The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-11-29
Current Gossip and Timely Tips
Of ActUiy Among Motorists
From America, and Also Abroad

tomobne Association, and the Delaware
Automobile Association, finances being
back Of the trouble.
The danger Of purchasing second
hand cars without having expert advice
on the matter was we'll illustrated Dy
a man who secured 30-hOrsepoWeT ma
chine OF a Well-knOWu make for abou-
so only 20 md that st took about a
gallon OF fuel for every ten miles travel
ed, and that it used up tires faster than
any vehicle should
The roads Of France have since the
. time or Napoleon cost the Republic
nearly $3.50 OJ3O0J.
California Is at present doing NOR
than any other State for the pr0motioI.
OF good motoring roads.
With road building being done under
one great supervising bureau the cost
ought 10 be about oue-haIf what it is
now.
The Omaha Park board has been coat
ing several miles or roadway with a
by-product from the manufacture Of
gas from oil
British local authorities have power
under The law 10 prohibit motor trafdc
on any highway less than sixteen feet
In width.
Director Logan Waller Page, Of the
OIuCe OF Public Roads. ina Jhe Depart
1he hardest problem he has been called
upon 90 consider
Asphalt contractors declare that n oil
from automobiles could be kept from
tne paving in large cities a good deal
on the slippery condition would Dc
abated
The better the road. the more perfect
thc surface. the more likely 10 is that
iLeTe WlI be other meuaceS arising
rom the motor car than those now laid
20 dust.
There is coming to be more and more
OF sentiment In all motoring cOun-
Hles IN favor Of a government road
bureau that shall at least have SUPER
vision OF all road WUrE
The various recognized motor associa.-
tons are going 10 play an important
part in the settlement or the road cues
ton, when It comes down 10 the mai
argument on the matter
Instead OF the roads beng a burde
to the taxpayer because of aut0np- (
billing IL seems more likely that the,-
viii be so improved that in time the
cost OF upkeep viii be far less than
at present
The majority OF motorists vyouI5 NOT
complain against a higher tax II thew
could be assured that the money 10 /
raised would go into road work that 7
would benefit them instead OF being O
useC where motor vehicles are seldom 0
seen
Since it has been proved that the !
local government board OF England is
thoroughly in earnest W. regard TO
justices roads, motorists have been
Fastening to give what advice they
could in the way OF Iemedying the
trouble.
A road surface made of gas tar
thickened with pitch, into which brok- !
en- stone has been rolled after the or {
binary highway repair, costs from $3.50 I
TO 500 per mile more than the ma ]
cadam. hut IL is said 10 be extremely !
effective. ]
1t begins to look as though the road |
proposition so Tar as motorists are D
concerned would eventually come back
to system of toll highways, the tax 4
being collected only from automo-
bile users or from persons driving I
heavy vehicles.
AS far back as 1913 the supreme (
court of Massachusetts had looked IN
to the future sufficiently to see the
coming Of the motor car and rendered 4
a decision then with regard TO the
use Of the streets, that has stood the
test ever since.
Motor cars have recently been i'm
ported into Argentine for the use OF
the police
Two comDanies in London will place
1850 more motor cabs on the streets
within a short time.
Dawson DaIziel is the taxicab king
Of London at present, being the head
Jf the united companies.
The Motor Union Of Great Britain
has up to date grown about 80 per
cent over the same time in 1907.
Motor mail coaches carrying a num-
Der of passengers are now running
between Paris and the PyTenees-
GasoIene costs from 50 to A. cents a
gallon I'm France, but is cheaper IN the
Interior than at the seaports.
The Motor Union has in its London
clubhouse one of the most magnificent
billiard halls IN all England
Some very unique pieces of fire ap-
oaratus are being turned out abroad
since motor propulsion became COM
non.
At the London Olympia show there
Tot only were no racing cars shown, / !
'ut every reference to them was elimi-
rated.
The Royal Automobile Club is con- {
idering plan 10 place a large number z
II cars at the disposal OF the military {
authorities IN time Of national emer- :