The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-07
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

August over a course which touches Elgin, and which has been declared by Chicago motorists to rival the Long Island roads used for the Vanderbilt race, it is expected that the race will take the place of the Cobe Cup event, held last year at Crown Point and Lowell, Ind. The prizes to be offered are valued at s1,500 and $2,50O and the Elgin people promise to eXpend $8,500 to put the roads in condition.
 This years Glidden will contain the longest single days run in the history of the event; from TeXarkana to Dal- las, a distance of 230 miles. The long est day in the 1909 tour was from Salina, Kan, to Kansas City, dis tance of PIP miles. This years tour will also be longer than that of 1909 which established a record for Glidden tours. Last year the Gliddenites cov- cred approximately 2,300 miles be- tween Chicago and Kansas City, by way of Minneapolis and Denver. This year in all about 2,500 to 5000 miles will be covered.
 Automobiles and cotton would seem to be pretty far apart-yet some one fond of figures has discovered that it takes about 100000 bales of cotton annually to supply the wants of the automobile industry. Of this number 100000 bales are used in the manu- facture of leather seats and cush-
 
 upholstering. while the remainder is used for the manufacture of automo- bile clothing, slip covers, insulating of copper, wires, tool rolls, waste and merceriZed rain clothes.
 Elaborate preparations are being tion, of New York, for the open in ternational twenty-four hour race of the season at the Brighton Beach Mo tordrOme on May IS and IA. A new top dressing of clay and cement has been laid and it is predicted that the track will be several seconds faster to the mile than it has ever been in the past. In addition to the field stand now under construction there is to be built a temporary stand for chauffeurs, located near the parking space, so that owners of cars will be able to find their drivers readily when they want them.
 This years motor coats for women are built almost invariably with the seamless shoulder. which dominates all dress just now, and the coat lines are little more form-defining than they have been. Sometimes the coat is given a semi-fitted appearance by at the back of the waistline or the back seams are curved in the least bit to give a curve to the figure and relieve the coat of an uncompromiSing ly masculine outline. The straight coat sleeves often have buttons set on the sleeve at the wrist and short tabs in which buttonholes are worked are stretched from button to button, keeping the sleeve snugly about the hand
 Charles J. Glidden, of Boston, who donated the Glidden trophy to the American Automobile Association, predicts that the time will come when there will be an automobile highway extending across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. MT. Glidden, who has driven his touring car in al most every country in the world says: "When my dream is a reality you will find our rich men, who are now going abroad for their touring, will be content to see the beauties of their home country first Just imagine with what pride an American could look back over O journey across the con- tinent. Every mile of the 5000 mile trip would unfold wonders, such as only this country can boast of. Each day he would pass through interesting country, and each day the panorama would be different from that of the day before.