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ie "ikiito Owners Give ana THE NEW YORK SUNDAY. MAY 30. 1009. lassie Wilkesbarre Hill limb Takes aarit's Despair Course Has Been Made Smooth and Fast 50,000 May See Contests. weather conditions are favorable to- orrow, Stywo people may oe.

an imuu it ne3' the National hill-climbing con up Giant's Despair course, on I kesbarr Mountain. Tuis ill be tne reatest hill-climbing event of the year. "he fastest cars In the country have entered, and they will be driven by "i-3 meet daring and skillful driver. The curse has been lied, the bumps have leveled, the sharp curves have been snked and fenced, thus making tne; ourta extremely fast. The greatest care has been taken to the course as safe as possible for oth drivers and spectators.

Fred Wager, who will officiate as starter, will send ie first car away at 9 o'clock sharp, and other cars will be started at brief in--rvals. It was necesbary to make the larting hour early because of the largo ntry list. Up. to last Thursday night cars had been nominated, and will be other entries made before start to-morrow. Great1 Interest centres in the contest or the' Hollenback Trophy, which must won three times by the same contest- nt before it becomes his property.

The Lher imnortant events of the day will be challenge race and the free-for-all. In he free-for-all Ralph De Palma, driving Flat Cyclone, will be pitted against )avid the wealthy young raaieur, in his 1M horse power Benz. in a Knox Giant, will also com-te In this event. The cars which have been practicing ver the course have already made better than the record of 2-5. made last far bv Willie Haupt In the Great car.

David Bruce-Brown is expect-t to cut this record down considerably i his Benz. The Benz won both the Fort '-corse and Yale Hill climbs In record ime. The Flat Cyclone is also expected beat-the Chadwick record. Len Zengie vili drive the Chadwick car In the thiw year. Other cars in this event ill NttbO horse power Stoddart-Dayton.

riven by Bert Miller; a horse power driven by Charles Merz; a orfe power American, driven by Harry Viiils; a 13 horse power Babcock elec- Glidden Tour to Ah aqpresent projected, the 1900 Glidden ur cover miles, starting from etroia July 12 and finishing at Kansas ty July This makes an elapsed of days tor the tour and -uirtptj running days. When the path--Klincr party arrived at Kansas City on fy I'l the odometer showed a total of -U miles of running, end Dal Lewis's jfures showed about 2,624 miles to be for the tour, the pathfinding car iving been driven about 200 miles more required by the route. These far the tour will be reduced about i niiu-s by changing the route so as to froai Minneapolis to Fort. Dodge and way of Mason City, instead of j'Buaio, as tne pathfinder went. The reasons for this changing of the ite are urgent, and It will be done if ne roans tne otner way are satisfactory, go.

by way of Mankato would mean another day must be added to the otir and the start made one day earlier, hich wouid be Sunday, else the two davs Denver now planned would have to be educed to one day. From Denver the ratest sightseeing of the tour is to be joyed, including trips to the Garden of he Gods, the Grand Canon, and other oints. The Denver ciub has raised a Houpt Company Has In the organization of a racing team composed of George Robertson. Montague Roberts, and Willie Haupt. the Harry S.

Houpt Company, distributers of the Her-rshoff automobile, and as they will be by the middle of -next month distributers it the Houpt cars as well, has gathered together three racing automobile drivers than whom there are probably no better in this country. The personnel of the Houpt team is a practical assurance of success in the racing field even hr the Herreshoff car not shown the power and peed which It has demonstrated- aiready ia road work. At the head of the team is George Robertson, who enjoys the distinction of being the only American-born driver to win a Venderbllt Cup race in an American built carJn so doing lost October Robertson Incidentally established a new record for the race. While winning of this racft was hf most notable individual success it was but one of three victories whlph' Robertson won in succession, making a string equaled by but few other orivers-and perhaps by none when th character of the individual races is considered. First in the string came the second race at Brighton Beach Hst September.

