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Show f I Motor Motions l.. ! H When the automobile buslnens of a city H fj leaches that stage when In twelve weeks two H l hit ndied cars have been sold and delivered to H 3! local buyeis; when two-thirds of the dealers with H nj four months more of summer before them, have H been advised by ono or more of the manufac- H i tureis they represent that they have received the H (! last cars they can get this season; and when at H jj. least two agencies in town have had to return to H n prospective motor car buyers deposits placed for H new cais, Isn't It reasonable to believe that H that city presents a Held for the automobile busl- H ness without parallel in the inter-mountain west? H Tlris is the condition that now prevails in Salt H Lake. Three of the largest agencies in town have M been forced to send firm members to the cast m this month to beg, threaten, and plead for cars, M cars they have already sold and received pay- m ments on. A half dozen disappointed buyers will M bear eloquent testimony to their unsuccessful ef- H forts. H It is a peculiar situation, and one, of course, H that is to be regretted In a great many ways, for M a heavy percentage of Salt Lake motor enttiu- M siasts who planned on running new cars this sum- B mer, will have to get along with their old ones M or with none. As indicative of the importance of m the city as a selling and automobile distributing M center for Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyo- M . ming, western Colorado, and the northern parts H of Arizona and New Mexico, it Is extremely bene- m ficial, and cannot but help influence the establish- M ment here of agencies for those makes of cars M which, are not at present represented on local M, motor row. There is room enough for every one M and with the realization of the city's geographl- fl cal and railroad advantages as a distributing point M for business in the states named, the new agen- B cies must como. M The demand for motor cars Is country wide, M this year, and the thickly populated eastern and H southern states are, In the very nature of things. H taking the call on cars from the manufacturers. H There are plenty of cheap cars to be had. It Is H the high-grade machines that cannot be secured. H Factories are working night and day. W. P. Dodd H of the Randall-Dodd company returned early in H the week from a ten days' visit to the Thomas H and Buick factories. "We are simply up against H It in common with the agents of every other high- grade car in the country," lie declares. "The Thomas factory is working night and day and can not begin to fill the orders pouring in. It Is tre same with the other eastern manufacturers. The Buick company is turning out ninety complete automobiles every twenty-four hours, and even at that rate they make no promises to agents for delivery of cars.' Mr. Dodd brought back with him two 70 horse power 6 cylinder Thomas Flyabouts, and a 4-GO touring car. He will be able to get very few cars from the Thomas factory this season despite the fact that Ills company is one of tLe strongest Thomas agencies In the entire country. In and out of Salt Lake, two causes are primar'ly responsible for the unlooked-for and unprecedented unprecedent-ed demand for motor oars this summer. The better bet-ter and more optimistic feeling in business circles, the renewed confidence of business men in the better class of enterprises, and the release of money that has been tied up the past two years, is one cause. Where for sixteen or eighteen months men have thought best to retrench in the matter of heavy personal expenditures, expendi-tures, they are now experiencing a sort of moral reaction, that is finding expression with about four-fifths of them in "Let's buy an automobile." The other reason Is the great improvement on practically every automobile on the market over the models of the past two years. Speed, durability, durabil-ity, and comfort have been added to almost every make of machine, with no increase in price, and In a majority of cases, a decided decrease. It will be a big summer locally for those lucky enough to have secured their new cars or who are running last season's autos. The roads are in fifty per cent better condition than ever before. And in tills connection, the announcement made by the management of Saltalr that they will immediately start work on an automobile road from the lake to Garfield, is interesting and significant. It is something that has long been needed, and with the number of machines that are in commission at present, such a road would prove a boon to about two thousand Salt Lakers. The drive from the city to Garfield is one of the best in the county, coun-ty, and from Garfield to the lake would be a splendid splen-did run. The reorganiaztlon of the Automobile club of Utah ten days ago was accomplished with few hitches. The directors chosen for one year are C. A. Qulgley and J. B. Jennings, Salt Lake; C. J. Humphreys, Ogden; E. P. Bacon, Logan. The two-year teim men elected are Samuel New- W (house, Frank J. Westcott and O. W. Powers, Salt S, Lake; M. S. Browning, Ogden; E. S. Ruffner, r. Piovo. I The only contest was between J. B. Jennings and Dr. W. F. Beer for director, Jennings winning by a vote of 24 to 7. The total number of votes cast was 31. The board of directors will appoint the president, vice-president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and various committees. com-mittees. It has been rumored that during the past few months, dissensions have arisen In the club that have for a time threatened its existence, and there is little doubt but wha the repors were true. The directors that have been elected, however, how-ever, number some of the oldest automobile owners own-ers in the