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Show AUTOMOBILES THE GREATEST I PAD Of TWENTIETH CENTURY j Automobile Material. Few people realize the- tremendous ciuuntlty of raw material used by a lar automobile concern: nor is this material confined to metals and those materials ordinarily associated with motor cars. To k)vc an Idea of the sizy of this business, busi-ness, the Mn.Nwoll-fcSrlscoc Motor company com-pany is soliciting bids on material for the building of 12,000 cars. Among the articles arti-cles enumerated are 200 tons of aluminum castings. 150 tons of brass castings. The babbit metal that goes Into tho bearings alone is In excess of f0 tons, while thi trass tubing that is used so extensivelv In automobile construction, figures up something liko 126.000 feet or approximately approxi-mately twenty-five miles. In other words, enough tubing will be used on Maxwell automobiles to extend from ew York to Tarotown. The rivets alone will weigh over thirty tons. Nor are the bids confined to metstis. For example. 13.000 hides will bo used for upholstering and trimming. Materials for tops call for over 10.000. vards. Then there Is tho iron and steel of course the biggest factor one ihoiihand tons of steel bars. S00 tons of malleable iron, and so it goes. In special stools, which piny such an important part in the building of an automobile, the Maxwell bids call for fifty tons of chrome nickel steel and fifty tons of nickel steel. These are but a few of the thousand and one different materials which are used In the production or automobiles on a large, scale. Hundred-mile Eaco. A hundred-mile race to n mountain top, each competitor tlrlving an automobile up a winding trail, where, at times climbers, climb-ers, seen from n distance, seem to be clinging to the face of the mountain, Is boing arranged by the motor car enthusiasts enthu-siasts of Los Angoies and southern California. Cali-fornia. The- race will be from Los Angeles -to-North Baldly, the cars running to Fanner's Fan-ner's mine At least a half-dozen entries are expected by hv time for the event, In September, and already Ralph C. Ilnm-lin Ilnm-lin of Los Angeles has entered his Frank-ling. Frank-ling. "Greyhound," which lie will drlvu himself, and has posted the 'rcdulred foi-lelt foi-lelt of ?2."i0. . Hard Run Finished. After a batilo of two weeks with poor ! roads, snow storms and an Iowa blizzard, j and against slush and mud conditions that might be necessary concomitants of I an aulmobllc journey In Siberia, th Sludobaker thirty roadster sent bv thu Denver Post In. the interest of the Denver Den-ver motoring eulhusUisLv arrived In Chicago Chi-cago last Wednesday afternoon. Driver George Smithson and his companion. com-panion. W. II. Eubanks, Jr.. boro an official of-ficial message from the mayor of Denver to 'Mayor bussc of Chicago, as well as the invitation of the Denver Motor club to the Chicago Automobllo club to visit the "mlle-higli" city on the Glldden tour next summer. "The car looks as if lr had been through o brickyard clay-hole' ' remarked re-marked Smithson. "Wo feel ns If we had been on that dash to the south pole. March certainly is a month of hoodoos for automoblllfits. While we did not Intend In-tend to make a speedy schedule In traversing trav-ersing tho route from Denver to Chicago, we would havo been satisfied to make hot lor timo than wo did in the alleged good roads count ry In Iowa." Lucky Automobile. IiiFt about a year ago. Mr. and Mrs. Hover of Hover, Wash., started on a 75,000-mlle automobile trip, in a Truffault-Hartford-equlpped Maxwell. They had crossed ' the North American continent in time to catch the Republic, and 'figure in the rescue of Its passengers and crew by the steamers Florida and Baltic, which came in answer to Jack Blnn's "wireless." Call it luck or what you may, it semn a peculiar coincidence that although Mr f-lnver bad martn nrrAncomontH hofnm sailing on the Republic to huve the car go on the same boat, through what afterward after-ward proved to be a fortunate error, tho machine was loaded by the steamship company oh another boat, and but" for thi3 fact it would have found a watery resting placo In th graveyard of the Atlantic, At-lantic, and this most interesting trip would have had to be