The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-23
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

Indianapolis dealers sold two hundred
cars during the week Of their second
annual show. sre
An automobile club has been formed
at Boyertown, Pa, which poasts OF Jnse
an even dozen cars
The membership of the Associated
Automobile clubs of New Jersey has
doubled in. the past year. -.
/ The Oldest house In the United States.
built in 1865 in st. Augustine, Fla. has
been fitted up as a garage.
The Automobile club of Lancaster,
Pa, is planning to build it's own club
house with garage attached.
The pressure of the air In tires never
should be allowed to fall below IS
pounds to the square inch.
Bicarbonate Of soda should be scat
tered on the bottom of a battery box
to prevent injury from spilled acid.
Dayton, o., is to have an automobile
show, the first in the history Of the
city. beginning April 20, and lasting six
days.
ming Neutrality-suspicious. track race, to
be held as early in the season as the
weather is suitable.
The Detroit Automobile Dealers as
ISOLATION will have reliability run.
covering about 412 miles. April 20 and
30 and May L.
AS aluminium paint is heat retaining
1t never should be used on an engine.
The most satisfactory covering for
cylinders Is black lead.
There are now from 700 to 800 motor
buses in London. OF which more than
600 are owned and operated by two
large companies.
Members of the New York Athletic
club who own cars have formed mo-
toring section, which already has near
ly four hundred members.
If a ball in bearing shows wear all
should be changed. as to insert but one
new one will almost invariably result
in a series Of broken balls
A Buffalo member of the New York
legislature has introduced bill to give
garage proprietors liens on cars for
services in connection with them.
| Russia's annual automobile show will
be held this year by the Automobile
club Of Moscow from May to 20 and
will be international in character.
Robert Allison, Of Port Carbon, Pa.
who was the first purchaser Of an
American-made automobile, recently
celebrated the tenth anniversary Of
that event.
AS the first care Of driver is the
safety of his passengers the brakes
should always be tested on starting
run before changing to a high gear.
With the arrest of the promoter on a
charge of uttering forged checks for
cars, the plan for motor car service
on the island of Jamaica fell through.
Commissioner Of Highways James H.
Macdonald, Of Connecticut. has pur-
chased a touring car and hereafter will
ferret out bad spots in state roads
with Il.
The Albany IN. " Automobile club
has issued notices to its members urg-
ing them to be cautious, courteous ard
conscientious so as to win and hold
public esteem.
New Jersey has 1,235 miles of roads,
toward the building Of which the state
has contributed $2,28S,000. In addition
the counties have built 500 miles with
out state aid.
This year automobile week at Ostend
will begin July A. the affair being pro-
NOTED by the Automobile club Of Bel
GUM. assisted by the Antwerp and
Flanders clubs.
AS an incentive to good road buildin g
a sugar firm of Alma, Mich, has Of
fered a reward of 500 for every mile
of road built under the state aid act
| within eight miles Of Alma.
The plan of classifying competing
cars according to their piston displace-
ment again will be followed in the hill
climbing contest Of the Cleveland Auto
mobile club on Memorial day.
More than fifty members of the Au-
tomobile club of Washington, D. c.,
will participate in three day run that
will begin May 20 and cover about 261
miles through four states.
The annual commercial vehicle trials
under the auspices Of the Automobile
club OF France win begin Thursday and