The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

Gov Stuart of Pennsylvania, one of the
most ardent good roads executives in the
country, declares that If the motorists
will have patience Pennsylvania will
have the finest roads of any state in the
union"
The Royal Automobile club of Great
Britain and the Automobile club of
France are discussing a scheme for CO.
operating for a definite system of auto
matte timing whereby worlds records can
be universally recognized.
In a recent test the automobile chemical
engine of the Bridgeport, Conn.,, fire de-
partment was driven at a rate of 40 miles
an hour through several inches of slush
against driving snowstorm with eleven
men on board.
The new automobile rules of the City of
Mexico limit the speed within the city to
six miles an hour and on roads in the
outskirts to "a miles. Imprisonment is the
penalty for professional drivers who ex-
coed these rates.
The Philadelphia Automobile club now
has a membership of nearly $50.
Maryland is building model good road
between Baltimore and Washington, d. z.
Toledo, O., already is in the field to Sc
cure this years convention of the Fedora
ton of American Motorcyclists.
The n vi is of to sma
cities using motor-driven fire apparatus.
with over $50 motorcyclists In Denver
with both social and athletic sides
Fourteen perfect scores out of twenty
entries was the result of the recent one
day endurance run OF the BAY state Au-
tomobile club.
Loving cups will be presented to win
ners of the hi11-climbing contests held IN
conjunction with the show at Indianapolis
Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn N. Y,
has. purchased steam ambulance similar
Wy departments.
The Chicago Automobile club has pre-
pared road directions between that city
and San Francisco for the use of motor
lists who wish to take the trip.
A 80 horsepower car which Kaymo 9la
next Vanderbilt cup race is expected to
develop speed of one hundred miles an
hour.
On the first day that New York city S
bicycle policemen were able to use their
motorcycles since the recent heavy snow
they arrested 81 chauffeurs for speeding.
Henry Farman, the French aerial ex-
pert who recently won the $4,000 prize in
Paris with his airship, was an ardent au-
tomobilist before he became an aeronaut-
The American war department recently
equipped a complete repair shop for the
automobile CORPS of the army and for ex-
perimental purposes along many motoring
The general tendency of the. Maine au--
tomobile market is toward a small and
inexpensive car, many orders for such
types being taken at the recent show IN
Portland.
Ind, who has kept an accurate record.
estimates that his machine in travelling
T. 4S1 miles in twenty-five weeks consum-
ed /, 100 gallons of gasoline
The federal department of agriculture
will train a CORPS of young men IN MAX
ing denatured alcohol and then SEND them
out to teach farmers how to produce it
for light and power.
Senior Maura, the Spanish premier VINO
once resigned office because he could not
induce King Alfonso to forego automoDii-
ing, has now fallen victim hlmseh 10 the
charms of the sport.
One of the principal objects of the new
automobile club of Toledo will be COOP
Grafton with similar organizations to urge
the passage of good roads measures by
the Ohio legislature.