Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

club has been also required to furnish $25, 900
surety to cover damages in case of injury
10 spectators or TO property during the
Founders week race in Paramount park,
Philadelphia.
please remember that your acetylene
lights are a nuisance to everybody else but
yourself, ana don't use them in city streets
or where not absolutely necessary Such
is the advice which is being given to mem
bers by the Rhode Island club
on printed cards.
Smoke at the open end of a cylinder in
ulcates that there is a sand-hole, i'm the
piston, that there are leaky rings or that
the lubricating oil in the cylinder Is decom-
composed by the heat, Black smoke at
the end OF the exhaust pipe means an over
supply OF fuel and white smoke a surplus
OF qubricating oil in the cylinder.
As a result Of the compromise agreement
between the Automobile Association OF
America and the Automobile Club Of
America the grand prize gold cup
Of the latter viii be the great
and the William x. Vanderbilt cup,
the trophy for a national annual
speed contest.
Present indications are that the Wander
Dit cup race, scheduled for October "A, on
Long Island. will have a preponderance OF
American participants. with the foreign
element secondary in Importance. The Long
island railroad has made preparation to
lay side tracks from the Hampstead branch
INTO the back Of the grand stand TO insure
convenient service.
The Savannah club has issued
a call Tor a convention of representatives
OF all the automobile clubs in this country.
at savannah, November 25 and 28 to discuss
the formation Of motoring clubs. II is ex-
pected that this move may further COM
plicate matters in the controversy waging
between the Automobile Club OF America
and the American Automobile association.
Governor Fort OF New Jersey has taken
an advanced stand I'm favor OF more Just
automobile legislation IN the eastern states
He proposes that the governors OF New
York, Pennsylvania. Delaware and Mary
land appoint commissioners II meet COM
missioners appointed by himself to discuss
the whole question Of automobile legisla-
ton and to make recommendations for uni
form laws.
The first automobile police patrol used
in the United States, that Of Akron, o.. is
offered for sale because of the purchase
or a new and more modern machine. II
was built by the city electrician, r. r.
Loomis, In 1887, and has been in service
ever since, In the riot Of 1900 Il was
wrecked and thrown into a ditch. hut was
repaired and has since carried many hun
dreds OF unhappy prisoners to the Gala
boose.
Minnesota motorists are facing a hard
fight In the legislature for the revision of
automobile laws, there being a general de
mand for the re-establishment Of the sys-
tenn Of state registration abandoned two
years agos As an offset the Minneapolis
club proposes to exempt automobiles from
taxation under personal property assess
ments, and 10 levy a state fee OF from s.
10 $50, based on the weight and power Of
tho car.
In an owners automobile race meet held
AT ChadrOn, Neb.. last Saturday forty cars
of different makes from all parts OF north
western Nebraska participated. The Ram
bier two-cylinder model 81, driven by NJ.
b. Mcdowell and James X. Reid OF the
Maverick Loan and Trust company, Hay
Springs, Neb., won over all competitors By
twelve seconds. The distance was three
miles and the Rambler's time four minutes
and five seconds.
Large sales of medium-priced automobiles
will undoubtedly he made 10 farmers
throughout the United states during 1909.
One manufacturer has announced a special
model which is the product Of eight years
OF automobile building experience and
which is designed particularly 10 meet the
needs Of the farmer. This Is the 1909 Ram
bier, equipped with the double opposed
two-cylinder engine, From the start Mr..
Jeffery claims 10 have designed aud built
the Rambelr 10 meet the requirements Of
the ordinary country roads. long wheel
base, large wheels and tires, high road
clearance, accessibility and flexible springs
being important features. During the last
year the Rambler people say they have
sold a fair percentage OF their product 70
farmers