Driving a Simplex car, Robertson' established a new record for twenty-four hours' consecutive running ct a circular Next came his victory in the Founders' Day road rave in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. In this race he drove a Locomobile, and it was a car of this make that carried him i victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race. Second itl the team to Rr.lvrlsnn nnl bea.ue he has'prnoticallv retired from the racing field is Montague Sli7 uM lle js nest Known. Kot. rten with the Houpt Company for several years, and has gradually bfen preparing himself for the position which he now holds heart of the engineering department.

Last year he pnt Haupt. George Robertson. Montague Robert. Place Monday trie, driven by Frederick Peck; and a 60 horse Dower Simnlex. driven by Frederick 'Molt.

Nearly all of these cars will be entered Jin the challenge race. It is probable th, Those who have watched the daily workouts saj that tne National car has performed wonders and will give the Bens and Fiat-racers a hard tusle. Charles. Mers is an excellent driver The John Hollenbaek trophy iq for cars costing from $2,001 to Knox drVen by A. Dennlson; a ao horse power Corbin.

driven by John Dower a 45 horse power Stoddart-Dayton. driven by Carl Wright; a 33 horse power National, driven by John Altken; a 4 hone power Matheson, driven by Charles L. Baker, and a 30 horse power Knox, driven by Robert Johnson. There are also a goodly number cf entries in the various classified price events and In the special events for tne members of the Quaker City Motor Club and the Wilkesbarre Automobile Club. The prizes to be given are sliver cups, purses or gold, silver and bronxe shield, and medal.

The first prise for the free-for-all is flOO In cah. and the second is S.V) In cash. The full list of cars entered is as follows: Two horse power Maxwells, Arthur See and Ellesy Wright, drivers; two 40 horse power Oaklands. A. H.

Denl-son and H. Bauer, drivers; two 40 horse power and one horse power Knox cars. A. Dennlson and A. La Fleur, drivers; a horse power John Dower.

driver; a VM horse power-- David Cnadwick znKre. driver; a en horse power Fiat. F.lph driver; a horse power and a 45 horse power stourtart-oayton. Bort Miner ana van Wright, drivers; a 00 and a'. 30 horse power National, John Aitken and Charles Merz.

drivers: two horse power Allen-Kingstons. IL Hughes and Al. IOdge, drivers; an 18 and a horse power Bulck. Iuts Chevrolet, driver: one 40 horse power Oldsmebile. Ed.

Habblett, driver; two rtO horse power Americans. Harry Willis, driver; one horse power Bab-hock electric. Fred Peck, driver; one 40 horse power Middleby, K. Hume, driver; two 40 horse power Mitchells, W. M.

Cram, driver; three 40-50 horse power Mathesons. Charles L. Baker. Joseph, Parkin, and Charles Basle, drivers; one 0 horse power Simplex. Fred Molt, driver; one 40 horse power Knox.

Fred Blecher, driver; one SO horse power Johnson, driver. Motor cycles are also entered In the two events for these ma-chines bv- William H. Wray, Charles Anderson, Jesse Arndt. and Stanley Kellogg. Cover 2,530 Miles.

fund of $18,000 for the entertainment of the tourists, and to shorten the stay there would cause great disappointment. Another good reason for rerouting the ground between Minneapolis and Omaha is that the route as now laid to Fort Dodge, by way of Mankato and Blue Karth City, is over the basin of a prehistoric lake or Bea, and when it rains there is no bottom to the roads. All hands wanted a rest after reaching Kansas City and the rerouting was postponed for a while, there being everything to gain by this, as the roads of Iowa are now improving rapidly. As nearly as can be figured out. with the.

distance by the route not yet surveyed given as an estimate, the Itinerary of the tour will be as follows: Joly 12 Detroit to Kaiamasoo. 142.2 mile: 13 Kalamazoo to Chlfano, 1-t Chicago to Madison. Win. 176 miles: 15 Madison to Ia Crosse. 154.

