Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
Iowa md Nebraska.


Boone. Ia, now has an automobile club
with eighteen charter members.
1t is estimated that no less than fifteen
cars are being used In the campaign in
Wisconsin.
The automobile club of Buffalo now has
1884 active members, making it the largest
in the country.
Roughfaced English tweed, of London
smoke gray. is becoming popular for cloth
motoring coats.
The recently formed automobile club of
Willtmantic, Conn. has begun a vigorous
sign posting campaign.
A motor Commissariat was tested during
the recent German army m~aneuvcrs and
proved most successful.
The Automobile Club of America has
1884 active members, though il has an as
sociate membership OF 335.
Poughkeepsie, ". Y, will hold on Octo-
Der 2 a race meet on the fair grounds
track, offering seven races.
Three years ago the first auto made its
appearance in Midland. Tex. Today there
ere ~forty-one owEed in the town.
Never FIJI a mechanically operated lu-
bricating tank when the engine is run
hing, as air locks are apt TO occur.
A fixed course around Paris has been
selected for the eight-day taXicab ard light
delivery vehicle competition next month.
A convenient brush fdr c~leaning motor
sprocket chains can be made by wiring
three bicycle chain brushes side by side.
AS a result of the establishing Of an
auto mail route Semirole, Tex, now gets
mail in five hours, which once took seven
teen.
Automobiles have not driven all of the
horses out OF New York, for a careful
equine census shows that there are 1890
OF them LEFT.
Convicted a second time OF speeding
while intoxicated a chaufreur mas been sen
fenced TO fifteen days in a jail by a judge
at Yonkers, n. Y.
Newport Or. - society, women have in
PRODUCED an automobile flower lad.
Bunches of flowers are carried IN vases
within the limousine.
A reliability trial Of Industrial vehicles
is being organized ~ tie Australian AUTO,
mobile club for October q to 81, IN North
Bohemia and MoraVia.
Space for the Chicago show will be al
lotted on October Z by the executive com
mittee of the National Association OF Au-
tOnlobile Manufacturers.
The French Anarctic expedition TO the
south pole. under DR.. Charcot, carries
three motor slelghs, each capable Of ac-
commodatirs our persons,
AT the present count II Is reasonably ex-
peoted that fwenty-six cars will be en-.
tered for the grand prize race at Savan
nah on Thanksgiving day.
The dlrectoire styles have had their ef
feet on motoring jackets. the sleeves 'o'
which are notlceably smaller. Pockets ar'
larger and more prominent.
over 500 cars have passed through Me
CCnnellsburg, Pa. in the heart of the Al
legheny mountains this season ana reached
only by the toughest OF reads.
A~utomobilists OF Northampton, Mass, re
Gently banded together and succeeded II
having the brilliant, binding searehlisht
on the street railway lines dimmed.
The French government has decided tina
hereafter when considering the horsepowe
OF a car for taxing purposes the highes
power shall be taken into consideration.
Prof. c. r. Moore OF Purdue university
has invented a power and speed Indicate
] for testing automobiles that gives a direc
reading OF speed and power at all times.
An automobile stage company operating
between Sherwood. Mendocino county. an
added several new cars to its equipment
In 1916 the British Parliament passed
law TO prevent scorching, owing 10 publl
clamor over the speed OF horse vehicles
some OF which made twelve miles an hour
Joe Tracy, one OF the leading American
racing drivers. declares Il will be POSSIBLE
10 make more than 100 miles an hour owe
portions OF the Long Island motor speed
way
According TO reports from Cincinnati al
m race track will be bult In Ken
lucky on the banks OF the Licking river
within twenty-five minutes ride OF Clncin
matt
The Milwaukee Automobile club Is plan
ming another two-day outing tour this sea
Milwaukee 10 the Mississippi river and re
turn.
Plans are underway for the elntructioI
81 an auto stag line from Seminole. Tex
TO Roswell n. N. There is also talk OF