The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-29
Motoring Notes,
Good Roads News
and Trade Matters

j. H SfmrnB, chairman of the Joint
committees OF the Richmond Automo-
BILE club, and the Automobile Dealers
show association, has called q meeting
10 be held 1T noon today IN Rtsegers
Mr.. Eimina expects TO complete the
business OF the committees At this
meeting.
II was through Chairman simms
ts,ass skss services Of Fred T. Wagner
were secured, and through Mr.. Wag-
ner that Ralph Milford and Spencer
Wishart have been engaged 10 appear
at the State fair track Friday and sat
uraay, November 2sth and zsth- Be-
siding Wishart and Mulford It Is ex-
pected that Ralph DePalma win be
present. and In all Likelihood Louis
Dishrow. with his famous Jay Eye-See
Fiat car.
III pePalraa fsnds himself physically
unit 10 drive y car Mortimer Roberts,
Barney uldfieid. Caleb Bragg, or an
enuafly ceIebrSs~A~speed king viii be
present. not to mention the crack driv-
ers of the Kline and Cino cars, who
hate been invited to enter
The PRICES offered fer the Richmond
AutomobiIe club meet are far aoovs
the average, big enough 10 tempt the
leading stars to their best efforts. II
is not unlikely that an ADDITIONAL prize
will be nut UP in the shape of a trophy
for annual competition. Irophles arc
not over popular wy.h proiessaohai
drivers. but TO the makers OF antomo-
bfies they possess particular value
oger ard beyond tho cash prize they
carry with them.
! OF On highway Scout.
1-aptaau r. ST. Julien Wilson. state
highway commissioner. and President
Henry ". Anderson, of the Richmond
washington Highway association, re-
turned from their scontihg expeditioh
through Hanover county yesteIoay
and today Captain Wilson goes oacA
TO make q Anal decision In regard "
route North -
executive committee. and Captain Will
sor in 70 make the final choice. He
will meet all the county Supervisors
"A this trip through Hanover. ana
.. I,en he rsturns he will announce ms
drcisinn to the other members OK tiie
COMMITTEES. Whatever route Captain
Wilson recommends will be adopted
az the official highway through ran
over TO spotsylvania county. ana "oiN
viii be begun at once.
nen,e Fright Of Cars.
! Sometime or other the earnest sta
ft.tician wifi be able to record on tna
| nsw highway to Washington the ieh-
trs,,,a fnrnpike the pike TO Peters
hmrr ar the midlothian pike stretcn-
me IL Roanoke. and from there 70
the Pacific coast. what a writer N I's
New York Sun tells about II may pe
4 few years hence, but the Jay
surely coming when the nome nsna
~ automobiles will be as neticeapie
~ This section as 1t IN now on the
did Boston road from New York into
(.onnectfcut or on the broad state
highway that stretches through tns
Highlands and up BY the Hudson 70
Albany.
Huf. anyway, II il an interesting
story the writer tells even TX the SET
ting for it IN in the vicinity Of Man
haitian. He says
On every fafe sunday automobiles ~
thousands leave the city for runs ~
| the country The thurouEhfares lead
aiaa nut saeni eiIea with .autamahflss
innumerable: but they present mofe
impressive showing sttli when the.
come home at night
| Going out they are more or less
scattered, through the morning and
| the early afternoon but coming back
th& aim liz TO get into the city by or
not long after ni9htfall, and then
down through these same thorough
fares they come in \ steady. impos-
Ing. swift moving prccsssion.
afternoon walk along upper Broadway
stopped at One Hundred and Eighty
first street 10 see the automobiles 60
! by. He had been passed on the road
/ by machines in endless numbers. and
now he thought ne would like TO
ccunt them junt Tor fun. He looked