Show 5 S Pikes Peak has been climbed by a motorcycle Motorists at Stamford Conn have organized an automobile club dub Pittsburg soon frill have hare a squad of policemen mounted on motorcycles In Alabama a bill has been introduced compelling to stop upon meet meetIng meetIng meeting Ing horses An automobile parcels post delivery service has been established at Chicago C with two deliveries daily dail dailA A bill has been introduced in tho the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state assembly to tax motor boats navigating Inland waters 1 a year There is a bill before the Rhode Is Island Island Island land legislature to limit the speed of ot automobiles on all highways to fifteen miles per hour Two PhiladelphIans who used another mans automobile without his permission were each given six months Imprison Imprisonment imprisonment ment The S oiled macadam pavements of or fir Riv Riverside RI Cal Ca are said to have been ser seriously serIously injured by gasoline dripping from automobiles To the present date 1170 lliO patents on motor vehicles have been granted bythe United States patent office not including Including includIng ing patents on tires Horse owners and motorists of Mont Montclair Montclair clair N J have combined interests and organized the Montclair Riding Driving and Automobile club The automobile record from New York to Boston recently was reduced more than an hour the new time being four fourteen fourteen fourteen teen hours and thirty minutes Savannah probably will raise the speed limit to fifteen miles per hour The newly elected mayor and most of ot the aldermen are motorists The German Imperial Automobile club has haa seven life members 1100 ordinary members H nonresident members and 34 31 lady members An effort Is being made to induce the postoffice department to place such signs on country roads as will prevent tour tourists tourists tourIsts from becoming lost Very Ver few motorists can drive their cars carsto carsto carsto to the best advantage and one of the moet common mistakes is to operate the throttle and ignition levers lev s too rapidly So efficient Is la the motor car proving In the great treat desert of Sahara that the camel as aa a means of travel for tourists at least seems doomed to extinction Many motorists who find the rails of ofa ofa a B street railway provide a smooth path forget that the oil and grease which ac accumulates accumulates accumulates cumulates on them means short life for tires Urea The Indiana legislature has a bill pro providing providing providing viding a fine ne 50 53 to be e imposed upon any person convicted of throwing a brok broken en bottle or other glass on the high highway highway highway way Rusia seems about to become a coun country country country try for automobilists A show will be beheld beheld beheld held at St Petersburg June Tune 1 to 17 under the patronage of Grand Duke Michael the czars brother If there Is la a leak In the cylinder and there Is la no sound of hissing around the sparking plug when the starting handle Is turned the leak probably Is in the exhaust valve or the piston rings machines Italian French German and Swiss have been entered for tha Targa Florio road race with which Italy will open the season on April 21 The first prize is In order that New York state high Jas may arty be furnished with substantial signboards Superintendent of State Prisons Collins has arranged to supply them from Clinton prison One who has tried declares that the addition of from Crom 20 SO to SO 10 3 per cent of molasses to the water makes as good an solution as glycerine and water and It is much cheaper Pennsylvania automobilists are fight fighting fighting fighting ing In the courts a n peculiar law which allows costs of trial to be assessed against them even when acquitted of charges of ot violating the speed laws lawa lawsIn lawsIn lawaIn In trying out candidates for tor appoint appointment appointment ment meat as bicycle policeman at New York only the men who could catch Police Commissioner power automobile were given positions on the force The popular Idea that Russia is not pro provided provided vided with improved roads Is a myth It is not so favored as France in this respect but her highways s are equal to those of the eastern states of this coun country country country try Motor wagons with a capacity of a little more mere than a ton are being used to transport freight In a sec see section section tion of ot the Congo Free State They probably will be used throughout that portion of Africa The Interurban electric railway com corn companies companies panics are fighting the bills before the legislatures of Connecticut and Massa Massachusetts Massachusetts to permit the building of a high highway highway highway way exclusively for fox motor vehicles be between between between tween New York and Boston first motor bus now Is Ia running regularly The company owning It will operate thirty on Broad street the th longest paved street in the world from which streets cars are barred and will give rides of about seven miles for 5 6 cents The town council of Glen Echo Md Id has raised Its auto speed limit from six sixto sixto sixto to twelve miles an hour as aa a result of efforts of f the automobile clubs of Bal Balmore Balmore Balmore more and an l Washington and owners of ot cars ears carsin earsIn in other sections of Maryland A Denver man has been granted a pat patent patent patent ent on an Invention to provide a com corn compensating device which will permit both or all of 0 the ground wheels to be power driven while allowing them free move moe mente so that they can be run ahead of ot the applied power The French tire makers like the au automobile automobile automobile builders seem determined to in invade invade vade trade the American market The head of one of the biggest concerns has announced his intention to establish a factory in inthis Inthis Inthis this country and has formed a company with capital for tor the purpose A bill has been introduced in the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York legislature to prohibit tim the use of any car on the public highway of ot more than twenty horsepower While the measure is absurd and will be killed when Its lt time comes comas It shows thaws the motorists how ho radical the feeling is growing against them themA A patent has been granted to a Swiss covering the novel construction n of a car which Is steered by the feet and designed for one person only The vehicle is of such small dimensions It can pass through doors of ordinary width and be carried upstairs and stored In the attic when not in use Another bill before the Massachusetts legislature aimed to restrict automobilists privileges forbids any person erect erecting erecting erecting ing a garage In a town of over without first procuring a permit from the selectmen of the town or in a a city of more than that size without first obtain obtaining obtainIng ing lug a board of health license The General Automobile association of ot France Is considering a plan to hold a number of ot competitions for devices pre pro preventing preventing venting theft of automobiles enabling drivers to see what passes behind them and enabling drivers to hear vehicles approaching from the rear A first prize prin of francs is to be awarded In each competition The woman motorist who would be dressed for all sorts of weather conditions must have five different costumes costume a satin rubberized coat for rainy weather a full length ulster for touring and windy wind weather driving in the city a long cloth clot coat for shopping a heavy fur tur for all around winter use and a water waterproof waterproof waterproof proof leather coat for winter touring pur purposes purpose purposes poses pose M L Faroux a French statistician who Is i regarded as the supreme authority on automobile matters says that about motor cars have hare been manufactured d din in the nine years since the experiment of vehicles first succeeded These machines sold for more than Jl 1 Until a year ago France led now the United States has taken the lead Professor Lucke of Columbia university university sity who has been working In the Inter Interest interest est Cat of the government recommends that when the use of ot alcohol becomes general genera motorists should fit two tanks to their cars so 50 that gasoline g and alcohol may maybe ma mabe maybe be run alternately obviating any risks of failure until they become thoroughly familiar with the peculiarities of the new fuel Philadelphia are carrying car carriage carriage carriage whips to use against boys who In Infest lest fest the suburban roads and shoot brans and peas at them through blowpipes This looks like Innocent sport port but the speed of the rapidly moving car added to that of the flying missile permits the latter to Inflict injuries which always are painful and which In several cases have proven serious Many drivers driers have a habit of approach approaching ing railroad crossings when the gates are down at a slow rate of ot speed with the high gear in the pace of their cars down by b throttling the engine It Itis ItIs Itis is very dangerous to do this because a u slight accidental jostling by a passenger on the front seat might easily disturb the gas control with the result that the machine might easily be sent crashing into a passing train It Is far better to throw out the clutch and allow the car carto carto carto to come coma to a complete stop than to take such chances t |