September 28, 1908
COWHERD WINNER OF LONG AUTO RUN.
FINISHES FIRST IN CORBIN CAR, PERFECT SCORE.
E. J. ANDERSON IS SECOND.
HE RODE A RAMBLER AND HAD 994 POINTS.
Dispute Among Two of the Partici- pants as to the Corbin's Score Wound Up With Fisticuff Fight on the Paseo.
Fletcher Cowherd's Corbin car was last night awarded a perfect score by the executive committee in charge of the endurance test. Because of allegations which are said to have been made by other participants reflecting on the genuineness of the score, a severe test was given the car at the Hotel Inez last night, but it was found to be in perfect condition.
Amid cheers issuing from hundreds of throats, din of auto horns and clanging of trolley bells, the automobile endurance run for 1908 came to an end at Eleventh street and Grand avenue, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Corbin car, driven by Fletcher Cowherd, Jr., was the only contestant with a perfect score, and was placed first in the list of contestants.
With the crowd the fact that one of the cars was the winner of the first contest of the kind ever held from here seemed to make little difference. When Mrs. Kirkland, in her Overland, which she piloted over the entire course, turned into Grand avenue, there went up a cheer which lasted until that plucky little woman had passed from sight on her way to the Paseo, where the autos taking part in the run were inspected.
TWENTY-ONE FINISHED.
Then, too, the cars which carried the most mud in their wheels and on guards seemed to enthuse the spectators to a considerable extent. Therefore, as there were plenty of cars and plenty of mud the cheering was continued until the arrival of the last car. Of the forty-one cars which started in the run but twenty-one finished. This, however, is considered a wonderful record and goes to show the admirable quality of the "staying powers" possessed by the respective drivers and their passengers. All who took the trip said they would not have missed it. The last day's run, from Iola, Kas., 125 miles, was started at 6:15 o'clock yesterday morning. The schedule allowed of easy running time and by the time Paola was reached, at noon, all of the contesting cars were in good condition.
Leaving Paola, the remaining fifty miles were clipped off in good time, and finally when the end was reached the cars were hugging each other in single file, engines running admirably, occupants tired but happy, and everything in readiness to check in.
Probably the hardest luck encountered by any of the contestants yesterday befell Carl Muehlebach and his Pope-Hartford. This car, with its crew, was ready for departure from Iola when the signal was given, but had progressed but a few feet when one of the front tires blew up. This accident having been repaired, another start was made, when another tire blew. After this the two other tires, which had seen duty during most of the trip, collapsed almost simultaneously, with the result that 11:30 found the Pope-Hartford occupants but two miles from their starting point.
After that, however, good time was made, and the car, although about an hour late in arriving, checked in in good shape. Several other cars had slight mishaps, but none of them compared with the downright hard luck encountered by No. 7
FINISH WITH FIST FIGHT.
After the cars had reached the Paseo an incident took place which, although of short duration, caused considerable excitement. During the trip yesterday the correctness of the Corbin car's perfect score was under discussion in a somewhat heated manner by owners of other cars which had been penalized a point or two, and is said to have its culmination in a fistic encounter during the Paseo inspection.
Who the participants were could not be learned, as the race officials exerted every effort to suppress their identity and were quite successful. It remains, however, that during the brief course of the melee there was considerable excitement for all. It is expected that the question will be taken up by the executive committee.Labels: automobiles, Eleventh street, Grand avenue, hotels, Paseo, violence September 26, 1908
MOTOR CAR USED IN A KIDNAPING.
MRS. THOMAS SPIRITED HER SON OUT OF LEAVENWORTH.
BROUGHT CHILD TO
THIS CITY.
ATTORNEY JOHN HAYES, JR., AR- RESTED BY KANSAS OFFICERS.
Was Mistaken for a Detective Who Had Gone With Mrs. Thomas When She Kidnaped Her Child. 
MRS. AGNES BOSS THOMAS.
Kansas City Woman Who Kidnaped Her Child in Leavenworth Yesterday, Guarded by a Detective in an Automobile.
Agnes Boss Thomas, who was a witness in the Humes-Richards alienation of affection suit, yesterday, under guard of a private detective patrol, went to Leavenworth in an automobile and carried off her baby, Theodore C. Thomas, Jr., while the 5-year-old child's school teacher looked on, powerless to do anything. Mrs. Thomas brought the baby to her home, 119 East Thirty-fourth street, where Theodore, Jr., is still resting and awaiting a probable habeas corpus proceeding. The little fellow's attorneys, Kelly, Brewster & Buchholz, are in waiting, too, and John Hayes, Jr., who was mistaken for a detective by the Leavenworth police force, is out on bond.
Mrs. Thomas was divorced from her husband in July, 1906. Mr. Thomas received the divorce while his wife was abroad, both being represented by attorneys. In the settlement by the court at Pawnee, Ok., it was stipulated that Mr. Thomas was to have the custody of the child except one month in each year and that if the mother wished the child during this month she should go after and return him at the proper time.
THEODORE C. THOMAS.
The Kidnaped Child
Recently when Mr. Thomas wished to go to Mexico he left Theodore, Jr., with the child's grandmother in Leavenworth. When the time rolled around for Mrs. Thomas to have the child for her one month of the year, the baby's grandmother decided she should not have him. On account of her connection with the Humes-Richards case, the grandmother said Mrs. Thomas could not have the baby for the one month provided for by Judge Baynard T. Hainer in the Oklahoma courts.
Yesterday Mrs. Thomas decided to get her baby, and employed an automobile and a bodyguard and went after him. Living strictly up to the letter of the decree, which said she could get the baby by going after him, Mrs. Thomas employed F. H. Tillotson of the Hayes-Tillotson Detective Agency, to see that no force was used against her. The two went to Leavenworth and called at the school house where the baby, Theodore, Jr., is receiving his first lessons. Mrs. Thomas stepped to the door, asked the child's teacher to see him, and then simply carried him home, as she claims the court said she has a right to do.
In the meantime, John Hayes, Jr., an attorney of Kansas City and son of former Kansas City Police Chief John Hayes, was in Leavenworth on legal business. The police force of Leavenworth, recalling that the big man in the automobile was of the Hayes-Tillotson agency, just arrested young Hayes and held him for ransom. He proved his innocence and was finally let go on bond.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, the mother of the child, was formerly Agnes Boss, the daughter of a prominent Congregational minister here, and was reputed to be the most beautiful and most accomplished girl in the city. After being educated in the high school here she went to Vassar. She was a splendid musician, an artist of some ability, and was a leader of society here.
She was married to Theodore Thomas, son of a wealthy and very prominent Leavenworth physician, about eight years ago. Six years ago the son was born to them. At that time Mr. Thomas was conducting an ice plant in Atchison, Kas. Later they moved to Oklahoma, and at Pawnee, Ok., a divorce suit was instituted by the husband.
The decree was granted Mr. Thomas, giving him also the custody of the child.
After the divorce, Mr. Thomas brought his boy to Leavenworth and placed him in the care of his mother, Mrs. M. S. Thomas. She has become very much attached to the child and was prostrated with grief this afternoon. The little boy was just 6 years old a few weeks ago and started going to school last Monday. The mother has come here on several occasions with different attorneys and attempted to get the grandmother to give up the child.
