Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

Dodge City, Kan, now has a motor club.
Gayly colored scsrfs are becoming popu-
lar with fair motorists.
There are now about 500 motor cars in
use is Harrisburg, Pa.
More and more is glass work on cars Civ
ing way to palmer metals.
Tampa, Fla, now has an automobile
club, whose slogan is Good Roads"
II, f. Frederickson will receive a car
load of $3.50 Chalmers-Detroit touring cars
next week.
A horse is used in a garage at Asbury
Park, \. j., to haul machines to and from
the washing stand,
Philadelphia automobile and accessory
dealers have decided to hold their regular
local show again next winter.
The receipts from the race at Dieppe
this year were 10000 and the expenses
SI2,WO, leaving a profit Of $4,000.
1nsuring against financial loss from Dos
sible rain, promises TO become quite COM
mon among hackers of automobile races.
The tax imposed on foreign automobiles
entering Germany has yielded only 1,6ls,sS4
marks, instead Of $4,000 marks, as was
expected.
Six furrcws can be plowed simultaneously
with some OF the specially designed auto
farm tractors now in use in southern Cali
fornia-
One of the hardest things to teach a new
hand is not to leave the change speed
gears in the mesh while the motor is
running.
~ VI new ~ IdABt nGaf
Detroit are being used to try out the hill
climbing qualities Of machines made in
that city.
Trial of the test case of Prince Edward
Islands law. absolutely barring motor
cars, has been set for November In the
Canadian high court.
An idea of the utility Of the automobile
may be had from the fact that the average
carrier can transport, in a wheelbarrow,
$50 pounds ten miles a day.
Don't fill a~cetylene gas lamps with car
bide until they are to be used, as carbide
IL very susceptible 10 moisture and Stacks
rapidly on exposure to air.
The famous old plank road" connect
ms Jersey City with Newark, n. j., Is TO
be replaced by a new and more modern
highway, to cost 100000.
The trite title Shock Absorbers" has
been adopted by the automobile writers and
solicitors of Philadelphia papers for a
club they have organized.
Many prominent hotels and restaurants
OF New York and other large cities now use
storage batteries for supplying nluminat-
ing power for their table lights.
The Automobile club Of Syracuse, n. Y,
has bought seventy-five more route and
danger signs, and the work Of labelling
roads is proceeding with dispatch.
sale Of the right TO take moving pictures
Of automobile races promises to become a
source of profit to promoters OF speed
contests throughout the United states.
The transcontinenta record IS claimed
by Mr.. and Mrs. c. J, Barres, missionaries
! IN emma. VINO recently mOtOfeu rom san
Francisco 10 New York in five weeks.
ST. Pauls club is being congratulated on
all sides for its decision to spend the 5000,
which II cleared at its race meet July Is,
on repairing roads adjacent 20 the city.
on a good road, the average 25OO-pound
car, with a 6XI-inch opposed motor, carry
ing five passengers, should cover seven
teen to eighteen miles 10 the gallon OF
gasoline.
Advices from abroad now indicate That
from eighteen TO twenty foreign entries
are assured In the Grand Prize race az
Savannah. making an elimination race
probable.
The Rhode Island Automobile club has
issued a small card bearing a table Of
speed rates. showing how Ions II takes a
car TO travel certain distances when gong
at certain rates.
One of New Works pioneer motorists
declares that probably about - per cent OF
all automobiles spend 70 per cent more Tor
tires than they would il they kept them
properly inflated.
The Barcelona ROYAL automobile club has
united with the Royal club OF
Madrid, TO bring pressure 10 bear on the
Spanish government to secure road im-
proNement In Spain.
Always be sure that the hole in the
filter cap OF the gasoline tank Is clear,
otherwise a mysterious stop may be ex-
perienced owing to the gasoline not reach
ing the carburetter.
Chief Of Police Frsns OF ST. Joseph. Mo,
IL strongly urgiLg the city TO purchase an
automobile patrol for the police department..
lie thinks that "a would soon pay for hself
by the saving in horseflesh.
At present there are 30 automobiles ia
Ceylon, only one OF American make. and
United States Consul Creevy, AZ Colombo
reports that there. rs a good market which
only needs prope development.
A company has been organized a. Calu-
met, Mich. 10 run q motor car service be-
tween Calumet and Red Jacket in the cop
per country Two Q-passenEeT gasoline cars
will be put on the route at once.
Dr. A. n. Heaton OF SedaIia. Mo. Who
! covered 100 miles In Europe al q cost OF
81 a day, telis an amusing experience in