Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-29

automobile factories in Cleveland, In
dianapolis, Chicago and Detroit. Later
meetings will be held In eastern cities.
Automobile touring abroad, under nor
NAL conditions, Is cheaper than any other
form of transport when one counts every
thing. A party of four American women
toured Normandy and Brittany in a hired
automobile for ten days for something
like $40 each, and another party Of five did
six days on the Riviera, starting from
Marseilles, for 500 for the whole party.
II is a mistake for a driver to ever try
to correct an apparent fault in a coil. There
are nc reasons for a coil to refuse to work
that can be remedied by an ordinary me-
chanic, except It be some outside connec-
ton. il the coil is so that a current Will
not pass through II, either the primary or
secondary part, 1t is always due to burning
out, and calls for a new coil at once.
Collection of mall by automobile. in
troduced in Lynn, Mass, is reported TO
be proving SO successful that several
other Ney ENGLAND postmasters are
thinking of trying the experiment, Three
collections are made daily with one car,
handled by one man, doing the work
which formerly required the services OF
two horses ana wagons and two men.
The number of outside trades which reap
benefit from motoring is astonishing. For
instance, artists, carpenters, diapers. car
~sculptors. electricians. telephone men. line
men, cablnetmakers, scene painters, plain
and fancy ironworkers, sign painters,
steeple jacks, rlggers, laborers and freight
handlers. all profit more OF less directly
from an automobile show.
AS was the case in the Vanderbilt cup
race, the spectators in the grand stand
at the Savannah races had an opportunity
10 watch the drivers and mechanicians
of the racing cars make repairs. supply
stations similar TO those used at the
contests were placed in front of the
grandstand. with platforms for tires on
the opposite side of the road.
A moved warming arrangement for win
/ ter Use in mOtOrinR has haRn devised nv
II. A. Fowler, an enthusiastic motoTist
OF Kansas City. He buttons a rubber or
Of the seats and does away with the usual
sack" A common furnace register face
Is set I'm the floor board, connected with
the exhaust pipe, admitting a circulation
OF warm air up under the hood.
The dlrectoire styles have spread to mo-
toring coats for women. They are made
fronts by means OF ''cabachon" buttons
run through elongated holes and having 3
high turnover collar. also button trimmed,
A favoTite material Is pelisse; OF r~edingote
so that there Is no strain on the lower por-
ton OF the garment when the wesrer IL
seated.
California's good roads movement, which
received a setback by the action OF the
voters of Santa Barbara county in refusing
to authorize "a bond issue OF 81, 10000 TO aid
the construction of a thorough road from
San Francisco to Los Angeles, has re-
ceived fresh Impetus through a plan, said
to be favored by Governor Gillette, for q
system OF state roads somewhere along the
lines OF those IN Massachusetts. IL Is said
that the governor Is considering a recon-
mendation TO the legislature favoring an
issue of bonds amounting to S1S.OC,OO for
state roads.
Brice Cowsn, Is years old, of Los Angeles
and H.. l.. Gray, IA years old, OF New York
City. possibly are the two OUNCES auto
mobile makers in the United States. Brict
has built a machine he calls the "Cali-
fornia Midget" six feet long and weighing
800 pOunds and capable of twenty-five Il
thirty miles an hour. IL runs by gasoline
and the materials cost $50, all OF which
Brice earned himself. Gays car is steam
driven, with a frame made OF angle iron
braced by truss rods. His car, too. car
make from twenty-five to thirty miles al
hour, and Is a good hill climber.
One OF the most important legal prece
dents in favor Of motorists OF the countr!
has been set by Judge Weand OF the com
mon pleas court Of Pennsylvania. He hold
that h must be proven that the owner o
a car was IN the vehicle at the time
charge OF speeding Is made against him
and that the prevailing method OF taking
a cars number and obtaining the owner
name thereby Is insufficient to convict
Thus secret speed traps are PRACTICAL.
fines through chauffeurs giving surrepti
wiped out and motorists run no risks o
tious demonstration Of cars and skill.