citv, men who have the interest of the game at heart, and may bo depended upon to do the square thing in all cases, and possess the executive ex-ecutive ability necessary to the successful culmination culmi-nation of the plans formed by the club for pushing push-ing the good roads movement throughout the state, and constructing a special speedway from the city to Saltalr. There is no reason now why the club cannot take its place as one of the influential in-fluential and important motor car organizations in the west. Portland, Son Francisco, Los Angeles, An-geles, Tacoma, Boise, and Denver clubs are thriving thriv-ing and making good along a dozen different i lines. The road races, endurance, hill climb- j ing and speed contests they ilvave held already ffi this spring, averaged up splendidly with the better bet-ter class of motor events in the east. Salt Lake is a year behind these cities in arousing public Interest In-terest in automobillng,, and it Is time an active campaign was instituted to popularize the sport more widely in Utah. Saturday, June 10, will be a great day in Portland Port-land motor circles. On that date 10,000 visitors to the rose festival carnival, and hundreds of lacing adherents will gather at the track to witness wit-ness the contest for the ?500 Wemme cup a 100 miles, and two other events of 50 miles each. Naturally Nat-urally enough, the principal event will be the , 100 mile road race for the Wemme cup. Among the drivers will be Soules of the Stearns team; i Murray Bates, winner of the 150-mile race at Los ' H. The Tennis Courts at the Salt Lake Country Club and some of the Moving Pictures i Angeles in a Locomobile; Messer in a lazier, ami ! Fred Dundee driving a White steamer. Assur ances have been received from the manufactureis of the Buick that Strang will be on hand. Three thousand dollars will be expended on the race course. It will be resurfaced, swept, oiled and rolled in ample time to insure the fast- est time possible, and put in such condlton that U the liability of serious accidents will be at a min- i imum. Work will soon commence on a grand stand to seat 10,000 people. The roads will be ! closed to traffic at 11:30 o'clock in the morning and the race will start promptly at noon. The governor gov-ernor has promised a detail of 200 national guardsmen to patrol the course, thereby lessening the possibility of accidents. At Los Angeles for the ilrst time In the history of automobile racing in the west, six-cylinder six-cylinder cars are to be pitted against each other on a circular track. Three cars, entered In the six-hour automobile race at Ascot Park hace made better than sixty miles an hour on the course, the Franklin "Greyhound" with Ralph Hamlin as driver, the Lozier, entered by Marsh & Fennimore, and the National "Six" entered by the National Motor Car company. A big fight is on in Los Angeles headed by Leon T. Shettler, a prominent motor enthusiast of that city, for a repeal of the speed ordinances in force at present in the city, of the angels. Car owners in the California town have long protested protest-ed against the ordinance, and a protective association asso-ciation has been formed of the majority of owners own-ers in southern California. The city prosecutor and chief of police of Los Angeles have stated i ' that they will enforce the present ordinances un til they are repealed. The owners declare that ,, If they do, they may as well hire storage space for their cars until the trouble blows over. They claim there isn't an automobillst, no matter how good an operator, or how careful Is he, that can travel for one hour on the congested districts of Los Angeles without Infringing the speed laws many times. Local Salt Lake owners will probably prob-ably send up a protest before the season Is over if the authorities attempt to rigidly enforce the local regulations. And, by the way, it would be a good thing to remember, gentlemen of the speed mania, that you are now up a.galnst a two hundred pound policeman on a motor cycle. The council has purchased Officer Grundvlg a three hundred dollar cycle, and the only reason you have not seen him the past week is the fact that he has spent the most of his time on two or fnl three secluded and smooth roads down the fflfl county, finding out haw fast he can go on the jM thing. For your information, also, It can be Jfll stated that given a right of way behind your llfl car on any paved street in town, and lie'll get fflflfl your number without a bit of trouble. Of course, ' u, dealer with a prospective buyer in his car can M affoid to take Brlgham street and one or two hills ' around town at forty-five miles an hour and take M (Continued on pago 32) M M (Continued from pago 20) H the chance of being pinched; for if the prospect H is favorably enough impressed with the speed H and hill climbing abllties of the car as a result H of such a spn, and buys, the ten or fifteen dollar H fine won't make very much difference to Mr. H Dealer. However, with the average owner, one H or two fines of this nature a week will be apt H to add considerable to the up-keep and main- H tenance of his machine, if fines can be rightly Hl charged to that account. So the hunch, is, if you H see a large, heavy-set man with light hair, on a I motor jycle looming up in your wake, your safest course is to come down to eight miles an hour and get together the best line of talk at your command for the cop when he pulls up alongside. The taxlcabs put In service here earlier in 'i the spring are giving excellent satisfacton, and it Bi is understood a move is on foot to organize a B,. regular taxicab company. Seattle has a splen- 9B'' didly equipped taxicab concern, and a taxicab IK' company has just been Incorporated ut Portland H. ' with a capital of $25,000. |