4 miles; 16 La Crosse to Minneapolis. 178 mile; 17 18 At Minneapolis; 1 Minneapolis to Fort Dodjce, Tows, 12 tnlles: 20 Fort Idg-e to Omaha, 187 miles; 21 Omaha to Kearney. mllea: 22 Kearney to JuIenburK-. 206 miles; 23-Juleburg to penver. 218 milna; 24-25 At Denver; 2 Denver to Huso, 173 miles; 27 Hugo to Oakley, 105 miles; 28 Oakler to Sallna, 2o miles; 2tt Fallna to Kansas City, 1UO ml lea.

Total miles. Star Racing Team. some months abroad in a tour of the foreign car factories studying European methods and acquiring a sound knowledge of engineering principles as exemplified in the work of European designers. All this he has brought back with him, and is now busy applying in his new work with the Houpt Company. Roberts takes the sanie keen delight at the feel of a racing car's wheel between his fingers, however, as he did before he practically abandoned this field of the automobile industry, and there will be many times in the coming year when he will sit in the seat of a Herreshoff or Houpt racer.

In the past Roberts ac-quired an enviable reputation as a racing driver, both through his work in races Sn the vicinity of this city, on the road and track, as well as his work in the Vanderbilt race. In which he has had a rur. His most notable performance perhaps was that of guiding the Thomas Fly-r from this city to Cheyenne in the dead or a late Winter, through snow and ice. nnd as the only American contestant in a field of six cars in the New York to Paris race. That he managed to bring the Thomas into Cheyenne six davs ahead ot all competitors, turning it over there to another driver so that he might go abroad to handle a car in 'the Grand Prix speaks well for his Rblllty as a driver.

It has been generally admitted that Roberts's work in handling the Thomas on its first lap had much to do with its final victory in the greatest endurance race which was ever held. Prior to this, however, he had won for himself the reputation of being absolutely tirelesb when the welfare of hl far- cerned by driving the entire twenty-four bouts In a race at Brighton Beach when the driver who was to have relieved him was unable to do so. member of rA)iri itfiice. He has done considerable driving around Phlla. oeipnia.

but It was not nntll last Fall that he got a real chance as a raclna That. V. I. rfVrhllt i urn iic I ill 1 1 in TnA bv driving in HrZ "nowinns in ootn these events were creditable, and he Kives promise of developing into a driver of the first flight. He is cool and resourceful Pupils of Free Industrial School for Cri pple Children Taken to Coney, for a Lark Orphans to Go on June 8 and 9.

h. v': i 1 Owners of automobiles ar coming to realfze'more. every year how much good can be. done with the motor car. Only a few days 'ago twenty-five owners of Stearns cara their machines to give an to fifty-five children of the Free Industrial School for Crippled Children, and on June 8 and 9 the Long Island Automobile Club and the Orphana Committee will give outings to 5,000 It Is a great boon to these unfortunate children to be taken for a long motor ride every year, and they look forward to it with delight.

It'is hoped that this year owners will glfre more generous support to the orphans outing. The committee has been promised about 250 cars. This is not nearly enough, and many a youngster will be left behind unless more i History of By t'OKER F. CLARK SOX. (Association of Licensed Automobile Man a fact re ra.) There is under- way a movement going to the foundation of things in the good roads matter.

To many good roads are an uninteresting and hackneyed subject. But of their vital necessity and of the advisability of constantly urging their construction, there should be np debate. No other improvement will pay to the people such dividends- as modern highways. A nation's reputation for enterprise, progress, and all that goes to make It worth living In is determined very largely by the character of its roads, the great arteries through which flow the business and pleasure of the nation. The public road is a principal feeder of our civilization.

We take pride In our crops and products, often forgetting the public roads must bear them to market. We lead the world in railroad building. But for every mile of railroad we have ten miles of highway, such as it is. Perhaps this In a way indicates the relative importance of Improved highways. The benefits to be derived from a reasonably good common road system would be shared by all classes; the farmer reaping a better profit through easier transportation to commercial centres; the Inhabitants of towns and cities by the product of their labor reaching the rural districts more economically.

