Evening star., 1909-05-09
winning driver will receive $500 in cash
in addition to the trophy.

A California tourist recently came
across an abandoned street ear. 2:j
miles from San Francisco, where il
had been run twenty-five years be-
fore. 1t was in the middle of big
wheat field, and how it got there Is a
puzzle. The inside of the car still mas
the signs telling the passengers to
Smoke on the front platform,
"Alight after the car stops" and DE
posit your fare in the box"
Boston has been made the starting
point Of a 3.200-mile automobile tour
through Europe, from Glasgow to Ma
pies, by the Motor Touring Club OF
Syracuse University. The college men
will sail on June % with their cars
II, making tour Of cighty-one days
They calculate their expenses at about
$3.50 per man.
In kerosene and alcohol motors the
question of starting is probably the
most important detail, and the greatest
bar to the use of both Of these classes
Of fuel. In automobile motors, con-
sidering Automobile gasoline" which
is not nearly so volatile as real gaso-
line. this same question comes up. and
grade of gasoline is decreasing, from
the point OF view of volatility.
Motor omnibuses made their first ap
pearance on the streets of CONSTANT
nople on the day the constitutional
troops entered the city. The vehicles
belonged originally to a London COM
pany. They have been generously pa
tronized. but chiefly on the score Of
their novelty. They are driven by Lon
don chauffeurs, but the men find .he
narrow streets of the city great trial.
Their chief complaint, however. is OF
the slowness Of the people in getting
on and off.
No little lack of hill-climbing contest
can daunt the Worcester, Mass, Auto
mobile Club. That organization. finding
that the avarice of Dead Horse hill prop
erty owners put stop to the plan OF
looking around with a view of buying a
hill of their own. Such a hill once found
it is proposed to build road up it's more
or less precipitous face. and make it not
only the scene of their long established
contest, but place for the general trying
out of cars.
There will be no observers on the cars
in the Guggenheim trophy ocean-to-ocean
race. The technical committee OF the a.
c. A. will stamp the cars before oepar-
ture as follows: The side members of the
frame, front and rear axles, engine base
and cylinders, transmission case and
steering gear The winning car must
bear the stamps on arrival at Seattle. All
other parts can be changed at will. Any
contestant, having to replace any of the
above parts, can continue In the contest
and on arrival at Seattle will be awarded
a certificate of performance. He will not
be eligible for the prizes. however.
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AS the Glidden tour has been tenta-
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about eighteen days and a distance OF
about 1000 miles. This is a little longer
In both time and distance than any former
tour, and. without being exactly rougher,
it will afford q better test of cars under
the rules. Denver motorists are raising
a fund of $4,000 for the entertainment
Of the tourists. Charles ]. Glidden will
accompany the tourists as usual, riding
in the pacemaking car.
The car to be used by Blanche Bates,
the actress. in her motor tour from New
York to San Francisco will be fitted UP
with a radio wireless telephone, by which,
II Is asserted, she will be able to com
municate for several hundred miles. waile
the car is in motion or at a standstill
She proposes to camp out and the cook
ing and lighting OF the tents will be
done by electricity furnished by the
motor Then there will be electric curl
ing irons, massage treatment by cleo
tricity, electric foot warmers. electric
hot water bottles and--and even an cleo
trio cigarette lighter.
The Robert Guggenbeim trophy cup
for the New York-Seattle contest Is be-
ing made by a San Francisco firm. and
will be very unique. The trophy stands
forty-two inches in height and will cost.
1t Is stated. $3.50. The gold cover rep
resents the northern hemisphere, on
which, poised on a flying wheel. is a
figure of Victory draped with banner
bearing the words. New York to Seat
tle" Polar bears. suggestive Of Alaska.
are shown at the base of the hemisphere.
Immediately underneath ara four panels
encircling the cut. In the panels are
views Of Seattle and the exposition
grounds.
II all conditions are right and the
carbureter Is primed. the engine should
start on the first turn of the crank. II
It does not do so there Is a source of
trouble which must be remedied first
and 1t is useless to continue cranking.
This may lie in the fuel system itself. but
exterior to the vaporizer. or 1t may be in
the ignition apparatus. 1t is we'll la
case or this sort to start with the
gasoline tank and follow the fuel through
each step until it apparently reaches the
combustion chamber in the form of a
properly pfoportioned mixture of zas-