The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-08
AUTOMOBILING.
TO CLIMB MOUNT WASHING
 TON.

Roads Improvement AssOcIatiOn-A
 Discussion of Carbureters-Papersb by
 Maxim and Alden.
 Entry blanks for the second annual automobile ascent of New Hamp- shire's famous Mount Washington. July 17th and 18th, are out, and will be sent on request to all automobile dri- Vers who will have the necessary nervo te tackle the great cloud piercer of the White Mountains. This is the greatest automobile climbing contest of the world, and is well named the 'Climb of the Clouds" as the autOmobilists be- gins to push the clouds away before he has climbed two-thirds of the eight miles from the bottom to the summit. The road is an ordinary mountain built road, with numerous water bars to prevent the road washing away, and the road winds itself snake-like around the old mountain.
 Last July over twenty cars success fully. climbed the mountain, but the danger was great and good weather possibly largely contributed to the suc- cess of the climb Before starting on the climb each driver signs an indem- nity agreement releasing the owners of the road and the management of the climb from all responsibility, as there is always present the danger that some driver will forget his steering and plunge over preeipice.
 This year the entry list promises to be very large, as it is now generally conceded that an automobile that has successfully climbed Mount Washing ton is given a niche in the automobile hall of fame.
 The directors of the Mount Washing ton Summit Road company recently passed a resolution allowing the White Mountain Roads Improvement associa- tion the use of the road for one week only for automobile week. after which Gas was the case last yearl the road will be absolutely closed to motor cars.
 Entry blanks and all particulars re- garding automobile week in the White Mountains can be had from ". J. Mor- gan, 116 Nassau street, New York, sec retary of the White Mountain Roads Improvement Association.
 At the second monthly meeting of engineers of the leading automobile companies, held in New York city on Friday, the subject under discussion was carbureters. Seventeen engineers were present. The discussion of the papers read made it quite apparent that if the engine Is the heart of an au- tomobile the carbureter, is it's lungs, and, further, that fundamental princi- pies of the absorption of gasoline va DOT by the atmosphere which underlie the functions of carbureters, are no more understood now than was the aeration of animal blood by the lungs before the days of Dr. Harvey.
 Carefully prepared papers full of suggestions on carbureters and carbur- etion were read by Hiram Percy Max i'm, chief engineer of the Electric Vehi- cle company; D. Ferguson of the George N. Pierce, company, and H. W. Alden of the Electric Vehicle company. In these essays and in the talk that followed. it was virtually admitted that the work of the designers of car bureters has bsen and still is largely empirical, because the problem of how to obtain automatically suitable quantity and quality of explosive mix ture under varying sngine speeds and other conditions involves principles not yet comrehended. Mir. Alden suggested the introduction of laboratory demon- strations in connection with the work of the mechanical branch, and thus substitute science for empiricism. Henry Souther, of the Locomobile company and F. D. Howe, of the Worthington company, favored this move on the ground that with his own engine in his own factory each man would get different result in experi- menting, while in the laboratory the elimination method could be followed so that true principles would be dis closed.
 A committee consisting of F. D. Howe, H. w. Alden, and H. E. Coffin was appointed to arrange for laborato- " demonstrations. It was voted to have carbureters again discussed at the next meeting on July ', and at that time each engineer will bring the car bureter used by the manufacturer he represents. George H. Day presided over the meeting in the absence of President Charles Clifton. and after the adjournment he said:
 We are moving now in a very prac- tical and speedy way toward the con- struction of better automobiles" The unanimity of these rival engineers as to the wisdom of exchanging ideas for their mutual benefit and the improve ment of automobiles was a remarkable feature of the meeting.
 DO AUTO TIRES INJURE ROADS? The Newark, N. J., Advertiser says: A serious charge against the automo- bile, or rather against certain kinds of the machine, is made by County Engi- neer Owen, who proposes the anact- ment of law to forbid the use of au- tomobile tires other than those of plain rubber MT. Owen has examined the country roads and found that the wheels of heavy machines had cut the macadam, while the brass knobs of the driving wheels had torn out the pave- ment and made furrows. The damage noticed by County Engineer Owen on the hard stone roads in Essex county cannot be as great as the damage from