Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11


A taxicab company has been incorporated
at Louisville, KY, with $4,000 capital.
A motor club has been formed at Nash
vile, Tenn, by thirty leading AUTOMOBILE
lists.
A project is under way to establish a
motor bus line between HoughtoT, Huron
town and South Range, Mich.
The Rochester, N. Y, club is
settled in new quarters in a leading hotel.
1t now has a membership of 525.
Two automobiles will be presented to
Emperor Franz Josef Of Austria, to com
memorste the sixtieth year Of his reign.
An automobile school hes been opened
by the k~ensington branch of the Young
Mems Christian association OF Philadel-
phia.
F. Blair Turpln, a San Francisco capital
ist, will shortly start On q tour Of the
a motor car.
A tire company has offered $1,000 in cash
prizes to the drivers of the first three
cars using its make OF tires in the Sa-
Vannan race.
Dates for the eighth Belgian automobile
exposition have been set for January l4th
to 18th, A power boat and a~eroplane sec
ton will be added.
A movement is on foot in Indianapolis
for the consolidation OF the Indiana Auto
mobile club with the Indianapolis Automo-
bile Trade association.
The New Jersey Automobile and Motor
club has decided to nave a one-story garage
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club house in Newark.
The Wilkesbarre, Pa, Automobile club
alter a long struggle, has succeeded in
having two bridges across the Susquehanna
river declared free bridges.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, IT., who is
in Europe, expects to return in time for
the Vanderbilt Cup race on the Long Is
land course. october a.
The Observation-Disclosures railroad in
France has Just had constructed eighty
covered cars specially designed Tor the
transportation Of automobiles.
An automobile line between ~Ironton and
Proctorville, o., is now practically assured.
A twenty-passenger car will be used and
two round trips will be made daily
An interesting feature Of the Automobile
club OF Maryland Is the whist section,
which makes card playing an entertaining
side feature to the lure OF the road,
The Automobile club OF Glens Falls, n. T.,
has voted to contribute ADO toward the
expense of repairing the state road De
tween Glens Falls and Lake Georgia.
The membership Of the Automobile club
Of America has passed the 1000 mark, in.
Guiding twenty-five honorary members ana
go subscribers to the bureau or tours
In spite Of the forest fires which have
cast a pail over the mountain touring
grounds, the roads In the Adirondack III
New York, still swarm with motor cars.
Twenty-Five thousand gallons of oil will
be sprinkled on the fourteen miles or state
and county roads included In tho circuit
for the Vanderbilt cup race on Long Island
AS the result OF an outing for go Orphans.
al Sheboy an, Wis, an elnp mas
been formed there, which VIII sttnlate
with the Wisconsin Automobile association.
Owing to the dusty condition OF the roads,
due to a long drouth, the West Virginia
Automobile association was compelled u
postpone its annual state meet, at Wheel
Ing.
4 Asa Goddard has resumed his position
as secretary OF the Cleveland Automobile
club end Is finishing the work OF con-
structing the new Euclid road, being built
by the CLUB.
BY increasing its dues from $40 to $50 q
! year FOR active members, the
club OF Maryland expects TO increase It's
work for good roads and gain fair auto
mobile laws.
Plans arc being formulated by Madison
county, Indiana authorities for the con-
Struction of eighty-nine new gravel roads
under the three-mile road law, at a cost
OF about $4,000.
Announcement comes from Muncie, Ind.
that a new factory for the Manufacture
OF automobiles will be started IN this place
as soon as the title to the site for the plan
can be obtained.
Edmund Gram. a Milwaukee piano agent
estimates that he has sold $4,000 worth o.
instruments by means OF his automobile
since May l. He sometimes covers 100 mile
In a days selling trip
for the next legislature. To interest leg
islators petitions will be circulated ad
dressed. OF which it is expected 1900 viii
be filed al the capital.
Three leading Russian motorists. NM
Nagel, Lebeneff and Elfron. have starte'
from St. Petersburg on a 6iooo-mile trip q
convince skeptics IN their country Of IN
touring value OF automobiles.
When a car is hosed down the waite