This is a fair, analogous deduction from the history of the reduction of freight. "rates, by the improvement of, roadbeds arid rolling stock, to which much of what science, experience, and invention have developed has been applied. The history of good road construction all over the world reveals'1 only a few Automobile Lfaaberarer Goea West. L. W.

Ltssberger Pressuretell Valve Company left New York last week for a visit to the tire manufacturers of the Middle West. Our company has met with such success In the East that I believe we will flnj a ready market in the West," said Mr. Llssberger. The valve we are getting out enables the owner of an automobile to tell at all times when his fires are properly inflated, which has heretofore besn impossible." Auto mm an Agent of Warfare. Army authorities are interested In.

experiments now being ma do in Chicago under the direction of Capt, Lenahan. as to efficiency of the automobile in time ct war. A Cadillac car, equipped on specifications furnishwd by Major R. P. David-eon, is being used for the tests.

The car has been painted battleship gray, and a reversible rapid-fire gun is mounted forward of the driver's seat. The chief object is to test the efficiency of the rapid-fire gun on an automobile as a balloon destroyer. East Indian Would Be Chaaffeor. 'One of the first enrollments for the June term of the West Side Young Men's Christian Association Automobile School was an East Indian youth, who wishes to learn to operate a motor ctir. The East Indian boy will endeavor to- earn his tuition by acting as a chauffeur this Sum-, iner.

and in the Fail he -will return to India to apply his knowledge of motor car operation where it will bring him the greatest Income. Hew Oldamobile Wheels. "The 60. horse power six-cylinder OMs-mobile equipped with forty-two-inch wheels is one of the greatest successes of the- season," said Gen--John T. Cutting recently.

"The Oidamoblle is the first car of this type to be equipped with these wheels. The wheels smother ruts, bumps, and water breaks, which, under ordinary circumstances, would Jar the occupants of a cir." Motor Car Versus Locomotive. A statistical expert In the PierceArrow plant has figured out that a motor car can cover a greater distance on the same mount of fuel than a railway locomotive. His average showed that tae weight of gasoline, water and oil for three automobiles was 5.53 per cent, of the total weight, difference of 8.79 per cent, in favor of the car. in npite of the fact that the locomotive, with, a full tender, on an average, can travel only 70 per of the distance covered by a motor car on full tanks.

Worcester Hill Climb. There is wide lnu-rest in Uie hill cl'mb-Ing contests that are to be he'H at Wor 4- :7: -Mm 1 cars are placed at the disposal of the men who have the worthy charity In hand. The Siearna owners- who "afforded an outing -for the crippled children last week were well repaid for their small sacrifice when they saw the happiness the outing gave the children of the industrial school. The children were taken to the Crescent Athletic Club, where luncheon was had, and then to Coney Island, where they rodeoii elephants, in goat carts, and saw all i the shows in Luna. Tar K.

The parade of motor cars left the Wyck-off. Church Partridge Building, Broadway and Fifty-sixth Street, Monday morning at It passed down Broadway and Fifth' Avenue, and proceeded to Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge. Many of the children had never before seen -the Williamsburg Bridge, and they expressed their wonder, at the matsslve structure. The day was pleasant, and a fine run was made to' Bay Ridge, where the car-, avan halted at the. club house of the Crescent Athletic Club.

grounds and GoodtRoads fundamental methods. The Romans laid down large "flat stones. Then in France rough stones were set on edge, a layer of broken stone being superposed. A similar theory was later followed in England. Early in the nineteenth century McAdam announced the principle that small pieces of broken stone placed in a layer are, by the action of water and travel, trans formed into a more or less homogeneous road surface.

