Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

/ Superstition received a solar plexis
blow at Savannah last week. The
number 10 was not excluded from the
drawings in the grand prize and light
car races. The superstitious are ready
to say Il told you so" if anything
should happen to either of the No. lbs.
It is something of a joke on Albany,
n. Y, motorists that the chief prize
in its endurance race should have been
won by a woman-a mere slip of a
girl, to be exact.
At this late day someone rises to
remark that the abandonment by
France of the Bennett cup race KILLED
the goose that laid the golden egg" for
the automobile industry. 1t is a
great pity that this was not discov-
cred earlier.
If Madison Square Garden should be
sold and demolished. or no similar
structure erected in its stead, we shall
be further off than ever from having
a suitable building for the annual au-
tomObile shows. Still, the garden, big
as it is, is too small to properly house
the exhibits of even a part of the in
dustry. What is needed in New York
is a new, mammoth hall, capable of
holding any show.
That the airship of the future will
be lifted by a mechanism something
like a spiral is the statement attrib-
uted to Thomas A. Edison. This is
somewhat reminiscent of the SPRING
actuated motor vehicle we used to hear
so much about. The latter has been
the dream of many inventors, all that
was needed being a spring that could
be wound up and made to contribute
its power to the propulsion of an auto
mobile. Up to the present time, how
ever, this invention has not been per-
fected
English motorists are all wrought up
over the adoption by a leading con-
Germ of an American motor. This
motor will hereafter be fitted to all
cars turned out by the concern in
question. Discussions rage over the
wisdom of this adoption and all sorts
of faults are being found in the engine
as viewed theoretically. Those who
have tried it, however, have nothing
but praise for it. Can it be that some
thing really valuable in the automobile
field has come out of America?
1t is reported that the last stage
coache used in the Yellowstone park
is to give way to an automobile. I'm
agine DeadWood Dick holding I'D an
automobile and calling on the chauf-
feur to surrender!
In advocating the purchase of auto
mobiles for use of school superinten-
dents, c. II. HemenWay county super
intendent of schools of Rock county.
| Wis, advocated the purchase by each
county in the state of a touring car for
the use Of superintendent, in a strong
address before the Wisconsin State
Teachers association convention in
Milwaukee last week, THE county
superintendent has been the official
packhorse and draw cart long enough"
he said. 1T is time that they be pro-
vided with an up to date means of
locomotion."
| The son Of a wealthy Wisconsin man
has applied for patents on a new type
of motor car which he expects to mar
ket at $3.50. 1t is significantly added
that the features of the new car are
kept secret for the present.
A Paris dispatch says that the
French government is alarmed at the
| increasing number of balloons manned
| by German officers, which have been
| making descents in France recently
and has made diplomatic representa-
lions to Berlin on this subject. These
! representations so far have proved in
vain and France is considering rigor-
Gus steps to stop what is termed "a
veritable peril"