The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
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| MOTOR EXHAUSTS
Matters ofinteresttomotor car
and motorcy Gle owners inTopeka
and Kansas.
Do you know that:

Do you know that:
There are approximately 2,235, 900
automobiles in use in the United
States at this time.
The increase is at the rate of 7oe,-
900 cars each year.
There are $4,000 people in the
United States enjoying the pleasures
of the auto.
The approximate cost of gasoline
consumed makes total of
$145, 100000.
The cost of lubricating oil, taking
as an average II gallons per car per
year, at an average of SO cents per
gallon, approximates $19,00O,0O0.
That an average of four tires per
car totals $4,000 tires used annu-
ally. Set SIG as the cost of each tire,
the total bill for rubber amounts to
$143, 100000.
That the total approximate cost of
insurance on all these cars is over
100000.
Using $3.50 as the average cost fig
ure OF each car, the total figure for
new cars this year reaches the huge
sum of $525, 100000
Totaling the entire automobile ex-
pense each year, the sum of $685.
$4,000 is arrived at as the money
spent for the pleasure of motoring
has bought a Paige Six touring car
from the Palace Auto company.
Promoters of automobile speed
ways throuehout the country who met
in New York City have drafted a ten
tative racing schedule for next season
Nine cities were represented and the
sport of motor racing was put on a
more systematic basis than ever be-
fore.
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as follows: New York, May 10, Sep
TENDER 80; Indianapolis, May 80. Sep
TENDER Is; Chicago, June IT, Octo-
Der %; Des Moines, June 2S. Sep
TENDER 4; Minneapolis, July a; Sioux
City, July A; Omaha, July 49, Octo-
Der z; Tacoma, August 5; Providence.
September 16; Elgin road race, Au-
gust IS and 10.
Horses are to be chased off the
streets of st. Louis to make way for
the motor. After a detailed investi-
cation of traffic conditions on Locust
street, one of the main thoroughfares
of st. Louis and on which almost half
OF the motor car and accessory bust
ness of the city is done, the director
of streets has recommended to the
board OF police commissioners that
the use of horse drawn vehicles be
Eighteenth street.
w. G. Tenant, of the Tenant
Oakland company, tells an interesting
story about a man without hands who
drives a sixty-horsepower Oakland
roadster. People who think they can
not do things because they have not
all the faculties someone else has can
learn a lesson from Frank E. Fithen
who is an enthusiastic automobile
driver. He drove his car from Los
Angeles to Phoenix a few days ago
and is now on his way to his home at
S%1.,I \ H. Il
old Santa Fe trail, but will probably
take a day off and run UP to Topeka
on his trip
Both of Fithen's arms are cut off
his car over the toughest roads, at
tanning sometimes a speed of fifty
eight miles an hour.
The constituent company of the
new Chevrolet Motor company, it is
stated, shows earnings in he year
ended August IA last, of 1865, 900,
which is equivalent to AS per cent of
this capital stock outstanding. Cur
rent earnings are at the rate of ST.
100000 per annun, or 12h per cent
on the capital stock of $2o.ooO,000.
The durability run from Kansas
City, Mo-, to Garden City and return
will leave Kansas City Monday morn
ing of next week, arriving in Topeka
at $50 a. m Word was received here
today by the West Motor company
and a delegation will be outside the
city to meet the visiting auto men, The
route includes Lawrence, Topeka, st.
Marys, Manhattan (where stop for
luncheon will be made), Junction City,
Abilene, Salina for the night. On
Tuesday the cars will go from Salina
to Wichita, via Garden City and Kins-
ley. The durability run entries on
Thursday will return to Kansas City
via the Santa Fe trail as far as En-
Uoria and then TO their destination by