The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

| WauSau, Wis, has thirty-five cars
| and club is being formed.
| Milwaukee chauffeurs are pushing the
| organization of union.
| A recent purchase by the kaiser add
ed the twelfth car to his garage.
| Thanksgiving week has b. en- virtually
| decided upon as the time for holding a
| fall show in Baltimore.
A coyote is reported to have fallen
dead from fright at the first sight of an
| automobile in Wyoming.
| One-1alf of the receipts of the Cleve-
land (O.) police courts. it is declared,
| comes from automobile fines.
The New Jersey Automobile and Mo
| tor club is mapping out ar endurance
contest for election day, November 5.
The Automobile club of Buffalo is
planning country clubhouse, TO be To-
Gated about twenty miles out of the
| city.
| Don't use a coarse file to true the
vibrators; platinum is expensive. USE
| only a dead-smooth one, and that spar
ingly.
A car which has Travelled over 70 900
miles and still was in daily use was a
feature of the recent parade at Buffalo,
! New York
| More than At 900 cars are now regis
tered and in active use in New York
state, an increase of more than $4,000
over last year.
|
appointed to prepare plans for pro-
| posed boulevard connecting Buffalo, N.
| Y, and Niagara Falls.
More than 900 accidents to motor car
! tourists have been reported III the
\ United States and Canada since the be-
ginning of the year.
| The first automobile to touch the soil
\ If Goat Island at Niagara Falls recent
| ly was driven there by five newspaper
men from Reading. Pa.
The silver stetuette of ST. Christ opher,
which the Dowagcr Queen of italy car
| ;ies upon her automobile as protection
against accident, cost $1,000.
The first week in April has been Sc
| lected by the Ptttsburg Automobile club
for its second annual show, prepare tions
for which already are under way.
Electric lights totalling $50, 600 candle
power were used to illuminate The Nor
ris Park On. " track during the TWEEN
ty-four-hour race September 81 and 2S
One person of every $50 in Wisconsin
OWES an automobile according to de-
auctions made from a report on motor
vehicles issued by state department
ported to keep no less than thirty-one
automobiles, all of which she drives
herself at her beautiful castle at Sturl-
weissenburg.
The Rhode Island Automobile. club is
fostering a trfclub met at Providence
in the near future in conjunction with
the clubs of Worcester and Springfield,
massachusetts,.
Shellac dissolved in grail, alcohol
| makes a better and tighter pipe joint
than brown soap. ard a joint made with
it may be taken apart easily If slightly
heated.
As econ as the post office department
grants permission automobile mail
service will be esta blished at st. Louis
Omaha. Kansas City. Los Angeles and
Nashville.
Twelve different makes of six-cylir-
der cars will be exhibited at the eli
censed" show which orens at New York
November 2.
One great advantage of denatured all
eohol for fuel is that it's users will be
TO longer required to breathe noxious
gasoline fumes. Its combustion is prac-
ticaly odorless.
The mechanical branch of the Assooi
alton of Licensed Automobile, Manufac-
turers has decileu 70 make a series of
elaborate experiments with alcohol in
the near future