Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
MOTORING
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Woodward. :o15 Wyoming avenue. Buick
runa bout: r. S. Dewey. the Marlborough.
| Pope-Hartford: Il. f. Saul. 7th and l.
northwest. Locomobile touring car: Mrs.
f.. l.. Taylor, jr.. IT'S Rhode Island ave
nue. northwest. Columbia coupe: Fl. Glenn
Phelps. 40 18th street northwest. Ford
touring car; j. ]. Range. 81 9th street
northwest. Autocar roadster: John G.
Duryea: W. H. Moses, nth and F streets
/ orthwest, Peerless touring car: William
+. Mckinley, 919 Farragut Square. Stude-
baker; Senator L. l.. Thompson. The
Mcclellan, the Cumberland. Cadillac: w.
;. Campbell 11O5 e street southwest.
! Winton wagon: Mrs. Ward Theron, lt4l
X street northwest, Waverley ELECTRIC;
west, Cadillac; Frederick Yates. NJ. D.,
1890 9th street northwest. Ford runab"ut;
| S. {. Yang, Chinese legation, HupmOblle'
| George l.. Tarbell. Takoma Park, d. C..
Forl roadster. Charles ]. Hughes, IT,.
! New Willard, Peerless touring car; Arthur
o. Bliss. Bliss building, Hudson 90 road
ste:: W. S. Hose jr., 3l5 Louisiana ave-
nue. northwest. Overland touring ear:
| l. street southwest. Capital car: Interna-
tional Auto Company. 18th street ana
Ohio avenue. Commerc al truck Iour IL
censes): Bennett and Thompson, Home
Life building. Stanley runabout; Senator
! w. NJ. Crane, 1915 Massachusetts ave-
nue. northwest. Pierce-Arrow; Motor Sales
Company s1l 18th street northwest
Moon touring car; II. c. Walker. Benn1ng
ID. c., Ford runsbout; Southern Auto
(, Sales Company, Warder building. Rider
Lewis roadster; j. Nick. Berry. 12l4 3lst
j street northwest, Overland roadster: j.
! Nota McGill. Woodley lane. Studebakef
! SIM F; Myers Bros. Alexandria. va:
Overland runabout: S. A. Merchant. 7lS
18th street northwest. Washington TOUR
/ inc ear; j. NJ. Burrell, Wisconsin avenue
and Newark street. Overland touring car /:
Richard Barthoidt. 1863 Euclid street
northwest. Doris touring car: y. j. Hen
bricks, 6o3 18th street northwest. Ford
car. NJ. T. Pollock, the Ralfour. Marion
touring car; Frank h. King. 1442 Rhode
Island avenue northwest, Stanley: Charles
E. Barker. Arlington Hotel. Ford run
about; George r. Riggs, 131 MARYLAND
avenue northeast Cadillac go; Mrs. IL.
C. Carr. the Wyoming, Columbia VIC
toria: Charlotte Buford o11S lie Roy
place. Detroit electric; Donald Mclean.
144i w street northwest, Rainier limous-
zine; Perry S. Heath, 210O S street north
VI I. coupe; Edward Tarring. 1919 r
street northwest, Ford runa bout; Will
liam NJ Weaver. o4l1 Wisconsin avenue
northwest, Franklin runabout: Edward
c.. Burleigh, Dupont garage, Columbia;
Mrs. Oscar w. Underwood, Hotel Graf
ton. Detroit electric: Mrs. Louise Am
brose, 1885 Park road. Packard touring
car; L. B. Hanna Arlington Hotel, Peer
less: E. G. Walker. 300 Cliffbourne place,
Detroit electric: c. l.. Harding. 129 10Th
/ street northwest. Buick roadster; john
E. Shoemaker 81 18th street northwest
Burlington, Cadillac ''3o''; f. r. McCort-
ney. 9O7 18th street northwest. Cadillac
go; William r. Taylor. 18th and G
streets northwest. Crawford 10: Mich
west, Columbia; s. B. Balm, 421 II
/ street northeast, Ford touring car: W. 8.
Newell. 1924 street northwest. Cadillac
go; o. q. Staples, Riggs House, Stnde-
i The Flag to Flag endurance contest
! from Denver to the city OF Mexico has
been postponed until next June or July.
so the contestants will finish their long
/ Journey when the centennial celebration
is in progress at the Mexican capital.
II X
The annual report of the Office OF
public roads, Department of Agricui-
ture, for the year ending June 80, Was
issued few days ago by Logan Waller
Page, director, and contains many In
teresting features concerning that I'm
portant branch of the service during
that period. In speaking of the work Of
the year Director Page has this tn
say:
T.
\ gaging the attention of state legisia-
tors at the present time In a greater
degree than road improvement. More
than half the states have adopted the
principle OF state aid and supervision
over all or part Of the roads. while the
remaining states are seriously consider
ing sweeping reforms in their road
laws. This has brought about steady
progress in road building. The eX-
penditures from state treasures have
reached a total Of nearly 100000, 900
annually. practically all of which has
been devoted to the building of hard
bonds in large amounts for this Pur-
pose Back of all this activity Is
! powerful and growing public sentiment.
which is making road Improvement one
the day. These conditions are respon-
sible for a greatly Increased demand
upon the office OF public roads for in
formation and assistance In every
branch Of the work. The experimental
1 work of the Office has within the last
1 few years assumed an Importance sec
4 ond only to that of the general object
lesson work. The problem now before
highway engineers is to save from the
Il destructive action Of the automobile
1 the macadam roads already built at
great cost and to devise method OF
construction which will successfully
withstand the destructive enects OF
L such traffic in the future.
"The efforts Of this Office. AS we'll as
of highway engineers generally in this
country and in Europe. have been di-
rected, first. toward obtaining a pre-
servative and binder which may be
applied to the surface of roads already
constructed, rendering them dustless
and forming bond of sufficlent
strength to Withstand motor traffic !:
second toward ascertaining the mos
suitable binder or binders to be incor-
porated with the other materials, so as
produce dustless road powerfully
bonded: and. finally, toward discover
ing a means OF keeping the cost within
reasonable limits.
NO road problems are at the present
time attracting more general attention
than those Of dust prevention and road
preservation. Letters are received daily
asking for advice relative to the char
acteristics and use of the dust pre-
ventives and road binders best suited
to meet the requirements of roads sub
jected to various local conditions. Dur
ing the past year the office has been
actively engaged In Investigations OK
such materials. both in the laboratory
and in the field, and considerable prog
ress has been made along both lines"
In referring to the routine tests Of road
materials Director Page said that COM
: plete laboratories are maintained by the
t office for the purpose of determining the
) mineral composition OF road materials by
microscopic and chemical analyses. and