The Washington times., 1911-04-07
OFFICIAL SANCTION
GIVEN FOR BIG MAY
CLOVER LEAF RUN
President Duvall of Wash
ington Automobile Club
/ Is Notified.
BY HARRY WARD.


President w. S. DuvaIl, of the Auto
mobile Club Of Washington, today re-
ceived word from Samuel NJ. Butler,
chairman of the contest board of the
American Automobile Association, that
official sanction No. S14 had been grant
ed the club for it's -Four Leaf Glover
Rum" May Is. 16. II, and IS.
With the granting of the sanction, CIV
ing the run official standing in the
eyes of the governing body of automo-
bile sports, the work of securing en-
tries will proceed rapidly. Nearly every
automobile dealer in the city is ex-
pected to have one or more cars in the
lineup, and the indications are the
unique run will be the largest ever
conducted by the club.
The pathfinders of the tour will re-
sumo the laying out of the third days
course Monday, when they will journey
TO Leesburg, Point OF Rocks, Hagers-
town, and Frederick. On Tuesday the
route to Leonardtown, Nd, will be
blazed. William q. West former
president Of the club, has been ap-
pointed referee and chairman of the
tour.
From running q hay cutting ma
chine to furnishing power to the Grip
pied factory; from moving the house
hold goods to climbing mountains, the
automobile has been bent to all pos
sible uses" says George D. Wilcox,
assistant general manager of the Re-
gal Motor Car Company of Detroit
-'All these uses are but indications of
the great place the automobile has
come to take in the life of every COM
munity. I have just been considering
how the automobile has been accept
ed as a ready instrument of govern
ment and the figures are rather in
teresting
You will find automobile fire ap-
paratus in zoe cities of the country.
These cities have one or more steam
ers or ladder trucks and some of these
cities are about to increase the equip
ment. The Eastern cities have taken
Rindlier to the automobile fire ap-
paratus than the West. Thirty-eight
bile fire apparatus; eighteen in Cali
fornia, fifteen in New York, fourteen
in Connecticut. fourteen in New Jer
sey, twelve in Pennsylvania, eight in
Ohio, and eight in Texas. Many oil
these cities have bought automobile
police patrol wagons. The latest
wrinkle in automobiles for city use
is the street cleaning truck. About
and incidentally the labor unions in
these cities are kicking. The use OF
the automobiles for ambulance pur-
poses IS EeComing general. The Fed
eral Government has taken up the au-
tomrobiie for the delivery and cOlIec-
tton of mail"
Twenty miles across the frozen ice
fields Of Green Bay in a Ford automo-
bile is one of the recent trips made by
the Ford agents in Marinette, Wis. The
ice has been exceedingly heavy on Green
BAY the past winter, and seeing their
opportunity of making a complete cross
ing on the ice, the motorists set out for
the cold trip. 1t is the first time an
automobile has ever succeeded in cross
ing the bay on the ice, as on previous
attempts large cracks in the frozen
fields made crossing, impossible. The
car made the trip of twenty miles in
one hour and forty-five minutes.
Without doubt for the first time in
the history of the world an automobile
has been put to practical use in active
warfare, in a recent battle between the
Mexican federal troops and the forces
of the insurreCtos," said J. NJ. Stoddard !
of the Cook & Stoddard Company.
The battle took place near Aqua
Prieta, in the state Of Sonora, Mexico,
which town lies just across the border
from Douglas. ArizC ma.
W
that the scenes of real warfare were |
10 he enacted in the near vicinity, |
scores of the residents floCked to the !
probable locality of the battle, among !
them those citizens who own automo-
biles One of these was Z. r. PirtIe |
who had with him, in his Cadillac, his |
wife and Mrs. James S. Douglas.
"Pirtle's car crossed the line at the GUS |
toms house and reached the battlefield |
while the action was still in progress. |
l .l,
same time.
THE sight of wounded and dying men
was more than the SympathieS Of the |
Americans could withstand: and, with |
some difficulty, permission was obtained !
from the Mexican soldiers to remove the |
wounded.
so two wounded men were placed in !
Pirtle's car and a quick run was made !
TO Aqua Prieta, and afterward the same |
car conveyed other soldiers, Of both |
placed under the care of American sur
geOns."
The automobile has found a useful |
field in the service of officials and 9TH |
ers whose duties require them to cover !
large sections of territory. For some |
time Western ranchers have been using |
motor cars in travelling over the large |
ranches owned bv them. To enable the |
county assessor of Los Angeles county |
Sdl.' u cover MS leTTllOTy, WHICH EN- |
braces an area about the size of the |
state of Connecticut, the county officials |
have purchased him a Franklin touring |
car.
The return from Europe of William |
X. Vanderbilt, jr-, has caused a revival |
of talk about international automobile |
racing. Mr.. Vanderbilt, donor of the |
Vanderbilt cup, was asked when he |
would call a meeting of the Motor Cups |
Holding Company to consider the re- |
quest of the Savannah Automobile Club !
for the grand prize race of 1911 He |
stated he would take up the matter in !
the near future. Savannah's chances !
81 landing the prize race are considered !
good.
More than a million dollars worth of |
automobiles were shipped abroad during
February, according to the latest re-
turns of the Governments statistical |
bureau. The number OF machines eX-
ported was L023, valued at S1,O64,S7O.
Lozier cars will compete in all of the
national circuit events Of the season.
lEe Lozier team will be seen in the
opening event of the national grand |
circuit in the 500-mile race at Indianap-
oils, May 30. This team will consist of
Ralph Mulford, Teddy Tetzlaff, and
Harold Van Gorder.
w. c.. Little, sales manager of the
Rauch & Lang Carriage Company, who
has been in Washington attending the
opening Of the new salesrooms of the |
Imperial Motor Company, at 1l12 Con-
necticut avenue. left yesterday to visit