Several months ago Mrs. Theodore Thomas came into prominence by starting to lecture on theosophy. She is well educated and speaks well, and it is said she made quite a hit. Mrs. Thomas is still a very beautiful woman.
Labels: attorney, automobiles, children, custody, detectives, Divorce, ice, kidnapping, Leavenworth, oklahoma, Police Chief Hayes, women September 25, 1908 WILD WEST FOR AUTOISTS.
Miller Brothers Entertain Kansas Cityans at 101 Ranch.
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE RANCH, OK., Sept. 24. -- (Special.) So tempting was the programme arranged at Miller Bros.' 101 ranch by the Longhorn Club, and so desirous were the Kansas City autoists in the Southwestern Reliability run to see all the Wild West features on the bill., that the officials of the contest voted to lengthen the scheduled stop at the ranch an hour and a half. This was the the first change of the schedule since the run started. It was made necessary by the enthusiastic clamor of the autoists who were prepared for and received the greatest treat of their trip at the ranch.
The cars had made a hard morning run over roads that were seas of mud, but from Bliss to the ranch the race-course-like pikes afforded the first opportunity of the day for smooth riding. The cars arrived in ones and twos after 12:30 o'clock, and as fast as they came in the famished autoists were seated at a banquet table where all the good things of the ranch were served.
Later there was a programme of "sure enough" Wild West events -- steer riding, roping, broncho busting and fancy riding.
There was a badger fight which was the real sensation of the day, the badger being pulled from his lair by Ted Collier of Kenosha, Wis., driving a Rambler car. The autoists were compelled to tear away at schedule time, but the officials had a great trouble getting them to leave. Several arranged to return to the ranch for a visit after the completion of the tour.Labels: amusement, automobiles, oklahoma September 18, 1908
FORTY-ONE CARS WILL RACE TO OKLAHOMA.
START WILL BE MADE EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.
Eight Days Will Be Consumed in Making the Return Trip. Rules Governing the Start. The forty-one entries in the automobile touring contest were assigned places last night at a meeting of the Automobile Club at the Coates house. The first car to start on the tour will be the pilot car carrying W. G Coumbe and H. G. Blakely, officials in charge of the tour. The car, which will be a six-cylinder Stevens-Duryea, will leave the north end of the lake in Penn Valley park shortly before 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. The other cars will follow each other at intervals of two minutes, the first entrant leaving Penn Valley park at 7 o'clock.
It was given out at the meeting last night that every entrant must make out a report of the condition of his car at the start. The club will furnish two blank reports to each entrant. It is presumed that all cars will be in good condition when starting, but if there be some defect the report must be made before the start in order for the entrant to be able to avoid the starting defect as a penalty in the course. The second blank must be filled out and carried on the tour until taken up by the committee in the official car.
The tour will be to Oklahoma City, Ok., and will extend over a period of eight days. Many of the entrance have announced their desire to take friends and members of their family with them. Each entrant must make out a list of all who will ride in his car and leave one copy of the list with the officials at the start and give the other copy to the committee en route.
The following is the official list of the entrants:
1. Official car.....Stevens-Duryea
2. J. F. Moriarty.....Stevens-Duryea
3. D. B. Munger.....Peerless
4. H. E. Rooklidge.....White Steamer
5. Winfield Demon.....White Steamer
6. A. C. Wurmser.....National
7. C. A. Muehlebach.....Pope-Hartford
8. P. C. Rickey.....Stevens-Duryea
9. W. L. Walls.....Studebaker
10. H. G. Kirkland.....Overland
11. Frank E. Lott.....Premier
12. E. H. Jones.....Maxwell
13. Fletcher Cowherd, Jr. .....Corbin
14. C. J. Simons.....Maxwell
15. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
16. R. C. Greenlease.....Cadillac
17. W. S. Hathaway.....Maxwell
18. H. E. Rooklidge.....Reo
19. H. E. Rooklidge.....Premier
20. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
21. T. C. Brown.....Peerless
22. Charles B. Merrill.....Moon
23. J. F. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
24. Frank Woodward.....Knox
25. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
26. Frank Woodward.....Knox
27. W. S. Hathaway.....Maxwell
28. H. F. Wirth.....Buick
29. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
30. H. G. Kirkland.....Brush
31. J. E. Anderson.....Rambler
32. George Hawes.....Stoddard-Dayton
33. H. F. Gleason.....Gleason
34. A. O. Hunsacker.....Acme
35. Charles Norris.....Ford
36. C. A. Boyd.....Ford
37. L. A. Robertson.....Franklin
38. C. F. Ettwein.....The K. C. Wonder
39. Frank Woodward.....Knox
40. G. W. Graham.....Stoddard-Dayton
41. T. B. Funk....Ford
The rules governing the course of the tour will be furnished each entrant at the start.Labels: automobiles, oklahoma September 15, 1908 FROM BALTIMORE TO DENVER.
Round Trip Is Being Made by Couple in an Automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Snavley of Baltimore, Md., passed through the city yesterday on their return trip from Denver to their home city in an automobile. The trip from Baltimore to the Colorado city, running at the rate of fifteen hours daily, consumed exactly three weeks. They expect to make better time on the return journey.
Mrs. Snavly, who is an expert driver, is in charge of the car, while her husband is acting in the capacity of mechanic. The car before starting was specially equipped for the trip, and during its stop here attracted not a little attention. The interior of the tonneau is fitted with sleeping bunks and everything else necessary for a trip of the character, is to be found therein.
Mrs. Snavley was not backward in expressing her opinion on many stretches of bad road in this and other states. She said, however, that the roads of Kansas were the best encountered. The couple left last night for Independence, where they have friends, and it is expected they will leave for St. Louis today.Labels: automobiles, visitors August 28, 1908 IT'S NOW A LAW.
Police Will Arrest All Who Make Unnecessary Noise.
The ordinance of Alderman J. E. Logan preventing the making of unnecessary noises was signed by Mayor Crittenden, Jr., yesterday. The provisions apply to vehicles, operated by electricity and horses only, and provide a penalty for the use of siren whistles on automobiles and bicycles, and loud, piercing bells on street cars. It also provides that the only time of year when strings of bells can be attached to sleighs or vehicles is when there is snow on the ground.
Contrary to general belief the ordinance does not apply to barking dogs and loud lunged hucksters. There are already laws in force covering these two nuisances, but not enforced by the police.Labels: animals, automobiles, Kansas City council, Mayor Crittenden, streetcar August 22, 1908 RED LIGHTS TO WARN AUTOS.
They'll Be Placed at Boulevard Crossings and Curves.
The Chicago plan of warnings to automobile operators on boulevards is to be adopted on the boulevards of Kansas City. This consist of displaying at night red lights at curves that intersect with cross streets. Fifty-two of these red globes, to be illuminated with gas, are to be posted at sharp intersections along the several boulevards, and are to be warning signals to autos to keep to the right of the road and to go slowly. An ordinance authorizing the installation of these lights and a form or rules and regulations will be sent to the council by the park board Monday night for approval.Labels: automobiles, Chicago, Park board August 19, 1908 JURY IN SQUIRTING CASE IS DIVIDED.
