The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
PLUGS AND
SPEEDOMETERS
Automobile Gossip of Interest
to the Increasing Army of
Owners and Drivers.

Ohc OF the most sfllllng endurance
contests held so far this season was
that conducted May 81 and June / BY
the San Francisco Automobile club
over orty-seven-mile course near
San Leandro, Cal
Although the course was a hard one
and included several bad turns and
railroad crossings. out of the sixteen
cars which competed in the contest
several succeeded in making the entire
run without any serious trouble Each
car carried an observer and was re-
quired TO check in at the end of each
lap-tWo hours being allowed for the
circuit, 9. car making controls on time
being penalized.
The most remarkable performance Of
the contest should be accorded to the
Studebaker entrant, a thirty-horse-
power model H" This was the only
car in the contest which succeeded in
running its motor continuously for
tWenty-fOuF hours without a single
stop. in fact. the motor was run from
ESQ p. m. Saturday until D. m. Sun
day without a stop, or twenty-seYen
and One-half hours in all. and not once
was an adjustment made and not a
minute was lost on account OF tire
troubles. A plan was even considered
TO drive the sturdy little Studebaker
10, Los Angeles without stopping the
motor. but the general fatigue OF the
crew, who had been with the ear for
more than twenty-four hours. caused
the plan to be abandoned.
In this contest, as in every other con-
test liz which the Studebaker has ever
been entered, a stock model was used.
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Charles c. Clifton OF the George \.
Pierce company of Buffalo. and Presi-
dent Caverly of the Automobile club
of Washington will bring up the mat
ter of the construction Of a boulevard
from the White House at Washington
20 the battlefield at Gettysburg, which
was before congress a short time ago.
1t is proposed 10 bring up the matter
before the delegates at the good roads
convention of the American AutOmO-
bile association TO be held at Buffalo
next month, with the idea or having
the convention indorse Il. Next year
will be the centennial Of Lincoln's
birth, and 1t has been suggested that
this would be a good occasion to fur
Their honor Lincoln's memory by con-
structing this boulevard. giving it the
name of "Lincoln's Way"
If the road is ever laid out accord
ing to the original plans il will be one
Of the most magnificent stretches OF
highway IN the world in point of
scenery and construction The distance
II EAdNAtE sEhEillf -sCFEil lilllNcr anu lllt
proposed width Of the macadam road
way is 16O feet
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What the foreigners cannot under
stand is the way the Americans bet
ter the instruction" The Frenchmen
are making q hard fight 10 keep a place
i'm the market here, but their argu-
ments of superiority are vitiated by the
duplication here of their designs. win
notifications suited to American con-
ditions. Herein is one respect I'm Whic7
the instruction has been bettered, and
there are many others. Some Ameri-
can makers. who were wise enough 10
begin by copying a foreign design. are
now producing automobiles that are
better than the original pattern.
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The life of the automobiles. even as
that Of the hodcarrier. is full Of ups
and downs.
Like the autumnal flights of ducks to
southern feeding grounds. automobile
tourists will flock from all directions 70
the National Good Roads convention
al Buffalo July 6, : and g. The A. A.
A. organizations of the various states
are arranging tours to make the run
from many different points The Roch-
ester Automobile club announces that
from 100 to 200 cars will travel 10 Buff
ing Rochester on the evening Of July
6, the second on the morning of the 18th
and the third on the morning OF the
Sth. Tourists from points south and
east are requested TO join one OF these
sections.
Nothing is lost to the wide-awake or
phans when they are taken for their
outing in automobiles. and some odd
cOnceits are born of the suggestive
names Of the cars. which to some de
gree puzzle the younger ones At Co
ney Island, where the youngsters OF the
New York institutions romped on or
phans' day, the following was over
heard;
Ours was a steam car, but it had no
locomotive nor anything"
I'VE had the locomotive car for
ours, I guess: that's what they called
II. but Il hadn't any cOwcatcher. nor
even a smokestack.
That's nothing, either; we were in
Pullman. but there weren't any berths
in 1t and no porter, and there was no
extra fare
He that putteth his trust in cheap
tires is more apt TO come to grief than
he who payeth out a good price at the
go-in-except that the same piece Of
beer bottle on the road will put one
out Of business as quickly as the other.
For such work as the American Au-
tonnobile association has done in ar
ranging the first truly national Good
Roads convention at Buffalo next
month If for nothing else, il is deserv-
ing the support of every sincere motor
ist.' saws Secretary F. H. Elliott, who
is in charge OF the executive Offices, at
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