Evening star., 1912-06-02

honor, which included a road inspection
tour on Long Island. In the party be-
sides Lord Montagu were Chief City Mag
istrate William McAdoo. Ralph Folks,
mcns Alderman Marks, G. Gordon Reel.
state superintendent of highways: Har-
old Parker, former chairman OF the
| Massachusetts highway commission: seV-
eral officials of the Touring Club and
many others prominent in automobiling
circles.
After inspecting the new state roads
| OH the island the party drove over the
Long Island motor parkway as guests OF
W. X. Vanderbilt, il. Lord Montagu ex-
pressed himself as highly please with
| the new roads and especially with the
| construction of the motor parkway. which
| he said effectively solved the dust prob
| lem. Lord MontaSu was given a ride
| over the motor parkway at high speed
!. in 12o horsepower Isotta, driven by
Joseph Tracy. the well known automo-
| bile expert. and on one stretch a speed
| of over eighty-tive miles an hour was
attained.
The Touring Club entertained at din
| ner at the Garden City Hotel where In
| Montagu, Chief Magistrate McAdoo. AL
| derman Folks, II. NJ. Swetland and +. II.
Elliott, secretary of the Touring Club.
/ During the course of his remarks. Lord
Montagu said that the motorists of the
| United States had every reason to feel
| gratifed with the automobiling and high
| way conditions and predicted great ad-
| vance within the next year or two He
said it would only be a question of time
| before the highway authorities would ef
| fectively solve the situation by building
! the roads of a suitable depth SO as to
| give them permanency and make the sur
faces durable for longer periods.
The road board i'm England. which has
| built up the road system there so splen-
ddly. attributes its success to the perfect
cooperation which exists between the va
rious counties and localities The road
| board contributes a certain sum on con-
dition the places benefited contribute a
like sum; result they have splendid
roads.
Lord Montagu will remain in this coun-
try until July his itinerary including
visits to ST Louis, Indianapolis. Chicago,
Cleveland Detroit. Buffalo. Syracuse and
other cities where automobile factories
will be inspected. Some of his time will
also be spent in Montreal and Quebec.
Another Columbia Silent Knight seven
passenger touring car was purchased last
week, the order being placed by w. r.
Bennett of this city. The car is finished
in Brewster green and is the third Co
| lumbia car which Mr.. Bennett has pos
sesseG. The car is finished In nickel.
Maxwell cars were delivered for the
week ending yesterday to the following:
SpecldlS, James Jarrett ana 1naTieS W.
Boyer; Messenger. to Thomas Is. Conrad;
model | touring car. to George NJ. Cal
vert; Mascotte, to f. T. Hull. Hagers-
town Md: AA runabouts. to J. r. Somer-
vile, w: c. Holloway and A. Jacob.
A Columbia Cavalier seven-paSsenger
touring car was delivered TO \. II. Shea.
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Gold medals have been awarded by
the 5n-CG0-mie Maxwell Motor Club to
W ny-pr
.0,C10 miles in their Maxwell cars. This
is in accordance with the offer of the
manufacturers of the Maxwell car to
reward owners who have attained high
mileages.
Affidavits have been made by each
motorist setting forth the exact number
of miles covered and the models of cars
that We're used Three members who
have proved mileages in excess of 100000
are President Lee Meriwether of ST. Louis.
Mo-; F. J. Griffin of New York and Clar-
ence Cooper of Brooklyn.
Mabel w. Davis of Buffalo. y. Y, is the
first woman to qualify for medal al
though it is known that several others
notably Mrs. Alice Ramsay-exceeded
10000 miles several years ago.
For the silver medals which are being
presented to owners who have covered
10000 miles, there is genuine clamor ow-
ing to the much larger number of ears
that have passed 5000 miles. Every
present owner or purchaser of a Maxwell
Naturally, with more than 5000 cars in
service there has been a large enrolment
Local groups are forming in several cities
and the organization is developing into
strong factor for the encoura cement of
touring and the building of good roads.
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The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany of Akron, Ohio, has now sixty-siX
direct factory branches in the United
States and Canada.
The Goodyear company occupies up-to-
date and elaborate quarters in most of
the large cities where its branch houses
have been established. and a uniform
plan of construction has been adopted,
both in the exterior and the interior
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Final preparations are being made for
the national nonstop run for the Michi-
gan state far trophy which will start
from the Detroit fair grounds September
16. Detailed information has been sent
to \. G. Bachelor. chairman of the
executive committee Of the American
Automobile Association, that the con-
test can be under the direction of that