Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

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capable Of comfortably carrying sixty per-
! sons. AS neither wire, poles nor third
rail will be required the cost of con-
struction will be comparatively small.
Five automobile measures are now before
the Rhode Island legislature through the
efforts OF the Rhode Island Automobile
Club and the Rhode Island Motor League.
The most important bill provides that
no chauffeur or other person shall drive
or operate any motor vehicle upon any
public road or highway in Rhode Island
| in the absence of the owner of such
motor vehicle without such owners con-
sent.
An automatic automobile protector OF
practical use for private garages attracted
| a good deal of attention at the Buffalo
show 1t was designed by Mrs. s. c.
Partington, motoring enthusiast and
consisted of cover of canvas-some-
wha. similar to the old-fashioned mos
quito fly for electromagnetic from
| the ceiling Of the garage and lowered
or raised over the car by a clutch pulley.
The constitutionality of the so-called
Frellnghuysen 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 measure. and is backed by the Auto
IiloDlIc SiuD VI <tIlSIlCd, mas D6SI SUD-
mitted by John w. Griggs, former At
torney General of the United States, for
the club. and Assistant Attorney General
GasKill for the state.
| The British war office. which recently
conducted successful experiments in
transporting troops in mo or b Sc is
negotiating for the use of the taxicabs
in time of national danger. Already the
| government has subsidized 1000 and it
| hopes to increase the number under
/ Suhcidy tn 4 within he fa,x,
months, the proprietors receiving pay
ment for the use of the vehicles and
each driver wearing a stripe marked
| Territorial Force Reserve Transport
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| If the bill that has been introduced
In the state legislature by Senator
Page of Milwaukee becomes law. Wis
consin will have one of the most liber-
al. yet practical. motor statutes yet
enacted. The speed limit provision
says, NO person shall operate an au-
| tomobile. motorcycle Or other similar
| vehicle recklessly at a rate Of speed
greater than is reasonable or proper,
| having regard to the width. traffic and
| use OF the highway. or as to endangec
property or the life and limb of any
person.
| The first national stock GLASSES road
| race for the trophy donated by Ira ~.
Cobe, president of the Chicago Automo-
bile Club, will be the first big road race
| in the history of automobiling in the
central western part of the country.
The contest committee of the Chicag go
Automobile Club is devoting it's ener-
gies toward arranging the p elm nares
| for the coming event. which it is pro-
posed to- hold May 20 and June Dec
Grafton day falling on Sunday.
Under an amendment to the Vermont
motor laws, adopted by the state legis
lature, the license fee is now one dollar
| for every horsepower of the machine,
with provision placing bonus on the
| keeping of the same car from year 10
year. the second year the fee being re-
| duced one-quarter and the third anu
each succeeding year by one-half of the
Minnesota legislature also provides TO.
81 tax per horsepower. but without the
Vermont sliding scale.
| An important change has been made
in the plans for the speedway at Indian
apolis. Ind. The outer track Is to 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 tracr /.
| was to be three miles. 1t 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.
| The majority of strainers supplied to
| motorists, whether they be for filling
gasoline tanks or lubricating tanks, are
made on an extremely wrong principle.
according to an expert motorist. 1t will
be found that with most of them one can
pour in the liquid much more quickly
| than 1t will run out. SO that one has to
stop pouring to avoid waste and mess.
| This is sometimes due to the smallness
of the outlet, but it Is very much more
| often because the gauze strainer is of
such small area. The fineness of the
| gauze is not referred to. for If the area
| Of the strainer Is large enough one can
| pour In gasoline through an ordinary
| fine mesh without the last accumulation
Of the liquid upon the top Of the gauze.
1 T.
| ]. NJ Stoddard, who has been in Detroit
and Cleveland, visiting the manufacturers
OF the cars which his firm sells, return
| ed to Washington last week.
| Sales Of automobiles are beginning to
show the approach of good touring
weather. Robert s. Woodward. president
of the Carnegie Institution; w. L. Red
row, Gustav Hartig and Mrs. Eugenia
| Blount among the recent purchasers.
| Secretary Meyer bought a model 81
| Waverly Victoria from the Pope Auto
mobile Company.