Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-09
AUTO CLUE STARTS CAMPAIGN
OF ROAD-MAKING NEAR CITY
Local Organization WIN Entire Countryside With Sign
posts-Five-dag Motor Tour Planned for July--350-Nae
Race Announced for Sbeepshead Track

vlJing cut-ratc auto rides. and cheats
tho undertakcrs; while folks throw out
their liver pills and dope for other bad
air Ills and break the curc-all fakcrs For
air at 30 miles an hour. forced In our
lungs by onGine power, beats all the
blamed physicians; good ozone, plus a
/ jitncy bus, may make the railway mag
/ mates cuss. out heals our dispositions.
THE family don their opera wraps
disdain to hang on street car straps. and
signal for motor; when mother goes to
/ do her shopping, street cars pass her
: without stoppng-iitnev buses tote her.
/ The Riddles visit movies now, piled In
! some wheezy motor scow their hearts
aglow with pleasure, while father lights
a big cigar steps in a passing jtney car
and goes to lunch at leisure The funny
papers turn their wit upon the pleasure
giving jit, to help MI up 'colvum, but
jokestcrs write their funny rhymes and
stll dig up their unspent dimes to swell
the jltney's volume The traffic cop
whose stately arm once shielded passing
folks from harm, Is driven nearly frantic,
and wishes with a sultry oath that jitney
cars and drivers both were deep In the
Atlantic. Directors OF street railway lines
advise the use of heavy fines and grasp
IN CONSERVATION when Mr. Common Peo-
pie seems quite satisfied with gas ma
chimes for rapid transportation. The
world do move poet said the world
has moved, The poets dead. but let's not
be surprised II coming back when Ga
brlel blows we find the worlds wiped
out its woes by being jitneyized."
Motorcar racing will be revived In the
East with 35O-mile race on the Sleeps
head Bay Speedway on october 2. This
announcement was made by Everard
Thompson, manager Of the new speed
way, upon his return from the Indian
apolis contest with the working force
increased to 1900, the construction Of the
Sheepshead track is progressing with such
rapidity that the management is now I
confident that II will be completed by
September ! on schedule time The work. /
men have finished a mile and "A quarter
of the concrete foundations and a quar-
ter of mile of the board surface. The !
boards have been dipped in creosote. /
Foundations for the grand stand are /
being put in and the steel is on its way.
Philadclphians were Interested in the !
appointment of Paul Smith as sales man
ager of the Chalmers Motor Company. |
Mr. Smith was at one time engaged i'm
the automobile business in this city. and .
has made frequent visits here since leav-
ing town to take charge of the sales de-
partments of Detroit automobile factories.
Work on the new Hudson headquarters,
being erected at Broad and Vine streets
for the Gomcry-Schwartz Motorcor Com
pany, is progressing rapidly. The build
ing will he eight stories high. Of steel and
reinforced concrete, with a terra-cotta
front. 1t is expected that it will be ready
for occupancy about Nocember l.
The latest of the Flights" to arrive in
town Is the Hollier, which L. f. French
is displaying at his showrooms