The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13
HONK HONk NEWS
Topeka Motor League Will Take
Long Pleasure Ride.
SOciability Run T0pekato Leav-
enwOrth, to Kansas City.
w. w. WEBB IN LEAD.
He Will Pilot Trip and Have
Charge Of Arrangements.
Other Items Of Interest in Motor
Car World.
w. w. WEBB IN LEAD

Other Items of Interest in Motor
Car World.
The Topeka Motor league members
started today noon on a sociability run
to Leavenworth. They expect to get
there for lunch and then run to Kan
sas City in the evening, returning Sum
day. w. w. Webb will pilot in his
Stafford car and he will have charge
| OF the run. The members who are not
able to go on the first run will leave
Sunday noon over the same route and
return Monday.
ure trip with an advertising boom for
/ Topeka. The official radiator badges
| of the club are on every car and above
| the radiator on a small wire flag staff
| EFT P-E-K-A'' in yellow letters.
/, The tourists have been informed
that the roads are in excellent condi-
| ton since the recent rains and they
are expecting a great trip. No record
runs will be made, no fast pace will be
| set-the whole trip is for the pleasure
! of the drive and there will be no
| rivalry.
This is the first Of number of over
| land and visiting trips to be taken by
the Topeka Motor league.
Ed Burrows and G. T. Shurley of
| Granville have purchased 40 h. p.
Overlands.
William Hutton of Emporia pur-
chased a Model 80 Overland.
Cahrles Butler Of Manhattan was in
town the first of the week getting re-
pairs for his Great Smith racer.
| Word was received Wednesday from
Phil Billiard at Maryville, Mo-, after
his first days trip of one hundred and
| sixty miles. Besides Mr.. Billiard in the
party are Charles Rutter. Henry Oberg
and Carl Anderson, all of Topeka.
| They go from here to Battle Creek,
thence to New York. Fine roads are
| reported.
DR.. Hickok, Jess and Charles Hamil-
ton made a trip to Usage county We'd
nesday in a White Steamer.
F. P. Robbins made a business trip
to Kansas City the first of the week in
his motor car.
Twenty-Five signs have been ordered
size "a by SO inches, to be placed upon
the roadsides telling the distance to
other towns, also the distance to To-
| peka. They will be placed on all roads
leading to Topeka in few days.
It is a we'll known fact that tile safe
| ty of autonc bilists depends upon tho
| brakes and that the reliability of mo-
| tor cars should be rated upon their
| ability to stop surely and quickly rath-
| er than upon any other component part.
| The Premier ane Great Smith cars are
examples of the most advanced in
| brake construction, for they have the
| largest ones built.
Always looking for something new or
| novel in motoring diversions, new
| type of tour has been arranged by Pre-
| mier automobilists Of Indianapolis and
| vicinity, and is known as the Tour OF
| Mystery" Fifty motor cars and nearly
| 200 people assembled at the University
rark last Sunday morning and only two
| people in the entire party knew where
| not tell. The only direction given was
follow the confetti and this they did
for $50 miles throughout the day.
The Topeka Transfer and Storage
company have purchased a two-cycle
| three-cylinder chase Motor truck to be
| used for light and long hauls. The
| truck will be delivered about the first
| of September. If they are pleased with
this one the company will order several
/ more.
| New York Aug. 13.-F'rom a series of
| surprises which have been sprung re-
| garding the winning of the annual tour
| for the Glidden trophy, and the rever-
| sal of the referees award to the Pre-
| rnier in favor of the Chalmers, has
come the startling realization that The
| contest board of the A. A. A. has made
the mistake of awarding the trophy to
| a. party which lid not enter the annual
tour for this famous s,riZe. This is a
fact according to officials, for the Chal-
rners' cars which competed were enter
| ed by George w. Durham, and the
A. A. A. officials in their decision have
nominated the Chalmers company as
| the winner.
Captain ]. w. Hamilton of the
United States navy, stationed at Pre-
sidio, in California, has just COM
pleted a transcontinental tour by auto
mobile, for the purpose of studying
the conditions in the far west. He
made the run in a little so horsepower
Palmer and Singer car in 33 days,
starting from New York and finishing
at San Francisco
He made no attempt to make speed,
but ran 10 hours a day. laying off
two hours each noontime. The mid
day stops in the desert were length
ened, owing to a peculiar tire trouble
he experienced. The sand was so hot
that he was compelled to debate all
four tires at midday to prevent them
from bursting, owing to the abnormal
expansion.
The worst conditions were found in
northern Nevada
The city officials and police force
have taken another squirt on the ar
rest Of auto drivers. But 1t is a
hard matter for a cop to tell how
fast an automobile is going when
| there are no motorcycles or when the
b1uecoats have no speedometer at
} tachments on their legs. Why was the
city motorcycle sold at a sacrifice, any
J way?
watching a motor car go rushing by