The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21
IF It's III E RE
IT'S RIGHT
SPARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS

per year
The timing at the Schooey's Mountain.
y. j., hill climb next Saturday Will be
done by telephone.
Chauffeurs of the Quaker City have
organized the Philadelphia Mechanical
Chauffeurs' association.
OF the eighty-six starters in the sealed
bonnet test Of the Chicago Motor club
fifty-five came through with clean
scores
Sealed mechanism contests are all the
style now, yet year ago, when first
suggested, they were sCOffed at.
Newark On. j. autoists are talking of
forming a second local organization, to
be limited to residents of the city and
nearby towns.
Affairs at the jamestown exposition are
In such an unsettled condition that IL IS
likely that the motor boat contests will
be abandoned.
A standing reward has been offered BY
the Minneapolis club for the conviction
of any person stealing a car owned By
any of its members.
Although only in its infancy the au-
tomObile industry and its allied trades i'm
the United States nOurishes an army of
over 10000 wOrkmen.
Philadelphia's autObuses began running
the past week Twenty-Five were put in
service on Broad street, the longest paved
street in the world.
SkepticaI of the asserted smoothness Of
the route mapped out, many Glidden tour
lists took precautions to fit their ma
chimes with shock absorbers.
A Connecticut lawyer gives 1t as his
opinion that many town treasures in the
Nutmeg state depend almost solely upon
the capture of alleged speed viOlatOrs.
With the victory of Navarro in the
French Grand Prix, the international
racing score for 1901 stands: Three Ital-
ian victories, one British and one Ger
man.
A manufacturer who is in a position
to know declares that only about ten
per cent Of the $50 concerns which build
cars in this country do so with a prOfil.
George Gould and his family have been
making a series Of automobile trips
through western Europe, using Paris
a base.
The Importers Automobile Salon will
hold its fourth annual show of foreign
cars and accessories at Madison Square
garden, New York. Dec. 3 TO Jan. 4.
For the first six months this year the
state of New York issued 62S licenses
to owners OF automobiles and $50 70
chauffeurs. for which it collected SB.JJ-
in fees.
Members Of the Germantown pa Au-
tomobile club have begun crusade To
enforce the ordinance I'm Philadelphia
against the throwing Of nails and glass
on the streets.
An officer of the German army will
attempt 10 cross Africa in an automobile
by way of German East Africa, British
Central Africa, Rhodesia and German
Southwest Africa.
Since the removal Of the limit on ac-
tive membership by the Worcester
=
has been forging ahead rapidly in point
of numbers.
During the fiscal year ending June 81,
/. 435 cars. valued at S5,Og9,O05, were i'm
ported through the port of New York
a gain of 10 cars over the preceding fis-
cal year.
Governor Giliett Of California is one of
the most active aUtoists of any state eN-
ecutive in the country. He did deal
Of work in the last campaign with the
aid OF his car.
The new automobile factory at New
Castle, Ind, for which Vice President
Fairbanks recently laid the cornerstone.
will cost S9JQ0JG cover siXty-fiye acres
and employ $50 workers.
Senator ChaUnCey NJ. DepeW and his
wife, who recently arrived in Paris, IN
tend making long automobile tour
through Europe, and may then resid-
permanently in Paris
In connection with BostOn's Old Home
week celebration an automobile parade
will be held, Aug. !, followed by q fish
ermen's race and athletic games on the
historic Common.
The Automobile Club of Indiana refused
TO support race project on the Indiana
State Fair grounds at Indianapolis on
the ground that the track was not fit
for high speeding.
Among the thirty new members elected
by the Automobile Club of Philadelphia
at its last meeting was James McCrea,
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
who is an ardent mOtCrist.
Probably the largest contract for aU-
tOmObiles ever made was signed recently
by a Philadelphia company, which agreed
to supply $50 cars year for five years
TO a firm in Florence. Italy.
Under the auspices Of the Marquis de
Dion a great test for touring automobiles
soon, will be run in France, the wilmer
to receive a magnificent silver trophy,
known as the Press cup.
The Imperial Automobile Club Of Ger
many lost $4,000 by the emperOT's cup
race, a huge sum bein gexpended TO put
the Tanus course. over which it was
run, in condition, and to erect grand
stands.
The ascending of Mount Wilson. the
highest accessible peak I'm the Sierra
Madre mountains. is a feat that is at
tracing autOmCbilists Of southern Cali
fOrnia. The mountain is a little over a
mile high.
In one day recently at Portland. Ore
J. H. Wallace broke two records. win
ming a twenty-five-mile race on a circu-
lar track in y minutes 3 A. seconds. and
a ten-mile race on the same track In
10 minutes SO 20 seconds
The automobile speedway at Lakeside,
San Diego county, California. is one of
the fastest IN the country, owing largely
TO its shape-that of a great egg. two
miles around and with the long curves
bank high for speeding.
Unlike the racing board, the touring
committee of the American Automobile
association included ''13' along with other
entry numbers for the Gldden tour. More
protest.
New Jersey motorists have raised
fund of several thousand dollars to thor
oughly test in the courts the speed law
of that state, which rural officials inter
pref TO suit themselves, always to the
disadvantage of the mOtorist.
novel feature of the race for the
Kaiser's cup was the painting of the cars.
the German being white: French, blue,
Italian, red; Belgian. yellow; English.
green; Austrian, orange and black, and
Swiss, red and yellow.
Chicago autoists are most gallant. Be
cause damp weather prevented the taking
of old ladies Of public institutions on
Orphans day, the Windy City motorists
are planning a special outing for them
later in the summer.
Declaring that the only way to pre-
vent the Vanderbilt cup race from lapsing
is to hold it on the beach at Ormond.
members of the Florida Automobile as
sociatiOn are pressing the matter upon the
officials of the A. A. a.
In Pennsylvania 15,424 automobile Ii
censes were issued the first six months
this year as against 1902 all of last year.
The state uses the profits obtained from
the fees for survey work and experiments
with dUst-laying materials
To get the best of a private detective
agency which sets traps to catch Unwary
motorists in whose fines they shared the
NorristOWn pa Automobile club erected
signs and stationed members along the
roads to warn strange drivers
The Bridgeport Comm Automobile club
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