IT WILL BE TRIED OVER NEXT MONDAY MORNING.
Defendant is D. A. Harrington, Charged With Common Assault on Miss Frances Beers. Threw Water on Auto.
The case of the state of Kansas against D. A. Harrington, charged with using his garden hose for squirting an automobile and its occupants, occupied the entire time of the North division of the city court, Kansas City, Kas., yesterday. The complaining witness was H. M. Beers, a prominent trader at the stock yards, who insists that the defendant should be punished for assault inasmuch as he turned a hose on his automobile while it was being drivien in front of the defendant's home on the evening of August 1.
The assault charge was not based upon any damage sustained by the machine, but it so happened that Mr. Beers's daughter, Miss Frances, was an occupant of the auto, adn she received a quantity of the water aimed at the chauffeur and the machine.
When the case was called Senator James F. Getty appeared for the defendant, while ex-State Senator J. K. Cubbison represented the prosecution as special counsel. Among the forty-odd witnesses subpoenaed there were many residents of the fashionable neighborhood in which the squirting stunt was pulled off. Some testified as to how automobiles had been driven along the street in front of the Harrington home at reckless speed and that protests had been entered against using the thoroughfare for a speedway. Mr. Harrington adopted a plan of his own to put a stop to this practice. Miss Beers and other witnesses testified that when the hose was turned loose on her auto it was running at a moderate speed. It was shown that had the machine been running at the high rate of speed which it was claimed, but little water would have struck it. The evidence showed that the chauffeur, Miss Beers and the machine received a thorough drenching.
The case was given to the jury at about 4 o'clock and, after being out about thirty minutes, the twelve men announced that they could not agree upon a verdict. They were discharged by Judge U. S. Guyer and the case will be tried again next Monday.Labels: automobiles, courtroom, Kansas City Kas August 18, 1908 WILL WATCH THE INSPECTORS.
City Engineer Has an Automobile for Visiting Public Work.
To expedite keeping tab on inspectors from the engineering department on public work, an automobile is to be used, and every one of fifty men is to be located by a chart to be kept on file in the city engineer's office. The city is divided into districts, and every morning when an inspector is assigned his district will be pegged off on this chart. Black pins will indicate grading; blue, sidewalks; red, sewers; white pins paving, and other colors for curbing and other character of work.
At stated hours during the day, J. L. Darnell, city engineer, will go the rounds in an automobile to see if the inspectors are performing their duties properly.Labels: automobiles, public works August 24, 1908 THIS IS A DOUBLE THRILLER.
Ringling Circus Has a New Automo- bile Slide Trick.
Automobile thrillers are a part of every circus now, and each succeeding show claims its thriller to be more thrilling than the one before. So it happens that the Ringling Brothers' show, which comes here September 7, is making so much noise over Miss La Belle Roche's "double somersault in midair." The Ringling press artists -- there are four of them, all in a row like the Ringlings -- see nothing extravagant in the description they have written of this act.
This is the way they see it: "From the dome of the tent down a slender metal track the heavy machine, throbbing and straining at every rivet, plunges with lightning speed and the crash of thunder. The ending of the incline in an abrupt curve lifts the auto high in air, the plucky young woman firmly clutching the guiding wheel. There is a pause of death-like stillness after the ponderous car has left the steel rails. Spectators, with straightened spines and tingling scalps, almost freeze to their seats, so keen is the suspense, so awful the dread of that brief moment.
"Once the machine turns a perfect circle, not a stir is heard among the audience. Breaths are held in fear of what may follow Again the automobile turns completely over, and then with the crash of a thunderbolt it lands upright on a steel runway and plunges onto the track to spend its terrific force, the young French woman at the wheel smiling with triumph The pent-up emotion of the audience vents itself in hysterical applause from the women and shouts of admiration from the men."Labels: automobiles, circus, daredevils August 24, 1908 THIS IS A DOUBLE THRILLER.
Ringling Circus Has a New Automo- bile Slide Trick.
Automobile thrillers are a part of every circus now, and each succeeding show claims its thriller to be more thrilling than the one before. So it happens that the Ringling Brothers' show, which comes here September 7, is making so much noise over Miss La Belle Roche's "double somersault in midair." The Ringling press artists -- there are four of them, all in a row like the Ringlings -- see nothing extravagant in the description they have written of this act.
This is the way they see it: "From the dome of the tent down a slender metal track the heavy machine, throbbing and straining at every rivet, plunges with lightning speed and the crash of thunder. The ending of the incline in an abrupt curve lifts the auto high in air, the plucky young woman firmly clutching the guiding wheel. There is a pause of death-like stillness after the ponderous car has left the steel rails. Spectators, with straightened spines and tingling scalps, almost freeze to their seats, so keen is the suspense, so awful the dread of that brief moment.
"Once the machine turns a perfect circle, not a stir is heard among the audience. Breaths are held in fear of what may follow Again the automobile turns completely over, and then with the crash of a thunderbolt it lands upright on a steel runway and plunges onto the track to spend its terrific force, the young French woman at the wheel smiling with triumph The pent-up emotion of the audience vents itself in hysterical applause from the women and shouts of admiration from the men."Labels: automobiles, circus, daredevils August 8, 1908 MOTORCYCLISTS ARE THE REAL SCORCHERS.
BUT "SPARROW COPS" LET THEM GO WITHOUT HARM.
Don't Carry Lights and Speed When They Wish -- A Knock on "Sparrow Cop" Speedo- meters.
What about the "tuf-tuf," the latest name for the motorcycle. It has been written on the books that the motorist must not scorch on pain of being hauled before the stern judge ans soaked as many simoleons as the judicial fancy dictates.
But the humble motorcycle is not annoyed, in fact, it goes unharmed. Maybe it is because the sparrow cops themselves are mounted on the bicycles that go with gasoline.
Motorists all over Kansas City are uniting in a protest against speeding motorcycles. "Tuf-tufs" are racing about the boulevards night after night, without the sign of a lamp, a menace to pedestrians, but the "sparrow cops" do not seem to see them. Maye it is a fellow feeling after all.
It might be a good thing if some of these scorchers, the worst offenders against the city's speed laws, were pulled in and fined for the sake of example. At present they rove the streets unrestrained.
By the way, more than one driver says the speed indicators the "cops" carry are all to the bad. These busy little wheels are said to register about five miles an hour more than the actual speed. An agreement has been reached between a number of dealers to plead this as a defense in case of arrest and then proceed to prove it as fact.Labels: automobiles, motorcycles, police August 8, 1908 RALPH BAKER IS PROSPERING.
Kansas City Chauffeur Making Good in Billings.
Ralph L. Baker, formerly chauffeur for Jere Lillis, and one of the best liked operators in Kansas City, is making good in Billings, Mont., where he now has a garage. Mr. Blair, a ranchman for whom he also dries a White steamer, has purchased the original "Whistling Billie," the famous racing car, and Ralph is putting it into shape for the fall campaign. He has written to H. E. Rooklidge of the Missouri Valley Automobile Company for the dates of the fall Elm Ridge meeting, and says he hopes to be here with the car.Labels: automobiles, Elm Ridge August 6, 1908 ARREST AWAITS THE CHAUFFEUR SQUIRTER.
