Evening star., 1909-07-18

sidetracked at the night stops from Fort
Dodge. Iowa. to the finish of the tour
at Kansas City, Mo. which will be ten
and a half days. The Pullman people
would not permit the cars to be sum-
lnoned and dismissed at will, so they were
brought into requiSition and Will have to
be used even in the places where hotel
accommodations are to be had. They
started with six sleeping cars, three din
ing cars and a headquarters car for the
officials and their outfit. At Council
Bluffs, Iowa, Il baggage car will be
added for the use of the tire makers, who
will send along supplies.
The tourists will sleep in the Pullman
berths. and get not only their dinner
| at night and their breakfast in the din
| ing cars, but will also receive each day
luncheon put up in box. A charge for
the service per day is made of S7.i5 for
each person. making total OF $1S.23
for each person for the ten and a half
days.
Charles p. Stone has purchased model
X Stevens-Duryea, five passenger tour
ing car. 1t IS forty horsepower, fully
equipped and was delivered yesterday.
| Work on the new speedway at Atlanta,
| Ga, has commenced and the opening of
| the track has been set for November 8.
| when a four-day meet will be held. 1t
| is expected that the speedway will be
completed by October II. The meet will
be held at the time of the national auto
mobile show in Atlanta, the tentative
! program calling for a stock car race at
| 300 miles; a light car race for 80 miles;
3jO-Inile free-for-all race for the At
lanta trophy and sweepstakes with
| five classes. In addition there will be
speed trials and short races.
| The plan of building the track was
conceived by A. Gambler and L. NJ. Dur
ant, who quietly purchased farm after
farm until over 800 acres of valuable
| farming country under cultivation had
| been secured. The growing crops were
purchased. together with eleven farm
houses, and country roads were closed.
| The farmers moved out at once and only
then did the people awake to the enter
prise on foot. large force of laborers
are teams are now daily engaged in trans
| forming the farm land into the speedway.
| The roads when completed will be given
| a treatment of oil to prevent dust from
| interfering with the drivers in the speed
events.
Forman Wilkerson, secretary of Auto
| mobile Club of Syracuse. n. Y, has Sc
cured a number OF photographs from
which cuts will be made to illustrate
route DOCK OI d route ITOln SyTdcuSG 10
Richfield Springs. The pictures will show
the proper road to be taken at all the
| crossroads. forks and other confusing
places along the route.
DR.. I. l.. Macdonald has left in his
new p. NJ. F. car for Maine where he
| will do considerable touring during the
| next two months.
i Mrs. v PadeIford of Stoneieigh Court
| has shipped her Studebaker town car to
New London, Conn.,, where she will spend
| the summer months, enjoying spins over
the roads in that vicinity.
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| An ''E. NJ. F." "3O'' has been delivered
to Oscar J. Ricketts,, formerly acting pub
| lie printer. 1t is touring car and has
| been fully equipped for the road.
| The cowboy of the west and southwest
| is laying aside his spurs and quirt, for the
| reason that the mustang with which he
/ used to spend days in the saddle is being
replaced by the automobile. So proficient
| has he become in the handling of the new
steed that with it he has been able to run
down and rope a steer in twenty -four
and half seconds, record recently
made in a cowboy contest in Texas
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| Dr. Ralph Jenkins has received his new
Packard 80 touring car. He left last
| week for Buena Vista Springs, Pa, from
| which point he will tour Pennsylvania
| New York and thence to Maine.
| >. X
| Senator Guggenheim of Colorado with
a party, left Wednesday morning in his
| Delany Limousine for a two-week tour
through the Shenandoah valley
| y movement is on foot, started by the
police departments of number of cities
! of Ohio, for an amendment TO the state
llaw. providing that but one number plate
| or tag shall be carried on a car. The
object of the amendment is to provide for
| better Identification of cars driven by
careless or reckless chauffeurs.
| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hall and Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Jacob made a trip to Benedict,
| Md, last Sunday in Columbia touring
y car, returning in the evening much de-