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Show II HHlI Considering the fact that the selling season for ii ' IwBfff 190G machines is practically over, the past week BHjj has heen rather an eventful one for -those inter- I ;' jHWi ested in automobiles. - Still At the beginning of the week the Utah Auto- ;, UK mobile company concluded a deal with the Z. U. 'iT Huf M. I. for two commercial cars of the Oldsmobile ;.?: jgt make. Immediately after this, Charlie Burton SSL traded his old Oldsmobile and a parcel of cash 'i'4' mBh 1 Sharman-Ottinger people for a Moline, and Htt $ In on Tuurstlay the C. W. & M. Co., negotiated the M ' '1 H sale of a forty horse power Rambler, model ' Mm Fifteen No. 9157, the purchaser being E. G-. H 'f H 1 Wooley of the firm of Pollock & Co. BhH ; 831 P. J. Moran's Pierce has arrived at last, Clar- IHE WBn' ence Bamberger's Thomas came in and' all in all m$fj ' sMl.' the first four days of the week put six new cars HH '. Iiffii'; v on tnQ streets of the city. Not a bad record for Hk ' ifiHr the beginning of the dog days, during the month BBjj ,' IT tllG automoljI10 dealers expect to be the poorest in In ;f fflK; The Rambler purchased by Mr. Wooley is the KHI L;'jHHp largest Rambler ever sold in the state, and the HEjl t ', g$ best of the beautiful cars ever brought to this HEj '' '$W gH. city by the Consolidated Wagon & Machine com- Im fl$' It is a powerful four cylinder car, and has with- jjK WBt stood the severest tests put to it by the new lH If' ownor the past week up to the time of the Kl jlfflBl The demonstrations were concluded on Thurs-HB Thurs-HB '-yIhE day of the present week, and Mr. Odell and Mr. Hal ' flRt Wells of the company closed the deal with the Ifi junior member of the brokerage firm. Hmj ' ! 'IlKH If any more of the members of the firm of Pol-Hi Pol-Hi w8b lock & Co., have an idea of spending the summer Bi ' '"Hflff in a motor car, it might be a wise plan to build a fln JEflBf garage annex to the Stock Exchange for the ac-'llflft ac-'llflft commodation of the gasoline cobweb dispellers. rSI ifflBf T11G Zl c M I in Purcliaslns a two an(1 a foUr raj SHS cylinder commercial car is setting the proper pace, Ira 1hH' and before another year it is to hoped that other HffiS IjinBt firms will realize the saving accomplished by de- Kffi rfHft livery wagons without the equine accompaniment. HBjj :' MfflHfr Every day something is added to cause Salt Lake HOI ' IImHk t make a noise like a city, and the presence of nu- ra ' "'JflHB merous motor cars will do more than anything BP ;j IRHf else to accomplish that result. V . f IBB Pat Moran's new Pierce, a beautiful semi- E2, -pjflH limousine, arrived on Wednesday fhe only Amer- RH ican car of this description in the city. HE ' t:flB It is one of the very finest cars turned out by I-IbBb tlie piorce PPlG and the handsome appearance of B i (iH the vehicle has called forth no end of comment, tt! iVnll t runs as smoothly as any of the beautiful Pierce nl it wBBs. machines which is description enough for the per- Hf V'Bhb son who has ridden in one of them. H ' Map The luck of Pat Moran was never better n ' j'WMl demonstrated than in delay of the arrival of his HR InBSI - new car -or tlio day before he started it the last HE J fflH pol was moved from the paved portion of Brigham Hni rflBs No dou1jt Missionary Malcolm's Smoot Organ nfll fHw can see a graft in the delay of the arrival of Mo- HH ? f 9H ran's car, because Brigham street was not entire- Em i wKhh Mrs. E. F. Holmes has been the hostess two or nB HbI three times a week since the cherries got ripe, at Hgaj ' xhhHI delightful motor car parties, with the Holmes sHp country home at Oakwood the destination of her ' JJbHI The Holmes Panhard has been a veritable boon rntnt S' llBp t0 tll0S0 wll yearne(1 to get away from the ther- Motor Motions Charlie Burton's fever got the better of him, and he couldn't stand a last year's machine another an-other minute, so he connected with a Moline. In the meantime, his Olds is doing good service in the rent department. & t & That was a clever purchase of that new Thomas car made by Clarence Bamberger. Upon arriving home from college and finding that his father would not be home for a few days, he immediately telegraphed an order to the Chicago agents of the Thomas company ordering them to send a car immediately by fast freight, the