Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-02

of private owners of automobiles in
France has increased from 10000 two
years ago to 10000 at the present time.
The Automobile Club of Wayne county,
Ind. was one of the first motoring organ
izations formed in the Hoosier state, and
now has fifty members.
Count Ninegawa of Japan. who accom-
panied the Glidden tourists to study
American roads, is in America to study
the automobile business generally and
to visit the different factories.
Dr. Heaton the Missouri motorist, who
is touring Europe with the determination
to keep his expenses below $3 a day. has
succeeded in travelling through Switzer-
land at $3.50 a day.
France has equipped its army with more
power-driven vehicles than any other ma
ton. In addition to the quick-firing auto
mobile battery which has done good work
in Morocco, it has motor army wagons
galore.
Word comes from Germany that a stock
company is being formed to establish and
construct an exclusive automobile road
for speed and endurance contests in the
Taurus mountain district.
c. j. Croker, Yale junior. who recent
ly crossed the continent from New York
to San Mateo, Cal. will drive his car back
at the end Of the summer vacation to re-
sumo his studies at the university.
The members of the Massachusetts Au-
tomObile Club have named committee
to confer with the local municipal author
tiles of the cities of the state regarding a
proper observance of the speed laws.
A. L. Smith of the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club. who recently re-
turned to his home in Newark from q trip
of 100 miles through New England,
found the roads to be in very good condi-
ton.
The storage battery finds itself used in
various ways in an automobile. In the
electric machine it is the entire source of
the energy used for propulsion. In the
gasoline-driven machine it makes a con-
venient and reliable source of ignition.
The touring committee of the Bay
State Automobile Association is working
on plans to conduct sealed bonnet, nom
stop contest. some time during next Sep
TENDER. 1t probably will be a twenty
four-hour endurance run from Boston to
Breton Woods and return
Now that the sleeves of all daytime
gowns are made SO much longer and
actually protect the forearms. long
wristed gloves. which formerly kept the
draft from whisking up the wide wrist
openings of mlady's touring coat, are
no longer necessary.
John D. Rockefeller has purchased a
touring car-all his others have been
lmousines-and it is believed he Is con-
templating cross-country tour.
Heavy SHOWS in Switzerland have put
sudden stop to automobile touring by
Americans in that country.
Partisan and American artists are al
ready designing posters and scenic eff
fects for the show to be given in Grand
Central Palace New York. under the
auspices of the American Motor Car
Manufacturers Association, December 81
to January 4.
4 New York automobile engineering
school has installed a device consisting of
heavy rollers flush with the floor on
which the rear wheels or cars revolve
enabling students to master the operation
OF the change gears, clutch and brake
while the car remains stationary.
The larger the road wheels are. the
less will be the power required to drive
a car on ordinary roads. The main
reasons why larger wheels are not used
however. Is that they are expensive and
fragile, they greatly increase the cost of
tires. and render access to seats more
difficult
Among the most attractive of widely
checked rubberized taffeta motoring
coats are listers in two tones Of blue.