New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-20
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Touring in the 0rient-BIts OF
Trade Happenings,

William Turner Lewis. Of taElNe- " H.
ard HIS wife. who are now in Norway, nave
1llst covered 1900 miles in a motor car
during Il trip through several european
countries which began last May Mr. and
Mrs Lewis. who are each nearly seventy
years old purpose completing a trip 10
the Orient after motoring through Northern
Africa returning 10 America by way OF
Honolulu before reaching home next July.
They are making TIE tour in Mitchell
Six manufactured by the Mitchell-Lewis
Motor Company. Of Racine, Wis, The car
is being r3iloted by Frank X. Zirbes, a well
known cross country driver. BY the time
Zirbes completes this trip he will have
driven a Mitchell car through the prtnci-
pal countries Of all the continents except
ing Australia
Louis Manshach. treasurer of the Times
SQUARE Automobile Co. left yesterday for
an extended visit TO Western branches at
Chicago. St Louis and Kansas City Mr.
Manshach states that since election the
market for second hand cars has been
steadily improving and there is a strong
demand for used cars at from 5000 to
| 81, 600.
iris Speaker. the heavy hitting hatsman
IF the Boston Red SOX. has Just completed
a run from Boston 10 Hillsboro. Texas. in
| mis- 1911 Velie. In a wire received by G.
/ w Garland jr., Speaker says, Arrived
! Hillsboro 2. m, speedometer reading
3I27.4 miles. ca mas given perfect salts
! faction. No trouble. and trip was certain
! ly a tough one
James Brady Post, at the wheel If a
Stearns, added another victory TO the long
string won by Stearns owners this season
when he took first place in the feature race
at the meet held in MiddletoWn. \. Y,
last week. The race was for ten miles over
rather poor track and Post won handily.
Stearns victories have been plentiful this
season. and with one exception they have
all been won by amateur owners. The sin
gle exception was the twenty-four hour
race at Brighton Beach. in which the
Stearns established a new worlds record.
Keeling off I25G miles. an average of over
ffty-two miles per hour, including stops
Sixteen days and nights OF continuous
running by A $500 Maxwell run8boUt, with
out q stop OF the motor. was a feature Of
the Texas state fair al Dallas. which ended
on Sunday last, simultaneously with the
conclusion of the nonstop motor run.
The performance of the Maxwell was one
of the spectacles Of the fair. Not once did
the car require any adjustment or repairs
nor was the high gear diSengaged from
start to finish The idea of the run was
conceived by the United Motor Dallas Com
pany as feature of the racing carnival
and il provided an interesting parallel to
the 1Q.@s-Inile nonstop run by a larger
Maxwell car in New England g, few years
ago BY covering 5l62 miles during the
sixteen days secord member of the Max
well motor family becomes the nearest
rival for the worlds lO0gO-mile record
Authority has been given to Postmaster
Bacharach of Atlantic City, N J.. to
completely abolish the use of horse-drawn
| wagons for the use of mail in that city
and substitute Brush runabouts. This gives
10 Atlantic City the distinction of being the
| first postal district whose collection equip
ment is composed entirely of automobiles.
! For some time the office has been using
two Brush cars, and these were supple
The five cars accomplish more work in less
! time than the horses.
! The achievement of Miss Regina Rambo.
! of Marietta, Ga, in the recent tour around
| the State of Georgia, places her in the
front rank of women motorists Miss
RambO not only completed the contest of
| 1000 miles, but finished with a perfect
score, despite the fact that every car in the
tour was dashed by the tail of a hurricane
and endangered by fallen trees. As her