Miss Beers Was in an Auto Which Mr. Harrington Drenched With His Garden Hose as It Scorched Past.
A state warrant was issued out of the North division of the city court, Kansas City, Kas., yesterday for the arrest of C. D. Harrington, a prominent contractor who lives at 2033 West Thirty-ninth street, which is just across the Kansas state line from Westport. He is charged with assault, the complaint being signed by H. M. Beers, a well known horse and mule dealer of Kansas City, Mo. When Squire Lee, the negro constable of the court, visited Mr. Harrington's home last night for the purpose of serving the warrant, he was told that Mr. Harrington was with friends in Kansas City, Mo.
The warrant for Mr. Harrington's arrest is the outcome of a little stunt pulled off by him last Saturday evening in front of his home. It seems from the statement made to County Attorney Joseph Taggart by Mr. Beers and his attorney, J. K. Cubbison: Harrington had objected to the speed at which some automobiles were driven through the street in front of his home. In fact Mr. Beer's machine was one of those complained of. Beers told Mr. Taggart that he had told Harrington if his driver exceeded the speed limit to have him arrested.
Mr. Harrington evidently did not wish to take the trouble of causing a warrant to be issued for Mr. Beers's chauffeur, but instead, when he drove the machine in front of his home last Saturday evening he turned the garden hose loose on the auto and its occupants. It happened that Mr. Beers's daughter, Miss Frances, was the only passenger and she received a real ducking.
Mr. Beers in his complaint alleges that his daughter suffered a severe nervous shock, and he declares he will prosecute the case against Harrington, regardless of the cost.
Constable Leo will make another effort to secure service on Mr. Harrington today.Labels: automobiles, Kansas City Kas, pranks July 13, 1908 NO ARRESTS BY MOTOR SQUAD.
New Patrolmen Haven't Been Able to Find Any Speed Outlaws.
Automobilists and drivers have been warned the last four days about keeping within the speed limit, and the motorcycle squad has been getting in practice trailing autos and horses that were going too fast. The squad has patrolled the boulevards and Cliff drive, learning the favorite streets and byways taken by the speedy drivers who are willing to risk being arrested for hitting up a fast pace.
Sunday was the day the squad as to get busy and prove the efficiency of the new motorcycles in overhauling the gasoline wagons, but up until 10 o'clock last night no arrests had been made. It was expected that the cycle men would have two or three arrests each to their credit last night. The officers will be given orders today to be strict in enforcing the speed law from now on.Labels: automobiles, Cliff drive, motorcycles, police July 9, 1908 MOTORCYCLE SQUAD ON DUTY.
All Motor Cars Run on Low Gear Schedule Over the Boulevards.
All that was needed yesterday to make the most speedy motorist slow down his car was the slight of the white cap. The white cap meant speed regulation on the boulevards, for under that white cap was one of the motor cycle police squad mounted on a brand new 60-mile-an-hour-motor cycle.
The three men who constitute the motor squad were ordered before Police Captain Walter Whitsett yesterday morning and the speed ordinance read to them. They were given their instructions and told to report to headquarters by telephone at the end of every hour. The hours that these cyclists serve during the day remains a profound mystery. The only way to find them is to try scorching on the boulevards every three hours. If you get caught you're it; if you don't you'll know that the cyclist is at the other end of the next boulevard.Labels: automobiles, Captain Whitsett, motorcycles, police, telephone June 27, 1908 LANDS IN MRS. EDSON'S LAP.
Bicyclist Catapulted by Motor Car Driven by Kansas City Woman.
DENVER, COL., June 26. -- (Special.) While on his bicycle at Sixteenth and Larimer streets, and trying to dodge a car yesterday afternoon, Joseph Skega, an employe of the Denver Fire Clay Comapny, had a head-on collision with the automobile of Dr. W. L. Hess, breaking the glass of the wind shield and driving completely through it into the lap of Mrs. J. E. Edson, wife of the president of the Kansas City Southern railroad, who was driving an d was sitting in the seat beside the physician.
Mr. Edson and his family had just reached the city in a private car. They are friends of Dr. Hess, who received them in his automobile at the union station. In the machine, besides Mr. and Mrs. Edson, were his daughters, Mrs. K. P. Williams, wife of the quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth, Kas, an d Miss Geraldine Edson.
The front wheel of Skega's bicycle struck the hood of the automobile, throwing the rider over the handlebars and against the glass of the wind shield. Jagged edges of the glass cut the victim's face and neck in a dozen places, while his bicycle was wrecked. Mrs. Edson's dress was bespattered with blood from his wounds. Dr. Hess placed Skega in the automobile, and after reaching the city hall assisted Police Surgeon Ackley in dressing his wounds, later conveying the injured man to his home.Labels: automobiles, Denver, Kansas City Southern June 18, 1908 CITY IN MOVING PICTURES.
Films Will Be Exposed in the Retail Section Today.
If your wife's new directoire is finished, dress her up and parade her in the downtown district this afternoon.
That is a duty a good citizen owes Kansas City today, of all days in the year, for today the town goes on the motion picture films to be exhibited all over the world.
A special street car carrying the phenomenal machine which puts you and your smile on the films will start at 1:30 o'clock from Thirteenth street and Grand avenue. If you chance to be strolling from the postoffice about this time the face you turn toward the machine will be exhibited in Hale's Tours in amusement places in many countries.
Here is the route of the car: From the start at Thirteenth street and Grand avenue the first run will be on Grand avenue to Fifth street, west on Fifth street to Walnut street. The car will start south on Walnut street at 1:45, 2 o'clock it will run north on Main street to the city hall and at 2:30 o'clock it will run from Wyandotte and Eighth streets east to Oak street. This will end the first day's film making.
Of course this is going to be done only provided the weather is clear. Next week, probably Saturday or Sunday, the machine will be placed on an automobile and pictures made of the boulevards. When the flood waters recede pictures will be made of the manufacturing district in the West Bottoms and later interior views of the banks and other large institutions will be made.
The films are made in sections. As the Kansas City film will appear it will show Kansas City from an inbound Wabash passenger train, giving a glimpse of the intercity viaduct.
The pictures will be made and exhibited by the International Publicity Company.Labels: arts, automobiles, Fifth street, Grand avenue, Main street, Oak street, post office, streetcar, Thirteenth street, Walnut Street, Wyandotte street June 17, 1908 MAKES TRIP BY ROAD FASTER THAN TRAINS.
Captain Lawton's Journey to Topeka in Studebaker a Hard Trip Through Mud.
Back from to Topeka by motor car, Captain Frank H. Lawton, in charge of the army's purchasing department in Kansas City, says he didn't believe the automobile could come through such a journey as he completed Monday afternoon. Most of the distance the mud was up to the hubs, but even where the roads were most impassable, the motor car forced a way under its own power.
The flood made Captain Lawton's trip imperative. A message from the war department on Saturday afternoon told him to go at once to Topeka, where stores bound for Fort Riley had been stopped by the high water. There was no chance to get a train, so Captain Lawton, thinking of the trip of the army car last winter, called up the Studebaker company and asked for a motor car. W. L. Walls, of the motor car department, was ready within an hour and the plow to Topeka was begun.
