Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04

comet, showing a huge red automobile
shooting through an imaginary sky, -le4y-
ing behind it a trail of lurid yellow.
Farmers in the northwest are buying au-
tomobiles in sufficiently large numbers to
attract attention. Crops have been good
and the big farms and ranch owners find
the the quickest and best
method Of covering their huge farms and
ranches.
When putting a car in commission and
occasionally, say every month or two, the
interval depending on the amount Of use
the car is given, the hub caps should be
thoroughly cleaned out, all the grease and
Verdigris removed, after which the cans
should be repacked.
For some time past motor cars have been
registered with the state highway commits
sion OF Massachusetts, at a rate of about
fifty a day. For the first six months OF
the present year l5,767 cars were regis
tered, as compared with 1880 during the
same period of 1907.
The Automobile Club OF America has
chartered the steamer City Of Savannah
to take the members OF the club and their
friends to the Savannah races on Thanks
giving Day. The boat will accommodate
400 and will leave New York on November
q and return December l.
The solvent action or kerosene is due
TO It's fatty properties, and especially 10
the heavy oils IT deposits after evapora-
ton. The less volatile the solvent, the
more marked are its injurious effects. 1t
is for this reason that kerosene should
never be used in any way for washing
tires,
American automobiles have been well re-
ceived in Norway, but II seems that they
rank too high in price compared with
European makes. Thus a British firm Of
fers a thirty-horse-power, six-cylinder ma
chine for S2.696, while an American twenty
s5.sii,
With the running Of the 2OO-mile Found
ers' week race In Paramount park. October
10. Philadelphia will be the first city in
the world to have a road race within its
limits and over public highways. A tele-
phone system covering the course will be
in charge of the signal corps Of the state
militia.
Although, according to government re-
ports, the number of automobiles shipped
abroad by American manufacturers for the
first seven months Of 1905 is considerably
below the number for the corresponding
period Of 1907. II is noticeable that the
grade OF machines seems to have been Of a
much higher class.
In Paris stories are circulated concern
ing some Of the French garages which have
a neat trick of emptying. By means of sue
ton pumps, the gasolene and cylinder oil
tanks Of the cars that have been run in
for the night. leaving just enough fuel to
get the machine well under way before the
loss is discovered.
What is probably the finest private gar
age in the United States has just been COM
pleted by Robert Graves, a wealthy New
Yorker, at his country place az Mineola,
Long Island. II is palatial In appointment
and SO arranged that the main floor may
be transformed into a ball room. Twenty
machines may be stored in Il.
For hard motoring a coat is always pre-
ferable to a cape or any kind, and THE mo-
tor womau's first commandment Is Thou
shalt wear no fluttering ends and corners
and frivols." Exception Is made In favor
OF the veil ends. but a shipshape coat with.
out cape and a hat without trimming 10
wave in the breeze are desirable for coun-
try runs or touring.
Ak-Sar-Ben week brought a number Of
automobile purchasers TO the city and the
Colt Auto company, agents for tho Rambler
and Mitchell machines, sold cars to the
following parties: Charles Estes, Sidney.
Ia; A. +. WOodard. Anderson, Ia: Charles
Graham, Hamburg Ia; Thomas James.
Sidney, Ia; James Brown, Hamburg. Ia.
Ben Bier. Oakdale. Neb.: j. ID. Robbins,
Malvern, Ia; Henry Miller, Tarkio. No.