Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Father Of billiards.


The first American automobile was sold
in lS9s-less than eleven years ago.
Hutchinson, Kan, ana Prady. Tex. are
two towns that will soon have new and
up-to-date garages.
A company is being organized to run an
automobile freight line from Los Angeles
TO Wilmington, Cal.
An autobus line is being started between
Marshallfteld and Roseburg, Ore, a dis
lance of sixty-five miles.
The membership of the Automible club
OF Washington. ID. c., has increased from
sixty-nine TO $50, in a year.
In England and Wales there are now
So, 40 motor cars and 11,172 commercial
vehicles. Scotland has 5,23l cars.
Taxicab services are being organized in
Lexington, Ky; Hartford, Conn; Wilkes
Barre, Pa. and New Bedford, Mass.
The Automobile club of America is plan
ming the erection of an e~ighteen-story
addition to its club house in New York.
February 24th is named as a tentative
date for the show which the Automobile
club OF Maryland proposed holding in Bal
timore.
william IL. Hotchkiss. president of the
American Automobile association, has been
elected president of the Bar association
OF Buffalo.
Thomas A.. Edison. the world-famou
inventor, has turned his attention 10 the
production of a storage battery for street
car service.
Civil service examinations for two chauf-
feurs for the War department were held
In Washington, this week. The places
pay SO a month.
The Indianapolis Board of Health has
ordered an electric ambulance to be used
by the city dispensary and displacing
the horse-drawn vehicle.
The new State Highway commission OF
New York will supervise the expenditure
OF the remainder OF the $4,000, 900 bond
issue for good roads.
Fire officials OF Paris have adopted a
scheme Of sending a light, f~irst-aid motor
engine and following it with a large en-
gle a few minutes later.
The Milwaukee Central Young Mems
Christian association, which is about to
occupy its new S2JO,N0 building, has estab-
lished an class.
II is important TO see that all the NOV
able joints in a brake are really working
and not rusted fast; this is often the
cause of an inefficient brake.
A taxieab company is being organized at
AsOuTy Park; n: j. to maintain Si an ssd an,
hotels OF that Atlantic coast resort.
The Automobile club of Belgium has de-
cided that the Circuit OF Ardennes race
collation. OF the Grand PriX in France.
Automobiles will replace the customary
mountain buckboards for hotel traffic at
Lake Placid. in the heart OF the Adiron-
dack region, N. T., this coming summer.
Having formed an association and applied
u ~ AAaAA v . -
Toledo. o., are promising the largest
and best motor show the city has ever
had.
Frank l.. kramer. Of East Orange, n.
T.. Tor the past eight years the champion
cyclist OF America. has become an autoist,
and may Try his hand in various automo-
bile contests
Many cars are expected 10 be sold at the
81. Louis show, February 10th TO 10Th, the
demand Tor automobiles in the great south
west being especially brisk, according 20
latest reports.
A company at Pontiac, Mich. recently
sold five of its cars for use in H%elsinfors,
Finland. ninety miles from the Arctic circle,
aud a l6-passenger bus for CORONA, Spain,
on the same day.
Ground has been broken by an automo-
bile bodybuilding company at Bridgeport,
Conn. for a large addition TO It's plant,
and the company expects TO double Its
present force OF seventy men
The company organized at
Waltham. Mass, Is planning to turn out
500 cars a year. G. II. Metz. the prin-
ciOal owner. will be the largest Individual
operator OF an automobile plant In this
country.
Every known steel used for commercial
purDoses is available Ia the United States.
Norway and Sweden have unusually pure
ores, but the raw materials made from
them are just as readily obtained here as
elsewhere.
In prsdieiius that every t~ollgaie Ia