Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18

black. The fees for 1911 are as follows:
One to 10 horsepower So: IL to 90 horse
power, S.: 30 or greater horsepower. $40.
Drivers licenses will be 81 for cars up
| to % horsepower and 81 for cars of 80
or greater horsepower. 1t is required
| that the owner. rs well as the chauffeur.
get a driving license. The one-dollar
eight-day tourists licenses will be issued
until the legislature makes some change
In that particular clause Of the Jersey
motor-vehicle law. No driving license is
necessary with tourists license
Announcement is made that the annual
banquet of the Association OF Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers will be held at
the Hotel Aston. New York, Thursday,
January u, 1911, which is during the first
week of the associations automobile show
at Madison Square Garden. 1t is planned
at this banquet to recognize some Of the
very Old-timers in the motor-car trade,
| including those pioneers who struggled in
the early days to obtain recognition Tor
their machines and for the infant indus
try.
The speechmaking part Of the affair will
be limited to three or four prominent
speakers, and a number of side innoVa-
tons VIII De introduced 10 eHlIHeH inc
gathering. The same banquet committee
that handled the successful affair Of last
April will again be in charge. the names
Including III. B. Joy, chairman; Benjamin
Briscoe, A. l.. Pope, X. E. Odds and II.
A. Lozier.
During the two weeks Of the Madison
Square Garden show there will be meet
ings of almost every organization OF any
consequence in the motor car industry
In addition to the A. l.. A. M. banquet
there are several other meetings and
events already scheduled as follows:
January 1O-Meeting of executive COM
mittee of the American Automobile Asso-
citation. The contest good roads. lesls-
lative and touring boards will hold open
sessions during the two-week period OF
the show.
January Injecting Of executive COM
mittee of the Association of Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers, at official
headquarters, East 42d street, New
York.
January Injecting of executive COM
mittee Of National Association of Auto
mobile Manufacturers.
January 11-12-Annual meeting of So
ciety of Automobile Engineers at the
Automobile Club Of America. A dinner
will be held during the session.
January Injecting of board of man
ayers of the Association of Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers. at executive
offices.
January 13-Annual meeting of the
Motor and Accessory Manufacturers
| Association. Annual dinner at Waldorf at
night.
| Wire wheels, which are attracting gen.
| eral attention in England and on the
| continent, will be seen here on some show
cars. Several makers who will have
models on view at the garden will dis
air
ton 1t is unlikely that they will soon
| be stock for cars, at least not this sea
| son: but the chances are that another
year may see this arrangement: There Is
| no unanimity of opinion on the part OF
| the American makers. because some are
| firmly of the idea that wire wheels are
| not coming back and that they won't dc
| for cars here. The fact that some manu-
facturers are going to display them
| shows that there are others who have an
| idea that wire wheels are coming in
| again.
| Eddie (Cannon) Bald is in the lime1ight
again, not as the demon bicycle racer Of
other years, but as a successful business
man. Bald had no superiors in the days
when he was riding, having won the
| championship when it amounted to some
| thing. Like many other athletes he fol-
lowed the Face in all walks of life, and
when his racing days were over he had
| little left as a reminder, although he had
won fortune on the American tracks.
Bald was game when he raced. and the
| same thing has stuck to him since then.
| At the beginning OF the ascendency of
| the automobile he went into factory
! and worked for two years, then he raced
! somewhat, but was unlucky in this, and
| after that he became a salesman. In
| this capacity last named he is repeating
| his triumphs of 1896. Bald at present Is
established at Pittsburg in the automo-
| bile business.
I; Fixing q tire these days isn't the pleas
| ATTEST task in the world If shoe hap
pens to blow out or if there is a pune
ture it is mighty cold work getting out
Of the car and jacking up the machine
| to remove the offending shoe. With fin
gers benumbed and stiff, and the tire
| casing refractory, there are many things
J that are nicer than having to wrestle
with an injured shoe. Shifting tire is
not the most delectable sport In the
| world anyway, and it is easy enough to
daunt an amateur by describing the
| pangs Of doing that sort Of work. Even
the professional driver doesn't relish the
| task.
After being practically lost in the
mountains twenty-five miles south OF
Tuscumbia. Ala. for twenty hours. and
later battling with the worst storm that
section Of Alabama has experienced this
winter, four automobilists who left New
York November 22 in pathfinding car
for San Francisco reached Tuscumbia
late at night December 5. thoroughly
exhausted. The Journey between Court
land. a short distance from which the
automobiles had their first experience
at real pathfinding. and Tuscumbia was
over road covered by two feet of water
for miles. and most Of the way the
wheel hubs and footboard of the car
were under water. The heavy rain
which had been falling for the past TWEEN
ty-four hours had brought communication
between towns in this section to a stand
Istill.
The troubles Of the pathfinding auto
tmobilists, E. L. Ferguson of the American
Automobile Association, Guy w. Finney
iCharles Thatcher and Fred D. Clark,
drivers, began thirty-eight miles from
4 Culman, Ala They started ostensibly
for Decatur. after comparatively fast
run from Birmingham, but they never
reached that place. Five miles from
Culman they became confused in the
n co.