Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

May 2 has been selected for the Targa
Florio, in Sicily.
The Moscow-St. Petersburg automobile race
will be held May 70.
There are now more than 1000 taxicabs
in operation in New York City.
AS a general proposition an electric auto
mobile will carry the equal or It's own
weight.
A motor bus line is to be put in opera
tion at HaTbor Springs Mich IN the
spring.
The Rochester Automobile club is plan
ming to hold a number OF smokers during
the winter.
AS a rule. automobile bodies are lighter
than a corresponding body on a horse
drawn vehicle.
There will be an industrial and taxicab
competition In the neighhorhood OF Paris
from April 10 to 70.
bank, g.. D., and will make road improve
ments it's principal object.
An Increase in output OF from 800 to 1000
cars a year is planned by a motor car
manufacturer at Des Moines. Ia
1t is estimated that dividends earned by
the motor car manufactures in Michigan
during the year will aggregate $5O,OO0.OoO.
The Oklahoma City Automobile associa-
ton has pledged $1,000 for the construction
of a twenty-five-mile speedway around the
city.
Germany and Sweden will both hold in
dustrial vehicle competitions during May,
lh0 Ao@ NNhS1
agreement.
The Richmond county Automobile club of
Staten Island, N " is planning q new
club house, to be finished next sp7nS' at
Grant City.
A periodical cleaning out of the car
buretter TO insure the absence or water Will
save a deal of time and searching when
misfiring occurs.
Denial has been made OF the report that
w. X. Vanderbilt. jr., president of the
Long Island Parkway, intends Withdraw
ing from the prntect.
The dates OF the second annual auto
mobile. motor boat and sportsmen's sx-
hibition at Toronto, Canada, has been fixed
for February Is 10 20.
Chicago Is the center of the motor-buggy
manufacturing business, for there are made
no fewer than ten different makes OF the
~high-wheelers in that city.
1t is a wise precaution to go over the
hoIts which secure the several sections al
a planetary occasionally II
order to see that no looseness exists.
In addition TO a new downtown clut
house the Denver Motor club has secured
a country club house about seven milei
south OF the city for the coming year.
In 1900. when tine first automobile show
was held in New York, the number OF eX'
hibitors was siNty-nine. Al the IaIac'
show. Just closed. the number was 10.
Cor,nuIsorv use of a nonvolatile lubri
eating oil is being considered In England
as a result of protests against Ioul-slnelIlhe
blue smoke exhausts from motor ousses'
The Grand hdpluSS MASh's
club has found that It's prospects Tor
new club house for the next season ar
very bright. Four plans are being con
sidered.
Established only ten years ago, a tir'
company at Akron, o., claims to have oull
mn a business amounting TO S2,5OO,OO II
1905 and expects to reach the S,Oo'OO mari
this year.
The ROYAL Motor Club of England I
contemDiatIng a series OF tests of various
carburetters on the market with a view U
0 giving motorists the benefit or the KNOW
edge gained.
The first year that the brougham Typ
: of electrical automobile was introduced 1
the city OF New York seventy-two doctor
adopted this type OF automobile Tor US
in their service.
Austria will hold a commercial vehicl
competition from October 80 10 lIih' an
the Automobile club of France will hav
a similar demonstration ana test Iror
November 18th to Ath.
In repacking the gland OF a water circu
Iation pump use plenty of graphite wit
me packing. The spindle is seldom SUIT
ciently fabricated. and the graphite Will 8
a long way toward remedying this.
An occasional inspection of tine ball beaI
ing does not harm; they seldom CIV
trouble. and by the renewal OF a set q
nails which appear slightly worn a broke
bail and a damaged race may be obviated.
big road race limited 10 amateu
drivers is being doomed by j. Fred Bet
a wealthy Philadelphia motor enIhuslas