Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05
MOTORING

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by the Overland Sales Company arrange
ments for the handling of this car In tbs
city having been concluded several days
ago by ]. r. Conrad of that company.
During the past week Cadillacs go
were delivered to Mrs. J. B. Kendall and
George r. Mcclellan. The cars are of the
touring type, with full equipment.
Always avoid allowing the motor to
race. but keep it at the speed at which
II runs most efficiently. All useless rev.
elutions of the motor when it is running
idly many moments loss of its life,
not to mention unnecessary waste of
gasoline, lubricating oil and bearing
metal.
Columbia Lodge of the Order of Moose
has purchased Studebaker EMF so
touring car. Columbia Lodge will hold a
fair the latter part of next month and
the automobile will be offered as one of
the prizes.
In the days when Mark Twain wrote
'InnocentS Abroad" the proper way to
visit the historical places of Europe was
any old way you could reach them. Now
the way to see Europe to the best advan-
tage is via motor car. The good highways
and beautiful scenery of France and
other European countries have attracted
many tourists who love motor touring
for its own sake, while the advantages
of a motor car for travelling rapidly,
comfortably and independently of railway
trains, have recommended it to tourists
who wish to visit both the usual and UNI
usual points of interest on the continent.
The various automobile and touring or
CARNATIONS have made touring abroad
more attractive than it was in the early
days of motoring by having simplified the
formallties of customs. passports, routes,
eft cetera. Several of the national and in
ternatlonal organizations now supply
triptychs and all necessary Information
and papers in such form that Ameri-
can can tour abroad practically without
bother Also, the express companies CO.
operate to take the burden of shipping
cars off the hands of the owner.
The question of transportation in Lon
don. with its vast unit of population and
it's extensive area, possesses peculiar sig
niicance, which leads Consul General
John l.. Griff1ths to note some of the
methods now in volgue:
With advent of the public motor car,
which starts with an initial charge of
16 cents to cover roughly one mile OF
travel. the hanson cab, for very long
time the popular means of reaching a
destination. has been less and less used
To meet the new competition 1000 han
hoe 1arS ha
her, II is stated. will be increased very
shortly have been placed on the Lon
don streets in which two persons can
travel mile for II cents. The re-
duction in fare promises, to a certain
extent. to revive the use of the hanson
cab. although the greater speed of the
motor car is decidedly in its favor. The
interesting fact is that hanson cabs and
four-wheeers can be operated profitably
for the very low fare of IL cents mile.
Nothing impreSses the American abroad
more than the disparity i'm the charges
FOR cabs and carriages in his own and
foreign countries. Low fare greatly null
tiplies the use, and so profit is possible.
To show how common is the use of motor
abs, a paragraph appeared recently in
one of the London papers stating that
100 experienced chauffeurs were re-
quired 10 run new public motor cars
that were necessitated by the demands
of traffic.
Another feature of transportation in
London to which attention can we'll be
called is the practice of designating by q
number the route of an omnibus. The
number consists of large numerals. con-
spicuously displayed above the drivers
seat and at the rear OF the omnibus.
The advantages of this simple mode of
designation are quite evident. In Ameri- |
can cities of considerable size there Is
frequently some central junction point
which practically all the street cars pass.
At certain hours in the morning and
tn<arc
and there is more or less anxiety and
confusion in trying to determine which is
the car one desires to take. There may
be several streets or places mentioned on
the same car and this may prove mis-
leading. The uncertainty increases late
at night the traveller tries to remem-
Der the car he wishes to use. In the
London system, all omnibuses traversing
the same route use the same number,
and it is the number almost inevitably
that is mentioned when one asks which
omnibus goes to Il certain place. Might
not the same system be adopted to
very great advantage in American cities?
Speed regulations and the necessity for
. more stringent observance of the rules
of the road formed one of the most i'm
portant topics of discussion last week at
the annual meeting of the American Au-
city. The attendance was thoroughly
representative of the leading automobile
sections of the country, about fifty di-
rectors being present, the states most
generously represented being New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts. Pennsyl-
vania, Connecticut, Minnesota, Michigan
and Ohio A resolution was adopted at
the meeting providing that the American
Automobile Associa ton places itself upon
record as being unalterably opposed to
the unfair use of the highways by crllni-
nal and lawless operators of motor-driven
vehicles. and Furthermore this national
organization of automobile owners calls
upon its various state associations to pro-
pose and secure the passage of laws which
shall rid the highways of reckless and in
considerable drivers even to the extent OF
revocation of licenses and jail penalties in
proportion to the nature of the offense.
In seeking 10 get attractive poster
for the tenth national automobile show,
10 he held in Madison Square Garden
January SIS. the show managers have
hit upon one that is provoking consid-
cradle comment Instead of the usual
winged Mercury, mighty Samson, or
some other symbolcal figure, the poster