The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

 GHo l MOTOR DIGEST KA8l

The United States has 2,500,ooo miles of alleged highways.
 Gasoline costs from three to five times as much In Europe as In the United States.
 Between s4o,ooo and sbo,ooo worth of tires are stolen from automobiles every year in New York city.
 Argentina is the only South Amer ican country manufacturing electric storage batteries for automobiles.
 An enterprising automobile dealer In Rochester N. r. has adopted the slogan: Say 1t with motor carl"
 Motorcycling Is hobby of the for mer Crown Prince of Germany. now exiled on the Island of Wierinsen.
 A modern asphalt highway is to be constructed in Italy directly connect ing the city of Rome with Venice.
 The American Road Builders asso- citation Is the oldest and largest or ganization for good roads in the United States.
 It Is estimated that s1o5, GOO, ,o00 will be spent in the United States next year for the construction of public garages.
 One family out of 25o in Europe owns an automobile, as compared with one car for every two or three families in this country.
 Four feet eight and one-ha1f inches is known as standard gauge" and Is generally used In construction of all | modern land vehicles.
 Because of the difficulty In procur- ing suitable horses for artillery work, the war department Is conducting ex periments with motor tractors Legislatures in all the states of New Egland and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland are work. ing on plan of a uniform operators motor license.
 A road distance exceeding 1880 000,000 miles was covered by 420, : 900 automobiles in Canada last year. The number of passengers carried by the vehicles was 252000,000.
 In Indianan there, is a law which makes 1t compulsory for drivers of all kinds of vehicles to make a com ] plete stop at every railroad grade crossing before going over 1t.
 Ninety-four different makes of pas senger automobiles are listed for ex- hibition at the -twenty-second na- tional automobile show in New York city, January ' to IA Nearly 400 cars will be on display.
 Java has no fewer than 1e,o0o au- tomobiles In use. The splendid mili- tary roads of the island are specially suitable for motoring, but the rubber tires are considerably affected by the | climatic conditions.
 Six hundre dthousand persons are estimated to have motored through the mountain park system of Denver 
 Rocky Mountain National park in Colorado aggregated 27S.737
 Percy I. Neel, a pioneer in the auto mobile industry. has the distinction of selling the first automobile in Philadelphia. Pa. in 1899. People laughed and ridiculed Mir. Neel and his "horselcss carriage" when he drove the first machine ever seen in that city.
 A trial of an eight wheel motor bus IS being made in Los Angeles, Cal. The vehicle Is 26 feet long, carries zo passengers and is said to develon speed of 50 miles an hour. The front four wheels in the series are i used for steering. and the rear four wheels for bralSing and driving. i Highway construction work invoiv- Ing an expenditure for good roads amounting to 23,SS5,000 during the coming spring and summer has been autnorlzed in the states of the middle "est-lliinois, Missouri, South Dako- ta' Mlchigan' Colorado. Minnesota, 1nuIana, n Iowa. Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wisconsin
 seattle, Wash, has "Careful Drivers club, and every member car res a metal plate on the rear of his car, similar to the license plate i'm , scribed; Let's drive carefully" The ciuo mas a membership of several thousand and every member not only pledges himself to drive with care