Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-25

troit Motor Company announces it will
build 800 cars for the 1909 season.
The engine used to run the press of
the Citizen, a weekly paper of Bloomfield.
N. j.. breaking down, a genius named
| Abraham Day ran his motor car to the
rear of the printing office, connected It
with the press by betting and the edition
was printed in jiffy. rt
Henri Fournier, who inaugurated high
speed sprinting In this country on the
Coney Island boulevard by setting up an
initial worlds mile record of 81 4-5 sec
onds. and won the Paris-to-Berlin race,
will be among the foreign drivers In the
savannah grand prize race.
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Col Brainard will have charge of a
| test of automobiles for military purposes
| that is to be made during the maneuvers
of the regular army at Atascadero San
| Luis Obispo county, Cal. The officials
| OF the War Department are much inter-
ested In the experiment.
| Now is the time to prepare for an anti
freezing solution. Good results may be
obtained by using calcium chloride. A
| % per cent solution will withstand a zero
temperature. and below that will only be-
| come mushy and not freeze solid enough
| to do any damage, unless the cold were
of severity seldom known in this part
OF the country Increasing the propor-
| tons will naturally increase its nom
| freezing properties.
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speed trap is to come to a full stop after
passing the first man suspected of being
timer. and waiting a minute before
passing the other one.
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| Molasses as a road binder Is being test
ed near Newton. Mass. The molasses
used is almost a useless byproduct of
| the great sugar retineries in the south and
! west.
| The 1909 model Mitchell denonstrat ting
car was received yesterday by the Flynn
Motor Car Company. 1t is the 81 800
! touring car which has been awaited with
much interest by local automobiles. So
| many inquiries were made for this car
that the factory was asked to ship two of
them by express. One of them was i'm
mediately taken from Washington to Bal
| timOre by w. p. Shuler, Baltimore sales
man for the Flynn Company. He went
by the Bladenburg road and reports a
fast trip.
| The new Mitchell is finished in French
gray and red. 1t is equipped with a
| semi high tension magnetic, and will be
! furnished with four styles of bodies.
! An English motor car recently ran from
Boulogne to Paris at rate of sixty-five
miles an hour all the way and the trip
cost the owner between $500 and $3.50
| for burst tires.
| Gov. Magoon Is assisting the Cuban
Automobile Club in arranging for it's
race meet at Havana in February. The
meet is expected to attract many motor
lists from Florida.
| Preparations are under way TOR the
Giants Despair hill climb, held by the
| Wilkesbarre, Pa. Automobile Club and a
move is on foot to make it an interna-
| tional event.
During the recent French maneuvers
| two army corps comprising 100000 men
| depended upon seventy automobiles for
their daily supply of bread.
| The active membership of the Chicago
| the present limit of 600, but this can
| be extended by the managers to 1000.
The Secretary Of State of New York
has announced that S245 cars were reg
| istered by him during the first six months
of the present year, as compared with
s.519 for the corresponding period of 1907.
There were 5.247 chauffeurs' licenses is
| sued as compared with 5,191. Fees
amounted to $27, 600.
| The turns have been banked on the
Savannah course for the grand prize race
| at an angle which will permit cars to
make them at a speed of ninety miles
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three and a half miles long and straight
as a die with less than one foot Of
grade.
A most unique motor contest will be
run next Sunday October 25) in France
under the auspices of a magazine. 1t is
known a photo-automobile contest and
each competitor will be required to take
five photographs Of objects along the
course. the quality of which will count
| in determining the winner.
Special number plates will be provided
by Massachusetts next year for members
of the diplomatic corps who may be resid-
nary plates will have white. letters on a
blue background. This years have blue
letters on white background. The state
has ordered $3.50 plates made.
| Miss Eta Amend. a society girl of
| Englewood. n. j., is the heroine of what
| is probably the most remarkable escape
| in an automobile accident on record.
| Her machine was struck by an engine.
| hurting her into the air She alighted
| on the engine pilot and was carried some
| distance. Aside from a slight cut on her
| forehead she was uniniured.
| According to the Calcutta Statesman
/ the Maharajah of Data, who was edu-
| Gated at Oxford and has travelled in the
| United States. is using an American au-
/ tomobile instead of the customary ele-
| plant to hunt tigers Recently the
maharajah killed tiger that still held a
| goat tightly clenched in its jaws and
placed the beast in the rear seat of the
car. forming a weird scene as the motor
| sped along at a rapid rate.
| If any pessimist thinks the recent
financial strjngency is to have depress-
| ing effect on the automobile business for
| the coming season he should make in
quiries among the local agents of motor
| cars for the amount of sales recorded
| and the number of inquiries being re-
| ceived on the 1909 models of cars
| The great majority of sales will be of
| small cars. but the manufacturers and
| agents figure on the increased number of
purchasers to more than offset the sales
| Of the large cars made the past two sea-
| sons.
With no line of small cars has the
number of sales. already recorded or the
| list of inquiries been larger than the
| ceived up to October Is 953 bona fide or
| ders from customers, while the list Of
| inquiries for 1909 cars has run to 10 1856.
| The entire 1909 outnut of 2 100 carc M, g