The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-05

II comes, as Its many features have
already been broadly circulated.
Robert w. Chambers, the novelist. is
one of the latest converts to the use, or
rather the ownership, of an automobile
Mr. Chambers has just purchased
four cylinder 40 horsepower Fierce
Arrow car with a suburban body II
Is painted blue with dark blue broad
cloth upholstering and Ii the hrst
motor car he has owned.
With the possibilities for stories that
may be suggested to Mr.. Chambers by
the use OF his car 1t should not be re-
the next few years some critic may
feel called upon to indite a monograph
on THE Influence OF the Pierce Arrow
on American Literature.
Carrying Jackson. Mich, air to Ban
gor. Me-, Is not the easiest task In the
tacles are four tires under an automo-
bile bent In making a 1.600-mile non
stop run, despite mud. hills, swollen
streams and all-nieht pulls over coun-
But that Is what f. p. Blake. DR. o.
G. Percival and Il. Macarthur did In
run with a Jackson model III from Jack
son to Bangor with a message from
Mayor Glasgow, OF the former city, TO
Mayor Woodman. of the latter.
In the entire run OF 1900 miles the
four Goodyear tires with which the car
These tires literally carried to the
Maine town the Michigan air pumped
Into them at the start. In fact, they
went back to Boston.
The motor had been going continu-
ously 215 hours when Mayor Wood
man pulled the switch plug In Bangor.
When the machine was stopped over
night IL was left In the streets with the
motor humming away.
Tire economy with a vengeance Is
shown In a report just made to the
George ~. Pierce company, OF Buffalo.
The report was made by Don Cole. who
has had a siX-cylinder 36 horsepower
car on the road IN various parts OF the
country recently. Up TO Dec. / the car
had covered 1858 miles with the origi-
nal air still in the tires.
The Peerless Motor Car company IL
TO join the ranks OF the prominent
automobile concerns doing business on
upper broadway New York city Title
was taken TO an Il" shaped parcel Of
property with frontage OF 20 feet on
broadway abutting that OF the Baptist
Tabernacle on Fifty-sixth-st., and %
feet on Fifty-seventh-st. An eight
story hreproof building. with every
modern convenience, Will be erected
thereon.
T.. ii. Parkhurst, vice-presldent OF
the Peerless Motor Car Co, said that
the move had been made necessary by
the great increase Of Peerless business
I'm the metropolitan district. which
the entire output OF tho Peerless
factory.
The sixth annual meeting OF the direc-
tors OF the American Automobile assoc
citation was held at national headquar-
tiers, 437 Fifth-ave., New York. Nov 30.
After two years of agitation within
the association, the following resolu-
tions were emphatically and unani-
mously adopted
Whereas. Automobile speed contests
on circular tracks built for horse rae
ing has ceased To serve any useful pur-
pose; and
Whereas. Such contests do not have
the approval of the general public or
any considerable portion thereof: be II
Resolved. That speed contests by
automobiles on circular tracks built FOR
horse racing and OF mile or less In
length be condemned by this associa-
ton and be ~
Resolved, That hereafter this assocla 4.
ton have nothing whatever 10 do with
such contests.