abandoned or another an-other machine substituted. As it 13. the car is riow on the other sldc"waitlrg for 1 Mr. and Mrs. Hover, who will sliortly follow and resume their 75.000-mllo Journey, Jour-ney, which will include all the countries of Ruropo and India, China, Australia, the Philippines. Japan and tho Hawaiian islands. isl-ands. Previous to their adventure on thu Republic, Re-public, the Hovers had motored through the Htatea of California, Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebfaskn, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and New York, crossing into Canada at Niagara Falls, notwithstanding that the above itinerary look them across seven mountain moun-tain runges and over miles of traotUss dcserLs. tliii- car stood up well under nil adverse conditions encountered, which they ascribe in a great measure to the Truffaull-IIartford stock absorbers. Mr. Hover has agreed to report to Ai:;o Comfort Com-fort events of unusual interest that occur during his foreign travels, and his reports will appear from lime to time In those pages. Does Not Claim Record. Announcement has Just been made by the K. It. Thomas Motor company that the story of a Thomas Flyer having made a midwinter record between Denver and Chh-ngn, was untrue, as the- following letter will show Mathewson Automobile Co., Denver. Colo., March 1.1, 100?. Mr. 15. L. Thomas- Dear Mr. Thomas It is with regret that I am obliged to write you that I have Just, found out that the Smith run to Chicago Chi-cago with the K 6-70 was not "on tho square." That they shipped the car from Mo. Valley. In., to Clinton, about "00 miles. I got this Information from McDonald, Mc-Donald, who was on the car: this party held ipe up for a Job today and said unless un-less I complied with his demands he would advertise tfio Tact of Smith shipping ship-ping the car. . I was certainly thunderstruck. thunder-struck. Never dreamed that It w;ls not a fair run I have been advertising the run in great shape. Wo have withdrawn nil our dope on this run. as tho Mathewson Auto Co. lias always stood for eloan and fair sports, and wo would not have used this advertising adver-tising If wc had known how this record was made. In Justice to Blanchard. we find that he was very much opposed to shipping the ear. but as Smith was the boss ho had to do as ordered. E L. MATHKWSON. E. L. Thomas, for Iho company, savs: "In Justice to the public and to ourselves, wo are compelled to make this announcement. announce-ment. We have always stood for what is clean and upright In sports, and w feel that the Thomas Flyer can got all that is coming to II. and get It hohestlv, without resorting to ehiennery or underhanded under-handed methods. We advanced the expenses ex-penses of the trip, foaling thnt it would h? carried out to a successful Issue, with the above result." To whom It may corn-em: In order to exonerate the K. K. Thomas Motor company from all blame In connection connec-tion wilh the recent Denver-Chicago run which I made and to show that thev had no knowledge whatever of the fad" that the car wns shipped from Missouri Valley, Val-ley, la., to Clinton. I wish to take this opportunity to slatj? that no member of tho crnw or myself made any mention of the fact, and it was not made known to any member of tho E. It. Thomas Motor company until March 20, and then through a letter from Mr. Linn Mathowson of Denver- Immediately upon learning Iho truth of tho matter, the 15. R. Thomas Motor company com-pany caused a true statement of facts to be published, and I. In mv desire to repair any injury which I hnvo done, hereby pronounce ibis statement to be correct. (Signed) WESLEY SMITH. Buffalo. N. V. Sworn 'to and subscribed (o before mo this 27th day af March. 1009. ARCH IK IRA DRAKE. Notary Public. GrapplorE Matched. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. April .10. Dispatches from London state thnt John Leinm. the ' heavyweight wrestler, has covered a $500 forfeit posted by George llacken-schmidt, llacken-schmidt, the "Russian lion." A meeting meet-ing between the men will be arranged, at. which time the details of the match will bc'completi'd. Lemm is the grap-pler grap-pler whom Frank Gotch refuspd to 'meet when he was in London seeking a bout with llnckenschmidt. |