The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-17
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.


Actual test has shown that the
automobile used by Fire Chief Coots,
of Indianapolis. can be started and
gotten under way quicker than a
horse can be hitched.
The Kaiser and German Empress
took with them to the Island of Corfu,
where they were spending several
weeks. six touring cars and two motor
transports for baggage.
The management of the annual fall
fair at Appleton, Wis, already is
making arrangements ror a series of
automobile races during the three
days of this years show.
Special care should be taken in fill
ing grease cups to remove mud which
may have splashed upon them, other
wise the grit is likely to find it's way
to and injure bearings.
Paris police recently arrested d
genuine autophobe, a man who ap-
parently had a mania for damaging
a car whenever he found one stand
ing unattended along a street. q
Milwaukee automob1I1stS are jubi-
liant over the plans of the Milwaukee
county park commission, which is
planning to make Milwaukee a sue
cession of parks and pou1evards.
Much time will be devoted at the
International Congress of Highway
Engineers at Paris, in October, to dis
cussing methods to prevent auto
mobiles injuring macadam roads.
In the endurance contest to be
held by the Norristown (Pa.) Auto
mobile club on April 81, no mechani-
cal device for showing speed will be
permitted on any of the machines.
The Automobile club of Little Rock
is the first to be organized in Arkan-
sas, while others are under way at
Pine Bluff and FIT Smith, with state
association in sight
President J. P. Coughlin of the
Dorchester (Mass.) Automobile club,
who recently sailed for Naples with
his wife. intends visiting France in
time to witness the Grand Prix.
New Haven auto lovers still are
recent show there on the excellent
taste displayed in using stately palm
trees as the principal floor decora-
tion
The cities of Frankfort, Wiesbaden
and Homburg have united with the
Imperial Automobile club of Germany
in pushing the proposed million dol
lar speedway, or motordrome.
The Automobile club of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, will hold its annual hill climb
on the morning Of Memorial day, on
Sport Hill, Easton, Conn.,, the road up
which is both steep and tortuous.
1t is now thought that either the
Atlantic City or Cape May beach, in
New Jersey, will be selected as the
course for the annual race for the
trophy offered by Sir Thomas De-
war.
DIR. Henry Ostrom, an evangelist,
who is preaching IN Philadelphia.
urges motorists not to be afraid to at
tend church in their machines, and to
use them to carry aged and inf1rm
church-goers.
Americans who winter in Paris
have adopted the fashion of break
ing the season by motor trips to the
Riviera, and at this season of the
year many American cars are seen
daily on the roads of southern
France.
A fight for good roads has been in
augurated in Virginia by the board
of directors of the Virginia Travellers
Protective association, representing
| nearly $500 travelling men, whole
| salers and manufacturers.
The Minneapolis Automobile club
has persuaded the city council to
| agree to repeal all of the existing
| municipal vehicle regulations, in re-
| turn for which the clubs attorney is
to furnish a draft of a proposed new
ordinance.
AS an instance of the desire of the
municipal authorities of European re-
| sorts to cater to the pleasures of tour
| lists, the council of Nice recently i'm
proved its principal street and coated
it with dust preventive to attract
| motorists to the city
The Chicago Motor club, the young
| est organization of autoists in that
| city, has begun Injunction proceed
| fngs to prevent the enforcement on
| May 1 of the wheel tax, which inf1icts
upon motor-driven vehicles double the
tax imposed on horse-drawn ones
| So many senators and representa-
| tives at Washington drive their own
| runaboutS between their homes and
| the capitol that garage may be built
under the capitol terrace to care for
| the machines while the owners are
| attending to the affairs of state