young man know- ing that when the car arrived Bamberger senior would not send it back. The father and the car arrived almost simultaneously, and both of them stayed, so Clarence is sporting a finer car than any of his young friends possess. In the method of purchasing it, too, he has shown every sign o budding genius as a great diplomat. His is the only way of doing the thing if you wish to avoid all trouble and expense, and others might profit by the lesson, providing they had the same kind of a father. & i & , No more will the soul-terrifying undulations of the brazen "resurrection horn" resound through the quiet highways of the Quaker city, says Motor Mo-tor Age. Never again will the Philadelphia equine be scared out of several hands' growth by the sir- h .en's shrieks. For the .city fathers have said it, and the good mayor will no doubt attach his John Hancock to the ordinance and make it law. The siren to the junk pile! The "hank-honk" is good enough for the Quaker. It is a severe blow to the noise-making industry, and tugboat captains ana factory owners are profiting by the bear market. The directors of one of the busy little harbor cratt scooped in a $75 shrieker for $6, and now he warns other vessels away with it. A downtown factory owner made a ten-strike when he put up four sl-moleons sl-moleons for an almost new "agony howler." Ho says hereafter his hands cannot make any mistake as to when work begins at the shop. 6 & Unless the signs fail the mortormaniacs who throw a fit every time they see a machine, will flood the next legislature with the silliest bills that any law-making body ever had to deal with. Every kind of a stricture is contemplated against the freedom of the modern method of travel, from I stopping the use of the chimes on a machine to I four milo speed limits in the country, and electric I signs bearing the number of the car at night. But after the atmosphere is cleared of the mutterings of those who do not happen to take to the motor car, some sensible laws will be made that will serve as a protection rather than a hindrance to the ownor of an automobile. Il H Speaking1 of lights on a machine is there any B reason in the world why vehicles of ail descri'p- B -tions should not carry lights? The age demands B it, and people should protect themselves and B others by some sign of life on the high- B way. It is just as imperative that a buggy, wagon H or any other vehicle have a beacon in front and a B creme de menthe gleam to starboard as it is for an H automobile, and an ordinance to that, effect would H meet the entire approval of every citizen who B drives anything from a golf ball to a Packard. B & & & H The Wolverine Motor Co., of Grand Rapids, H Mich., has perfected an alcohol marine motor H which will be adapted for use in automobiles and B is so constructed that either gasoline or alcohol B can bo used. Several tests with the new motor B have been made and all have proven satisfactory, B says Motor Age. The Danish government has or- B dered eight of the motors for use in its naval B launches, and the Austrian fish commission, in a B report after trying out a number of motors, says B the motor presents none of the difficulties of the B older types. B & & j B AESTHETICS OF THE AUTOMOBILE. B The motor undoubtedly appeals to the ear; un- B fortunately, it too often appeals to the nose;, will B it ever appeal to" the eye? As it is, the eye may B treat it with indifference; for if not a delight it B is not an offence. We are outgrowing the un- B comfortable sense of incompleteness which acar- B riage without a horse or an engine stirred in us at B first. The pioneer motorists, on the box, in the B driver's seat, but with nothing to drive, as it B looked, were common laughing-stock. They , B seemed persons perpetually left, miserable frag- B monts sitting on the-edge qI space; or diners sit- B ting up to the table with no table before them. B In the vulgar way what was now was to all of us B ridiculous. The unaccustomed thing, of course, B must be absurd. Wo had never seen carriages, B without something in front of them; wo made the B mistake of the poor Indian,, who took the Spanish B horse and driver for one animal; a blunder we B had smiled down on with our superior wisdom B for generations; we took carriage and horso for B 0110 thing; or, at any rate, to put it in the