The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16

Upwards of 50o.oo motor vehicles are In operation every day in New York city.
 Nebraska has 27 municipal camp grounds along the Lincoln Highway for automobile tourists.
 President Harding was one of the first residents of Marion. O.. to own and operate an automobile.
 The District of Columbia, with 40,- 625 motor vehicles, has 667 cars for each square mile of territory.
 More than 100, 900 persons are now employed in the A automobile and allied factories in Detroit, Mich
 The Canadian Automobile associa- ticn Is backing a project for a trans Csnadia highway stretching from Halifax to Vancouver.
 Havana is called the "city of taxi cabs" as Is shown by the fact that there are 5,6S6 taxicabs and BITS private passenger automobiles there.
 Farm hands, going toward the kansas harvest area, are found to bum" rides by automobile, instead of stealing rides on the railroads.
 The state of New York will re- celye in the next three years au- proximately s2,464.29s from the fed eral government as an aid in the construction of state and county highways.
 Automobile accidents caused the death of 12.500 persons in the United States last year--one death every AZ minutes, day and night-ard more than 30o,000 persons were in- jured
 In New Jersey, motorist was finei $25 for violation of the state law which prohibits one-arm driving Ac- cording to the magistrate, it takes two arms to drive a car properly, and two arms to hold a girl prop erly.
 The total production of new cars in this country last year was ap- prcximately 1,563, ,000. as contrasted with 2,205,0o0 in 1920 and 1878, Ooo in 1919. The estimated production for this year Is 1.s0o,000.
 Manufacturers of clothes are of tie opinion that the motorist needs more suits than the average pedestrian The reason for this Is that the back of the coat and the trousers seat arc constantly rubbing against the up. holstery.
 The Society of Automotive Engi- neers has a membership of 5,530 of all classes, of which 2,759 are graded as active, and 1,579 classified as as- sociate members. The remaining number are distributed in six other classes. '
 All former records of receipts of live stock by truck for one day were broken recently at the Omaha, Neb., stockyards. The final count showed 229 cattle, 46 calves. 2.2e7 hogs and 710 sheep were brought into the yards in trucks.
 When the first set of rubber tires were placed on a carriage in Boston, Mass, 70 years ago, the police ob- jected to the use of the vehicle, be- cause it was claimed that rubber tired vehicles were nuisance and menace to the safety of pedestrians.
 A new system of reducing street &C., cidents has been installed at a street intersection in Los Angeles, Cal. It consists of large elevated circle in the center of the crossing. and is so arranged that motorists must slow down to get around it.
 The first successfully operated au- tomobile in the United States, listed as one of the famous inventions in the Smithsonian institution, Washington, D. C., was recently taken from the museum and sent to K6komo. Ind, where 1t repeated it's original run. made on July 1. 1894
 new automobile fender has been designed and successfully demon- strated in San Francisco. Cal A bumper is so arranged that the igni- tion Is shut off and the brakes ap- piled immediately when the machine hits person. Tn the test. a car go- Ing 15 miles an hour was stopped within two feet.
 A race between an automobile and passenger train is scheduled for July IS between Garden City. Kan, and littleton, Col. distaase of 500 miles. Charles W. Bogart of Garden City will pilot the machine against the Sante Fe Flyer. Permission TO l exceed speed limits is being arranged.
 Taxicab drivers in Atlantic City, | N. J., must dress according to city | ordinance. The law prescribes | "coat collar. necktie and hat or cap" For appearing in charge of ,itney | minus any one of these articles of attire. the driver becomes liable to