The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

I Judge Taft. nominee for President. IS
| getting 50 that he prefers an automobile
! 10 a train
Irish roads are Ideal for touring. ac-
/ cording 10 Joseph Fredericks. OF New
| York. who has returned. with his wife,
/ from tour through the isle
= police system Of go national guards
men and 100 policemen will protect the
course during the Savannah grand prize
/ contest
In spite Of the hardships endured. I
would like 10 repeat The trip says George
Shuster. who commanded the American
car which won the New York-to-Paris
contest
Membership Of the Royal Automobile
I CLUB OF England has now reached 3.700
Its quarters IL PfccadIly are cramped
and the club IS about 20 erect a new S50G.-
ooo home building or Pail Mall
The automobile Industry seems 70 have
gone through lean times with less hard
ship than any other line Of business. and
faces a new season with the most bril-
liant prospects The Wlnton Compauy.
for Instance Is receiving a larger inquiry
FOR Its s.. 200 1860 six-cylinder car than il
received for any model which Il marketed
II business boom times.
Thomas W Lawson Is planning 10 leave
the Hub City shortly on an extended mo-
toy tour L. his big steamer Mr.. Lawson
. has owned fhis car for a year. and in that
tine Il has Travelled. according 70 his
Warner aUto-meteT. - 60 miles During
the summer months he uses Z daily IL
travelling between his Office In Boston
and DreaCwood. his country home at
Scituate. thirty-two miles from the city.
The Southwestern states are good
buyers of the Iow-priced car" said c. 3.
Van Horne o. the Jackson Automobile
Company. For instance. farms in Texas
which could not be sold IN spite OF their
greater fertility. before the arrival OF the
practical automobile. are now greatly in
creased n value and brought within
what IS considered easy distance Of the
market. although the distance IS often
between thirty and forty miles. and over
roads which al their best cannot be con-
side-ed good These States are our best
customers. as the automobile goes where
the horse often baIks
II has remained for a New York nag
istrate. B-een by name. TO figure out a
speed Of sixty miles az hour for al auto
"A
policeman testified that the driver was
going twenty miles an hour up Eighth
avenue And he had two other auto-no-
biles IL two2' cueried the magistrate.
and each of then was making twenty
miles an hour" The policeman assented-
Well. that's three machines. each going
twenty miles an hour said the nazis-
trate- I should figure that the prisoner
was going sixty miles an kour. III hold
him for trial" And he did
Col George Pope. treasurer OF the Pope
Motor Car and Pope Manufacturers com
panies was unanimously elected treasu-
uTer OF the Association OF Licensed Au-
tomobile Manufacturers at the meeting
held August S. in New York He sue
ceeds H H Franklin. who has been
treasurer Of the association for the past
three years and whose resignation was
rendered and accepted at the recent meet
ing At the next general meeting. which
viii possibly be held IN the early part OF
September, awards for space for the
Madison Square Garden show will be
made Il was recommended that the
usual method Of allotment be adopted.
which IS according 10 the amount OF
business done from July 1. 1907, 10 July !.
1913.
Louis Rene Panhard. a member ,of the
Hrn OF Panhard-Levassor. and a pioneer
In the automobile Industry IN France. is
dead. NJ Panhard was sixty-seven when
he died, and had amassed a fortune and
retired from business life. and was mayor
OF the small city of Theois. where he
lived. He was a native Of Paris. where
he was born May 2. ISL He was an
officer Of the Legion Of Honor and chev-
alier Of the 8Ierite Agricole- N Panhard
was one Of the pioneers Of the automobile
industry and one of the first 20 foresee
the prosperity which was n store for me
chanical locomouc-- be was founder OF
the house OF Panhard & Levassor- After
the death Of his partner he. in 1857. or
ganized a stock company. known under
the name Of the SOcietie Anonyme des
Anciens Establishments Panhard ct I,e-
vassor-