Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

The worlds production of oil last year
was S.9SS,O0O,OOO gallons.
Permits issued for touring in Rainier park,
Wash, are good for one year.
According to late statistics there are
1850 automobiles in service in France.
South Germany will be the scene Of the
1909 Prince Henry Automobile endurance
contest.
Crossing the Majsve desert has become
California.
The Swiss Automobile club is arranging
to hold a reliability trial OF industrial motor
vehicles early next year.
Owing to certain administrative difficult.
ties encountered the es-Mont-Cenis hill
climb has been abandoned.
September 20 has been fixed as the date
by the Austrian Automobile club for its
annual Semmering hill climb.
United States Senator Knox and Mrs.
Knox have arrived in London from Scot
land where they have been motoring.
A has been appointed by the
Royal Automobile club of Great Britain
for the promotion of an exhaust competi-
ton
Rumford and Mexico. Ne, motorists have
Joined in organizing an m club.
There are fifty-eight car owners in the two
owns.
Auto owners Of sheboygan, Wis, will
give the orphans and poor children a tour,
pllOnlhe NS f
Athletic club.
When the palace of Abd-ei-Aziz was
sacked recently in. Morocco, the invaders
were astonished to find twelve automobiles
and 100 bicycles.
The Cleveland Ohio Automobile club has
consented to act as the sponsor of a relia-
biity run. 10 be held late this month or the
first part OF October.
1t Is Important to see that all the NOV
able joints in a brake are really warking
and not rusted fast; this Is often the cause
of an inefficient brake.
The route to be followed homeward has
never been Travelled by an automobile in It's
entirety, although automobiles have covered
every inch Of the way.
BY offering cash prizes for chsufteurs
who pilot their cars TO victory, the Auto,
mobile Club of America will go far toward
gaining their enthusiasm.
There is widespread discussion in the
south and west of the proposa 10 call a
congress of automobile clubs TO form a
new national organization.
The Minneapolis club now has
more than 100 members out OF 1000 motor
lists in the city and has begun another
campaign for membership
The distances on the route laid out Tor
the proposed transcoEtinental contest total
lTgT miles. the biggest run is 10 miles
over the plains OF Nebraska.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt is following the ex-
ample set by her sister, Mrs. Nlcholas
Longworth. and becoming an enthusiastic
advocate Of the
The success OF motor car service between
! Calumet, Red Jacket and Laurium, Oppe
Michigan, has led citizens or Houghton
and Hancock to install similar service
Pittsburg now claims to have more auto
mobiles to its population than any other
city In the union. There are said TO be
i,l9s cars, valued az 100000 in the city.
FrigoTie Is a term sometimes employed
10 designate the relatively negative Ca
! Tories" corresponding 10 a lowering OF the
temperature below 0 degree, centrtgrade.
For those who contemplate a tour abroad
in their own car IL Is advisable 70 procuro
five small photographs (siLe 1-Sxlh inches
OF chauffeur and owner for affiXing on
licenses in countries other than Great
Britain.
The experience OF the Canadian army
service corps with automobile transporta-
ton at Quebec's recent tercentenary cele-
bration will probably result in the estab-
hshment Of an automobile corps like that
in Englsnd.
All the rocks have been removed from
the Wilbraham mountain hill road for the
Springfield Automobile Gibbs climb next
Friday, September II. and the hill Is in eN-
cellent shs pc for a contest,
Governor Fort will deliver the Openins
! address at the good roads convention 70
be held b. the state Grange and AEso-
ciated clubs OF New Jersey
September S-2s IN Atlantic City.
What is probably the Queerrst automo-
bile club In the world has been formed by
the inmates OF the Daughters Of JACOB
Home for Aged Men and Women, In New