Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

Americas automobile industry is in its
tenth year.
A taxicab company has been formed to
operate taxicabs in Memphis. Tenn.
A new motor transfer company, with
100000 capitalization, has been formed in
Boston.
A large eight-story building is planned by
a wholesale and retail automobile firm In
Minneapolis.
1t is estimated that there are now more
than 2OO, 1000 active users OF automobiles in
the United States.
The number of automobile registrations
in London amounts to 3~4,90S-only 1000 less
than the estimated total for the whole of
France.
Cleveland has taken TO taxicabs with a
rush. Three concerns are now operating
them and thirty-five more cabs are being
installed.
A maker of commercial auto trucks is now
offering a vehicle with a carrying capacity
of ten tons. 1t is the largest capacity Jingle
vehicle in the world
A fear has actually arisen among selling
agents in several sections of the country
tina the supply of high grade cars his
season will run short.
More and more motorists are approaching
the fact that the absence of an oil bill is
a sure sign OF a repair bill, and they also
know that the oil bill is the least of the
evils.
A peculiar feature of the automobile bill
before the West Virginia legislature is that
it makes it obligatory TO use a fire chain
or 'other Continuance" when the roads are
slippery.
The German Motor Car Industrials has
worked out a new formula for the Prince
Henry tour which will permit vehicles OF
from seven to twenty-eight horsepower TO
compete.
The club OF Syracuse, N. Y.
has grown In membership from seventy
| five TO az In the first year OF its existence
and a determined effort is being made to
reach 800 before 1910.
See that the storage batteries are always
| held tightly I'm their box, and that ell con
n~ections are tight. Rubber sheetins is a
good material for packing the batteries
ana deaden vibrations to a large extent.
l.. w. X. Vanderbilt, jr.. donor OF the
World-famous Vanderbilt cup, believes tina,
a grand prize race should be held al
| Savannah yearly. He recently drove over
the course there and was delighted with II.
BY far the best and handles thing to
| clean the lens mirrors is a mixture OF equal
parts OF alcohol and water; a 90 per cent
solution e~vaporates more slowly than pure
clean
Ralph De Palma. whose fast laps in the
Savannah grand prize race gave him a
standard among the great racing drivers.
Is 10 be a star attraction at the New Or
leans Mardi Gras carnival, February 3D. x
and %
IL in selecting leather for upholsteTing a
car the material 10 h~and-buffed II will show
II, not only in appearance. but In pltability.
IL il looks flaky, and II II is not firm, then
II is a sign hat the leather Is not OF a de-
sirable grade.
IL is estimated that largely on account
OF the unimproVed state OF the roads the
mere hauling to market and 10 shipping
points of the farm products Of the United
states costs the farmers OF the country
S662,00eO0O a year.
In connection with the northern games. in
Stockholm in 1909 are TO be automobile
races from February 7 to IA The first
event will be a race from Gothenburg 10
Stockholm for the winter cup" and the
"Gothenburg cup"
Colonel r. NJ, Joyce, president OF the Min
nesOta State Automobile association, viii
visit Milwaukee shortly to confer with the
Milwaukee club officials and to co-operate
with them In making arrangements for the
handling of the "Glidden army"
After a series OF extensive tests, a COM
pany with headquarters in Jersey City.
N. j., and operating SO branch stores IN
the United States. has decided TO displace
some l.60 horses and horse-draWn vehicles
in favor OF motor delivery service.
After a recent snowstorm in Reading,
Pa, in which the roads we're left In bad
condition, II. l.. Hardy, an automobile de-
sianer, attached an ordinary land roller to
a sextuplet and rolled ak miles Of road
way. putting II in excellent shape
There are in the United States 2S.Oo
niles Of railroeA and 1B,SN miles Of