The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22
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IT'S RIGHT
PLUGS AND
SPEEDOME

Automobile owners Of Holyoke. Mass
have organized a club.
By the recent addition of its fOrty-sixth
member the American Motor Car Manu-
facturers' association became the greatest
world.
The nation. shocked over the recent nu-
merous fatalities due to high speeding su-
t0mOblles. the Italian government is con
sldering rigid restriction of both racing
and road driving.
SPANS ministers have requested King
Alfonso not TO risk his life by driving his
cars at excessive speeds. of which ne is
Tond They also object to him taking long
runs unattended.
Between May 10 and Sept l there were
7lS arrests in Boston for violation Of the
automobile laws, an average OF nearly
five day. and fines aggregating S44l5
were imposed
\ motor car was utilized when MAYNARD
T. Ennis, aged 35. wealthy business man
or York, Pa, and Miss Hayden, aged
l6. Of the same city. eloped to Washing
ton. d. c. to be wed
Besides her wonderful voice. eleven
children and ability as a practica, farm
er. Nine. Schumann-H einck rapidly is be
coming a skillful mOtOrist utilizing ma
chimes on her farm near MOntclair. n J
So successful have been the race meets
held at Wildwood. \. j., q seaside resort
this season. that plans are under way
for the construction of a mile track to
cost $4,000, in time for next year.
The Labor day hill climb of the Au-
tOmObile club of Bridgeport Conn. was
postponed unit. next Memorial day be
cause so many of the clubs members
were away from home on their vacations
With 5000 square feet Of space, tn
Automobile club Of America claims IT'S
show to be held at the Grand Contra
Palace. New York. October "A 10 81. vii.
be the greatest ever held in the United
States.
A trophy has been offered for an en-
durance race by the management Of Wit
ter Springs, Cal to be contested TO-
about the time the Automobile club or
that state holds its run early in October
Miss Victoria Goodwin. Great Britain
most expert motOrist, who is touring the
United States. worked in a factory at 81
a week for nearly year to thoroughly
master an automobiles mechanism.
Beauty bags for fair automobllists have
been brought out in London. They con
tain compartments for bandages and medi-
cines. needles, thread. tape. pins comb
brush. hairpins, powder puff and a mir
Tor.
The New York Automobile club is con
sidering the holding of a test of Odometers
and speedCmeters in or near New York
fin October with a view to finding out
whether they are Of practical value 10
owners.
A widely known manufacturer has Of
fered cash prizes aggregaung SZ-J0 IN gold
TO the ten chaffeurs driving his machines
who show at the end of next season the
lowest repair bills in proportion TO the
mileage.
The Argentina. Automobile club exposi-
ton fixed for November 1 to IS, at Bueno5
Ayres, promises to be a huge success.
There is some talk Of constructing an
autodrome in the magnificent park or
Palermo
The decision OF Attorney General Ma
lone of Massachusetts. that the state high
way commission is not a police body has
acted as a quietus on persons who com
planned that it was not enforcing the
sDeed laws as it should
The Automobile club of France already
has formulated its rules for the next
Grand Prix, which does not take place
until June or July. tt probably viii De
run over the same course as TINS year
with some notifications
AS the films Of OIL in the tubes Of lu-
bricating systems frequently solidlty re
ducine or completely ODstructing the
bores the tubes should be unmounted IRE
oueutIv and either brown out with steam
or washed out with gasoline
BY building n fve-mile mdCadafn foa1
road west from Irwin. Pa, the state OF
PENNSYLVANIA will give motorists a new
route into Pittsburg from the eastward
and eliminate a Wretched stretcn Of lhe
nresent Philadelphia Pittsburg pike
Flat round and nearly as large as
dishpan is a new automobile Dag TOT No
men It is of red leather, marked with
gilt rim and spOkes to initiate motor
wheel and has a regulation silver-mouui-
ed purse clasp to close it at the top.
To break up the practice or speeding
on the part Of motorists VINO TOUR 70
Atlantic CITY. the fTeehOlderS OF Atldnlic
county New Jersey. have picketed tnt
roads with motorcycle police and viii
string telephones at intervals OF a mile.
An application has been made 70 I'm
ppror William to pardon Emil simon
the New York student, VINO accldenJallE
killed a woman in Germany while drlN-
ing an automobile, for which ne was
sentenced to three months Imprisonment
A combination of the Indiana Automo-
bile club and the Indiana Motor Boat club-
both having headquarters IN lndlanapo-
lis has been effected. IL IS the ulu-
mate object of the two organizations TO
erect a large and cOmmodiOus club house
Members of the New York metropolitan
press who write live automobile news.
members Of the trade press and New YORK
correspondents OF Out-O1-tOWn trade pa
pers are about to form an organization
TO be known as the Flat Tire club.
The worlds record for motor boats for
one kilOmeter and one mile ooth with
flying starts. recently was broken on
Lake Geneva by French craft. which
covered the distances i'm I minute > sec
Onds ana 1 minute 90 So seconds, respec-
All the best previous American record
were smashed in the 24-hour endurance
contest at Morris Park track y. y. Sept
and = Bernin. the winner, with lo'>
miles being 81 miles ahead Of the fig
ures hug up at Brighton Beach.
II is reported that TheTy. the celebrated
French racing driver. who won the Ben
nett twice III succession v Us re-
enter the racing field. He is expected
to break the bad luck that has pursued
France this year and restore her racing
supremacy
a vigorous good roads campaign IS be
ing carried on by the Automobile Club
of Philadelphia, and the result is that all
along the main roads entering the Quaker
CITY motorists are beginning to notice
signs giving warning of bad spots and
pointing the way and distances to vari-
Gus places.
The good roads problem i'm all Its
phases will be thoroughly discussed AT
Springfield. Mass, on Tuesday and We'd
nesday when the automobile club OF
that city will hold a convention to which
motorists highway commissioners. road
builders ana lawyers from all over the
east have been invited.
On a new automobile omnibus line be
tween Neumarkt and PreGaZzO. Swift
erIand, each driver will be provided with
a portable telephone outfit. so that I'm
case Of any mishap which he cannot re-
pair himself he may connect his instru-
ment 70 the line running along the road
and summon help from the garage.
Though only IA years of age J Mills
HOff. son Of John D. Hoff of San Fran
cisco. president Of a large Pacific coast
coal concern, is an expert driver. carrv-
ing his father on a weekly trip OF S3e