The Washington herald., 1908-05-10


and the average distance a day will be
from rs to $50 miles.
stop is 10 be made at Lincoln, Neb.,
the home OF w. J. Bryan, where the Peer
less one viii hold a reception for the
delegates. The route from Chicago will
be through Dixon, Sterling. and Morrison,
H., crossing the Mississippi River at
Clinton, Iowa, and then passing through
Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Council
Bluffs, Iowa, thence to omaha, and after
brief stay in Lincoln, TO Denver, over n
route TO be selected later. Tickets will
be issued on the same plan as railroad
tickets, and the fare viii be the same
as that charged by the railroads to those
delegates who prefer 20 travel by rail.
The tickets will be countersigned by the
mayors OF the towns through which the
delegates viii travel.
Chairman Ralph M. Sperry and his as
sociates OF the contest committee OF the
Automobile Club OF Bridgeport are rapid
ly concluding arrangements for the clubs
third annual hiu-climbing contest on
Sport Hin on Memorial Day. The Nc
Murtry electrical timing apparatus viii
be used for the contest and Alden l..
McMurtry, the inventor. Will have charge
OF the timing Capt George r. Hawes.
OF the Fourteenth Company, Coast Artn-
lery Corps, Connecticut National Guard,
Will have charge OF patrolling the course
lie VIII have forty guardsmen in fun
who will be sworn i'm as constables and
have fun power n the premises There
viii also be a force OF ten Easton depu-
ties and constables, who viii act AS sig
namen.
IT has been decided by the club TO build
a footbridge across the stream at the
start Of the course. in order to leave the
road bridge free TO the cars Four motor
cyclists have been appointed couriers. All
competing cars will be inspected the day
before the events A l.. Riker will be
referee.
When Robert Lee Morreu, chairman OF
the Automobile Club OF America contest
committee, announced last spring that
the club would promote a sealed bonne+
contest there We're a great many auto
mobiiists who thought such "A test too
severe to be run successfully The clubs
aHair was a four-day event. with the
competing cars making 80 miles a day.
since then, however. sealed bonnet az
Ialrs OF a far more rigorous nature have
been conducted in various parts OF the
country, both by automobile clubs ara
by individual motorists. the most notahI,.
Deing the now famous contest prop,o,od
late last fan by the Chicago Motor club
IN the later sealed bonnet runs there
nave been several instances where tbe
engines were kept running all the time.
so that the cars were not only r1lnntne
win sealed bonnets, but under nonston
engine conditions In addition H. B. Odeli
OF Buffalo completed a sealed bonnet.
nonstop engine run of 1000 miles few
days ago. with siX-cylinder Mora The
run was made under the supervision of
the Automobile Club of Buffalo on the
good roads near the Bison City The
good roads, combined with the evident
friendliness OF the police OF the locality.
enabled the 1000 miles to be completed
IN forty-eight hours, or at an average
speed for the entire distance OF about
twenty-one miles an hour.
similar run Of more strenuous
nature has just been completed at Seattle
Wash, by +. +. Foberth, with a four
cylinder Oldsmobllc. Folbertn drove his
car LVoO miles without stopping the en-
gine, and not only was the bonnet sealed
but the officials in charge OF the run
sealed i'm the high speed lever. so that
the car had TO run on it's high speed
gear during the entire 1000 miles. Fol-
berth added to his laurels by climbing
the famous st. AIMS counter balance hin.
after the cars engine had been running
continuously for twenty-siX hours.
Devices designed to help make riding
more comfortable are multiplying rapidly.
and a British concern has just brought
out a system OF suspension which re-
sembles closely a Yankee invention of
several years ago, in which the springs
are supported on pneumatic cushions fix
ed to the axle perches. In the English
invention the springs are seated on a
rectangular metal box which has loose
~ hitting bottom piston, carried by
the axle and fixed rigidly i'm place. Be
tween the piston and the shell OF the box
is a rubber bag substantially the same
section and contour which is inflated to
a pressure of ten or fifteen pounds I'm
like the Yankee device, the British sys-
tenn is not intended to do away with
inflated tires, but is TO be used 20 relieve
the springs OF the shocks they would
otherwise receive when the car was being
driven over rough roads. II is intended
as a shock absOTber to supplement the
tires, instead Of a substitute for pneu-
matte tires.