The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-23
Football-Automobile---Other Sporting News
Motoring Notes,
Good Roads News
and Trade Matters


noon today in the Office Of President
Henry w. Anderson, The route of the
highway between Richmond and Fred
ericksburg will be determined upon.
Alco Truck Makes Newport News.
It took an Alec truck FIVE hours and
half, actual time. to run from Rich
mond to Newport News yesterday, al
o'clock to Q o'clock r. NJ. The truck.
q two-ton affair, but carrying 1850
pounds above its capacity. not to mem
ton the weight OF the driver and his
helper, got stuck in the mud three
times. 1t needed careful nursing TO
prevent it getting in so deep that it
would have to be derricked out.
AS suggested in this column the
truck ran into soft spot in New
Kent county in the vicinity of Bar
Evansville and twice between that
thriving township and Toano.
The truck proves. however what has
been claimed all along by wide awake
farmers; the motor truck Is the ideal
farmers wagon. II will carry more
than its load, 1t will go where four
mule team will stall. 1t will make fas-
ter time. and 1t is absolutely tireless.
1t brings the farmer nearer to the
market and the market nearer to the
farmer; 1t brings the city closer to the
country and eliminates the costly
method OF handling farm products. 1t
saves produce from destructive hand
ling. An ordinary load of produce has
to be loaded into the farmers wagon,
unloaded from the wagon to the freight
platform, loaded from the platform to
the car, unioaded from the car to an
other platform, loaded from the plat
form to another team and then an
loaded from the team when the mar
ket place Is reached. With motor
truck the produce is loaded once at
the farm and then unloaded in the
market place. 1t Is not obliged to
wait for a car of freight to be made
up at the depot. 1t Is not obliged to
wait the convenience OF the railroad.
1t carries fresh farm truck to the mar
ket anu by eliminating the necessity
OF handling 1t so often reduces the
freight charges and helps to reduce the
high cost of living.
The farmers of New Kent county
who. saw W that moter truck pass daan
| the Peninsula saw the opening OF a
| new era in farming.
GIiddsn's Trip Helping Tour.
A Memphis dispatch says:
Charles j. Glidaeas trip freuf De
| troit to New Orleans in the interest
OF the next Giidden tour has awakened
| motorists of the South, and 1t is ex-
pected that more than half the con-
testants next June will represent
Southern cities. More than forty such
| entries have been promised. Today's
| run OF the tourists from Rogers
| Springs to Memphis was the hardest
| day of the trip owing to washouts
occurring after heavy rains last week.
Mr.. Giidden's Maxwell and the 1911
winner. which Accompanies MIN, made
good runs.
/. Dumping the Bumps in Boston.
A Boston newspaper points this in
teresting item:
| When motor ear strikes a bump
in Boston street the driver will make
note thereof and forward the informa-
ton to the complaint Office of the city
public works department. And the
complaint will receive attention, ac-
cording to letter which has been
| III this way to have the streets kept
in better condition. His letter, which
is addressed to the Massachusetts, Au-
| tomobile club, Is as follows:
| 1t has occurred to me that a pub.
lie service might be rendered by your
| members il they would report imper.
fections in the street payements te
I the complaint Office of the public
works department. 1t sometimes hap
pens that bad places in the pavements
are not observed by the police off.
GERS. whose duty it is to report them
In such cases the automobiles, whose
knowledge of these defects Is some
Itimessderived from experience, should
regard 1t as duty to report the cir.
Icumstances and those who do so may
be assured that their complaints viii
be properly attended to-
III the plan was adopted in Rich,
imond. 1t is likely that Mayor Aims
lies mail would be slightly increased
Monsieur Iajoie Gets a Car.
Napoleon Lajoie. the second base
man of the Cleveland baseball team
is an enthusiastic antoist. The bal
player recently made a trip in hi.
machine from his home in cieyelane
to New York and back He does al
his driving in the machine he got tw,
years ago for being one of the bes
batters in the American league. II,
cobb topped him by a fraction of ;
point.
When Larry got his car he applied
fer license number. He was no
satisfied with any number the secre
tary of state chose to send him. bu
ne wanted a number to correspond
with his batting average at the fin
tsh OF the season. 1t was discovered
that the number Larry was seeking
was held by another autoist in Cleve
land. The ball player wrote to tn,
man holding the number, who cheer
fully transferred IL to him.
Larry's batting average in tn,
American league at the finish of thi
season was 1874. That 10 the 4licens,
Y number that will adorn the tail o
his machine in 1873.
Motorcycles Need No Defense.
man has come ont in the defensl
of motorcycles He says the govern
ment has recently adopted them II
several additional departments. an,
that men. women and children ar,
taking to them both for business an,
pleasure.
The motorcycle needs no defense
for all that 1t is merely coming int
its own.
TEL 6ERNA WILL QUIT
ATHLETICS NEXT YEAE
NEW YORK Oct. 22.---Tel Berna
one OF Corneirs standbys in long dis
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