Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07

est Glen Md, is making an extended
| stay at Atlantic City, having made the
| trip there in his touring car.
| The Automobile Club of Pittsburg has
voted to appropriate $1,000 from the club
| treasury to be used by its county roads
committee in it's work of securing ROAD
| improvements this season In western
Pennsylvania. The money is to be used
either as prizes to be given to road SUI
pervisors for the best stretches OF road
| improved this season, or the committee
will put the $1,000 into fund to pay
| for road improvements, provided the SUI
pervisors will give like amount.
The confidence they have in the future
of the business could not be more plain
Iy shown by the automobile and parts
corporations than through the immense
building operations now under way In
Detroit. Millions Of money is being spent
in new plants and additions to old Ones
and thousands Of masons, carpenters,
iron and concrete workers are on the va
riouS jobs.
There will be no match race between
Jack" johnson and Barney Oldfeld, &C
cording to S. M. Butler, chairman of the
contest committee of the A. A. a. The
board requires every driver to register
and this Johnson has not done. and, &C
cordips to Mr.. Butler 1t VIII not be
In turning corners the cars natural
inclination is to go in a straight line,
and if the speed Is great it is impossible
to make a sharp turn. Every driver
knows this, and knows also that sharp
turn must be taken slowly. To attempt
to go round at speed is, therefore,
confession of ignorance or Of reckless
ness. In short, a car should be under
control always; if it is, no fear of acct
dents need be entertained, and even at
night and on strange roads touring is
safe, for the lamps Of today make the
| way clear and distinct.
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Active work in connection with the in
ternational aviation meeting, which is to
be held on Hampstead Plains, l.. l., next
October, has been started. AS soon as
surveys have been made and contracts
have been let force Of men will begin
the erection of grandstands and buildings.
An extensive program of events, TOR
which over $4,000 in prizes will be offer
ed, is contemplated, but the feature will
be the speed contest for the James
Gordon Bennett International aviation
time at the Rheims France) meeting
last year and was won by Glenn HI.
Curtiss.
| In answer to an inquiry, Consul Gen.
eral A. NJ. Thackara of Berlin furnishes
the following information concerning re-
cent experiments in street and highway
pavements:
1.-The best pavement for automobile
| traffic in cities is said to be the impreg-
mated wood block pavement. because 1t
| does not wear out automobile tires SO
| quickly, Is much freer from dust. and
much more susceptible to the influence
| of dust-binding and duSt-settling agents,
which are also more permanent in the
| case of wood block pavement. This class
of pavement is, however. used only in the
approaches to bridges and on the bridges
| themselves. to lessen the jar and give
| better footing to horses Asphalt is still
considered the best all-around pavement
prominent country highways are con-
structed Of a layer of heavier stones, on
top of which there is placed a mosaic
layer of small stones Of about three
a layer of sand and placed upon the
| larger stones. The advantage of this
highway is that it is not SO dusty and
| is much more easily kept clean. 1t also
| stands the wear and tear Of heavy traffic
better than a macadamized road. but 1t
| is also more expensive.
Various experiments have been made
in different parts of Germany with the
| tarring Of roads to prevent dust and to
keep the road in better condition. An ex-
| perimental contest between four promi-
| nent German companies was held last
August on the prominent Havel Chaussee
| to the southwest of Berlin, which is being
watched and studied in expert and official
circles here The heated tar was spread
| on the Chaussee by means of machines
and also by laborers. and then covered
with a thin layer of sand. The laborers
| were protectively clothed for this work.
been given as to which system is the
best. and the parts of the Chaussee tarred
| by the different companies are still
marked off and open to inspection.
I'm binding the dust on the street pave
| ments. experiments have been made in
| various parts of Berlin with q particular
preparation. and according to official re-
port sprinkling with a 1 to 100 solution
of ordinary street sprinklers, successfully
| kept the dust bound, even in the streets
with the largest traffic. for four to five
| weeks. The cost per square meter q. 1876
yards) for six dissolution sprinklings a
year was less than one-seventh of the
| average annual cost for sprinkling with
| water alone One vital disadvantage of
| this preparation Is the fact that it is said
| to tend to make the pavements slippery,
and thus cause horses to fall and be in
| jured.".
| The principal event to be contested at
the third grand circuit speedway, or La
Dor day. meet at the Indianapolis motor
speedway September 3 and will be that
for the Remy Grand Brassard and the
| Remy grand trophy on the opening day.
Twenty-one races will be run during
the two days, most of them being at five
miles. The feature OF the Labor day
races will be the 2O0-mile contest for
| cars eligible under class Goo cubic
| inches piston displacement. or less; mini
| mum weight, 1890 pounds. Another event
| on that day will be the fifty-mile free
| for-all.
Now that electric lighting is becoming
| serious competitor with acetylene and
| oil, it will no doubt be worth the car
| manufacturers consideration to make
provision on their GLASSES for fitting
| some form of electric generator. says
| the official organ Of the Automobile
Club of Buffalo There are q great num-