Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15

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firm who recently drove an auto through
| the great government Indian reservation
In northeastern Wisconsin. was the first
man to run motor car through the vast
reserve.
A lapel button for members and insignia
for their cars is being considered by the
| Motor League of Rhode Island. The
league is also maintaining its crusade to
compel town councils to properly Sign
| board roads
! BY covering a two-gallon can with
cloth or carpet cover a convenient foot
| stool can be made for a car. at the same
time providing convenient receptacle TOT
carrying an extra gasoline supply.
| So fond is King Alfonso OF wearing DIS
comfortable motoring togs that he has
shocked the Spanish grandees several
times of late by appearing in them on oc-
casions when they considered more lor-
NAL dress necessary.
To better prove the efficiency of it's tires
one of the big rubber concerns or the
| country has employed Joe Tracy. the
! famous driver. who Will exploit his en-
pIoyers' product in racing events.
A mile in America Is 1,76O yards, In
Sweden 117O3 yards and in China $40
yards. Hence an automobile that travels
forty miles an hour in China would only
be going -. miles an hour In Sweden.
| Frank G. p. Barnes is one of number
of New Haven automobilists who Will at
tend the Savannah races. making the en-
tire trip there in his own car. The run Is
one of about t. 200 miles.
/ So satisfactory the motor-driven
trucks used in the baggage department OF
the Pennsylvania railroad at Jersey City
and Philadelphia that number of small
to1o rir frIin ha1n I
the terminal at Washington.
Distinctive names, like the White
Ghost Flying Dutchman and
| "Lampo'' meaning a flash of lightning"
are being proposed for racing cars In the
same manner as they are applied to motor
boat racers.
According to Henry Souther. the motor
car expert, the car of the future will be
light weighing only about 1000 pounds.
operated by a valvelesS motor and having
sufficient tongue to eliminate the use OF
transmission gears.
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Great clouds of thick smoke issuing
from the exhaust" says a prominent
member of the Automobile Club of Buff
falo. indicates a needless use Of cylin-
der lubricant Just enough is far bet
ter than too much when 1t comes to
oil
;, 1t. is becoming difficult to find even
a semi-civilized portion of the earth
where the honk-hOnk Of the automobile
is not heard. 1t has now invaded. Punta
Arenas. the southernmost point of habi-
tatiOn in the western hemisphere.
Ecclesiastical circles in England are
greatly stirred up over the question OF
Shall a clergyman motor?' The dis
cussfon was started by the presentation
of $4,000 car to the Rev. DR.. Campbell
Morgan of Westminster chapel, London.
Since election the registration of cars
at the various state capitals. according
to reports thus far received. has taken
a jump, indicating clearly that prospects
for the sales Of cars the coming year
are brighter than ever before.
The use of horse racing tracks for
testing automobiles by motor car manu-
featuring companies is becoming COM
mon throughout the country. Two tracks
thus employed at the fair grounds
bin st. Louis and the Crosse Point course
at Detroit
y Automobile enthusiasts in New Or
leans are trying to arrange a racing
carnival to last for two days. The idea
Is to use a Saturday and Sunday prior
to the Savannah races. and to have the
tances.
OF forty chaufeurs licenses revoked
by the Massachusetts state highway
commissioners during the past four
months. twenty-seven were for reckless
operation. four for using machines with
out owners consent and six for intoxica.
ton.
Reservations have been made for vir-
rually every stateroom on the steamer
chartered by the Automobile Club of
America to carry members from New
York to the Savannah races and possibly
another boat will be chartered.
Louis Heinrich and Rudolph Samet OF
Seattle, Wash. accompanied by their
wives. recently climbed seven miles far
their twenty-eight- horsepower car than
has ever been attempted before. They
reached an altitude of 5000 feet.
The fact that the constant vibration OF
|anything that is capable of being Jared
out of place should not be overlooked.
Cocks and taps should always be careful
ly watched. for If they are not tight they
will surely jar open.
A new automobile racing organization Is
being formed in New York to take the
place of the Automobile Club of America
in managing speed contests on the Long
Island motorway, including the Wander
bilt cup contest. 1t is to be a racing
body exclusively.
Joseph w. Hunter. highway commits
stoner of Pennsylvania, now has more
supervision. He is an earnest advocate
not only of good roads, but roads built
specially for automobile traffic. as he Is
convinced that the automobile Is here
to stay.
At the express command OF King Ed
ward there will be no racing at the forth
coming automobile show at the Olympia
The action is taken it is said in London,
as a rebuke to the motor road hog
who has aroused public anger Of late
throughout England.
On long grades brakes should not be
depended upon to hold the car. The igni-
ton should be cut out, and depending on
the lentgh and steepness of the grade,
suitable gear should be meshed and the
car allowed to coast under compression,
the brakes supplying any further retard-
ing effort necessary.
Carefully compiled statistics show that
Springfield. Mass. has one of the best
lequipped and speediest automobile fire
fighting systems in the world. In one
month the automobile division, known as
1.-The flying squadron responded to sew
enty-two alarms. and SO prompt was the
service that the total loss was only $4,000.
There is no doubt that the inventive
genius of Americans will provide in the
near future a substitute for the present
pneumatic tire. but until that is done the
cost of tires must be figured on basis
of cents per mile provided always that
<i,oe of sniff size to carry