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Rh of four days on presentation of a special card. The A.C.G.B.I. is one of the Clubs in question. The Austrian Club has an active membership, and promoted the Paris-Vienna race of 1902.

.—The Veloce Club e Club Automobilisti d'ltalia was founded in 1897. Its headquarters are at Milan. The officers are:—President, Cav. F. Johnson; vice-president, Signor O. Odorico; secretary, Cav. F. Pizzagalli. There are 974 members, of whom 258 are ladies. The subscription is 40 lire, and the entrance fee 10 lire.

.—The Automobile Club of America was founded on June 7, 1899. Its rooms are located in the Plaza Bank Building, 753 Fifth Avenue, New York, at the entrance to Central Park. There are 301 active and 63 associate members. The subscription for active members is 50 dollars per annum, with 100 dollars entrance fee; for associate members the subscription is 25 dollars and the entrance fee 50 dollars. The officers are as follows: President Albert R. Shattuck; vice-presidents, Genl. Geo. Moore Smith, Edwin Gould, and Harry Payne Whitney; treasurer, Jefferson Seligman; secretary, S. M. Butler. The American Club has chiefly devoted its efforts to obtaining reasonable legislation in reference to the use of the highway by motor vehicles; the carriage of gasoline motor vehicles on ferries; and the furthering of the good roads movement throughout the country by the circulation of literature and by the arduous work of a 'good roads committee' of the Club. The encouragement by the Club of the manufacture of motorcars has taken the form of two successful automobile exhibitions held in Madison Square Garden in November of 1900 and 1901 respectively; while in September, 1901, a 500-miles Endurance Contest was organised from New York to Buffalo over exceedingly rough and bad roads. There were eighty starters, of which forty-two finished at Rochester, some forty miles from Buffalo, where the contest was abandoned