New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-19
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Bits of Trade, and Odds and
Ends of the Sport.


Warner Speedometer Company. has also
joined the Matheson Automobile Company
! as a salesman in the New York district
With the granting of q license to the
Midland Motor Company, Of Moline, III.
| just announced. there are now eighty-two
different makes of cars licensed under the
! Selden patent.
In the Atlanta-to-New York good roads
tour the Welch-Detroit car, entered by the
local Buick branch AMI used by the starter
and secretary of the tour, made one of the
most unusual runs ever made by any car in
tour. Being the last car in the tour TO
! leave the controls. 1t was under obligations
| to play the part of the Good Samaritan"
! to the weak and disabled cars it overlook
It carried five passengers and one thousand
pounds of baggage On the fourth day out
! the welch-Detroit towed nineteen cars out
| OF the mud and miro and still got In on
| time On the fifth day it made a, run of
| 235 miles through rain and mud for the
day. After arriving in this city on Monday
night. without a single mechanical repair
or adjustment, the car was started on
Tuesday morning in the Around Long
! Island, Montauk or Bust Tour where 1t
again played the Good Samaritan by
pulling out one OF the largest cars in the
run and arriving in New York with per-
feet score.
A G. Southworth, manager of the New
! York branch of the Buick Motor Company,
! is proud of. the showing his boys made with
| Buick cars in the 4C0-Inie 'Montauk Lght
or Bust reliability contest. He believes
! they made q better team score than has been
made by any other make of car in a re-
/ Mi,
cars were entered, and each one finished
without a mechanical adjustment. The
81 GO Model 10 Buick, driven by Charles
Jones. made one of the three perfect scores
| IN its class This little car easily followed
| the largest cars in the run-averaglng
| twenty-six miles TO a gallon OF gaSoiene
and one hundred miles TO a quart of OIL
The New York branch of the Buick Motor
| cononanz, believes In contests and intends
TO enter Buick cars in all local events
| Manager Southworth firmly believes that all
perfect score cars In the Montauk run should
| be made 10 run over the course until all
hut one car are eliminated. The spirit OF
| a contest is and has always peen Ior al
| time to produce winner
| r,.rr1y1e H Burgess and A V. Davis ar
rived in New York on Friday afternoon IN
a Maxwell runabout from Detroit They
bro,,gb+ 2 message from the Detroit Lodge
| oP T-1lxs for Colonel Roosevelt to attend the
National Grand Lodge reunion on July IL
| in Detroit.
The CITY of New York has ordered ten
Cadillac 30s for municipal service. Ahis
! fo,,c,,-s ~, order for four Cadilacs for the
nunicipal department OF the boroush "a
RrooI,Ivn. Fourteen Cadillac ambulanceS
the hos
+bree had previously been in use by the
rrsol-,v,r denartments Brooklyn was the
ers+ borough of greater New York to ADOPT
motor cars as an adjunct TO the perform
ance Of municipal duties.
The fourth weeks run of the woman
franscontinental tour, in which MISS oco''
and Miss Phillips, Of New York, are en-
gaeed. covered the ground between Toleoo,
Ohio. South Bend, Chicago, milwaukee, alio
Rockford, Ill, and Clinton. Iowa 80 la[
the Overland girls have covered nearly Z'o"o
miles of road, though many long detoure
have been made to north and south OF Ife
direct route and many places OF interest,"
have been visited along the way.
r.. d. Dorman, formerly secretary OF the
Maxwell Briscoe Motor Company, and more
recently secretary of the United states
Motor Company, has been elected wee
president and general manager OF the
| Maxwell Briscoe Motor Company, Win
headquarters at Tarrytown, n. Y.
/ After having been open for five months, |
the school of instruction Of the Pierce
Arrow Motor Car Company has been closed
| for the summer. The courses Of INSTRUCTION
will be resumed during the winter FOR
| several years this school has been In opera
/ lion, the students being of three classes !
| chauffeurs, owners and garage men. Classes
are OF two weeks duration and lnciuQS
very thorough instruction on the sup1ecIs
! of assembly. adjustment and general care
of the car and some driving practice
A novel test to determine the strength /
of q new quick-detachable rim consists
! Of dropping a rim with an inflated nre
| through a shaft n distance of five stones, |
and then taking the same rim and running
| il with q Debated tire over very rough !
roads for number Of miles: At demon
S1ration made last week with the Dorian
remountable clincher rims, these tests were
successfully made by this new device.
Louis Disbrow. who drove his Knox
Giantess to a place IN three Of the num-
| bers Of the WiIkes-Barre hill climb last
Tuesday, was not regarded by the officials
as a particularly well fitted driver to han
/ die the big course before he started. But /
! his Work there has demonstrated IlaI ne |
| is one of the men who viii be counted
| with in racing events OF the future he
has driven I'm i've twenty-four contests, and
has made brilliant showings in all OF them
At Atlanta last year he won the Slo,0D to-
! ply for the 5Do-Tiile race. and Is In de- |
mand by many makers for racing Work
The Pope-Hartford car which was one |
| of the fortunate finishers with a perfect |
score in the Atlanta-New York run car
ried the fatal No. L. This number, which |
is not usually sought and which was not
even issued at Wilkes-Barre, was asked for
by the entrant OF the Pope-Hartford. Ed
ward H Inrnan, who is well known in
Atlanta. He and his friends who accom- |
panied him took the trip merely for the
sport of the thing. The entry was not a
factory entry, in ANY sense, and was |
purely amateur contestant il every way. |
With the exception of three punctures the |
car came through without trouble or any |
kind whatever. Mr.. Innan says that he
thinks the work OF his car has forever dis
credited the superstition about the num-
Der Is.
The Pennsylvania Rubber Company, 10
Gated at Jeanette. Penn, has increased its
capital stock 70 81 0cec1d In contemplation
OF the erection OF seyersl new buildings. y