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Show iljfj The Commercial Travelers who intend to tako M Ogden by Btorm on the eighth and ninth of June jff? have added a great feature to their many stunts Im scheduled for that day. ! With the proper spirit of the times they have jjl'jji . added to their long list of prizes ?200 to be divided into five prizes for an automobile road race to be Hj .''Ai run from this city to Ogden. The machines will I start from the Warm Springs at the same time the IK '''It ' big special train leaves the Rio Grande depot, and 6 'M i. the finish will be at the Ogden depot. Wm . I ',' The prize for the winner of the event will be BR 'r. J ; $100, and the other prizes in the order "in which H ( the starters finish will be ?50, ?25, ?15 and ?10. Hj iP-j ' The race may be seen the entire distance from H " the train, and as it will be the first time such an H v event has taken place in the state, this feature H 1 alone should prove to be worth the money. HI :;,ji I The U. C. T. conducted by the local branch Ijjj; ", No. "81" are making great preparations for the jjj: sauciest event they ever started, and from pres- I ent indications, most everybody in the world will jj.lj f be in Ogden that day. lylf ; Mr. Ralph Edmonds of Idaho Falls and Mr. White of Logan, both purchased Rambler ma- K chines during the week, and the cars were de- ! $3 livered immediately. A third car was sold, but , ; 4 i the name of the owner could not be learned. H The excellence of the Rambler machine, par- .fy- ticularly the standard four-cylinder car, for work ! j on the road in the country districts, has made this p jj I " car very popular on the old star routes where it kjj'! is being used to carry the mails and passengers. j j The busy man in the outlying districts who Is ob- flj . Hged to cover a great deal of country has found a ! special value in this machine. n Mr. George T. Odell of the C. W. & M. Co., has : ; . gone oast to the Rambler factory, his second visit ,y; this spring. He will be away about ten days. !' & u j ,d Mr. Gray, of the Sharman-Ottinger company, , 1ms gone to Butte to close with several autoists f; i who have recently purchased Reos. ijC Hi! The free alcohol bill which passed the senate !p :t on Thursday means a lot to the man with the t 'Mj ' auto. If it is generally used next season in place 'bi'i of gasoline, there will undoubtedly be a large I number of converts join the ranks of the autoists. f ; : J . If a touring car ever carried more passengers HI Hi than did a White steamer on the evening before fij ; ! i' ' ' the centennial hill climb, when it bore 22 officials H ' j and newspaper men from the Wilkes-Barre Auto- 3j ' mobile Club to the Sterling hotel, a distance of H h u over a mile, it is up to its owner to say so, says H ffl l Motor Age. There were four in front, eight in the A II i tonnoau and nine on the running boards, while H jj 1 i Senator Morgan clung to the spring behind. ffi i 1 1 & Bj In The arrest of a number of autoists on Wednes- H Jj ) day for exceeding the four mile speed limit over H 1 jj , ' crossings was merely the result of some senseless H 111' , j agitation through which, it seems, every little city H 'III 1 must pass before people begin to realize that the Hj : auto-driver has a few rights as well as the man H 1 1 . behind a horse or a brat peddling a bicycle. H 4 . j The four cylinder jldsmoblle for Joe Richards H ' ij I arrived during the week. It is a handsome car, R I Si speedy on the road, and the easiest kind of n H I jH rider. The machine was purchased through the H j t Utah Auto Company. ; 'i H j , The well attended meeting of prominent auto K jj I owners at the Commercial Club on Thursday even- H jj i Ing was important in many ways. The meeting I 1 ' -I ' Motor Motions. was primarily called to consider the question of building a roadway to Saltair and Garfield with a-long a-long run along the beach and another skirting the mountains this side of Garfield on the return trip. When completed the road will be one of the finest In the country and with strong men having the project In charge there is little doubt of the ultimate success of the undertaking. The Automobile Club, formerly known as the Salt Lake Auto Club, will be reorganized. This Avas decided at the meeting, and the following officers were named: President, P. J. Hagen-barth; Hagen-barth; vice president, D. C. Jackling; treasurer, Jacob Moritz; secretary, S. H. Sharman; directors, D. E. Burley, Lester D. Freed, C. W. Whitley, H. S. Daynes and Le Roy Snow. A general meeting for all automobile owners will be called two weeks from tomorrow to which Lester Freed, When Arrested all owners aro invited Irrespective of membership in the club. A strong sentiment was expressed against scorching. $ 1$ Nothing more clearly showed the increase in the number of automobiles than the grounds of Belmont Park at the Metropolitan last week, says the New Yorker. One used to associate the four-in-hand with racing, but ten miles an hour is not fast enough now and the auto has come to stay until the airship era. A correspondent of the Herald had the curiosity to count the cars and their makes. His table is interesting. Make of the Cars. By actual count, the makes of machines on the grounds were represented as follows: Foreign Cars. Panhard 27 Martini 3 Mercedes 24 Hotchkiss b L Rochet-Schneider .. 12 Decauville 2 Renault 12 Darracq 2 De Dietrich .: 11 Braiser 2 0. G. V 8 Clement 2 Fiat 6 Bianchi l Bolee 6 Berlich 2 Mors 4 English Daimler ... 4 Total 131 Total selling price, ?1,048,000. - Domestic Cars. Packard 17 Columbia 4 Pope-Toledo 14 Autocar 3 Thomas 12 Franklin ;. 3 White 11 Pope-Hartford- 3 Locomobile 10 S. & M. Simplex ... 3 Pierce 8 Stevens-Duryea .... 3 Ford .". G Reo 3 Winton G American Mercedes 3 Peerless 5 Miscellaneous 27 Royal 5 , Rainier 4 ' Cleveland 4 Total 154 Total seling price, ? 402,000. L I' j From Left to Right Covey's National, Crowthers' Reo, W. B. CoveyV National, Baby Reo, Pollock's Pierce, Jackling's Rochet-Schneider, Eiler's p Pierce, Burley's Pierce, and Sharman's Reo An Omaha girl was killed ty a train while I? singing: "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven." The )y train was exonerated. , i . A Washington dispatch says: "Senator La Fol- . lette acted with the Democrats." Now, if we only i knew how the Democrats act we would be better j;; able to decide whether to applaud or condemn the , senator, jj.jj,' A St. Petersburg Item says the Czar graciously j1 allowed Goremykin to write down the names of. the new cabinet members. Perhaps his imperial majesty did. not know how to spell them. Henry James told a reporter that the Boston Public library was practically without a pentralia, and when the attention of the library board was, called to the matter it promptly rebuked the librarian li-brarian for his carelessness and instructed him to at once secure the necessary copies of the work. A Philadelphia bibliologist has figured It out that Naomi, daughter of Enoch, was 580 years old when she married, but this will not fan into new flame the dying ember of hope in the breasts of the thousands of year-laden maidens of the land who are yet as giggling girls compared to the biblical bride. William Jennings Bryan has written to a St. Louis friend that he will not be a candidate foi the presidency in 1908 "unless the situation demands de-mands It." This put it squarely up to the situation. |