The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-11-29


builders.
Youngstown, Ohio. and Hartford,
Conn.,. are about ready TO add motor
apparatus 10 their fre equipment.
OF the cars taken abroad from this
country for tours of Europe, over 20
per cent this past year were Of Ameri-
can make.
The Society Of Automobile Engineers
has planned lis fourth annual meeting
for the dates Of the two big January
shows in New York.
A wind screen has made its appear
anCe thEt can have its upper ana lower
sections adjusted to any angle desired
while tie car is in motion.
Every raotorist in Milwaukee has con-
stituted himself committee of one 10
boost that city for d visit during the
next Glidden tour
1t is estimated that the 1909 American
output Of cars Wi! be close 70 Il. 900,
valued at $lDO0W 900. and from 253 fac
tories.
The sheriHs office at Des Moines.
Iowa, Is 10 have du automobile as a
part of its equipment when the new in
Cumbent. Col Ben Ness. comes in with
the new year.
The touring board Of the American
Automobile Association Is TO have its
headquarters IN New York hereafter SO
as TO be In touch with the National
Association.
The Automobile Club Of Chicago pass
ed through its annual election without
great upheaval. though the rival ticket
pun up In friendly spirit made the win
neTs hustle.
Frank Mutt. OF Kokomo. Ind. claims
to be the veteran driver yI the United
states, having started his racing car
eer eight years ago, when the game
was young.
An automobile mail collection service
nag has been started at Lynn, Mass. and
Wltk one man makes three trips
DAY over territory that It formerly took
two men and two horses TO cover.
Speedometers have so many times
saved motorists when they have been
taken TO court for fast driving that
the police IN many cases have now
changed the complaint 10 one or dTiv-
ing TO the common danger.
The American Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers formula for determining
horsepower is so complicated that own
ers viii Oe ready to take the dealers
word for the rating rather than try
TO figure II out for themselves.
Senator La Follette's ability as a
motorist has stood him good several
times during his campaign tours and
has made It possible for him to cover
more territory than any other speak /
er in that State for several years.
The Quaker City Motor Clubs annual /
endurance run set for January ], and
= Will be from Philadelphia to Wilkes
barre, and return, one Of the hardest
drives in the East under any Circum- /
stances and doubly so in winter.
Such general hostility was shown to 1
motorists in a case at Columbus Ohio, .
that there was difficulty in getting a
jury to try a damage suit Instituted
by rural mail carrier, whose horse
had been frightened by an automobile.
American manufacturers have learned /
that winning big races does not bring
the business that II did IN former days,
but this in itself does not seem TO
a valid reason for abandon
ing racing altogether, as many Of them
would be glad TO do.
The calendar Of the Massachusetts
supreme court was suddenly cleared of .
about forty cases in one day when a
decision was given that boards OF Sc
Ieetmen and boards OF aldermen had
the right to exclude motor vehicles from
any streets they saw fit to close.
Two American automobile drivers who
nave averaged l25 miles a day since !
1901, or a total Of some 81, 900 miles each
were recently examined as to their
physical condition to prove that auto I
mobillng is not deleteTiOUs, and they
were pronounced in superb shape.
Horsemen decTy the uncertainty of
TIE automobile as compared with the
decelerauOn, with which no possible
circumstance can make the slightest
possible difference, which is not true
of the beast
Any race promoter. who desires to [
have diversion has only to provide
a car on which the steering gear has
been reversed and Offer a prize for the
driver who will take 1t n the shortest i
lime over winding course, avoiding
)ne or two obstacles on the way, and
hen back it into an imaginary garage.
Apropos of the straightaway speed
trials on the Long Island parkway
Early next month, ii will be worth
while knowing that the kilometer rec
)rd is - 20 seconds, made at OrmOnd
n 1906 the mile, 81 IS seconds. made !
IL Birmingham, in 1907, and the two
nile, / minute 46 2-5 seconds, made at
los Angeles in 1904.
There has been an utter failure of the
regulations tending to bring together
or more effective work the Quaker CITY
dotor Club, the Automobile Association .
4 Philadelphia. the Germantown Auto ,
Mobile club, the DelawaTa County Au- /;