The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

best be built which will pass through
these three States. They plan to make
an inspection Of the roals and select
the ones most available.
Robert H. Martin, accompanied by his
wife. left last evening in Model q
Buick for Braddock Heights. Nd, where
they will spend to-day, returning home
this evening by way Of Baltimore
James Root leaves this morning in an
| EMF touring car for Frederick and
Braddock Heights.
| Randall Hagner has left in his Stod-
Dayton for Cape May. N. j., where
he expects to spend a couple OF weeks.
1t is predicted that the winning car
In the 30o-mile Eigin race. which takes
place next Saturday, will not have to
do better than sixty-six miles an hour.
Harry Grant. twice winner of the Van
| derbilt, who will drive the same Alec
in this race, is the authority for the
statement
Whether or not Washington has a
hill climb this year still remains to be
seen. Capt. Ted Johnston, of the Auto
mobile Club of Washington, on a re-
cent visit to New York, took up the
question OF the registration of car;
with s. NJ Butler. chairman of the
contest board of the A. A A. Mr.. But
Ter Informed him that more than likely
something would be done toward mod
flying the registration rule this year.
The contest board of the A. A. A.
meets very shortly to consider sugges-
tions made them by the Manufacturers
| Contest Association, which met last
week in Detroit This question of regis
tration was brought up and the rule in
its present form was very strenuously
| objected to by a number of the manu-
facturers who have half a dozen or
| SO models on the market every year.
They contend that the expense at
| tached to the registering Of the cars is
too great, and that rather than comply
| with II they will remain out of contests
| of all kinds this coming year. as many
have done during the past season.
Robert Cartmell, manager of the Kelly
| Springfield tire branch. in this city, ac-
companied by F. p. BiaIr, left at day
light yesterday morning In the formers
Pope Hartford for New York. They ex-
| pect to be gone about ten days.
ITO the advancement Of the automo-
! bile. more than any other industry, we
owe the present high rate of develop
| ment of a new form of Steel" says E.
H. Wine, of Wine & Benson. representa-
| tives Of the Abbott Detroit. In the past,
| when one desired more strength, the
| designer simply added more material.
/ To-day the reverse is true. The weight
is lessened and the strength is doubled.
This Is done by changing the molecular
structure Of the steel so that its elastic
! limit is increased"
Harry Davis, representative of the
United States Tire Company. who &C.
companied the Premier coast-to-coast
tourists, has returned East According to
Mr.. Davis the pictures that have been
! drawn Of the hardships one must un-
dergo on this trip are greatly exag-
gerated. The roads as a whole were
| found to be good. the only place that
anything like heavy going was encoun-
| tered being during the time they were
travelling through the sand Of the desert
The twelfth national automobile show
to be held January to 20, 1912. will be
| the last to be held in Madison Square
Garden. New York, as early next spring
| the building is to be torn down to make
H. B. Leary, jr., leaves tomorrow
| morning in Hudson roadster for a
trip that will take him as far North
as Maine. He expects to spend about
two weeks touring through the Northern
| States.
Benjamin Briscoe. president Of the
United States Motor Company, predicts
| that for 1872 there will be 10000 motor
cars built, and that-6o per cent of them
viii be used for utility purposes. The
average price for these cars will, Mr..
Briscoe says, be in the neighborhood of
slice, meaning that there will be a great
many cars on the market selling for
less than $1,000.
Rudolph Jose, who handles the Cadillac
line for the Cook & stoddard Company.
has left for Asb,iry Park. where he will
| remain week or ten days.
Some owners in cleaning chains use a
| mixture of graphite with tallow, but
! graphite sinks to the bottom of the melt
i ed taliow and therefore does not always
do the duty that Sis expected of it In
order to prevent this. as much as possi-
Bile when the chain isl removed from the
tallow II should be hung up and all
superfiuous grease allowed to drain from
it into the pan placed beneath There
will remain. of course, thin film of
grease over the surface of the chain. but
no more than Is sufiicient to protect it
in wet weather, though even this film Of
grease will collect dust
During the absence of President
Thomas Neil. Of the General Motor Com
pany, who has left on a trip to Europe,
w. j. Meade. vice president OF the COM
pany and manager Of the Olds Motor
Works. will have, charge OF the affairs
OF this. one of the biggest automobile
| concerns in the world. according to word
received yesterday by NJ. T. Pollock.
local representative OF the Oldsmobile.
b "A Packard 80 touring car equipped to
run on either road. or rails has been per-
fected by w. G. Irwin. president of the
Indianapolis, Columbus. and Southern
Traction Company. On recent trial trip
from Columbus to Seymour the machine
ran nearly nfty-fcur miles ian hour
against head wind and SIXTY miles on
the return trip.
| Wood rims made by pulley company
f flt intc the standard rims OF the auto
mobile. and In place OF the ppeumatic
tire there - = DANCED steel car tire
These pas(s are btlted together In such
. way thai when Che car 4 wanted for