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Show w THE "JACKSON" WINS AT PORTER HILL. The Jackson cars made a good showing at the Cleveland Automobile Auto-mobile Club's annual hill climb held at Porter Hill on the 13th inst.. winning the stock touring car $850 to $1250 race, the stock runabout 3 and roadster $1250 to $2000, and took third place in the stock run- 1 about and roadster for cars from $2000 to $3000 and the race for I cars weighing from 1432 to 2204 pounds. '1 1 I'arney Oldfield declares that he has not quit the racing game, I and as proof of his decision to stay in the game has ordered two new racing cars. Harney declares that the only injuries he ever received that amounted to anything was while he was driving a j touring car. and that the race track lias no terrors for him. In fact it is his meat and drink. The papers have had Barney scared out of the game time and again, but he insists that he enjoys the sport and will stick to it to the end of the chapter. A bridal tour in an automobile from coast to coast is being taken by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. McDonald of Butte. Mont., who are 1 on their way from San Francisco to Xew York. From the latter i city thev will sail for Europe for a motor tour of the continent. ) Presumably as a matter of economy, the kaiser has been selling off his horses and buying more automobiles, of which he now has 19. Gasoline buggies are finding a large and steadily increasing sale in the middle west among farmers, who find their motors useful for supplying power for many purposes. Twenty-one of the 52 automobile manufacturing concerns which were operating in 1902 in the United States are still doing business. ail(l there are now nearly 200 manufacturers all told. |