Two or three generations afterward the road covering effect of crude 1 became known. It is now pretty generally recognized by highway 'engineers that the macadam road Is, for modern conditions, obsolete, and that from now on first-class roads must, by the admixture of proper ingredients, have a mastic property, by virtue of which dustless roads will become a reality, and undue depreciation from disintegration of-the-road be avoided. The sood roads problem, although pre-clpitatfd by the automobile, has been left alone for generations, and extends in its far-riaching importance and effect much further than the consideration Of Its relation to the automobile in fact, as far as any economic question can 'reach. The automobile is broadly a medium of communication and traffic, upon which the very life of the Nation depends. Roads are simply media, for facilitating traffic, incidental to animate and mechanical road traction, and not.

an end in themselves. This last should be obvious, but some serin to think the preservation of roads cut of date for modern purposes is the greet desideratum. But progress in fundamental matters' cannot wisely be Impeded by incidental considerations. It is clear that the automobile is an improved method of accomplishing a fundamental tunction. Our roads of the present day were developed for horse-drawn traffic.

In the case of which the elements affecting the making- and preservation of roads are materially different from those of automobile traffic The effect of horse-hoof Notes from Far and Near. cester. by the Worcester Auto- mobile Club. Seven entries have been re- ceived. and the club has received assurances from New York that a score or more of high-class cars will be nominated.

David Bruce-Brown, who has been a star at all of the important hill climbs held recently, will drive a Bens In the contest. the Knox Automobile Company has entered four cars, and two Jacksons have been entered. Wlntoa and Packard Tie. A Wlnton six and a Packard were tied for. first place in the recent endurance run held by the Automobile Club of Maryland.

Both lost two points, the Wlnton for having two fender bolts loose and the Packard for filling up with water. The driver of Wlnton car now proposes sealing up everything but the gasoline and oil tanks on the two cars and running them In competition until one or the other fails, thus deciding the tie. To Welcome Pathfinders. An interesting reception has been planned for the crew of tte Chalmers-Detrott pathflading car upon its arrival in Mexico City. Mohler and De Gress, agents for the Diamond Company, have arranged to have the pathfinders received at the palace bv President Diss In the afternoon, and at the Automobile Club of Mexico in the evening, where a banquet will be given.

Doable Worlclaar Fore. The Republic factory at Youngs town, Ohio, where Staggerd tread tires are manufactured, been compelled to double its working force because, of the increased demand fer tires this year. A large night shift has also been put to work. Change, In York Motor Car Company. Announcement Is made of a change lq the control of the York Motor Car Company of York.

builder of th Pullman automobile. C. O'Connor and Oscar Stevenson have assumed direction of the Pullman Interests. Sir. O'Connor la a large stockholder In the company and Mr.

Stevenson has for a long time been Secretary and Treasurer. It Is expected that Mr. O'Connor will be elected President of the company at the annual meeting in the Fall. Actlvltr at Warner Pin nit. Great activity is reported at the Warner Instrument Company's plart In Beloit, Wis.

It is stated that the factory- never Jbefore has employed so larire a number of people, Tlie day force works three house were thrown open to thp children, and they played about until luncheon was served at 12 o'clock. From the club the autos went to Luna Park. Coney Island, where Frederic Thompson, proprietor, had arranged a programme of entertainment. The children displayed such delight over everything they saw and did that they attracted the attention of other visitors to the park. Manawr McClellan accompanied the children through all of the abow places.

Mrs. M. E. Builard. Superintendent of the school, was in charge of the children.

She was assisted in looking after them by Mrs. Casper Dean, Miss F. J. SWeeney, Mrs. Sara M.

Foster, Mrs. H. Baker, and Miss Florence Juern-sye. Other women in the party were Mrs. C.

F. -Wyckoff. Mrs. Warren Smith. Mrs.

K. S. Partridge. Mrs. J.

EL De Mar, Mrs. William Harrison, and Mrs. Wager, E. S. A.

J. Picard, and C. William Wusster were the men' in the party. Commissioner Bingham detailed Sergeant Casey of the bicycle squad to load Movement Impact Is plain. The effect of rolling and driven motor wheels is, in great part at least, understood.

It is a fact that for the same speed an automobile Injures a road less, at- no more, than a horse-drawn vehicle. On a properly built road the effect of automobile traffic is beneficial, not Injurious. Very few well-informed highway engineers will state that the automobile alone injures an ordinary macadam road more than a horse-drawn vehicle alone. The rapidly grow ing theory Is that the meat of the prob- ftthe nd motor automobiles stirring up and displacing the material tnus cut up. 'ine autemooiie is not an abnormal or flagrant offender even on roads which were never constructed for it.

