle