New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-26
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
MartiaIIy Equipped Expedition
from Military School in Town.
ENTRIES FOR GLlDDEN TOUR
Three Maxwells Will Start on
the Long Grind from Wash
ington in September.

| -Four army automobiles stopped in Co
lumbus Circle about II o'clock yesterday,
and their warlike appearance attracted a
crowd Tho automobiles were from tho
| Northwestern Military Academy, at High
land Park. ILL., The expedition, consisting
Of thirteen cadets and three officers, !,
under the command Of Major x. p. David
son. Captain c. W. Groom and Lieutenant
+. L. Beal. of the United States army.
Two Of the four automobiles are OK the
signal corps and are thoroughly outAtted
for wireless, balloon or heliograph Sig
mailing. All the wireless equipment Is car
RED on the machines and consists OF two
masts, which are OF the extension type
and may be extended 10 a height OK forty
FIVE feet, giving a radius OF hfty miles. IN
addition TO this there IS n balloon, Whica
f, IS used IN the wireless work and gives the
signal corps a radius OF go miles. All -FOUR
OF the machines are mounted with Colt
automatic rapid firing guns, with a rapid
lty OF 40 shots minute. Search!iBnts are
so placed that the beam falls directly along
the line OF fire. and makes the guns az
useful at night as In the daytime. Two q
the searchlights are fitted with hellograph-
&c lenses, and can be used for signalling at
night. The automobiles were IN the Cid
den tour last year.
The route followed by the expedition has
been from Highland Park 10 indianapolis
TO Dayton, where an exhibition was giyen
OF the practical use the machines might DO
put to in time Of war. From there they
went on TO Washington, where the men
demonstrated the working OF the wireless
and signalling corps 10 the War Depart
ment and TO President TAFT. They then
visited Annapolis and the Naval Academy
and on their return trip will stop at west
Point to let the cadets see the Military
Academy.
Major Davidson said Lieutenant Beal was
the first man TO organize a bicycle corps
for carry army messages, and In l3l some
| Of the cadets carried message from Cen
eral Brooks, commander OF the Lake De-
partment at Chicago. TO General Alger
Secretary OF War, at Washington. In l2Ol
he sent an old type Duryea car 70 WASH
ington with a message. but the idea OF
using automobiles in warfare was at that
time r!diculed by the army officials. Since
then two complete automobiles were built
in the manual training school at the North
] -ANeN~A--S
eouipped with rapid fire guns by the cadets.
Lieutenant Beal said that Major David
son had an appointment with Colonel
Roosevelt yesterday afternoon and that tho
expedition probably would give a demon
stratlon before him.
Believing that the Maxwell touring car
IS tho best automobile in the world for
I,v-
States Motor Company yesterday entered
three Maxwell cars in the Giidden tour
which IS scheduled 20 start IN September
al Washington and finish in Ottawa, cana
da. In making the entry the company 10
confident that its cars VIII fully maintain
their record for winning reliability con-
tests.
Maxwell cars have always made better
showing in reliability runs than IN contests
in which speed IS primary factor. In last
wears Glldden tour OF 1850 miles two cars
driven by Harry E. Walls. Of Philadelphia,
and Jesse Illngsworth, OF Dallas, Tex,
made the best team score in the most
amazing test OF cars and OF men ever con-
Quoted in the country.
The only national reliability contest other
than the Glidden tour last year was the
Munsey tour, from Philadelphia to tho
White Mountains and return TO WashlnS-
ton This was won by Maxwell driven
by Walls, defeating all cars, regardless or
price or power.
4 Much interest IS always aroused amon5
, Automobiles by the announcement OF new
models Just now the attention Of all who
closely follow automobile affairs is being
directed toward the 1912 Hudson 49, when
is being shown by the A. L. Ranney Com
pany at No. 100 Broadway.
During the last few years certain manu-
facturers have come 20 DO recognized IS
tho creators OF new ideas in motor car
construction. Each maker spec!alizes on
particular features. one IS recognized as
the most original producer Of body de-
; signs and another works out color schemes
and so on. Those who have followti the
advancement Of the industry know what
20 expect from each maker.
The Hudson Motor Car Company has
. established a reputation for simplicity OF
design. Howard T. Coffin. one OF Ameri-
cas- most famous engineers, is az tho
head of the engineering department 10
designed the Hudson ''33' ana IN that car
: he is said to have brought simplicity - =
! higher degree than has been known III
/ other automobiles. He has always adNo-
Gated simplicity as against the more COM
plicated designs Of earlier cars. $500,
In the 1911 "33' II was asserted tnat ~
eliminated some 900 parts that are used on
other automobiles. Curiosity, therefore ~
naturally aroused as 10 what has been done
| on the 1912 model 10 make IL the better
and simpler car which the manufacturers
claim II 10 be.
II. L. B. Ryder who left New York at ~
o'clock on Thursday morning for san Fran
I cisco in a Velie car. arrived al Syracuse
/ T~rF1nN - ffa~Onon in fine condition.
NEWS FOR THE GOLFERS