Evening star., 1909-07-18
joyed touring through Maryland last Sun
day in his new Buick car.

| joyed touring through Maryland last Sun
day in his new Buick car.
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| A new member has joined automobile
dom i'm the person of James p. Roote,
| who has purchased new +. M. T. 80
touring car. fully equipped. The car was
| delivered a few days ago.
An automobile show will be one of the
attractions of the Minnesota state fair
which will be held during the week of
| September to II. The fair grounds
are at Hamline, half way between Min
| neapolis and st. Paul, and many of the
dealers of these two cities are expected
| to secure space to show their cars. The
| cars will be displayed on the ground
floor of the new 100000 concrete grand
stand.
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| Automobile licenses were issued dur
| ing the pas. week as follows:
Ben T. Webster. 80 18th street. Yale
| touring car: II. T.. Walton, Raleigh Ho-
| tel, Midland touring car; Capt. II. II.
Tebbetts, U. S. A, the kenesaw, Mary
land touring car; Fulton r. Gordon. Col
orado building, Mora touring car: James
| b. Feddon. 22 w street sou heast, Buick
| touring car; ]. H. Layman, 313 Colo
RADIO building, Columbia touring car; II.
c. Lynn, 2916 14th street. Stanley
steamer, l.. F. Zinkhan, 18th and G
| streets southeast, Autocar: II. Cornell
Wilson, 1909 10th street, American Sim
plex touring car; H. +. Benson, Home
| Life building. Overland roadster; G. w.
Middlekauff. Leitersburg. Md. Maxwell
runabout; Claud Livingston, 1407 F
Ricketts,, 1865 Lamont street. EN-. F.
touring car: James p. Roote, Ell Reno
hotel E. NJ. F. touring car; c. w. Hor-
ner, 18th and 0 streets, Fiat touring car;
runabout; C. C. Clark. 81 East Capitol
street. Maxwell runabout; VIM. J. Love-
! less, 40 r street, Premier touring car;
DR.. Ralph Jenkins, 1882 Massachusetts,
avenue, Packard touring car; l. r. Gra-
bill, for the District of Columbia, Cadil-
lac runabout: l.. r. Gabill. for the Dis
| trict of Columbia, Autocar: Elmer So
thoron, 1921 l street, Overland roadster:
r. T. Warwick. 1923 Vermont avenue,
Columbia roadster; Lowell Oldham, 1921
19-n street, Babcock electric runabout;
John G.. Weinberg, Tic 11th street, Hart
ford delivery wagon: w. c. Hazen, for
the District of Columbia, Buick road
ster: Harry B. Wilson, lis Sth street,
Grafton, ia 9th street, Oldsmobile run
about.
! The opening of the Indianapolis speed
way will occur Thursday, August 10, when
| three-day meet will be held, and the
national championship automobile races
pylled off. The first day will start with
preliniinaries Of sprint events and record
trials, winding up with long distance
| of go miles. August 20 the semi-finals
| for the free-for-aI will be run, and the
big race will be a 3OO-mile stock chassis
event for the Prest-O-Lite trophy. Finals
| for the free-for-alls will be run August
| 21. and the meet will wind up with a long
distance race of 300 miles for the wheeler
! and Schebler trophy, costing $S,oOO. rms
| trophy is eight and one-half feet In height,
| contains $1,000 In actual coin silver bull
lion and is said to be the most valuable
trophy in the world. The race August 2O
o. 100 miles will be for the trophy donated
! by the indianapolis motor speedway.
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| Preparations for the tenth national
automobile show at Madison Square
Garden, New York, are already we'll un-
der way, although the show will not be
held until next January. Contracts are
| being let for decorations, and 1t is an
nounced that by additional structural
| work the floor space will be increased
several thousand square feet.
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3! ]. A. Muehleisen, captain of the Auto
mobile Club of Washington, returned a
few days ago from a two-week sojourn
at Atlantic City. He will leave this week
for Flint, Mich, and Detroit, Mich.
George Schuster. who drove the Thomas
flyer in it's successful race around the
world against the foreigners, winning by
the wide margin of tWenty-six days, Is
driving a similar car in the Gltdden tour
containing members of the press.
Griffin Halstead and party left yeSter-
Iday afternoon in his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Premier touring car for Atlantic City.
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Through the untiring efforts OF Chair
man Hover the contestants on the Glid-
den tour are being looked after admirably
as to accommodations at overnight stops
He solved the problem Of accommodating
the two hundred and odd tired, dirty AND
hungry participants of the tour by en-.
gaging sleeping and dining cars, to bs