As nearly as possible, the route had been laid out on high ground, and but for this fact the journey would have been impossible. The motor car, leaving Kansas City at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, was run all night, with stops only for food, and reached Topeka at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. The distance by odometer was about 150 miles.
The car, returning, left Topeka Monday morning and got back in twelve hours, while it took a train fifteen hours to go the same distance, on account of the detours that had to be made. T. G. Sweeney drove on the return trip to Kansas City.Labels: automobiles, flood, military, Topeka May 24, 1908 MINISTERS SOAKED DURING AUTO RIDE.
Not Enough Cars to Carry All the Presbyterians.
Three hundred ministers and commissioners to the 120th general assembly of the Presbyterian church got a soaking yesterday afternoon that was unorthodox to say the least. In less than an hour after they has started on a two-hour automobile ride over the boulevards and through the parks of Kansas City, the rain suddenly fell in torrents and it continued falling for nearly an hour.
This feature of the ride was not according to schedule and neither was that contingency looked for when the start was made from Convention hall. The ministers and commissioners started out without umbrellas or raincoats and many of the automobiles were without hoods so they got a genuine soaking. When the rain first began falling, many of the automobiles deserted the line and made straightway for Convention hall or for the hotel of the commissioners. Others stayed in the line and completed the ride.
On the whole, the plans and arrangements for the automobile ride did not work out as well as the committee had expected. While more than 100 automobiles had been promised, not more than fifty showed up at Convention hall at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. These were speedily filled by the waiting commissioners. Enough tickets had been distributed to fill the number of automobiles expected and consequently there were many disappointed commissioners. Those who were unable to secure seats returned to their hotels.
THESE KEPT DRY.
The "Seeing Kansas City" cars took care of a great number of the commissioners and their wives. Some preferred this ride to the automobiles because of the fact that they were allowed to take the women with them. The cars were sent over the usual route. The automobiles were sent over the most advantageous route in the city. They were headed by guides on motor cycles.
The start was made from Convention hall promptly at 2:30 o'clock. E. M. Clendening was master of ceremonies.
"Are you all ready?" he called down the line.
Shouts assured him they were. The sharp pop-pop of starting motors and the pungent smell of burning gasoline next greeted the ears and nostrils of the ministers and commissioners. Then slowly the line started down Thirteenth street to Grand avenue. The ministers joked each other and the good natured taunts of those left behind were directed at those in automobiles.
"You needn't hold your head so high just because it is your first ride in an automobile," yelled one as a friend disappeared down the street in one of the six cylinder cars.
"Did you never see an automobile before?" asked one commissioner of another who was examining the steering gear of one of the machines.
"I see plenty of them now, if I have never seen them before," returned the friend.
Altogether, it was a good natured and happy bunch of ministers, elders and commissioners that took that ride. They had had two days of strenuous work in the sessions of the assembly, and the afternoon gave opportunity for a general laxity from those arduous duties. William Henry Roberts, the former moderator and now stated clerk; the Rev. B. P. Fullerton and E. M. Clendening occupied the first automobiles.
PICTURE CARDS AND BOOKS.
Post card souvenirs and souvenir books illustrating the parks and boulevards of Kansas City were handed to the commissioners before they stepped into the automobiles. The booklets were given by the park board and besides the illustrations of the parks and boulevards contained some facts and figures concerning the city. These facts and figures were prepared by the Manufacturer's and Merchants' Association. This is the first opportunity that the park board has had of giving these booklets away. The post cards contained this printed message which the recipients were directed to send to their home folks:
Dear Home Folks: Having an enjoyable visit here. Am an honorary member of the Commercial Club's Prosperity Club. The motto is "Look Pleasant, Be Cheerful, Talk Prosperity. Yours --"Labels: automobiles, churches, Convention Hall, conventions, Edwin Clendening, Grand avenue, ministers, Seeing Kansas City, Thirteenth street, weather May 17, 1908 AUTO CYCLES OUTRAN JONES.
Police Commissioner Had Them Join the Race as a Test.
At the invitation of Elliott H. Jones, police commissioner, four men on motor cycles trailed the automobiles in the endurance race yesterday. All of the cycles made the trip successfully and beat Jones's machine back to Kansas City. The commissioner asked that the cycles be used on the run, because he has been appointed by the police board as a committee to investigate the feasibility of using motor cycles in the police department.
Dr. A. Moses, C. Hanson, C. O. Hahn and L. C. Shellaberger, each mounted on a two wheeled machine, left Armour boulevard and the Paseo in a bunch yesterday morning about fifteen minutes after the last automobile was officially started. The party made the run to Lawrence without mishap. The freshly dragged roads proved slow going south from Lawrence and at Baldwin the leader was misdirected and led the party to Edgerton, which is a few miles off the course. They got back on the track and passed Jones at Waldo.
They reached the city at 8:30 o'clock, with Moses a few yards in the lead. All of the cycles in the endurance test were Indians. Commissioner Jones, when he finally came steaming into the city, congratulated the four on their good run.Labels: Armour boulevard, automobiles, Commissioner Jones, Lawrence, motorcycles, Waldo May 3, 1908 SHE CHASED AUTOMOBILES.
Antics of Woman on Twelfth Street Brought Many Police.
A deranged woman chasing automobiles in the neighborhood of Twelfth street and Tracy avenue last night about 10 o'clock brought police from three districts to that vicinity. Finally she ran into a party of three bluecoats at Thirteenth street and Forest avenue. When taken to No. 6 police station she was found to be the wife of a contractor. She was evidently under the influence of liquor and some drug. She was held for safekeeping.Labels: alcohol, automobiles, Forest avenue, mental health, narcotics, Thirteenth street, Tracy avenue, Twelfth street May 1, 2008 ITS GREAT TO BE FAMOUS.
Joseph Yanner Says Friends Are Kill- ing Him With Kindness.
Joseph Yanner, the Kansas City boy who is with the "Strongheart" company at the Grand theater this week, is a busy person. To hear him tell it, one would think that he scarcely had time to eat. "Never in my life have I found it so hard to keep engagements as I am finding it this week," said he; "it is almost impossible for me to get around to the theater on time. Between automobile rides and chumming with all of my old friends it is always just a few minutes before the curtain goes up when I am able to get into my dressing room.
"Yesterday my family took me to one of the theaters in town to see Robert Mantell. I was immensely enjoying the play when a party of my friends burst in upon us and carried me off for an automobile ride over the boulevartds. That's just the way I have been going all week; keeping only parts of engagements and then having to make a sprint for the theater. It is all very enjoyable, though it does seem rather nerve-racking."
Mr. Yanner will stay with the "Strongheart" production until the end of this season. He will then come houme to Kansas City and spend the summer with his parents. He has made no arrangements for his next season's work as yet, but expects to do so before he returns home.
Kansas City has been Mr. Yanner's home for twenty years, having been reared here. He attended the Christian Brothers' Catholic school at Twelfth and Broadway.Labels: automobiles, Broadway, schools, theater, Twelfth street April 26, 1908 TRIED TO TEAR HER FROM HUSBAND'S SIDE.
