The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06
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Live Gossip of Interest to the
World of the Auto
mobile.

All gases expand equally 1,27s parts
of their volume for each degree of tenn
perature Fahrenheit.
A company has been organized to run
an automobile bus line between
Greensburg. Napolean and Osgood, Ind
Los Angeles possesses $500 acres OF
the most beautiful parks in the world.
forming a paradise for the motor tour
lists.
a prominent maker predicts that
within the next twelve months every
city OF more than 100000 population in
this country viii have a taxicsb SER
vice.
One of the interesting features of the
American Motor Car Manufacturers
association show which opens in New
York New Years eve, will be an exhi-
bition of taxicabs. which will be
grouped in a separate division, includ-
ing both domestic and foreign ma
chimes.
The total friction loss in a motor car
as whole is the difference between
the power developed by the motor and
that available at the roadwheels.
Sept. % and "a are the dates set by
the Bay State Automobile association
for its twenty-four-hour endurance
contest. The start will be made from
Boston.
The secretary of the state at Albany.
n. Y, issued licenses, to ,247 chauffeurs
in the first six months of this year. as
compared with 6.191 for the same period
in 1907.
The California promotion commit
tee" offers TO supply all motorists who
contemplate touring that state photo
graphs. road maps, etc, free of cost.
upon application.
Soft dull greens, blues and browns
are the best for the color of costumes Of
fair motorists. for one never tires OF
them. They look we'll and they are
serviceabIe.
Sept. and &c are the dates set by
the Associated Automobile clubs OF
New Jersey for the good roads and leg
islative convention which Is to be held
in Atlantic City.
A motor car used by Fire Chief ]. r.
Canterbury of Minneapolis is proving
such a success that members OF his
companies are now asking for motor
hose carts and engines.
According to the president OF the Ma
tional Hay Dealers convention, recent
ly held at Cedar Point, O.. sales of low
grade hay are rapidly falling, all be-
cause of the gasoline buggy.
The Automobile club of Pittsburg,
Pa, is compiling new edition of the
club road book. covering western Penn
sylvania and through routes out of
Pittsburg.
BY replacing its horse-drawn insur-
ance patrol wagons with motor cars
the board of fire underwriters of NIL
waukee believes the cost of the Service
can be reduced nearly one-half.
Some of the most difficult grades for
automobiles in the entire country are
to be found about thirty-miles east OF
Salt Lake City, yet motor cars are
gaining steadily in the city.
The Massachusetts highway commits
sion is to issue restricted licenses for
nonresident operators for the benefit
of those who wish to run their cars
into the state without heing held up.
The Savannah course for the grand
prize race will be properly policed for
four hours of daylight each day. for
at least three weeks before the race, to
give drivers opportunity to practice
The sign post committee of the Auto
mobile club of Hartford is busy carry
ing on its sign posting campaign. 1t is
the intention TO post practically all the
roads within twenty-five miles of Hart
ford.
Z. r. Thomas. the banker, who has
been ordered to show cause why he
should not be expelled from the New
Jersey Automobile & Motor club. is the
first member to undergo trial for reck-
less driving.
An international tire-inhator compe-
tition, under the patronage and direc-
ton of the Automobile club of France.
will take place during the eleventh au-
tomobile exhibition at Paris Nov. % 20
Dec. Is.
Sept. IS and 10 have been set for the
big race meet to be run at the Brighton
Beach track by the Motor Racing as
ISOLATION of New York. The program
will have for its star feature a twenty
four-hour race.
Clubs are being organized at Big
Rapids and Benton Harbor by ]. r.
Jackson. vice president Of the Michigan
Automobile association. 1t is expected
that by fall the association will COM
prise eleven clubs and 1000 members.
The entrance fee for the stock car
road race TO be run Sept. over the
Merrick course by the Lowell. Mass
club is $3.50. After expenses are paid
any sums of money left over viii be re-
funded to the subscribers pro rata.
After making the record of disposing
of 737 cases during the sixteen months
that he has sat on the bench as fed
eral Judge, Oscar r. Hundley of Hunts
vile, Ala. and Mrs. Hundley are max
ing q 5.000-mile tour through the north
ern states.
The Lowell (Mass) Automobile club
would enjoy the unique distinction OF
being the first organization to boast Of
two sanctions for its race, one from
the American Automobile association.
and the other from the Automobile club
of America.
Although Temple and Marlin. Tex.
are only twenty-five miles apart, IT
takes a day and a half to make the
round trip by railroad. and ]. F. Rob-
inson of San Antonio has inaugurated
an automobile stage line. reducing the
time materially.
BY placing a ban on all cars that par
ticipated in the Vanderbilt cup race
and offering $4,000 in prizes for the Sa-
vannah prize contest. the Automobile
Club of American has thrown down a
! stern gauntlet to the American Auto
mobile association.
The Automobile club of California Is
preparing a series of road maps of the
counties of that state. The maps are
on a large scale. and before they are
issued the supervisors and surveyors of
each county will be asked to correct
and revise them.
1t is expected that entrants in the
elimination trials for the Vanderbilt
cup race will begin practice on the