Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-20 | Page 11 | More Autos than Phones

MORE AUTOS THAN PHONES First Mile Race Re e called to Show Progress Thirty tu tare cars ago 00 the only auto auto- automobile automobiles mobiles mobile in America aero nere 0 those thoe In ina museums Today there are more registered automobiles automobile than there theN are 1 listed telephones In 1895 1886 18 5 there zero nere ero m motor cais mis en In the United Stales Slates In haw lIow ew York today at ot certain aln corners more cars care cor than that t pass 1 t cry hour In ember No 1896 the New f ork Time Times offered cash prizes of to the tho winners ot of a mil for lor motor cars Thirty cars cars care entered but six ac- ac actually started One car known as ItS the tho made no pro p vision for tor the tho six changes ot of o bat bat- battery battery tery which were sere required and ond so there wore were ere bu but t th the e Another wound a chain around Its lIa stanchion and withdrew Another disabled Its port n en- en engine gine and had to quit null Still S another developed trouble In the starboard still board unit and drop drop- dr ped out One Ono car broke broko its Ita stoOl steer steering Ing chain Finally but one ono car carnos i as nos len left In the race This car cor managed to get along fairly well until Its engine became 0 over over- overheated ov er heated Ice lea was used to prevent the engine from melting awa away So much time as consumed that when the car finished the miles all of ot the Judges had gone gono go home Lost sear Car ear more mor than 4 cir ca care and trucks were sold old row r Industries can show such remark remark- remarkable able ablo growth 0 as the automotive In In- In Industry d California has hu a motor car for fore e cry family That does docs not mean that Or e family has haa an automo- automo automobile automobile bile And yet yel with Ith all this mo marvelous manelo progress s there thero Is still room for 1 considerable Improvement ement in mo- mo motor motor tor car construction and design Already there is a 11 tar car ar on the t market which Is II le capable of ot devel- devel developing dev from rom 60 to lo 70 er and ind requires little shifting of ot g gears arol because ot of o lie Its It power This car carSan In San Francisco which ie 10 1 a city cl of hills Is la able to go almost ilmo t any any- chore here without a of gears gearl and what bat Is I equally Interesting from 20 to 22 miles are obtained on a gallon of gasoline The man who bu buys buis an autom automo automo- automo automobile bile I ls In transportation Nearly early halt half o of the tho population ot of the tho States Slates can crowd Into the ho registered motor of the States while less leas than th could get Into all of ot the tho railroad passenger pa and Pullman coaches cocho of the United Slates It Is a II to think ot of the automobile as a competitor of ot the tho thoI I allt oad Tho The automobile on the tho t contrary creates business buness for the tho railroad Then too the motor truck ruck can never COlli compete pete 1 with the tl In covering co long dis- dis ances The time will III conic come when nhen hen all automobile high highways a S will wail III bo be overhead 0 01 w underneath neath but tit on account of the tremendous e expense penso Involved oh ed the change must mu ot of nece be Union slow slow Union Union Pa Pa- Pa P