WHEN NACHMAN OBJECTED MILES BROKE HIS NOSE.
Wife Swears Out Warrant for For- mer Husband or Ex-Sweetheart, But Says Her Louis Fell Out of an Auto.
"I do wish that someone would send me a four-leaf clover or that Louis could find a horseshoe about town somewhere," pleaded Mrs. Louis M. Nachman last evening. "But he won't be able to go out and look for horseshoes for some time now, his nose being broken, and I can't leave his bedside."
Some of the Nachmans' bad luc is known and some of it remains a mystery. It is admitted that they were wed by Justice of the Peace J. J. Shepard at 8:40 on the evening of Decemer 14, 1907, after a week's courtship, and three days later the groom was rudely jerked away to the county jail and locked up until he could explain a charge of forging his father's name to a check to pay the honeymoon hotel bill. He explained it to the satisfaction of Herman Nachman, his father, and the prosecuting attorney, and was released. Al went smooth with the couple until 10:35 yesterday morning when, at Thirteenth and Central streets, the bridegroom met with either an accident or a coincidence.
It was a coincidence in the form of Edward C. Miles, former husband or jilted sweetheart of the bride, who used to be Mrs. Grace Miles, according to the story she told Assistant County Prosecutor Bert S. Kimbrell yesterday afternoon. Miles, she said, tried to take her away from her husband and when her husband protested, Miles swung at him with his right and upper cut with his left. Nachman fell upon the sidewalk and she clung to the body to avoid being kidnapped.
When Mrs. Nachman was questioned about the trouble at the house, 320 West Thirteenth street, half an hour later, she said, "It was a most unfortunate accident and so clumsy of Louis to trip w hen stepping out of our automobile. But he is not seriously hurt. He'll be out and around in a week or so."
She was reminded of the complaint against Miles she had sworn to, and replied with a soft accent of her eyebrows:
"Oh, did I do that? Well, anyhow, please write it up as an automobile accident."Labels: automobiles, Judges, marriage, Thirteenth street, violence, women March 24, 1908 GAVE BOGUS CHECK FOR CAR.
Young Man of Many Names Says His Parents Are Rich.
A desire to ride in an automobile for even a short space of time, caused the arrest last night of a man believed to be A. W. Martin of Quincy, Ill. A week ago this man called to Missouri Valley Automobile over the telephone telling the company that he wished to be a White steamer car, and asked that a demonstrator be sent to him at the Midland. The request was complied with and the man, who gave his name as Martin, was taken for a spin.
At the end of the drive Martin expressed himself as being satisfied with the machine and signed a check on the Kansas-Nebraska bank in Wichita, Kas., for $4,200. After some communication the bank in Kansas informed the automobile company that A. W. Martin never had money in that bank. Martin was taken to the garage and was accused of having tried to pass a worthless check in payment for the machine. He frankly admitted that he knew the check was worthless and gave no further explanation. He was then taken to police headquarters at the request of the Pinkerton detective agency.
At police headquarters the man first gave the name of John Jones, and later told the officers that his name was A. G. Dorkenwald, son of the owner of Dick Bros. brewery, at Quincy, and made out a draft upon Dorkenwald for the amount necessary to gain his release. While he was being searched, however, the name of A. W. Martin, Quincy, Ill., and the name of the tailor who had made his clothes were found sewed on his coat.
He was then locked up and upon further questioning said that his real name is Earl Frazer, and that he had formerly lived in Chicago with his parents who were very wealthy. He said that his father and mother are now in San Monico, Cal. Frazer, or whoever he might be, did not appear troubled over his arrest, saying that he had no doubt that his folks would see that he was soon released and the matter cleared.Labels: automobiles, Chicago, con artist, forgery, Midland, police headquarters March 8, 1908 ARMY CAR'S JOURNEY ENDS.
From New York to Fort Leavenworth in Eighteen Days.
From New York to Fort Leavenworth in eighteen days was the record of the Studebaker automobile, which arrived at the fort yesterday after on of the hardest drives ever attempted by a motor car in this country. While the ride of the Studebaker machine was purely an army test, the fact that it started from New York six days after the New York-to-Paris autos and arrived in Chicago five minutes ahead of the first car in the Paris race was a source of much gratification to the army motorists.
W. L. Walls, Kansas City representative of the Studebaker concern, was in the army motor car and drove the machine on its final lap from Atchison to Fort Leavenworth. A score of motorists from Leavenworth started out early yesterday morning and met the Studebaker machine about fifteen minutes from Leavenworth. They escorted the machine into the camp of Brigadier General Hall, commandant of the Army Service school.
The Studebaker car carried a message from General Frederick Dent Grant, to Colonel Loughborough, commandant at the Fort Leavenworth post. Colonel Loughborough and his staff extended a royal welcome to the motorists.Labels: automobiles, Chicago, Leavenworth, military March 3, 1908 CAR WRECKS A HOSE WAGON.
No. 3 of Kansas City, Kas., Is Struck and Firemen Are Hurt.
While making a quick turn in a run to a fire at 1452 and 1454 Kansas avenue, Armourdale, at 10 o'clock last night, the hose wagon of No. 3 fire company was struck by a car at Fifth street and Kansas avenue and was completely demolished. Lieutenant Harry Powers, Edward Seers, Roy Broadhurst and Frank Hill of the company, riding on the wagon, were thrown violently to the pavement, each receiving slight injuries. The front end of the car was shattered by the wagon as the horses, running at full speed, tried to avoid a collision. The animals were not injured.
On account of the disabling of No. 3 hose company by the crash the fire in the two cottages belonging to Henry Zimmers at the numbers mentioned was allowed to burn unchecked until a company had arrived from fire headquarters. Even then it was necessary to lay 2,350 feet of hose from the nearest fire plug in order to get the stream within working distance. Both cottages were total losses. The damage is estimated at about $3,500.Labels: Armourdale, automobiles, Fire February 24, 1908 SEARCH SEWERS FOR JOHN FAYHEY
BELIEVING HIS BODY IS PROB- ABLY HIDDEN THERE.
THE QUEST IS FRUITLESS
PARTY WALKS MILE THROUGH A MAIN SEWER.
Wife of Missing Man Believes His Is Still Alive -- She Thinks He Has Been Injured and Will Return.
Every manhole, every telephone cable conduit, every underground passageway, even the Walnut street sewer; every possible hiding place into which a body could be stowed, in the neighborhood of Twelfth and Main streets, was gone through yesterday by friends of John Fayhey, who disappeared from the knowledge of his fellow men three weeks ago. No trace of the body was found by the searchers. The search underground was as futile as the body hunt of previous Sundys through the outskirts of the city and in the trenches made by men in the water works department. Fayhey was last seen at 1 o'clock on the morning of February 1, with a party of drunken men, at the corner of Twelfth and Main streets. He was a foreman in the city water works department.
Jerry Ryan, engineer at the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company's plant at Twentieth and Walnut streets, was in charge of yesterday's explorations. Jerry is a brother of Police Sergeant Al Ryan and of Mrs. Fayhey. Others in the party were Patrick O'Conner and Tom Bryan, city firemen, and City Detectives Raftery and Halvey. Jerry Ryan, geared in hip rubber boots, entered every opening on Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Main and Walnut streets in the neighborhood of the spot where Fayhey was last seen. No trace of the body was found.
