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Show 1 III SPEEDWAY 1-. Ml SALTLAKE RS H Race Course Will Extend From 9 This City to Saltair H OVER 700 MACHINES ARE ORDERED FOR 190S H Public Deinand Now Caters to B Light Cars for Evcry- H. Day Use. Tho development of the antoiiiobilo jjVX industry has been so remarkable in its ,K rapidity that one is apt to wonder whero its future advances are to be made. From the conception to its pres-cnl, pres-cnl, perfection the evolution of the nuto-mobile nuto-mobile has occupied scarcely a decade. jBjj The crystallization of type has been 'H -wonderfully rapid and wonderfully in. SH lelligcnt. The varieties of cars today t9j seem at first glance to cover every need. TLk. Thero is the heavy, tremendously pow-s pow-s B' cru- car or extended touring. There l ' if "s "',G mc,uni sized, medium priced car ,c for less ambitious travel. There is the is fj low-priced car that is intended to ap-h ap-h peal to tho masses a cur that is cs-n cs-n tcntially for commercial and limited l-rc.Jtnad use. Of each hind, thero are tour ing cars, runabouts, town cars, limous-!IK limous-!IK incs and landtiulets. Tho classes are so 'H distinctive that one can inevitably place jm each malic in its class without hesita-M hesita-M tion. The high-priced touring cars aud Ht limousines are marked by tho most at-sB at-sB tractive refinements; the medium-priced 1BF cars are almost as ambitious in power W equipment, but less elaborately finished: ';H the low-priced cars arc crude, suggest-iwt suggest-iwt ing utility, obvious!- to supply a pop-glm pop-glm ular demand. v 4I0 Between the three classes the gulf is ilX. .aso marked, so wide, that none have yet UT - SHrr.eBsfulIy bridged' it. Yet. does it not 'BT seem logical to supposo some one will'7 Mt Whv would not a small car as well aW ; made,' as well finished as the best eup-HJt eup-HJt ph' an obvious need? Take the owner of" the high-grade car, who invests from .5000 to $10,000 in a machine of homo or foreign manufacture, lie has a ? large car capable of carrying seven 5rS I passengers, long distances, at high speed. Tt is built for such touring to S meet extraordinary demands. JIc is Zj i willing and able to pay generously for r these things. But ho has to bring his M car into the citj-. Car Is Failure il Here he tries to use it for a mulli-'m mulli-'m tude of other purposes, and he finds it A uiiadnpled for them its extraordinary i strength anVr" tremendous power are .un necessary and its excessive speed is a t handicap. Ever' time ho takes it in aud out of congested traffic hq runs an unwarranted risk. On a slipper' ! itrcot pavement its weight is a constant , source of danger. Its skidding nceessi- I tatca running on low gears, frequent application of brakes and many gear changes, and involves great waste of tires- UaHi trip means a damage to tho car. a racking of its mechanism, injury J to brakes and gears and unusually large expenses. The result is the majority of owners quit using tho car and have L recourse to taxicnb or trollcj'. 1 Were a light car made of tho best ;t )ff juMojis, finished in the best stylo and 'designed to be as good as the first- tajl ft class machine, .would it not supply a ejl I need? Would noL it occupy the snmo all relation to the heavy touring car and I l limousine as the light cob does to tho n heavy harness horse'? Would it not bo tm' used by the owner of the high-grade car, as a matter of sensible economy, 'llh as well as by the motorist of moderate means who "is offended by the gross-tncss gross-tncss of the many cheap cars? There tSSffr'' ;i.ro some who are working along these JWfr lines, and the promise is that they will liB succeed. (Mi Tt is in lino with the recent tendency in Europe, whero tire expense has dc-mantled dc-mantled a readjustment of the old con- rnM ditions. ''jM Saltair Speedway. 'BKv The people of Salt Lake City have jr ..?uuo automobile crazy. At the present, ft lf ifcime there aro over seven hundred ma-i ma-i Hiiics in uae and the dealers report ifvJ that easily that uumbcr of automobiles alal have been ordered for the spring of I A Salt Lake automobile club has been SH I organised for tho benefit of those own-Mi own-Mi ing machines and to make a. fight for good roads. The most important move II of tho club is the proposed speedway it intends to build along tho Saltair jH tracks. This speedway will be a straight mm rtrcteii of thirteen milos of good bal-H bal-H lasted road, soaked with oil to keep BH down tho dust. There will be no crosa H loads on it and automobiliats may speed H to their hearts' content along tho BHI course. J?oad vaccs will be promoted on BM all big bolidays, as well as bioyclo ami road races, ami tho drivo will provo H one of the most beautiful in tho coming comi-ng try for racing. |