Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-04

| Nearly twenty-five thousand people Wis
| tied IL.
of the New York Automc bile Trade Asso-
| citation in June will not have to take out
| New Jersey licenses for their cars and
drivers. The committee In charge has
| that state will be avoided. The daily
runs will be about $50 miles each. and
| there is to be pacemaker to prevent any
violation of the speed laws.
| Southern California will be the scene
of a road race some time in July or Au-
gust if the plans OF the Automobile
| Dealers Association of Southern Califor-
MIA materialize. The promoters of the
| proposed event are searching for suit
| able course over which to hold the con-
| test. and as soon as they have found one
further announcement of the race will
| be made.
A motor bus service will shortly be
established in the Yukon pass. Alaska.
Two new motor manufacturing COM
panies have been established in New Jer-
sey, one at Newark. with $125. 900 capt.
tai. and another at Newton. with $4,000.
company to manufacture motor trucks
has been formed at Milwaukee. with
S2o0,c00 capital. The plant of an elevator
| company has been secured for the fac
tory.
The annual endurance run of the Nor
| ristown CPa) Automobile Club, which is
scheduled to take place May Is and 10.
will be sort of novelty. as some woman
drivers have accepted the invitation of
the clubt to compete with the man driv-
ers Twelve women have already signi-
fled their intention of entering in the con-
test. which Will be held over a course
leading to Hagerstown and return.
Hats for motoring this season are de-
cidedly simple. on the whole, although
there are, of course. some very gorgeous
creations being shown. One Paris mot or
draped velvet or ottoman silk. and sun
flower rosette of same with crepe de chine
strings OF the same shade. Another Is
the new crinoline turban tOque in chestnut
brown, edged with small pale pink roses.
~
A number of garages In Paris have de.
veloped a system of secretly annexing
the contents of fuel tanks on transient
cars that are run in for the night. BY
means of suction pumps the gasoline
and cylinder oil are drawn OFF into the
garage owners tanks, a SUFFICIENT guam
THY being left in the tanks to enable the
car to renew it's journey q few miles be-
fore 1t dies of starvation. The practice
has grown to such proportion that locks
are being fitted to filler caps.
Designs are being submitted to NJ.
Robert Guggenheim for the silver trophy
which he has offered to donate for the
transcontinental road race. Entry fees
have been set at $3.50 for one car, 5000
by the same owner. 500 for three cars of
the same make entered by the same
owner and 500 additional for each addi-
tional car of the same make entered by
fss time tpHnSr and The c winner VIII
second car. $500; third. $1,000; fourth,
$500, and fifth, $500.
On July ] next a new automobile law
which North Carolina has placed on its
books will become effective. This new
law has q strange feature in that it
exempts from its operation the little sea-
coast county Of New Hanover, in which
Wilmington. the chief city. Is located.
The law imposes a registration tax Of
So. with annual renewal fee of 81. Speed
is limited to twenty-five miles an hour
on rural roads and twelve miles in incor-
porated towns. except in business por-
tons. where eight miles is the limit
The next commercial vehicle COMPETE
ton of the Automobile Club of France
will be held from October 15 to Novem-
Der IL, the center to be at some point in
consist of circular trips from this center.
1t will be held under the auspices of the
war department, the army having decid-
ed to offer a substantial indemnity to all
commercial vehicles conforming to the
successful type evolved from the compe-
tition on condition that the automobiles
shall be at their disposition In time of
war.
One OF the most novel contests yet de-
vised has just been held Oy L'Auto in
Paris. 1t was known as an ear" con-
test. The competitors assembled in q
large garage. In an adjoining room and
concealed from their sight were fifty cars.
all of different but we'll known makes.
The motors were started in succession
and the competitors took notes. Then the
motors were allowed to puff" and the
contestants inscribed on cards the names
Of the cars they thought they recognized.
Gold and silver medals were awarded to
those whose ears proved the most &C
curate.
| The operations employed for obtaining
hardness in high speed steel are very re-
markable; they are quite opposed to the
practice obtaining with older carbon
steels. The best results are produced by
practically burning or fusing the nose
say. of drill or lathe tool and grinding
| the burnt crust of. In order to furnish
| the required heat for such operations
! electrical plants or even oxyacetylene
| flames are used. but the more common
! and convenient plan is to use a bath OF
material having a high melting point
such as chloride of barium, kept in q
molten state electrically.
| That the circuit proposed as a course
| for the stock chassis race for the CODE
J trophy, TO be run late in May. is superior
! to the Briarciff and equal to the Van
| derbilt course is the conclusion reached
| by committee of the Chicago AutOmo
| bile Club. The circuit Is a twenty-three
; mile one In Lake county, Ind. There are
| two straightaways, one of six miles, anG
the other of nearly ten miles, which will
permit the cars to attain to maximum
| speed 1t is proposed to make the race
at least AGO. and possibly 45O. miles In
| length.
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