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AMONG THE AUTOMOBILISTS
TWENTY ENTRIES EXPECTED
FOR JERSEY JUBILEE RUN.
Gov. Fort Has Invited the Tourists to Call
on Him at Sea Girt-Journey VIII or.
ncialty Terminate at Trenton-Afrair
VIII BE Repeated In september.

on Him at Sea Girt-Journey VIII or
Hcialty Terminate at Trenton-ATair
VIII Be Repeated In september.
Twenty entries are expected for the
jersey jubilee tour, which will start from
the headquarters OF the Touring Club OF
America tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
This event will be run under the auspices
OF the recently formed Touring Club OF
America and will be managed by w. j..
Morgan, promoter OF most Of the Florida
beach race meets. The interest shown in
the tour by owners of cars and dealers has
been responsible for the decision Of the
manager to repeat the run next September
II Is likely that the fall run will be held
on September 10 to 20 and that some race.
win be held op one Of the Jersey beaches
In connection with the event.
Gov. Franklin Fort OF New Jersey has in
vited the tourists to call on him at his sum
mer residence at Sea Grit The tour will
be dlsbanded at Trenton TO permit the
tourists to go anywhere they wish for
July 4, At Trenton each driver and passen-
ger will receive Il silver souvenir medal
which will bear bust picture OF Gov; Fort.
Among the cars entered are Two Chalmers-
Resn, RHsssH''s' two Nationals BUICK ana d
SThe Automobile Trade Baseball League
with membership Of six clubs that repre-
concerns. Walter a. Woods; Thomas. has
Packard. is secreatry and treasurer. me
teams and their managers are r III homss
nSop GSSmpanS m A. Ses
Packard Mo!or, Car Company. J.. II Wes-
sells; Harrolds Motor Car, Company. Walter
a. Gna and k,paSc kubBsr Com
pany, George C. kloss. A. }. Int erreid len
81 the Warner Instrument Company has
offered 500 cup ior the teams TO play
for ,t
In answer. to many inquiries by mem
as 10 the best route to the greensboro
bridge from the clubhouse in Union street.
krooklyn,. Secretary II. q. Andrews has
atpt out the following route:
North on Bedford avenue to the fountain.
turn left around the fountain and then
tight into Berry street, Keep straight out
street at the end OF Berry street, straight
through Loriner street to Noble street.
which Is at the end OF Lorimer street turn
turn left on Manhattan, avenue. granite
block stone pavement. straight across
Vernon avenue bridge: turn right hrst
yackson avenue straight to the Queens
boro bridge plaza
John Farsou. the Chicago banker. who
was one OF the first residents OF that city
to go in for automoblllng and has been
president Of both the Chicago Auiomoole
Club and the American Automobile Asso-
ctation. is very fond Of red tues, the redder
the better. +. X. Thomas. the automobile
msnufastqrer Of ,Bnnalo, Who recentiyt rea ~
Mr. Parsons king Tor red ues and while
Dread secured scarlet tie, vii h he sent
s psrs Msh t9s Sns,ns lSS*Ps OF you sfT pur
chased the re idest necktie ever saw and
4hi sending IL TO you. under separate cover.
Trusting II will meet your views as to red.
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IAN oficial Of the Automobile CLUB of
tmerlcs says White Mountain tourists will
And that a great Improvement has been
ford Notch Every Ever % driver Who Who Ia, trav-
eiled through the Notch will recall very
distinctly the dangerous passage from The
In the work referred to all the bad turns
have been taken out. while others have
been straightened and widened from the
tSAnty zone feet. changing the grade from
% per cent to 10 per cent; from the gate
to. the foot OF the first hill. Where there
were three bad turns there is but twenty
feel In the entire distance where the occu.
PANTS OF one car cannot see another and
there Is no place in the Notch where two
There. Is now a good road from the foot
ofthe Notch TO the Wiley, House, and they
are, S9x E1rk my from the W., Wiley House
grading There is now almost completed
Gperfect eighteen foot road the entire dis
D Nembe OF the Automobile Club of
Washington and motorists who visit the
national capital very often are greatly IN"
missoners Of the rqss district a Of colnmba FOR for
an appropriation to be used for the erection
q signs throughout the city TO designate
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particular points and TO indicate which
direction they should travel. whether TO
tbs. risbt or left, The PROPOSED signs
hour rate is enforced, where the Is mile
rate must be, observed and also where
*os1 prove a boon to visiting drivers.
II, would appear that the blind goddess
~ local court at Dedham. Mass. is un-
$4hliy blind and perhaps deal a. well,
HlRe drivers accused OF exceeding the
AtDedham last Monday. all of them having
heen caught In a speed trap laid out IN
Washington street, Dedham; One or the
22L miles an. hour, had been carrying
Hfytpf survivors of drowning accident
tSthslr homes at Quincy. but he was fned d
ones back to their homes.
h. c. Good OF Hackettstown. y: j.. will
start. next month on tour to Kentucky
visit his forms, home % IN tine B.ne Grass bm
town 10 Pittsburs. through Easton., From
down Tie ohio RIVER VALLEY. through Gin
cinnat. u Aurora. Madison and Jefferson
vile, Ind. At the latter. place the party
will cross the river to Louisville. where
Mr., Good lived when he was = boy. Mr..
Good aud his family will make the trip
driving one car and his daughter the
other. They expect to drive about 5000
miles during thetrip.
Edwin Melvin. Chairman Of the house
Club, has announced that table d 'h6te
dinner will be served at the clubhouse,
go Union street, Brooklyn. from $50 until
O'Clock on Friday evening. July ?. Chair
msf Melvin suggests that tables be re-
d},hs local authorities OF Chatham. \. j..
MSe posted ofiicers at various points along
fH< roads through that place TO take the
Numbers of cars that are being driven
faafer than the limit provided by law,
yecretary Burtiss OF the Schenectady
Automobile. Club has notified members Of
REORGANIZATION that he has supply
Of The new. CLUB pennants, and the officials
OF the club have requested all members
70 carry them on their cars this summer.
squeak that Is very annoying and some
times hard to locate Ia that made by the
bete of glass Windshield rubbing on the
dsfh !. The cutting Of the base OF a wind
TIE shape OF the dash is often a difficult
task The result is that inst cad of rest ing