The Washington herald., 1911-12-03
AUTOMOBILE NOTES

Miller Bros report the sale of Ford
cars to the following during the past
Week: J. H. Reid. touring car; William
Neligah, delivery car, and w. ]. Marche,
a roadster, fully equipped.
S. T. Davis, jr., president of the Loco
mobile Company OF America, has been in
| Washington the last few days visiting his
! mother, who has been seriously Ill. He
left yesterday in his roadster, Type ''R"
Locomobile, for Bridgeport.
Mr.. johnson. local manager for the
Buick Motor Car Company, is expected
back from New York. where he has been
spending his Thanksgiving with friends,
| Monday.
Earle & Allen, agents for the Hupp-
Yeats and RICH automobiles, have
opened their new salesroom, at 1916 Eight
zenith street. facirg Connecticut avenue,
| and announce to their many friends that
the new 1912 models are ready for their
| inspection. They have only recently &C
| quired the agency for the RICH car,
and it's wonderful performances and
pretty lines are causing a great deal OF
| favorable comment in the automobile
world.
W. c. Frazer. of WeIlsviIle, Ohio.
veteran of the civil war, recently COM
pleted an automobile tour from his home
| in Ohio to Savannah over the Identical
route which he marched with Gen. Sher-
man almost half a century ago. He drove
Maxwell runabout, and his only guide
| book was a diary which he made while
| the army was advancing on Savannah.
Mr.. Frazer was a member Of the Seven
tenth Army Corps, commanded by Maj.
Gen. F. P. Blair.
The appointment is announced of Rob-
ert F. Russell as assistant engineer Of
! the automobile department OF the Ameri-
can Locomotive Company.
Mr. Russell comes to the Alec engineer
| ing stan from the Simplex Company,
where for seven years he was in charge
| Of the designing department. He is
prominent in the engineering world, and
| is considered an authority on both motor
| truck and car design.
In his new capacity he will be asso-
| ciated with Montague H. Roberts, chief
engineer, in matters pertaining to Alec
trucks and Alec cars.
A close analysis of the seventh annual
race for the Vanderbilt Cup, held on the
seventeen-mile Chatham County course,
shows 1t to be a great victory for Amer
lean cars. Pitted against some of the
most noteworthy cars of the European
continent, the American-built cars ex-
celled in every particular.
Chief credit is due to the Lozier team,
with milford finishing first and estab-
| fishing a new worlds road race record.
and Harry Grant twice winner OF the
races for the Vanderbilt Cup. pulling up
| in f1TYr Tnlf nr1 hal
| tifuI race in his white Lozier and well
deserved the victory he won.
Out of the fourteen starters in the
big race, eight were running at the fin
ish. OF the eight cars which were run
ming at the finish. five were American
made cars and three were from foreign
countries. The two Mercedes finished
second and third and the Fiat, driven by
Parker, took fifth position. The Pope
Hummer. Disbrow at the wheel. took
sixth. Abbott-Detroit "H' car seventh
and eighth
a new type of touring roadster, de-
signed for the man whose carrying re-
qUirements are not over two passengers,
has been built by the Dayton Motor Car
Company, a division of the United States
Motor Company. This model is known as
compartment torpedo. taking it's name
that gives absolute protection to baggage
in all sorts of weather. A compartment,
built integral with the back of the seat,
makes it possible to carry luggage in a
manner that will be water and dust
proof, at the same time being instantly
accessible.
Ample space is provided for all the
luggage that two persons would carry,
and it may be placed in the compartment
or without NJ
car, feature that is appreciated when
the roads are covered with mud or
snow.
Ralph milford, driving his 46-horse-
power Lozier car, followed up lis great
Vanderbilt victory of last Monday by a
wonderful drive in the Grand Prize race.
He led all the great high-powered racing
cars at 800 miles, the first time an Amer
| lean car has ever shown in front in a
Grand Prize event, and two laps before
| the finish was sixteen seconds ahead of
the winner. Bruce Brown. At the begin
| ming of the twenty-second lap a broken
| driving dog in the rear wheel put him
out of the race while fighting for first
place with the giant Benz and Fiat cars
! of Bruce Brown and Hearne. With his
| Vanderbilt car Milford went out of his
class to meet the greatest racing cars
! the world has ever produced, and his
performance Is conceded by the experts
| gathered here from all over the world
as one of the most astonishing feats in
motor-racing history.
approximately half the automobile &C.
cidents result from cranking. This news
was received yesterday by Fl. Leary, tr,
| the Hudson dealer, from the Hudson
| Motor Car Company, Detroit, which an
nounced the completion of a nine months
tabulation of the various causes for auto
mobile accidents.
One source of authoritative information
was the leading accident insurance insti-
tuition in the United States (the Travel
eTs' Insurance Company, Hartford
Conn.,, which allowed claims on $40 acct
dents, 37S of which resulted from crank
| ing.
That the advent of the self-starter
means the Punishment of possibilities of
accidents is certain, the new self-starting
Hudson ''33'' being one of the cars that
| has abolished the offenses of the treach-
| erous crank.
| "Cranking of automobiles" said Mr..
| Leary, seems to be dangerous form
of exercise, the average injury being Sc
we're enough to warrant the payment Of
an average of 100 for each case"
For the last week a newly arrived auto
mobile. because of its striking and dis
! tinctive design, has been attracting at
| tention and arousing curiosity on all the
/ downtown streets. Crowds have gathered
wherever this new automobile has been