Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-18
MoToRDoM IN GENERAL

WOI OnDOm iit NGHGhHG
over s3BO00,000 is now invested in the
automobile industry in England.
The commissioner of police for the Trans
vaal has recently purchased an automobile
for official service.
The miiitiamen of Savannah have again
offered to patrol the race course TOT the
Thanksgiving week contests
Motorists have completely boycotted Sur
rey county. England, spending no money
there for hotels. repairs or licenses.
For the larger events at the Brooklands
track the entry fee is made $3.50 with $500
of 1t returned to each starter
The possibilities and advantages Of the
small bore engines we're admirably shown
by the Isle of Man "four-inch" race.
Fifty thousand men who took part in the
French army maneuvers this year were
served with food exclusively from motor
vehicles.
The county commissioners at Ell Paso
Tex are to be asked to allow an election
on the question of issuing $4,000 road
bonds.
The two days of racing at Bologna were
the first this year when there has been no
personal injury as the result OF the high
speed.
Although admittedly secured by a trick
the courts have held that the ten-mne limit
for the parks in London is perfectly legal
Automobile owners at Concordia, Kan, are
trying to find the person who distributed
over two pounds of large tacks In one OF
the main streets
American manufacturers have been leav-
ing New Zealand and Australia almost
wholly to the English instead OF going atter
some of the trade.
The Plaistow fever hospital in London has
bad al mi carrying
convalescent children, there being room for
six with nurse.
The district Of Rueil in France has closed
most of its roads to motor cars and the
council has passed seventy-hve bylaws
against all kinds of motor vehicles.
The total receipts for the year thus far
in Ohio for auto fees and privileges reach
$51,47O the collections for the month end
ing September 10 alone being $511S.
hvemiIe automobile ride for five cents
proved losing proposition in Philadelphia
and the fare on the Broad street buses had
to be increased to ten cents.
Every detail Of the new twenty-five-mile
motor parkway on Long Island is complete.
the signaling system for keeping track of
the cars being the most perfect of any yet
devised.
The rural mail carrier who is to take the
| route between Ell Paso and Ysleta, Tex. VIII
probably motorcycle as do the carriers
at Tempe, Ariz., and San Antonio. Tex.
Five classes of sweepstakes based on sell
ing price alone will make up the races that
will christen the Long Island motor park
way October 10, prize of $1,000 value being
hung up for each class.
Tickets are now being sold in books at
reduced rates on some bus lines in London
and probably season motor tickets will soon
be available on all lines that compete with
the steam railways.
The American department OF agriculture
is combining Stag with asphalt and tar In
| road building, an experimental piece at Chi
cago being of Stag and asphalt while one
at Birmingham is OF Stag and tar.
The legislation to be presented to the
British parliament regulating motor traffic
in England will be In the hands Of man
so friendly to the automobile that 1t is as
certain can be to be fair.
1t is pretty safe to say that the last road
| races have been run on the Isle Of Man, for
the residents did not enjoy this year hav-
ing their cattle killed during the practice
days when the roads were not guarded.
The Royal Automobile clubs system of
rating motor power on cylinder diameter
alone is likely to be dropped as it encour-
aged builders to make engines with small
bore and long stroke which rendered them
top heavy.
For the German army maneuvers this
year the use of motor vehicles confined
wholly to the commissary department, all
| sorts Of carts being used behind strong
motors, trains of them being FORMED 70
carry the forage.
The county assessors in Minnesota this
year found 1916 automobiles which they as
| sessed at average of $40, a figure thai
was regarded much too low, and the
state board increased the rating from 10 tC
30 per cent in few counties.
France now has a large number of gaso-
line cars in the postal service carrying mail
| to the outskirts of cities, 1t having been
found that the services of number of men
| can be done away with the result Of the
faster distribution.
Out of all the agitation over motoring In
England may come an improvement of the
roads, there being talk of building a raised
footpath alongside each highway which will
tend to remove the present necessity of
pedestrians travelling in the middle of the
road.
The towns of Fruitvale and Melrose' in
California have Jointly purchased a motor
cycle for of a constable in checking
the speed of automobilists.
Fame gained started of most of the
big motor race meets in this country has
been laid aside by Fred Wagner who has
quit the track and gone into Advertising
The automobile club at Milwaukee was
so we'll satisfied with its recent race of