The Washington times., 1912-04-22
CAPITAL MOTORISTS
INTERESTED IN SIGNS
ON STATE HIGHWAYS
Automobile Club of Mary
land Doing Good Work in
Protecting Owners.
BY HARRY WARD.

Washington motorists, who contribute
more than $4,000 a year to the State
of Maryland for the privilege of using
the roads of that State, are much in
terested in the work OF the Automobile
Club of Maryland in sign-posting tie
various main-traveled routes through
the State. e..
The club has posted some l25 slow
down signs along the Maryland section
of the Quebec-M Miami international high
way and has also posted the road with
signs showing the way to tourists in
every direction. The club considers the
showdown signs of vital Importance and
will continue the good work OF placing
them from time to time until every
| road in the State is so marked. Theso
| signs are placed on roads at dangerous
turns and crossings and are readable
TO users Of the road coming from both
directions.
Many accidents have occurred because
of the lack of warning signs at rail-
road crossings. sharp bends in the road,
bridges, and crossroads Not only are
such signs needed but 1t Is imperative
! order to give adequate warning to the
motorist they must be brief and graphic.
Long-worded signs are next to useless
and tourists will not slow down to read
them. 1t is expected many of the
| States will get together on the matter
of uniform regulations for signs ana
thus add to the pleasures of automo-
| bile touring.
| Two famous American automobile
| racing drivers are now engaged in SELL
ing Apperson cars. Herbert Lytle, the
/ dean of American racing drivers, Is
manager of the Indianapolis branch of
| Apperson Brothers, while Harry Grant,
| who won the Vanderbilt cup race twice
in succession. is selling Appersons in
| Boston. Lytle has the distinction of
being the first American driver to In
| wade the foreign racing field
The Fiat makers have planned to win
the French Grand Prize race at any
cost and the makeup of the team be-
! speaks victory. The great French
driver, Louis Wagner; Ralph De Paln'a
and David Bruce-Brown. the two Amer
| lean drivers, comprise the team. These
three drivers are probably as good a
| team taken as a whole, as 1t Is posi-
BILE to form in the world today.
| Wagner, with his marvellous all-around
but one drawback. That is his violent
| temper, which 1t seems almost 1mpos-
| sble for him to cure when the race Is
at a crisis. De Palma. with his deep
| mechanical knowledge, is probably one
Of the most sensational drivers that
! ever sat behind the steering wheel of
racing automobile. He has been pc
culiarly unfortunate in never having
| won a road race of major league lr-
portance, but his record on tracks aud
speedways makes him stand in class
by himself. Bruce-Brown. I'm the opin-
ion of many, is the most natural driver
lknow what Bruce-Brown, born the heir
| to millions. has done. He has finished
IN every race he has entered during ms
career except the last Vanderbilt: he
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Prize races, defeating the pick of the
4 worlds drivers.
! II is interesting that this is the. fl st
time old world makers have ever placed
American drivers at the wheels of their
racing creations in the big classics Cf
the country.
The power used TO propel an electric
automobile is derived from a storage
Electric Storage Battery COMPANY,
makers of Exide batteries. Because of
the fact that a storage battery is a
piece of electrical apparatus with which
most people are not familiar, 1t is fire.
uuently the case 1t is not given the con-
sideration that 1t deserves. The bat
terry used in an electric car is the most
responsible part of the machine. 1t
needs some attention, just as a watch
needs winding, and when properly cared
for will perform its functions in just as
satisfactory a manner as any other part
The name 'Exide has been linked
with the electric vehicle since the early
use of the electric cars. 'Exide' bat
teries have been improved from time 60
, time, giving to vehicle users better and
better service. When there developed
: demand for greater mileage per
, charge Of battery than could be OBJ
{ tanned from the 'Exide,' there was
brought out the 'Hycap-Exide' battery.
and It's service has been so popular that
IL has been indorsed by all the twenty
two leading electric automobile makers
| in the country"