Then Ryan and O'Conner entered the Walnut street sewer at Thirteenth street and explored it south to where it empties into O. K. creek at Twenty-Second street. Ryan, who led the way, was provided with a safety lamp.
This lamp was carried to guard against sewer gas. It is a device imported from the coal mining district, and is valuable in that whenever it is carried into a cloud of sewer gas it is extinguished. O'Conner, who followed with a lantern, was enabled to tell, by watching Ryan and the safety light, where there was sewer gas ahead and to avoid walking into it with his lantern. Only one body of gas was met, but if the lantern had been carried into this an explosion would have resulted which probably would have killed both men. The detectivs and firemen walked along Walnut street and opened the manhole covers ahead of the two men who were walking in the sewer.
No trace of Fayhey's body or any other body was found in the sewer. Jerry Ryan said, when he came out:
"No body could lodge in that sewer. The water, although in no place over knee deep, runs with a very swift current, and would carry any body out into O K. creek. It was not necessary to explore the entire length of the sewer but I did that to make certain that Fayhey's body was not there."
When John Fayhey's wife was told last night at her home ot 1605 Olive street that the search through the sewer and the conduits had been fruitless, she only reiterated her former belief that her husband was still alive.
"I know his is not dead" she said. "I firmly believe that he has been hurt and will come home when he is able."
Police Seargeant Al Ryan, Mrs. Fayhey's brother, holds a different theory. He says:
"There is no doubt that Fayhey was killed, and that his body is concealed somewhere. We have searched Kansas City from center to circuference, above ground and under, but without result. We have telegraphed a description of Fayhey to every town down the river as far as St. Louis. I think that the men who made way with Fayhey were drunk and did not mean to kill him. I know, however, that they had an automobile with them and when they saw what they had done, they put the body into the car and took it away. Probably they threw it in the Missouri river.
"I know that Fayhey had no money to speak of on his person the night he disappeared and I believe that the men who were with him killed him in a drunken brawl without any reasonable motive. I expect that someone who knows all about the killing will come in one of these days and tell the story."Labels: automobiles, Eleventh street, Main street, missing, Missouri river, Olive street, police, public works, Thirteenth street, Twelfth street, Twentieth street, Twenty-second street, Walnut Street February 5, 1908 HUMILIATES THE MOTORMAN.
To Hit an Automobile and Not Even Scratch the Paint.
A new way for the motor car driver to confound and humiliate the helpless street car motorman came out last night at 11 o'clock when Holmes street car 443 on Walnut at Fourteenth street stuck its nose into the touring car of W. C. Goffe, only to lay itself out without so much as scarring teh automobile or spilling any of the five occupants.
Mr. Goffe, family and negro chauffeur were spinning homeward on Fourteenth street when the street car loomed up hard aport and took its medicine.
"Was running slow, and always run slow, crossing the car lines, so I can stop," explained Mr. Goffe to the crowd that gathered.
"Yes, and that's what was the matter. You did stop," put in the street car motorman, L. Hayter, not concealing his animosity for automobiles. "I didn't hit you till you'd stopped. That's the way you chauffeurs have got to doing -- running onto our tracks and stopping, and we go back to the barn with our fenders on the platform."
A close examination of Mr. Goffe's car failed to reveal any damage done. The family was driven to the home, 2125 Brooklyn avenue, without dismounting.Labels: accident, automobiles, Brooklyn avenue, Fourteenth street, streetcar January 31, 1908 CHAUFFEUR'S DINNER TO A JAG.
Profitable Mistake for One Mr. Nichols in Police Holdover.
T. Edward Lickiss, former chauffeur for Dr. J. D. Griffith, 201 East Armour boulevard, was yesterday released from the workhouse and turned over to his brother, G. A. Lickiss, of Percy, Ill., who arrived here in the morning. The young chauffeur was fined $500 in police court Tuesday on a charge of exceeding the speed limit, and given a stay on all but $50.
An amusing incident happened while Lickiss was being held in the holdover. A young woman went down and asked permission to send him a "swell meal, as I know he's hungry." She was given permission and ordered the following from a restaurant in the city market:
Porterhouse steak with mushrooms.
German fried potatoes.
Celery.
Apple pie.
Strawberries.
Coffee.
Not bad for a prisoner in the holdover who would have gotten a "plain chuck with the juice knocked out," a hunk of bread and a tin of inky coffee.
But Lickiss must have been born under an unlucky star. Soujourning in the holdover with him was a man named Nichols. No Nichols was a "safe keeper." He had been on a rip roaring time and had reached the stage where he could have eaten a stewed boot heel or a boiled mink muff. When the woman said to the jailer the food was "for Mr. Lickiss," he understood the woman to say "for Mr. Nichols"
The swell spread arrived promptly and the jailer ushered the big platter into the cell of Nichols, the jag.
"A lady sent this to you," said the jailer. "Didn't leave her name."
"Thanks, awfully, old chap," replied Nichols after he had rubbed his eyes and pinched himself a few times "Didn't know I had a friend on earth"
Nichols then fell to. Lickiss and the others, who had dined on "jail grub" looked on and envied the fortunate man. They all wished that they, too, had a ministering angel as Nichols had -- and Lickiss had a lurking suspicion that he did have. She had been down to see him and had said she would send him a "swell meal" but it had not arrived.
Later in the day it was discovered that Lickiss was "out a meal" and Nichols was "in a meal," but it was too late to remedy it then. Nichols was fast asleep, a calm, satisfied smile playing over his placid features.Labels: Armour boulevard, automobiles, city market, doctors, food, police court, workhouse January 16, 1908 HE MUST MAKE HONK MUSIC.
Task Confronting Bandmaster for the Automobile Show.
To extract music from an automobile honk was the problem set for E. W. Berry, bandmaster, by the show committee of the automobile dealers yesterday. Mr. Berry's band is to furnish the music for the motor car show in Convention Hall February 3 to 8. When he was awarded the contract yesterday it was with the express stipulation that some kind of automobile music should be played.
As this sort of music is represented by only a few compositions, it was also suggested to Mr. Berry that a chance to make himself famous was presented by the contract. If there is no automobile music, the next easiest thing is to write it. The production of an automobile show march or waltz is essential, and no doubt Mr. Berry, having seen his duty, will do it.
If you see a tall, intellectual looking man testing the horns of automobiles which stand by the curb, don't mistake him for a motorist. It may be Mr. Berry investigating the musical quality of the honk.Labels: arts, automobiles, Convention Hall, music January 12, 1908 PROTEST AGAINST SPEEDWAY.
South Side Citizens Meet and Draw Up Fighting Resolutions.
About forty men, residents in the vicinity of Gillham road, met at the Church of United Brethren, Fourtieth and Harrison streets, last night to protest against the action of the park board in ordering an appropriation of part of that boulevard for the proposed speedway. The meeting was called by Benjaman H. Berkshire, 4018 Harrison street, and J. V. Kendall, Twenty-fifth street and Troost avenue.
