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Show Automobile Gossip I Hints for Motorists In leturnlng homo at 2 a. m. following a joy ride and merry, merry party, try to avoid ' attempting to use tho magneto switch key to open your front door. It is a long jump from the AlU&Uc Coast to Tncoma, Wash., but a nuirf-ber nuirf-ber of drivers plan to make the trip across tho continent for the second annual automobile meet at the Mon-tamnra Mon-tamnra Pesto races, July 6 and C. Prizes amounting to $12,500 and two handsome trophies are offered for the events there. Last month tho second annual French touring contest known as the Tour do Prance, which is promoted by L Auto, tho motoring publication, was run, covering a distance of approximately approxi-mately 3,200 miles under severe conditions. con-ditions. Twelve running days waio allotted, tho average being 206 miles a day. Ten of tho twonty-sovon contestants con-testants pulled up to tho finish at Versailles on March 15 with clean scores. Those Included two Corre-La Corre-La Licorne, two Aanasagasti, one Aries, one Metullurgique, one Barre, one Majoln, ono Plorron, and one American Am-erican made Buick. Tho plaquetie offered by the City of Nice for tho most ologant vehiclo among those finishing, fin-ishing, was awardod to M. d'Avarny, driving tho Aanasagnsti, and tjho plaquette offered by the same city to the vehicle of the lowest power run- 4 nlng with a perfect svoie was award- nlfl ed'to M. Doutre, in the Majoln. Tlje Jul , latter car has a four-cylinder irotor Ijfl with a bore only 2 5-8 inches, and .i Hfl stroke of 4 inches, and is manuf.K,- jkfl tured in the Aigontine Republic. IH Motorists in NeSiBrk City grumble ijfcfl tontVnifally abouSwrr condition- of III nuphalted streets JradKU'teity, and .itao nfl the condition of Mffia&jRifr. the roads IB lending from' tht Hsimrfw" into the IH metropolis. George W Tillson, on- Ifl suiting engineer to Borough President EH Steers, of Brooklyn, snjs that despite EH the fact that the construction of roads $H and pavements has been studied for i.H some six thousand years, the question 'H seems to be in as unsettled a state jH today us it was one hundred yeis H ago. lie snys that the problem of de- HJ termiplng what is the proper materjal JH , with which to pavo ity streets is a jH 1 erplexlng one. The trouble with HJ abphalt Is that on streets where thero H is heay traffics holes develop contin- HJ unlly. IH Hi A new Idea in bodies Just bioiiKht HJ out by the Simplex Automobile om- fl any Is n four-passonger landaulot- fl brougham. The top, which has n dip fl in front, has a removable extension HJ over tho front seats. The rear of tho HJ body also has an extension which fl folds buck, the only art lemuliing HJ stationary being the center door?. HJ A number of those cars have been fl tent to the Pacific coast. fl |