Even if it were more of an offender, it must as a medium of progress be provided for adequately. It Is anything but an engine of destruction." "a thing of inordinate pride," or "a National nuisance," as stated bv some picturesque United States Senators, who perhaps mav charitably be considered as adding to the gaiety of nations if not properly representing or leading thlr constituents. The automobile is a fundamental econo- ic factor than which nothing is more in keeping with American genius. By it transportation of person and freight on common roads is cheaper, quicker, more comfortable, and pleasant than by any other method. An irresistible movement for- the construction of good roads is under way in this country.

The members of the Highway Commissions in many States are high-grade, able men, bending every energy to road progress, finding the best specifications for modern roads, and how to construct and maintain them. The United States Department of Good Roads is doing a great deal of efficient work, having recently commenced a series of tests, co-operated in by members of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, to secure reliable data on the actual effect of automobile and horse-drawn traffic on roads. There are many technical and financial problems In tho whole large question, which problems, it Is very gratifying to note, are being taken up in a rational, thorough, and In ail probability successful way. nights a week until 0 o'clock, and the night force begins work at 0 o'clock. All the automatic machines run twenty-three hours a day, stopping only at noon nnd on Sunday.

One machine turns out rivets a week, and yet the factory is unable to fill orders. Joseph E. Ryan Leaves. Joseph E. Ryan of the Mitchell Automobile Company was In New York on business last week.

He left Friday on the Twentieth Century Limited for Chicago, but will return to New York in a week or two. Detroit Electric Greets Pathfinders. When the Glidden pathfinders drew near Lincoln, recently they were met by the son of William Jennings Bryan, who drove out to meet the E. M. F.

crew In a Detroit Electric Lincoln was about the only city en route to Denver In which the pathfinders saw an eiec-trio, they say. W. Gould Brokaw'i Automobile. W. Gould Brokaw owns.

one of the most elaborately equipped automobile bodies ever built, either in this country or abroad. It Is of the limousine type, and is supplied with running water from a ten-gallon tank on the roof. Other features of the body, which was built by J. M. Qulnby are a folding mar-quette table of inlaid mahogany, an annunciator to driver, an electric cigar lighter, cabinets in the two rear quarters, one containing a lady'a toilet cajte, and the other a gentleman's toilet case.

There is a mahogany ice box on the step and Insect screens for the Summer. A large plate-glass mirror swings from the celling. Pre pari nsr Bine Boole Routes. Word was received yesterday by the publishers of the official American Automobile Association blue book that the blue book car No. 1, which Is preparing the routes for the new Wreslern section of the book, had reached Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two days after leaving Chicago.

E. R. Mixer, who is preparing the route matter, reports the weather as being excellent, and that all along the road considerable Interest was taken in the car and its equipment. Mr. Mixer expects to reach Omaha in three or four day more, and from there he has a long ride to 8t.

Paul, and from there another long pull back to Chicago. He will then turn southwest to St. Louis and Kansas City, returning to Chicago before starting east on the final lap of the work. Allowing for good weather it la anticipated that the car will be back In Chicago abont June 10, with sil the Important trunk lines west, northwest. knd southwest of Chicago covered.

1 the procession. The streets were lined wl'h people as the parade passed along. One of the guests at the outing was Philip Richards, 24 years old. He has never been able to walk a step. An attendant at Luna Park put him in an Invalid's chair and Richards was thus enabled to enjoy the outing as much as any of the others.

The owners who placed their cars at the disposal of the school were: Marcus Daley. Harlan W. Whipple. E. F.

Terry. Mrs, A. G. Thompson, Mrs. E.

A. Blge-low, H. O. Heubold. Mr.

Baldwin, T. P. Artand. H. Trabue.

E. Khige. Mr. Batts, Joseph G. Robin.

Mrs. Peter Alexander, Mrs. A. A. BurrilL A.