A motion was made that those present should resort to every effort to prevent what they thought was the ruin of their roadway, and that every man pledge himself to assist in a financial way if it became necessary for them to resort to the courts. When this motion was put, F. J. Chase, 4100 McGee street, who was chairman of the meeting, asked all those who were in favor of it, to stand. Only four remained seated. The motion was announced, carried and those who voted for it put their signatures to the resolution. This resolution was adopted:
Whereas, The Kansas City park board has assumed to set apart a certain
portion of Gillham road for a speedway in defiance of the purposes for which
that roadway was condemned and paid for, and
Whereas, the use of any portion of this parkway for a speedway will be
detrimental to the interests of those whop were assessed for payment of said
parkway, making it dangerous to life and limb and turning that which was
intended for quite enjoyment of the citizens, over to an entirely different
purpose, to the great discomfort of those living in that vicinity, and to the
depreciation of property values,
Therefore be it
Resolved, That we property owners and residents in the district bounded by
Thirty-ninth street on the north, Brush creek on the south, Troost avenue on the
east and Main street on the west, in mass meeting assembled, do respectfully
protest against the appropriation of any portion of Gillham road parkway for
purposes of speedway or for any other use foreign to the purposes for which the
said roadway was condemned, and ask that your board reconsider your recent
action, and withdraw your consent to such use of any portion of said
roadway.
Labels: automobiles, churches, Gillham road, Harrison street, Main street, McGee street, Park board, Thirty-ninth street, Troost avenue, Twenty-fifth street January 11, 1908 AUTOS MAY THEN BE PASSE.
Kansas City Dealers Propose to Fur- ther Navigation of Air.
The charter of the Kansas City Automobile Dealers' Association, which will conduct a show in Convention hall February 3 to 8, has been received from the secretary of state. A careful reading of it and of the articles of incorporation indicates that the dealers have been looking far into the future, to the days when they may have ceased selling automobiles and are pushing the latest model 1925 airship.
Among other purposes of the incorporation, is given the following:
"To promote scientific investigation into the problems of aerial navigation."
As yet, no member of the association has expressed his desire to become a sky pilot.Labels: aeroplanes, automobiles January 9, 1907
THEME OF AUTO SHOW PLAN IS SOUTHWEST.
Dealers' Committee Decides on Decoration Scheme.
The real start towards the second annual automobile show in Convention hall, February 3-8, was made yesterday, when a committee representing the Kansas City Automobile Dealers' Association definitely deciding upon the general plan of decorating the hall. Details have not yet been announced, but the general scheme will carry out the idea that Kansas City is the marketplace of the Southwest. The states in this city's trade territory will each have representation in the design. While last year decorations from one of the Eastern shows were used, the committee was of opinion that this year there should be something distinctive. When Eastern papers sit up and take notice at the statement that there are thirty automobiles in a Kansas town, the committee says, it is time to draw on local territory for the show ideas. Backed as it is by the association of dealers, who are giving their own time and money towards the promotion of the enterprise, with the sole view of educating the public as to the automobile, there is no doubt that it will have all the features which go to make up a complete exposition of the automobile. To the display the cars must be added the varied line accessories, an industry which is secondary only to the manufacture of the automobile itself. Novel exhibits are promised, but dealers, careful not to make extravagant claims, are content to wait until they receive definite assurances before telling just what they will be. While some space is still available, especially under the balconies in the arcade, the main floor affords barely enough room for the displays planned there. Much tactful work was necessary to make the allotment of space fit the individual demands. Preliminaries of the show are in the hands of a committee chosen from the dealers' association, whose members act in an advisory capacity to D. M. Bone, who has been chosen manager of the show. Labels: automobiles, Convention Hall December 9, 1907 MOTOR CYCLES TO BE TESTED.
Commissioner Jones Picked Out Three Makes for the Police Squad.
"I know less about motor cycles now than before I went to the Chicago motor car show," Elliot H. Jones said yesterday morning after his return. Mr. Jones, as a member of the board of police commissioners, attended the show to get pointers on motor cycles for use in the police department.
"The exhibit contained so many different kinds of motor cycles as to bewilder me," said Mr. Jones. "I finally chose three makes and as soon as the 1908 models can be gotten by the dealers here we will arrange a practical test. A motor car will be pursued by a motor cyclist, who will endeavor to get near enough to read the numbers on the car and identify the occupants.Labels: automobiles, Chicago, Commissioner Jones, motorcycles, police October 24, 1907 TO CHASE FAST AUTO DRIVERS.
Police Board Favors Motor Cycle Squad of Police.
Commissioner Jones has been delegated by the police board to secure bids on motor cycles with which to equip a squad of police to chase violators of the speed ordinances. The commissioner is a motorist himself, and suggested to the board that the average machine can "run clean away" and leave the sort of motor cycles sold here. He said the board would have to get specially built motor cycles, guaranteed to maintain a high speed.
"It's getting too cold for a policeman to ride a motor cycle," said Commissioner Jones. "I favor a bicycle squad and feel that we must come to it, but I would propose that we postpone it until spring."
C. F. Morse, writing from the stock yards, told the board yesterday that the best streets and boulevards of the city have become like railway rights-of-way. He says that rarely ever does a car go as slow as the maximum of twelve miles an hour. He said in the boulevards cars maintain a minimum of twenty miles, and that most of them travel about forty miles an hour.
"In the south part of town, where the best streets have become speedways," said Mr. Morse, "the blocks are just one eight of a mile long, including one street width. At the maximum speed prescribed it should take a car 37.5 seconds to travel a block. This makes it easy for the police to time those who are daily violating the speed limit and endangering the public."Labels: automobiles, Commissioner Jones, motorcycles, police board, stock yards October 21, 1907 BUCHHOLTZ CAUGHT WORKING.
Assistant Prosecutor Has a Session With His Wife's Automobile.
The only men connected with the grand jury of Judge W. H. Wallace's court who was caught working yesterday is William Buchholtz, an assistant county prosecutor, who was chief legal adviser to the jury for the greater part of last week.
Buchholtz went out in the morning for a ride in his wife's automobile and shortly after noon was seen by a Journal reporter at Eighteenth and Main streets, lying on the flat of his back under the car, hammmering at the machinery like six days of the week.Labels: automobiles, Eighteenth street, Main street, The Journal October 6, 1907 BOOK FOR AUTOMOBILISTS.
A New Publication Which Seems to Fill a Long Felt Want.
A booklet that will be immensely popular with every automobilist in the city has just been issued by Bertrand B. Clarke and James O. Westervelt, containing much valuable information for everybody who enjoys a trip into the country or a spin over the boulevards in the city. It is called the "Automobile Blue Book," and one of its most important features is a map of Jackson county showing the macadam and dirt roads, railway crossings as well as towns.
Starting from the junction at Ninth and Main streets, the distances are indicated by a system of circles, each circle showing a distance of five miles, so that the approximate position in relation to the other point in the county can be determined at a glance. There is a list of every automobile owner in the county, together with the license number of each car, name of the maker as well as the agent handling the different machines, and a number of "pertinent truths," which are intended to be helpful to those operating a new car.
The Automobile Blue Book will be issued quarterly.Labels: |
