Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

of similar size is not at hand, temporary
| repairs may be effected by using one
slightly larger. This can be made to mt
by hammering it until it assumes an oval
shape
The Importance of automobiles as
freight is strikingly illustrated by the
construction of railroad cars specially de-
signed for this class of traffic.
In many respects the automobile car
is different from the company's ordinary
type of box car. 1t has an end door, the
fun width of the car The side doors are
extra wide and are staggered" that is,
they are not opposite each other. The
object of this arrangement is to allow
automobiles to be loaded and unloaded
without scratching or other damage.
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George II. Robertson has definitely re-
tired from automobile racing and gone
into business He has acquired a one
! third interest in an auto supply COM
pany and been elected president Of the
concern.
Smiling George" declares that hereaf-
ter he Will be a spectator only at speed
events on road and track, except that he
| may act as an official occasionally. He
drove his first race at Elkwood Park
track in 1903 and his last public appear
! ance was at Brighton Beach track last
Labor day. when he Detected Barney Old
| field. He became famous in 1908, when he
wen a twenty-four-hour race one Satur-
day, won the Vanderbilt cup race the
second Saturday and captured the first
Paramount Park road race the third Sat
| urday, being the first American to win
the Vanderbilt race with an American
made car.
In 1909 he won the Paramount Park
road race again and also the national
stock chassis race at Lowell He fin
ished second in the Indiana trophy race
and third in the CODE cup race the same
year. With Al Poole as his teammate
he won two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. races in
1909. Driving Fiat car at Atlanta IN
November. 1900. he made speedway rec
ords for ten. fifty 100 and $50 miles in
He also raced at Los Angeles, where he
made the ten-mie free-fOr-all existing
| speedway record. and at Indianapolis.
It sometimes happens that lack of
| lubricant at the dash bracket will cause
| an apparent binding of the steering gear.
During the first week Of the "big show"
which means the national exhibition of
| automobiles in Madison Square Garden,
New York. the American Automobile AS
| sociation has arranged to hold series of
| meetings for members at national head
quarters. 437 5th avenue.
The first of these sessions will take
place "Wednesday morning, when Chair
man Charles Thaddeus Terry of the
legislative board will preside. and there
Will be a discussion of legislative mat
tiers. At tine afternoon session Chairman
| Howard Longstreth Of the touring infor-
| nation board will occupy the chair, and
| members will be asked to make sugges-
! tons regarding the simplifying of the ac-
| tivfties OF this most important depart
| Inent of the national organization.
Thursday morning will come the month
:, ly meeting of the executive committee,
| at which President Robert p Hooper will
! preside, and large attendance is certain
| OF the thirty directors comprising this
committee. In the afternoon there will
be good roads meeting. and Chairman
George G. Diehl of the good roads board
will direct the proceedings. The fact
| that the good roads subject is one which
| must occupy the attention of motorists
| In general Is now recognized, and the
officers of the A. A. A. intend that its
good roads board shall be leader in
highway improvement matters throughout
the country.
In the matter of automobile legislation
! New York state has always been a pi-
! oneer, and the present wide-Open reci-
| prOcity provision is likely of adoption by
many states at the current sessions of
| their legislatures Vermont set the ex-
ample some weeks ago, following New
York's lead in the reciprocity clause, and
now the Green mountain state is open to
/ non-residents for the entire twelve
months, if Vermonters are accorded SINH
lar privileges in the states OF those nom
/ residents; or whatever limitations are
| placed by other commonwealth apply to
their motorists when visiting Vermont.
| Hence there was considerable interest
and a large attendance at the midwinter
| meeting of the New York State Automo-
bile Association. held Saturday morning
| at the Hotel Belmont, with President
/! Frank G. Webb presiding, and legislative
| matters occupied considerable attention.
| Following is the complete schedule:
Wednesday. January IL, 10 a.m.-Legis-
lative meeting, Chairman Terry of the
| legislative board presiding. 437 9Th ave-
nue..
Wednesday. January II, p.m.-Touring
| information meeting, Chairman Long
streth of the touring information board
presiding. 437 9Th avenue.
| Thursday, January IL, 10 a.m.-Monthly
meeting of A. A. A. executive committee
| President r. p. Hooper presiding. 49,
| 9Th avenue.
Thursday, January II. p.m-Good
roads meeting. Chairman George c. Diehl
of the good roads board presiding. 49,
| 9Th avenue.
| X x
J. From February to IL next there will
be held in the Coliseum in Chicago the
| first really comprehensive and representa-
| tive exhibition of self-propelled work We
| hicles that has ever been made in Amer
lea. Two months before the opening
| of the show more than fifty manufac-
| turers of complete motor wagons had
contracted for space in which to display
| their varied products, while all of the
available space in the gallery and on the
| second floor of the Coliseum Annex had
been taken by manufacturers of COM
ponent parts, fittings and supplies for
| these machines.
| The forthcoming show will be a revela-
| ton that will amaze thousands of visitors
| 1t will be an exposition of an industry
| in which, according to the best availa-
| of complete machines and experimental
| constructors are now engaged; an indus
try that is already well developed and es-
| tablished on solid foundation, yet which
Is only at the beginning of growth the
| magnitude of which nobody fully realizes
| In New York city alone there are in
| regular use $500 motor trucks, delivery
| wagons and other forms of industrial
/ vehicles, and in Chicago the number has
grown from forty-fiye to 900 in three
years. according to good information. 1t
| is estimated that throughout the country
there are from 10000 to 5000 power
| work vehicles in regular use. At an as
| sumed average cost of 5000 these rep
OOO, 600 to $75,OOO,OOO. If the cost of gar
| far housing these machines iS foLop