Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

the cars at the least cost per car mile
yet producing easy riding qualities.
Many of the manufacturers are equip
ping their commercial cars with Motz
cushion tires, thus making them as near
trouble proof from the tire standpoint as
possible. The secret of the tire lies in
the physical construction. Its double
notched treads prevent skidding, and dis
tribute the weight to the sides The I'M
dercut sides allow free action of the
bridges. The bridges being slantwise and
elastic, give and yield like air in the
pneumatic tire.
James l.. Owens has purchased the first
of the 1912 Detroiter touring cars. The
car is finished in black, with blue run
ming gear and fully equipped.
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Charles H. Tickling, we'll known in local
motoring circles. has joined the sales
staff of W. P. Barnhart & Co and will
handle the Everitt car.
1912 Ford cars were delivered during the
week ending yesterday to the following
Touring-B. S. CARRIER, Harry f. Anders
DR.. A w. Boswell. John w. Auth. Will
liam Rouzer J. F. kelchner Matthews
Howard Implement Company, DR.. T. D.
Mudd. A. r. Miller. Torpedoes-Cockerill
& Lake, Berkeley Garage, Robert V. La
Dow, William C. Taylor and DIR. Anthony
Ray.
Certainly no city planning to stage a
big road race has ever gone at the mat
ter more aggressively than Milwaukee,
Wis, and the way interests there are CO.
operating in the work of running the
Vanderbilt and grand prize races Is most
remarkable. Judging from the activity
of the Milwaukee Automobile Dealers
Association, one would Surmtse that the
race meeting was but couple of weeks
off. rather than scheduled for the latter
part of September. William X. Wander
bilt jr., last week requested E. w. Will
liams of the Automobile Club of Amer
lea to represent him personally, as well
as the club. on a trip to Milwaukee. Mr..
Williams arrived in that city Tuesday
and was rendered reception by Bart j.
Ruddle, secretary of the Dealers Asso-
citation. and his associates. Mr.. Williams
went into various details in connection
with the grand prize race proposition.
and within a few days Fred j. Wagner.
the American Automobile Association
starter. will be ia Milwaukee to confer
with the promoters "Wag. as he Is
on his trip to Tacoma, Wash, where he
is to have charge of the running of Ia
coma's first road race. While in Wash
ington he Will endeavor to sign up a
number of the Pacific coasts star drivers
for the big classics in Milwaukee. He
Uses of several of these cracks
Comment in automobile circles already
has been made on the manner in which
the Milwaukee people are undertaking
their task. The promoters are grasping
every opportunity to note how other
cities have run races. Ruddle and others
made the trip to Santa Monica, Cal, and
indianapolis to see the big events in those
cities, and note how the big contests were
staged. During the past few days a num-
Der of members of the Milwaukee body
motored down to Elgin ILL.,, for the pur-
pose of inspecting the Elgin course over
which the National stock car champion
ships are run. The object of course was
to pick up all the pointers they could
from observation and from conversation
with the Elgin Road Race Association Of
ficials, and to carry this knowledge back
home
A. H. Jonas. l. G. Hickman. A. j. Marsh.
l., F. Bond, E. r. Sanger F. G. Edwards
n. r. New. George Brown, F. B. Lev
erenz, j. Miller and others The party
filled five large automobiles.
At Elgin they were received by A. r.
Schmitz, vice president of the Elg.n
Road Race Association; NJ. S. Aldridge.
one of the directors. and John A. Logan,
under whose supervision the course was
constructed. The delegation made a COM
plete circuit of the Elgin course. and
Messrs. Schmitz, Logan and Others in
Guiding President +. w. jerks of the
Elgin Road Race Association, promised
to visit Milwaukee within week or two
and go over the proposed Vanderbilt cup
and grand prize routes. There Is no jeal-
ousy existing between the two cities or
their respective organizations, and the
Milwaukee people expect to benefit by
number of tips which the Eighties can
give them. and to profit by the mis-
takes made in building the Illinois course
some years ago.
Following the inspection. George Brown
and August Jonas motored to Chicago to
accept the invitation extended to the
party by the Chicago Motor Club, which
in the past has co-operated with the Ell
gin association in running the stock car
championships. No expense will be
spared to make the Greenfield course,
over which the cup races are to be run,
the finest ever used for road race. Mil
waukee Is ready and willing to spend
$50, 900 for improving the course, and the
work will be done by not mere day la
borers, but road building experts.
1912 Everitt touring cars were delivered
to J. Liesfelt. George Christian, William
Selden Taylor, c. A. Mowry and DR..
Terrell of the 4 "3O' type: d. d. Phillips
and Cover & Smith of the 49, type
and q ~ touring cars to David Dunlop
and William Castleberg.
Joseph Nj. Stoddard OF the look d Stod-
dard Company left last night for Cleve-
land, Detroit and Buffalo, to visit the
Baker electric, Cadillac and Pierce-Ar-
row factories. He will return Thursday
of this week.
To date ten entries have been made for
the Tacoma (Washo road race. to be held
July ) and 6, under the auspices of the
Tacoma Automobile Club and Tacoma
Carnival Association. Last week Hughie
Hughes was entered with the 5cO-mile
race Mercer, and yesterday a second car