Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

7 and one American entries are practically
assured.
New York and Chicago capitalists are
network Of trsnsit lines on the New Jersey
coast, using the gasoline motor car such
as is now used by the Union Pacific rail-
l2O horsepower apd is capable Of comforta-
bly, carrying sixty persons. AS neither
wire, poles nor third rail will be required,
the cost Of construction viii be compare
lively small.
The schedule of sanction fees drawn by
the contest board of the American Automo-
bile association Is as follows: Road race.
where a stand is erected, $500; track meet
four-hour race, $3.50; hil climb. $50: en-
durance contest, $50, and road or bench
speed trials. 500. All clubs AFFILIATED with
the American Automobile association will
be entitled to q reduction of 80 per cent of
these rates.
The constitutionality of the so-called
F~Telinghuysen law, which regulates the
use OF motor vehicles in New Jersey. Is
now up before the supreme court of that
state. The test litigation, which directly
attacks the constitutionality OF the mea-
Club Of America. has been submitted by
John w Griggs, former attarney general
or the United States, for the club, and
assistant Attorney General Gaskill for the
state.
The British War office, which RECENTLY
conducted successful experiments In trans
porting troops in motor buses, is nego-
tiating for the use Of the taxicab in time
ment has subsidized 1000 and II hopes %
increase the number under subsidy to
1900 within the next few months, the
DFopristorS TsSeiyins payment for the use
wearing a stripe marked Territorial Force
Reserve Transport
II the bill that has been introduced in
the state Legislature by Senator Page OF
MllpuanEaa hAnnRuaa q 0w TUNa..- - iii
nave one OF the most liberal, yet practical,
motor statutes yet enacted. The speed
limit provision says: Nc person shall
operate an automobile. motor cycle or
similar vehicle recklessly at a rate OF
speed greater than is reasonable or proper,
having regard TO the width, traffic and
property, OF the life and limb Of any
person"
An important change has been made in
the plans fer the speedway at Indianapolis,
Ind. The outer track is 10 be made two
and one-half miles long and the inside loop
track the same length, the original plans
calling for an outer track OF two miles,
while the inner track was TO be three
miles. II is believed that with the change
TO be made, greater speed can be attained.
A national stripped stock car race of 1000
miles a day for ten days will probably
be the first contest held ON the track.
Tn majority of straners supplied to mo-
toTists, whether they be for filling Raso-
line tanks OF lubricating tanks, are made
on an extremely wrong principle, according
70 an expert motorist. IL will be found
that with most of them one can pour In
the liquid much more quickly than II will
run out, 50 that one has te stop pouring
10 avoid waste and mess. This Is some
times due TO the smalinees Of tbs outlet,
but 1t is very much more often because
the gauge strainer Is OF such small area.
The nneness OF the gauze Is not referred
70. for II the area OF the strainer is large
enough one can pour In gasoline through
an ordinary fine mesh without the least
accumulation Of the LIQUID upon the top Of
the gauEa