C. Hall, Beniamin HITlman, William L. Mitchell, A. J. Quanz.

A. B. Bayliss. A. W.

Hille-brand. I. W. Fickling. and Fred Zlttell.

The women of the party were so greatly Interested by the outing that they will probably organize permanently to carry on the charitv from year to year. The orphans of New York have their annual outing-, but the crippled children are not eligible for the Orphans' Day celebration. LYTLE JOINS APPERS0N RACING DEPARTMENT. Herbert H. Lytle, one of the best automobile drivers and mechanics in the country, has joined the racing department of the Appetson Brothers Automobile Company.

He will drive an Apperson car In the Cobe Cup race that is to take place June 19 next, and he will also pilot Ap-person racers In other epeed events this year. Lytle is best known to motor enthusiasts as a driver in the Vanderbilt. Savannah, and Bralrclllf races. He also drove Herbert H. Lytle.

in Europe, and made possibly the most creditable showing any American driver has ever made abroad. The first big road race Lytle won was in an Apperson car at Savannah. Lytle holds the American long distance road race record for stock cars, having covered 258 miles at an average speed of 644 miles an hour. Lytle has often been called the "Iron Man because of his wonderful endurance and nerve. He is as fearless as any driver living.

Lytle has been much sought after this year, and he must have received a flattering offer to go with the Apperson firm. For Single Registration. "Automobile regulations may come and go," says S. H. Mora." Treasurer of the American Motor Car Manufacturers Association, but as the touring season is renewed each yer the fact is strongly thrust upon us that no automobile law will ever be satisfactory and Just until a National Federal bill is enacted, making one registration number good In each Slate.

It is unquestionably unfair that auto-mobilists In the use- of the inter-State highways should be obliged to submit to the diverse State regulations as to registration and identification when, such State requirements resuit in the imposition of as manv different taxes as there are-States through which the motorist passes. i i I 'WW 1L New Stiidebaker Roadster. Manufacturers have been striving ever since the invention, of the automobile to attain grace and dignity In the construction of automobile bodies. The progress that has been made along this line has been very marked this season and the cars that are now appearing on the streets are far superior to the output of lart year. The Studebaker factory has turned out a new model which strikingly shows the ad i r.

i V-- GOBE RACES AROUSE INTEREST HERE Special Trains Will Bo Run to Crown Point-Loweif Course. Such deep Interest has been manifested here over the Western stock chassis races for the Cobe Cup and Indiana Trophy that arrangements are under way to run several special trains to the Crown Point-Lowt-11 course in and nois. The races will be the first great, aped contests held In the Middle West; ranking In Importance with the Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prise events. Officials of the Chicago Automobile Club ex. pect that G00.00O people will line tho course on June 19, on which dates the races are to be held.

A special block of seats near the start Ing line will be reserved for New Yorkers' and Eastern automobile Tickets can be secured at the Auto Supply Company6 1.733 Broadway. The Peansyl' vania Railroad will run three special trains, and other roads wilt run excursions The epeclal trains will be parked close' to the grand stand and will afford easy access to the course. Following the custom Inaugurated In this country at the last Vanderbilt ami Grand Prise races, a series cf pita will be sunk In front of the grand stand. Heri will be one of the official tire and gaso. line stations, thus enabling spectators hi the grand stand to observe the lightning like processes of tire changing and othst adjustments, which add so much seat the competition.

Arrangements also have been made fol numerous telephone stations around th course, so that the progress of the con' tenders will be known by the spectator at all times. Two immense score boards will be erected. Measures are being taken to arrange a proper signal system to raiJ the race safe for contestants and tho( watching them. Several hundred flagmen will be employed, while the course wi have a military guard under command ot Col. Joseph B.

