New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
TIMELY AUTO TOPICS
n MINLESS TOUR.
Interest Being Taken IN Run
for UOmen DriUers.

Now that many tours are being plannet
for the 1910 season b. the Touring Club OF
America the Automobile Club OF America
and other organizations. the suggestion has
been made that one outing be arranged eN-
clusively for women motorists II is said
that in this city there are several hundred
women who own and operate their own
cars Many OF these are enthusiastic tour
lists. but feel more o. less diffidsncs about
participating III organized tours With men
For these women motorists the recon-
nendation has been made 70 the Touring
Cub that three-day trip be organized for
the early spring. and. If IL be found success
fI!l. that longer run, possibly through the
berkshire HIS. BE- arranged for later IN
the season. It is suggested that on these
tours not only will women operate the cars,
but that they viii carry no men passer-
gers. That. however. is q detail that the
women will have TO settle for themselves
Among the well known women motorists
who have been asked their opinion Ct
manless tour none has shown moro erthiI-
s;asm for the project than Mrs. Joan Gu
neo, who perha os is the best known OF al
women motorists Mrs Ounce. who last
fail made a remarkabie run through the
South in her Rainier car. advocates ths
Shenandoah route for an exclusively wou1-
ems outing. She has expressed the opinion
that the veu known courtesy and saiisutry
OF the South VIII make such a run de-
cided success
BY all means let Us have a women
tour said Mrs Cuneo yesterday, with her
customary enthusiasm. There are hun
dreds OF women motorists in and near New
York City who. I think. VIII gladly en-
brace such an opportunity for a leisurely
TRIP under congenial conditions. II thu
trip be one OF ten days or two weeks
duration. no more pleasant route could Be
found than that through the Shenandoah
Valley For 4 short run. say % about
three days. I VIII suggest either trip
down the Jersey coast TO Lakewood ana
Atlantic City. a circuit OF Long Island or
q run UP one side and down the other OF
the Hudson River. 7 really believe that
good entry list could be obtained FOR
wonen's tour and that interest IN it would
be widespread. particularly II held under
the auspices OF the Touring Club or sons
other well anowu organization"
The showing OF the Corbin car IN TIA
recent Los Angeles tWo-day race n1eet at
the Ascot Park track was impressive. In
the ffty-rniIe open contest car OF this
make. driven by Al Livingston, defeated
a formidable field and won IN the record
time OF 80 minutes and IS seconds Other
victories scored by the Corbin car were
the five and twenty-five mile open stock
car contests. The Oae-llIle dirt track was
far from being in perfect condition for
record making.
Cardan shaft is d term that slides glloly
enough from the motorists tongue, but a
discussion OF the subject shows generally
that few even of The better posted ones
know Just how the term originated a dis
cussion OF the subject in England recenuy
brought out the fact that even though the
cardan shaft is an important part of the
mechanism of such a latter-day product as
the motor car II was originated in the
sixteenth century. According 10 the his
torian of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Com
pany, OF Buffalo, the name comes from that
of Geronimo Cardaro. a mathematician and
physician of Italy. the first man 10 trans
nit power by shaft and universal joints
The French. who have the habit OF assinni-
IatinS names into their vocabularies. soon
had the word ''cardan'' n their dictious-
ries, and now it has come into general Use
a. mechanical term
Frank LescauIt left New York yesterday
for Los Angeles WITH the Palmer and singer
racing car No .. which made 80 good a
showing in the Brighton Beach race las
year. 70 compete in the big motor carnival
al Los Angeles on April 10 Il The car
will start IT the ffty-ulile open race and in
the twenty-four-hO fixture which > 70 Ds
the feature or the opening Of rhs new C+rcu-
lar mile board track.
II IS 10 fun 70 lie sprawled oct o. md
guard. with every light out. and hold y
small pocket lastIight over sea OF liquid
earth as the car heaves and Iunsss through
- sinking 70 TIE hubs. 70 light tie way
but that is what happened as the Mitchell
Ranger recently rolled into Cave City, Ky.
out OF Bardstovn on fts way over the Gid
den route. The Photographic and the log
keeper divided the eight miles Of playing
human lighthouse. and wher they fsII of the
machine they looked though ti-ey had
been taking mud bath. l. took stream
TO get them clean.
The New York Autouobit- Trade ASsocis-
ton will hold an informal dinner a. tns
A..teraobiIe Club OF America on March ..
with the stockholders as guests. AZ ths
last regular meeting OF the board o. direc
tors W Nj. Haradou vas unanimous =
elected president. to succeed General John
T. Cutting, who resigned
\ new booklet containing valuabls sUs-
sestions to motorists or the correct al
pressure for their tires Is being distributed
by the Firestoue Tire and Rubber Com
pany. OF Akron, Ohio It Also contains rec
concentrations on the most economical sl1ss
10 use for various loads. together with
other useful data on tires and quick de-
tachable denouutable rims