The Washington herald., 1912-07-14

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to be erected IN the huge grand stand on
the Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize race
course, at Milwaukee. This was decided
by the racing committee this week. which
has also arranged to stake on reserved
parking spaces adjoining and in the vicin-
ity of the grand stand, and 5000 unre-
served parking spaces. In the stand will
be 800 boxes along the front row.
The sale Of tickets for boxes, grand
stand seats, and reserved parking spaces.
opens next Monday, July Is. Already more
than 1000 requests have been made for
reserved seats. and these have been fled
in the order of their receipt, and tickets
will be allotted on the first-come-first-
served plan. A number of automobile
clubs have requested blocks Of boxes
| and seats for their members, while simi-
lar requests have come from societies
and bodies having no connection with the
automobile sport or industry.
The $4,000 in gold to be split up among
the first five competitors to finish will
| be divided as follows: To the winner,
in addition to the Grand Prize Cup.
5000; the second best will get s, 500:
third, sl,250: fourth. $50, and fifth. $500.
American and foreign cars are eligible
| to compete, and entries must be made
| through the recognized automobile club
in the country in which the car is man.
ufactured. In this country all entries
are to be made through the Automobile
Club of America: in France. the Auto
mobile Club de France; Great Britain.
the Royal Automobile Club OF Great
Britain and Ireland; Italy, the Automo-
bile Club of Italy: Germany, the Kaiser
Itch Automobile Club, &C. The racing
rules Of the Automobile Club Of America
will govern.
That there is urgent need OF co-opera-
ton between municipalities and the
State highway authorities is indicated by
complaints which have reached the
Touring Club of America from automo-
bilists who have recently returned from
extended tours through the Eastern and
New England States.
Col Henry MacNair. OF the Touring
Club Of America, who has been making
notes of the main travelled thoroughfares
in the vicinity of New York for the forth
coming issue of the Metropolitan Auto
mobile Guide, in commenting upon the
situation, said:
This condition is more noticeably true
in the great city OF New York than In
! the smaller municipalities. In fact, the
line of demarcation between the city
| streets and county roads is nearly al
ways very distant.
During my observations of the best
| motor exits from Greater New York /
found that an automobilist cannot leave
the metropolitan district either by the
way of Long Island. Staten Island. New
Jersey, or through Westchester County
without encountering some bad stretch
OF road which should be Immediately
placed in first-class condition.
1T would seem that a careful study
o. the question would enable the au-
thorities to pave the principal exits in
way to stand the wear and tear of
both horse and motor traffic. However,
1t is only question OF few years un-
til some of the larger cities Of this
country will be forced to adopt the
plan now being carried forward by the
road board in Great Britain TO establish
motor exits in the popular centers where
they are most urgently needed. The
road board has recently voted an appro-
priation of upward OF 100000 to board
the construction of several of these trunk
lines in London. 1t is proposed TO make
these roads eighty feet and of the finest
modern construction"
The good-roads movement has taken on
a wonderful vitality in some Of the Mid
die Western States since the establish
ment of transcontinental highway has
assumed tangible form. Especially is this
true in the Northern Illinois counties
that will be traversed by this road. The
Illinois Transcontinental Route Associa-
ton has Just issued a blue print OF the
road between Chicago and Clinton. Iowa
The map. which is an elaborate one. was
made in the office OF the State Highway
Commissioner, after a thorough personal
inspection of the route by the State en-
gineer.
The road across Illinois parallels the
Northwestern Railway practically the
entire distance, passing through May
wood, Wheaton, Geneva, De Kalb, Ro-
chelle, Dixon. Sterling. Morrison. and
Fulton where the Mississippi is crossed
into Iowa This road at present is one
OF the best in the West, the greater part
of 1t being macadam. The stretches of
dirt road, as a rule, are not bad, but
these are TO be Immediately improved.
The various highway commissioners are
showing commendable enthusiasm in the
matter, and this spirit is indorsed by the
people.
In a few days the marking of the route
will begin. The markings will be white
bands. one foot high, on the telephone
poles. with the letter T in the center of
the band. AS the commission had made
no arrangement for sign boards at. the
crossroads, It is reported that the
MitchelI-Lewis Motor Company will sup
ply them.
Two more illustrious names have been
added to the group of experts who have
assembled under the Flanders banner.
Mr.. c. A. MCGEE, general comptroller of
the General Motors Company, and one
of the most important factors in the re-
cent successful reorganization of that
concern, has resigned and formed a con- |
nection with the Flanders Manufacturing |
Company.
The other is also a former General
Motors officer. and one who dates back
several years before the merging of the |
various individual concerns into that cor |
poration-namely, Ford Halves, for ten
years chief engineer of the Cadillac Mo- !
tor Company. Mr.. Halves was the father |
of all Cadillac models since 1909, and has
long been recognized as one of the big |
men of the engineering field as well as
one of the safest designers of whom /
the industry could boast. Mr.. Hawes
hobby IL he has any-has been attention 1
to details. Not only mechanical details,
but little and seemingly unimportant
matters of finish and equipment that are |
so dear to the hearts of fastidious buyers, 4
which in the ensemble add so much to the 1
appearance and attractiveness Of
The car.
II was because of this propensity for
1ivining what features appeal TO buyers,
and working them out in the product,
hen personally inspecting every car to
see that its particular buyer got 100 per
cent of beauty and of satisfaction. that
Mr.. Hawes was selected to fill in the
Flanders Group Of specialists, the role
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