The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
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IT'S RIGHT
SPARK PLUGS AND
SPEEDOHETERS

Senator and Mrs. Chauncey NJ Depew
have been motoring through the Swiss
During July 1885 motor vehicles were
registered with the secretary Of state Of
New York
A firm of New York dealers has closed
contract with a Cleveland company TO
take 100000 worth Of its 1905 out
put.
A dry battery which can be recharged
in two minutes by the use OF q simple
apparatus is being placed on the British
market.
1t is one of the axioms Of the science
Of good driving that the feet should never
be removed from the pedals while the
car is in motion.
Three thousand miles recently were COW
cred in twenty days by d. r. Levy, a
New York broker, who called his long and
speedy ride tour"
Instruction in English is being given
forty Paris policemen that they may be
better equipped to make life comfortable
for American tourists.
The automobile industry has attracted
a large number Of the French nobility
who have been forced to go into bust
ness to replenish exhausted fortunes
Italy has III automobile building com
panies with a working capital OF SIS CO.
600 The city of Turin, with thirty-seveu
factories, heads the industry.
Phlladelphias city councils have or
dered the purchase of a 900 automobile
for Fire Chief Baxter and a similar ore
for Director of Public Safety Clay
From St Louis to New York via Chi
cago, Cleveland and Buffalo. IN ito hours
was a new record made recently in a
roadster by Nj. A. Heimann OF the for
mer city.
That motorists must pay toll on turn
pixies was a recent opinion rendered to
the Lancaster Automobile club by For
mer Attorney General W. L. Hensel of
Pennsylvania.
A Providence, R. T., magistrate recently
imposed a term of ten days in jail upon
a cOlOred chauffeur who drove a car
through the streets at a fifty-mile gait
to show some dusky friends how fast he
could do It,
The French Association Generate Au-
tomobiie is organizing a competition for
devices which will prevent motor cars
from being stolen or used after leaving
the hands of the owner,
The value of motor cars owned by
Americans travelling in Switzerland this
year is estimated to be ten times as great
IS that of automobiles owned by all other
foreigners together.
At a cost of about $500 a mile. the "dus-
test road in the country from Buffalo
to Clarence. n. Y. is to be treated with
a tar preparation to make il more pleas
ant for motoring.
A peculiar feature of Georgia's new au-
tOmObile law is that although il fixes
speed limits, it contains provision that
it shall not conflict with the speed laws
Of any incorporated city or town.
The law committee OF the New York
Automobile club is drafting a bill, which
it will try to have enacted into law by
the various states. providing for inter
state licenses for motor vehicles.
Two accidents, resulting in six deaths,
caused the French ministry OF the IN
terror to put a stop to the Criterium de
France race at the end Of the second day,
when It was only half completed
Permission to close a residence avenue
for seven hours, so that races could be
held. recently was granted to the Met
ropoltan Automobile association by Act
ing Mayor MCGOWAN Of New York.
The Royal Automobile club Of Great
Britain and the Commercial Motor Users
association will on Sept. 9 begin an In
teresting competition for commercial mo-
tor vehicles in the form of tour.
One hundred gasoline motor cars have
been ordered by the Union Pacific rail-
road for use on branch lines Steam trains
for passenger use viii be abandoned on
branches when the cars are completed
The burning of the toll gates on Proof
Line road, near London, Ont, after they
had been in use ntty-eight years, was
made the occasion Of a great celebration
The gates were gathered in one pile for
their destruction.
The first publication primarily in the
interest of automobile drivers has been
issued at New York by the Professional
Chauffeurs' Club Of America. It is an
illustrated monthly, known as the Amer
lean Chauffeur.
Though Philadelphia probably has as
many automobiles in proportion to its
population as any other large city there
is said to be a smaller proportion OF fem
mime motorists than in any other city
OF its class.
The supervisors of Onondaga county
New York. will compel the owners Of the
Syracuse and Fayette turnpike. a por-
ton of the main highway across the state,
to put il in first class condition or abolish
the toll gatese.
The foreign representative of the Amer
lean Motor Car Manufacturers associa-
ton has reported that the indications
point to q large demand next season from
Europe for American runabouts and light
touring cars.
The Worcester AIass) Automobile club
which last year put several local graft
ers out of business, he retained counsel
to appeal every case in which motor
ist is fined unless there Is ample justi-
ficatiOn for the punishment.
In spite OF the plea that diplomats and
their servants are immune. a chauffeur
in the employ Of Captain Sydney A. Clio
man, military attache Of the American
embassy in London, was fined $50 and
costs for speeding.
The racing board Of the American Au-
tomobile association fas formulated rules
to govern all future 4-hoUr track events
Such contests will be open only to stock
cars and will be divided into two classes
endurance and relay
Following the decision Of the city's cor
poration counsel that automobiles may be
taxed as personal property the board Of
assessors Of Buffalo, n. z, will take up
the question as soon as the real estate
assessments are adjusted.
In the course of his motor tour through
England. General Ballington Booth OF the
Salvation Army recently found the road
lined with $500 babies, held in arms and
in all sorts Of vehicles, and all waiting
TO be kissed by him.
Motor beauty bags have appeared IN
London. They resemble a small dressing
case of pink leather and contain divisions
for bandages and medicines, needles, pins,
tape and thread and brush. comb, pow
der puff, mirror and hairpins
In return for the promise OF Spokane
motorists to do all in their power to en-
force observance Of the speed laws the
chief Of police has agreed to arrest pc
destT1ans who Obstruct street crossings
and street car motOrmen who run reck-
lessly
Fifty residents and summer visitors of
Centre Moriches, L. l., are i'll from what
doctors call automobile fever" The dis
ease is said to be due to the inhalation
of dust from oil-sprayed roads, and the
local authorities have decided to stop US
ing oil.
Jack" a dog owned by DR.. NJ. ".
Everson of Pittsburg, has a mania for
automobiles. So fond is he OF riding in
them that he will leap into machines as
they pass in the street and he spends the
greater part OF his time, when not riding,