Sanborn, First Infantry Illinois National Guard. Rulea for the contest hae Just beel Issued, and a number of the entranti havo nrnnnunced them excellent. Sub stantially the rule are as follows: The course, approximately il.8 miles length, shall be covered ten times, making a total of miles. Not more than three cars of any one make can be entered, and all must be stock chassis in accordance with the stock chassis deflnl' tion set down by the American Automo-tile Association and approved by the Manufacturers' Contest Association. Competing cars must not have a total of more than 30(i cubic Inches pjston-dleplacement.

no weight limit being imposed. A horizontal exhaust and seats for two persons side by side are required, and seats mus. be occupied by driver and mechanlciar-of minimum average weight of 13-. pounds. Every agent of othei than- atmospheric air is forbidden.

All mechanical adjustments and repair! must be made solely by the crew of tn.t car. and tire and fuel replenishments ma, be made only at the pits of the stand ant' at the station at Lowell. Water in casei of emergency may be taken on anywhere. Drivers or mechanicians may be changed during the race at the close of laps onlyi and then under the supervision of a representative of the Technical Committee o. starter, In case of accident to a drive the mechanic may drive the car to tM stand without being disqualified.

TIJa Technical Committee reserves the right refuse anv driver for reasons relating either to the safety of the public or ooni The order of start of the can will determined by lot: the drawing to cakrt place at noon, June It. at the headquax-? ters on the course. The starting hour of the rece is to be announced Offw cial signals to drivers by means of flag will be. Red flag, clear course I yellow flag, stop Immediately; green flag, starting last lap; checkered flag, contestant has finished; white flag, stop fo consultation. International road signal will be used on the course.

The organisation of the committee in of the race is a most thorough one. The twenty executives have had their re spectlve duties carefully laid out in suclj a manner that their work will not conflict in any way. The personnel of the executive staff Is as follows: J. F. Gunther.

A. J. ttanta. vr. diiu comprising the Contest Commit- n.n.nl Fred J.

Wagner. ern Representative-nd Starter; F. W. Van Sicklen. Publication nl Proj grammes; C.

G. Sinsabaugh. Publicity! B. Ayres. House Executive and Enter tainment; F.

E. Edwards. Construction Executive; N. H. Van Sicklen.

Road VorM Executive: David BeeorofU Technical Executive; Berne Nadall. Secretary: Harold Wheeler, Diplomacy Executive. Military Protection; Col. Joseph B. Sanborn.

Pub- He 8afety Executive. Command of boh diers: C. A. McDonald and S. a Gorman, Legislative Committee.

Entries In the two events to date are. COBB CUP. Car and Tn-lver. EntrV: Knox. Winiatn Bourque.

Automobtla Knox. AL Den I son Automobile Bulok. Lewis Strang Bulck. L. Chevrolet Motor Buick.

Robert Burrnan Buictc Motor Btoddard-Dayton. B. Miller. Auto gtoddaxd-Dayton. C.

A. McDuffea At Flat. E. A. Heame A- Apperson.

Robert Lytle Edgar Apperaot INDIANA TROPHY. gtoddard-Dayton B. Miller. Auto Stoddard-Dayton, A. Engiebeck.

jaciuii ami" Buick, Lewis Bulck. Oeorae Da Witt. Buick, Robert Bur man. Moon. Phil Wella Marlon.

C. E. Marion, A. Chalmers-Detroit. Chalmers-Detroit.

W. J. ate Bulck Motor Co Buick Motor Motor Car Co. H. E.

StutJ H. E. Btuirf M. Ci Chalmers-Det. M.

Co White Company to Use Kerosene. Official announcement Is made that ker osene may be used as fuel In the 191Q models of the White steamer. This Is the first time that any important automobile concern has been able to recommend anJ fuel other than gasoline, and the innova-i tlon Is of significance. It has many times, been predicted that, with the number automobiles constantly Increasing, there would soon come a time when it would not be possible to produce sufficient gasoline, at least at anywhere near a reasonable price. vance In automobile body construction.

Model or gentlemen roadster," as tne-new tar is listed, has simple, graceful lines which give it a particularly smart apearane. As a special feature of the new Studebaker model the Bosch magnetic plug is used. This plus found exclusively on Studebaker cars. When the "gent'emen roadster" was taken to Central Park a few days ago to be photographed it attracted considerable attention..