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Show I l i Motor Motions. I s, 1 One indication of .tlfo broadening influence of fl: t the automobile was'show'n in the 'experiment made WP, by the chief of police, the city judge and the pros ?y ;j ecuting attorney during the week, iu order to es- ,, -, tablish a new ordinanbo relative to the speed of ) automobiles in the city limits. ;;- : They rode about the city in a number of mrt- :;:'( chines of different makes tosting the different speeds and the ability of the drivers to stop in an , ,'!! emergency and as a result the ordinance which now , " allows a speed of "eight miles an hour, with four '! fniles over crossings will probably be revised to -ead fifteen miles an hour and six miles over brossings, all of which goes to show that even ' j officials may become civilized. This move for the i - autoist will be greatly appreciated by the army ; ,1 j)f owners, who according to some journals appear ' to- have no rights whatever. The present ordi nance is absurd, and a mail might ,betterrwalk than pbey it to the letter. ) J. J. Daly's 190G Winton arrived from San Fran- " cisco on Thursday and is a beauty being enameled j ; in that popular shade of blue seen in so many ma- i j hines this season. This is the machine that was confiscated by the government to assist at the time of the 'Frisco disaster, but apparently it is none the worse for a little unusual wear, and its value as a souvenir as well as an automobile' ought to Increase its in-K in-K irinsic worth two-fold. E. H. Harriman has paid his chauffeur $500 to ; forget the habit of smoking, and as soon as the fact becomes generally known among those M - drivers who are in tho employ of rich owners . I there will probably be a united conspiracy to smoke everything in sight from hop to tea leaves in a desperato effort to make the man they are driving for do the same thing. jt The two Popes for the Hazen-Falrview stage line arrived a week ago and were shipped from here Monday. They will greatly lessen the time between the S. P. junction and this newest of the Nevada boom camps. Of the forty cars entered for the Grand Prix, which is the biggest automobile raco of the year, in Europe, not one is an English or American make. One no longer sees the atmosphere full of heavy smoke from the exhaust tubes and mufflers, nor do modern motor-cars oil the roads by their drip as much as they formerly did, says the current Cosmopolitan. All this is largely- due to the use of mechanical, positive feed lubricators which not only oil in correct quantities to each separate bearing, the amount of oil, of course, varied in exact ratio to the speed of tho motor, and the supply stopping automatically as soon as the motor stops. Hence there is no waste, the oiling being out of the driver's control, the smoke nuisance is abolished, a great saving of oil is made, and last but not least the car is, not so liable to come to a stop owing to sooty spark plugs. & $i & Samuel Newhouse has changed his touring Pope, which arrived here in April, for a Pope-Toledo Limousine, which is to be delivered in July. The new car is a $5,000 affair capable of doing wonders both in speed and seating capacity. Mr. S. H. Sharman, who has just returned from the east advises that from all observations there will be practically no 190G cars available in another an-other week or two. This general statement includes in-cludes all high class machines, which certainly speaks, wonders for the business In this country. Six Reos were shipped two day ago, and Mr. Sharman's trip east was primarily for the purpose of getting more cars. Possibly more will arrive later. Jim Jennings has purchased a Reo. George T. Odell, general manager of the Consolidated Con-solidated Wagon & Machine company left Thursday Thurs-day night for Snake River Valley, Idaho, and different dif-ferent branch houses north of there. He will return re-turn to the city tomorrow. Before his departure Mr. Odell spoke most encouragingly en-couragingly of the excellent conditions of trade in general, particularly in first class vehicles and farming machinery. & The forty horse power car of the Rambler people peo-ple is doing some great work as a hill climber, and the machine is one of the handsomest in use in the city. "d t5 A large number of farmers were present at a satisfactory exhibit of the John Deere plows which took place at the farm of Judge Howatt, about six miles north of this city. The exhibit took place on Thursday under the direction of Mr. Andrist of tho Deere company, and all expressed themselves as highly pleased. Judge Howatt and Fred Odell now have the farm in hand for this season. I A timely note of warning is sounded by the Motor Age as follows: "Notwithstanding the fact that the Payne free alcohol bill passed the house df representatives' by a vote, of 224 to 7' and that the president has come out flatfooted in favor of the measure, it li in danger of being shelved in the senate committee commit-tee on finance, of wtiich Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is the chairman. Mr. Aldrich professes to believe that the committee needs more information on the subject of alcohol than can be secured in the limited time the senate Will be in session this spring. All the evidence necessary to show that all users of internal combustion motors desire and need the passage of this bill has been brought to light. No person df intelligence can misunderstand misunder-stand the meaning of Aldrich's position. The house bill is brief and a model of simplicity and directness. It has a single purpose and it provides pro-vides for this with certainty. Everybody understands under-stands this and knows what it is for, and Senator Aldrich's attitude about "wise principles," "necessary "nec-essary hearings" and "faulty work in the house" means simply that he intends if possible to prevent pre-vent action at this session. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil company and Senator Aldrich do not want "alcohol to be manufactured free of 'tax; they want the Standard to continue to make fabulous fabu-lous profits on gasoline, "the demand for which is growing so rapidly as to threaten increased prices from mbnth to month. As a matter of fact the price of: gasoline this year over last is enormous when based on a percentage scale, "but that the cost of manufacture is more has riot been claimed, much less hown. There is one" way this bill can be brought to the president for his signature Every user of a gasoline motor farmer, automo-bilist, automo-bilist, boatman, printer, mechanic ought to feel I interest enough in the matter to head off the Standard Oil Co. by immediately writing to the senator from his own state demanding the passage of the Payne bill. Unless this is done tho users of gasoline motors will have themselves to blame if the Standard Oil Co. fixes an exorbitant price on gasoline. Write now and save the day. At the cast of half a million dollars, the Packard Pack-ard Motor Car company has purchased a plot of ground 100x100 on the corner of Broadway and Sixty First -streets in New York on which it will erect one of the greatest garages In America. tiC The question of the right to maintain a garage, and whether it is a nuisance, is passed on in the case of Stein vs. Lyon, New York Supreme Court. The case holds that the construction and maintenance mainte-nance of a garage for the entertainment of chaf-feurs chaf-feurs and their friends on the Boulevard at Rock-away Rock-away Beach, in a neighborhood occupied by expensive ex-pensive summer residences, does not constitute a common law nuisance. The court says: "The business of the defendant appears perfectly lawful law-ful arid legitimate; he is not violating the covenant cove-nant restricting the use of the premises." & Jt Mrs. Robert Gemmel is the latest enthusiast among the fair sex to drive her own car, and is seen daily on the boulevards in charge of the Ford Mr. Gemmel recently purchased from Capt. Mc-Vichie. Mc-Vichie. S & wl5 A great deal of interest is being manifested in the hill climbing contest to take place here Memorial Me-morial day. The first prize will be a handsome cup for the winner of the event. The machines . will go up from the corner of Tenth East and Brigham streets on the high gear, and some point at Fort Douglas will mark the fiinish of the contest. |