The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-02-24
AUTOMOBILE GOSSIP.

Every doctor IN RushviIle Ind. about
tOTty miles east Of Indianap polls. uses an
automobile. and il is said the city has
more motor cars in proportion 10 its size
than any other in the Hoosier State
Carpet cleaning by automobile power re-
Gently was devised by a San Franciscan,
who mounted a vacuum pump and reel of
hose on the back Of HIS car. connecting
the pump with the motor
The demand for motor cabs in Paris far
exceeding the supply. - is planned 10
establish autObuses de luxe which per-
sons may engage without waiting FOR
cab. by paying an extra fare.
During January l09 ears. valued at
$20S.SlS, were imported through the port
of New York. compared with 112 cars.
valued at SS70l59. in the same month last
year. and 13S cars, worth S454,442, in Janu-
airy, 1906
The worlds largest motor-driyen fire
escape is now in operation at Liverpool.
1t is both driven and manipulated by cleo
tricity, and the main ladder can be raised
to a height Of eighty-seven feet in twenty
seconds.
To its programme OF races, 70 be held
March IS and Is. the Savannah Automo-
bile Club probably viii add a free-for-all
event. open 10 steam cars and special rae
ing machines, and an event for six-cylin-
der cars.
On account Of the long distance between
supply stations. one OF the French ma
chimes constructed for the run from New
York 10 Paris has a tank in the lower
part Of its body holding go gallons Of
gasoline.
W. c. Vaughn. a Los Angeles mOtorist
recently crossed the AIohave Desert 10
San Bernardino and return. a distance OF
255 miles, in Il hours and p minutes.
Never before had it been done in less
than day
Cleveland's police have been ordered 10
forbid automobile owners leaving their
cars along the curbs in the shopping dis
trict while they are shopping or trans
acting business within doors. as they in
terfere with traffic.
The Paris commission on judiciary re-
form has adopted a rule that the driver
of an automobile who attempts TO escape
after causing an accident shall be i'm
prisoned from six days TO two months or
fined from Is 10 200 francs.
The fastest motor track in the country
is planned for the vicinity OF Lakewood
New Jerseys famous winter resort. Am
pie capital is back OF the scheme. and the
idea is to make i, 100 feet Tide and twen-
y miles long. straightaway
The date of the start Of the Jackson
ville-tO- Miami road race has been changed
to March by the Florida East Coast
Automobile Association at the request of
number Of competitors who wanted
more time to prepare for it.
New York City motorists will ask the
legislature of their State for law TO
hedge about with safeguards the granting
of chauffeur's licenses. At present any
one, by filling out blank and sending il,
with s.. to Albany. can secure a license.
Thomas A. Edison. the wizard OF cleo
tricity. claims TO have perfected a stor-
age battery that viii drive an automobile
twenty miles an hour for 100 miles on one
charge. and so inexpensive that a person
of the most moderate means can afford
car.
According TO the American Motor Car
Manufacturers Association. exports of
automobiles during 1907 totaled 2,Se4. with
a value of s.. i2096S. against a total Of ]. 155
cars, and a value Of 81. 80. eos, during 1906.
a gain of 1.7S9 cars and Ss.S2S 500 In valu-
alton.
Automobile wireless telegraph stations
in army maneuvers have been found emf
nently satisfactory by several European
powers which have tested them. In com
parison even the ordinary field telegraph
service is vastly inferior for transmitting
orders.
Tire agents of San Francisco estimate
from the orders they have received that
5000 automobiles will be sold in Cali
fofnia during 1905. Some Of these win