Evening star., 1909-05-09

good roads in that territory and to mark
| the progress which has been made since
| the first caravan crossed the plains In
search of the Pacific coast The exposi-
| tion is supporting the contest and urges
| cooperation and good will all along the
| line.
The reliability contest of the Washing
| ton Automobile Club will precede by
| three days the endurance run of the
Norristown, Pa, Automobile Club which
| will also have as one of its objective
| points Hagerstown, Md. The dates are
| May 1s and 10. and this run has the dis
| tinction of being the first event OF Its
! kind to be run in accOrdane with tue
revised rules decided upon and adopted
| by the contest boards of the American
| Automobile Association and the Manu-
facturers' Association. With their formal
adoption every sanctioned contest of the
| future must conform to them.
| kA
| A number of members Of the Automo-
ing club under the name of the Non
Skid Club.
The Berlin (uis.) Automobile Club has
been permanently organized and already
has membership of thirty-fye.
The Minneapolis Automobile Club mem
| berShip has passed the 500 mark and l,Ocl
| is hoped for by fall.
Treat Your car with respect. If any
slight adjustment is required do 1t al
| once or large repair soon becomes i'm
peratiye.
Although there are no cabs now oper-
ated in Indianapolis. within sixty days
| there will be three separate lines work
ing. with twenty or thirty cabs.
| More than 10000 miles were travelled ir
1908 by the road crews of the official
A. A. A. automobile blue Book" which
has just been issued.
The annual hill-ciimbing contest Of the
Wilkesbarre. Pa, club up Giants De
spair hill. to be run this year May 81,
is expected to have 135 entries.
More than Ill entries have been re-
ceived for the Prince Henry Of Prussia
touring competition. which is to be held
next month.
The Delaware Automobile Association
has decided to hold an endurance run dur
ing the latter part Of May. The route
will probably be to McCaIls Ferry, Pa.
along the Susquehanna river.
~
Unless the driver of an automobile Is
certain there is no vehicle close behind
him he should never make a sudden re-
duction of speed or come to a quick
stop without giving warning signal.
The Quaker City Motor Club has prac-
tically completed the preliminary plans
for the f1ve-day endurance run from Phil
adelphia to Pittsburg and return in June.
Hackmen in the state of Georgia are
becoming alarmed because almost every
city has used or is going to use taxicabs
in a very short time. The latest to fall
in line is Macon.
Permission has been granted by the
Fairmount Park commissioners for an
automobile obstacle race, to be held by
the members of the .Movoganto Klaubo. a
body of enthusiastic woman AUTOMOBILE
lists.
A signboard campaign Is soon to be
started by the Muskegon (Mich) Automo-
bile Club. 1t is planned to place signs at
every cross-road within 100 miles of Mus
kegon bearing these words: This Way to
Muskegon.'
The reinforced concrete road surface of
the Long Island speedway. % feet wide
ton of the elements during the winter
and is in as excellent condition as when
used last October.
The Louisville. KY, Automobile Club
which now has a membership Of 2O5,
double that of fast year has begun a Wig
orous campaign for the erection of sign
posts and improvement OF country roads
about the city.
Unless the generator is kept scrupu-
lousiy clean acetylene lamps are sure to
give trouble. Unless this is done the
dust will clog the gas outlet, and per-
haps the water valve as well. and. worst
of all. the carbide residue will eat
through the brass Of the container.
Before the close Of the season the A.
A. A. touring board expects to have pre-
pared for its members large number of
new road maps, carefully printed with
good. bad and poor roads clearly marked
in addition to hotel and garage informa-
tion
Fees collected from licenses, registra-
tions and fines in New Jersey are to be
used for the repair of the roads under
the new motor law amendments There
is now fund of about $500, ,OOO collected
from these sources. which Is released and
can be used Immediately to repair roads.
When gasoline evaporates the tempera-
ture Of the liquid is lowered. and the