way B most favorable to our intelligence, we regarded B the horse as an inseparable accident of a carriage B in motion. Now we are accustomed to a carriage B that moves of itself, and it no longer strikes us B as a thing to be jeered at. But can we regard it B as beautiful? The engineer and the mechanician B may; for beauty to him' is a technical term mean- B ing fitness, perfection. But can the artist ever B make anything of a motor? The attempt in this B year's Academy is not encouraging. That there B really is a deficiency on the beauty side motor- B ists are all of them uneasily conscious. In point B. of beauty the horseless is all loss. They have B always felt this. At the beginning they meet one B in the frankest way. "Show us any form the B motor can take that would look better than the B carriage." And boat-shapes were suggested and B swan-motors and fishes. But fishes and boats on B land would be as bizarre as the self-moving coach; B and swans ashore are not graceful any way. It B could not be done; the horseless carriage had to B be. And it remains; not funny, nor foolish, nor B necessarily ugly, but certahAy no beauty. B Can nothing be done for it? Why not a ilgure- B head? Why not have something pretty, some- B thing that at any rate represents something, in B the place where the beauty of the thing, the horse, B used to be? What goods would it be? Well, no B fiood, to a nan who has no eye. What good was B n figure-head to a ship? Yet for appearance sake B n car wants a figurehead' more than a ship, for B the ship form naturally converges in front to a B beautiful finish. The clumsiest ship, even the homely fishing smack; has none of the unpleasant effect produced by the abrupt, cut off; straight line that makes a motor's front. A motor suffers from having no physiognomy. But every ship, as every locomotive engine, has a distinct physiognomy. physiog-nomy. And a figure-head -would make up for this deficiency in the motor. But figure-heads, somebody some-body may say, were not merely ornamental in ships; they helped description and identification. Precisely, and they would do the same for motors; mo-tors; a consideration which will perhaps appeal more to the public than to the motorist. But think what a field this opens up for heraldry. her-aldry. Arms and crests, which now have none but antiquarian significance, become alive; they might almost be useful. There would be quite good sense in a man's motor carrying his crest as a figure-head. What an opening for the now snob. What glory to be able to mount a life-sized golden eagle contemplating the sun, or rather the clouds in England. Or a golden lion erect rampaging ram-paging fiercely in the air. There is the danger. The. rich cad would so flaunt his figure-head that gentlemen would be shy of showing one. But for once let the decent people hold their own and decline to be pushed off the road by the vulgar hustler. A standard of good taste would grow up and become established. From the point of view of appearance figureheads, figure-heads, artistically wrought and fitted, would be capable of great things. An eagle, wings full-spread, full-spread, a brilliant butterfly, a winged grillln, paradise par-adise bird, Valkyrie; there is room for endless variety of design. The emulation amongst motorists motor-ists would be great. We could have shows of figure-heads. Think of the work for artists to design them; and the industry their making would stimulate. Would they interfere with speed? That should depend on their fitting to the car; they should not. Of course, if a man in his zeal to be conspicuous puts on a colossal golden elephant, ele-phant, his speed will be retarded; but a reasonable reason-able Pegasus, say, with wings drawn back at the right angle to cut the air, would be no encumbrance. encum-brance. Nor need figure-heads be restricted to private motors. What more reasonable than that every motor, company should: have its own- sign?. Cer B tairily there- would be no difficulty in finding apf jflfl figures. Put a rhinoceros head with a terrific B horn on to a motor-'bus and' you have the beast to perfection. Or an elephant's head; the motor B 'bus is a huge earth-shaking- beast, if there was 'H ever one. The boar's head, too, would be qultd jH to the point; and perhaps more than any, the B hippopotamus; or a crocodile. The Saturday Re B |