The Washington herald., 1910-01-16


OF ears. regardless Of quality. is not yet
known,
over the plains, across a river four
times without the aid Of a bridge and
up into the mountains. J. ". Wheeler, Of
Tucson. Ariz-. went recently for an auto
mobile trip to the site Of the Roosevelt
dam on salt River. In twenty-eight
horsepower uir-cOOled Franklin he drove
from his home to the dam and returned
by way Of Phoenix 10 attend fair.
journeying a total Of more than 500 miles.
Another kind Of a motor car with a
broken shaft as one OF its troubles was
passed on the way. Although the trip
was a specially hard one as much Of 1t
was over steep mountain grades, the car
made the entire tour with no more trouble
than the repair OF one puncture.
The abandoning of the Worcester auto
mobile endurance contest because Of lack
Of entries calls attention to the last Of
these annual competitions held By the
| Worcester Automobile Club. This was a
| year ago and, as was planned for this
year. was in midwinter. when road and
weather conditions were Of extreme
severity.
| There were fourteen motor cars IN the
! contest, and only one Of these was able
! 10 90 over the roads as required and then
with a clean score stand the tests i'm
/ posed by a technical committee composed
! OF members Of the faculty of the Woroes-
ter Polytechnic Institute. That one was
/ a Franklin air-coOied touring car OF
| Neutrality-suspicious. power, driven by G. S
CARTS. The course was one OF 30 miles
How the automobile - bringing the
American people into closer torch with
the old homestead, which in many cases
they have not revisited since their youth
is brought out in a description given by
George 4. Fletcher, OF Brazil Ind, of q
trip taken by him and a sister TO searcl
out the graves Of his mother and another
sister.
Mr.. Fletcher IS city civil engineer and
superintendent OF the water works 1
had been thirty-six years since he and
his sister had left Pulaski. They made IL,
trip TO the old Town in his Franklin moto
car and IN the latter visited many place
of which they retained childhood mem
/, cries.
Ella and 7 took a tramp over to tn
old hill where our house used 10 be 10
Gated" he said. After eating chickel
for breakfast, We bade them good-b
and started for Cousin Hettie Weaye-'s
near BurnettsvIne On our way near IN
old mill where father and Uncle HicI
went for their grinding we encounters
the worst hill on our trip. After severa
efforts we got up the hill and went Of
our way o. X"
Giving the little Franklin credit for it
= splendid run. said MI Fletcher j
speaking Of the trip afterward, this wa
one of the most pleasant trips Of N
automobiling.
1 At we'll attended meeting Of the boar
OF managers OF the Association @
licensed Automobile Manufacturers
' New York Thursday, with Presiden
Clifton in the chair, Col. George Pop,
chairman OF the show committee, in hi
7 report stated that all records had bee
broken by the A. l.. \. NJ. Show q
= Madison Square Garden this year, tn
daily attendance showing an increase Z
60 per cent over former years. II
announced plans for housing the big Z
T L. a. NJ. membership in the Garden at II
1911 show.
Alfred Reeves was unanimously electe
general manager OF the association. II
was formerly general manager Of tn
- American Motor Car Manufacturer
Association, a majority of the member
Of which have joined the a. L. y. \