Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

appointed over the postponement of their
Fourth of July races. Despite the en-
deayors of Congressman Amos Butler, the
was refused. The club tried to make
other arrangements, but failed.
BY securing a court order opening the
famous Laurel Run turnpike to automo-
biles. the Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Auto
mobile club recently won Il great victory
.or motorists throughout Pennsylvania.
the judge deciding that no toll road com
pany has a right to keep automobiles off
its road.
In connection with the announcement that
"A. c, of A is the proper abbreviation
not "a. c. A." II is noted that the latter
initials stand for American Canoeing asso-
citation, an organization formed a dozen
years ago and having several thousand
England has hailed the feat Of Felix
Nazzaro in driving a car on the Brooklands
track at the speed Of 40 miles an hour
pean driven and European driver covered
two miles on the Ormond-Daytona course
in Florida in 5S.s seconds, a little better
than 40 miles an hour.
Baltimore motorists are backing a move
ment to change the Maryland law so that
visiting autoists may remain in the state
for .tw~enty-four hours unmolested without
taking out a license. They also favor the
issuance of state licenses at ounty court
houses Instead OF compelling motorists to
obtain them from the state capital.
highway commissioner james II NC
Donald of Connecticut has bought a tour
ing car specially constructed for use in
inspecting roads. There Is a rack for a
typewriter and a stenographer will accom-
pany him on his runs. There is also a
special type OF gradometer, and a most
complete system OF electric lighting.
Big registration fees, a fairly liberal max
mum. rate of speed and a concession to
lut-of-state motorists in the shape Of a
.lause permitting them to use the roads
for twenty consecutive days during the cal
endar year without being required to regis
ter, are the most interesting provisions OF
the new Rhode Island state automobile
law.
Strict beyond all previous experience will
be the inspection to which the cars en-
tered for this years Grand Prix viii be
subjected by the Automobile Club OF
France. This has been brought out by the
sending to England OF a representative OF
| the French club, solely to make an exam
pete.
II is suggested that the American Auto
! mobile association send a delegation TO
attend the international conference a I
he attended by delegates from all Euro
pean national clubs, as well as the Paris
America, and which could probably
~straighten out the tangle between the two
American associations.
A lively war has been begun between the
scranton Pennsylvania Automobile clut
county. The club notified the supervisors
Of a law which provides a fine for failure
to keep removed loose stones from road,
ways. The supervisors retorted by an.
nouncing that they would fine any motor
lists passing over the roads at a higher rat'
Of speed than eight miles an hour.
A ". Graves, a prominent San Fran.
cisco mOtOrist. who recently returned
from a seven weeks trip through northern
California and oregon, where he piloteC
the Officers Of q telephone company OF
a tour or inspection of their different
lines, says: we were clear up to tbs
body in mud for miles in Oregon anC
climbed boulders there two feet high
Farmers said IL was impossible for US L
60 most OF the places We did go"
OF thirty-five Industrial motor vehicles
ranging from rye-toR trucks to light
weight delivery vans, which competed II
the recent government commercial test
twenty-four covered the prescribed course
extending a months time, without hayinI
changed anything more important thar
spark plugs and valve springs. In the cal
competition nine out OF eleven Travelled
for a month with every part intact. TIT
net result is 6S-5 per cent clean scorer
In the truck classes and 81 per cent. II
the cab section. Six OF the perfect scorer
are eligible for purchase by the army
having fulfilled the rigid military regula
tionS