Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-20
NEWS FOR The Auto DRIVERS
General Grist Of Information Concerning
the Merry WhiSs Cars.
NEW Works. MILLIONS FOR GOOD ROADS
wonderful Increase in speed. the
Motor In Commerce, Anti-FreeEinE
Mixtures, side Doors and
some Notes.

| There Is every indication that the amend
I ment voted on at the last election in New
York state. which provides for a bond
issue Of s5O.O0O,OOO for highway improve
! ment. has passed, although an official count
/ has yet TO be made
The amendment for which automobilists
have worked very hard, will no doubt be
/ considered a precedent for similar issues
| in other states. and its adoption promises
a great deal for road improvement in the
] future. Under the new amendment New
/ York state will issue $4,000 worth Of
| bonds each year for five years, which will
| be used for building highways in the state
The state will bear 50 per cent Of the in
terest on these bonds, the county IS per
! cent and the town Is per cent. Five per
cent interest on 5000 a mile will mean
800 year interest to be apportioned.
Conditions OF the Bonds.
| The Supervisors Good Roads convention
at Albany planned the $4,000. 600 bond issue
/ In order to enable the most remote parts
OF the state with low assessed valuation
to obtain. II they desire, expensive roads
| Immediately and without a burdensome
state, county or town tax. Under the bond
issue any community can have the main
| highway improved at any cost that local
| conditions require, and are not compelled
TO have an expensive road built. II they
| should want an expensive road costing
SOOO a mile, It would be paid for under
the bond issue In the following way: Fifty
per cent by the state, 80 per cent by the
! county and 10 per cent by the town, and
! the state would issue bonds for 5000.
| There would be no town bonds and no
| county bonds. The state would pay from
| its annual revenues 8 per cent on 1900,
| which is one-half of the cost OF the road
! or 800 for the first year. The county would
pay per cent on $780, 35 per cent of the
cost. which would call for an increase
in the county tax of $40 for each mile OF
| highway that the county approved Of The
| town would pay per cent on $500. Is
per cent of the cost, or would increase its
tax $50 for each mile of highway i'm
! proved There is no town in the state
! but what can have one mile of road i'm
proved at $50 increase in taxes, and many
or them will want their five or ten miles
! OF main highway improved under the bond
issue because they will get the roads i'm
mediately, and for five miles will only in
crease their town tax 5000 and for ten
miles Increase the town tax $500, while If
the roads can be built in that community
for $1,000 mile, the town will get twenty
miles of highway for the $500 increase I'm
tax. Under the bond issue the county
and towns can choose what amount Of
money they want to spend for each mile
OF highway according to what the local
conditions will permit.
Increase I'm Speed
When 1t is considered that the first au-
tomobile race held ten years ago in France
resulted in the winning car averaging If
teen miles an hour, while in the last Van
derbilt race the winner travelled at an
average speed for the entire 2sS miles at
the rate Of sixty-two miles an hour, the
tremendous advance made In motor car
construction in comparatively short time
can be understood. In 70 other manu-
featuring business has anything been
brought to a point OF perfection in such
a brief space of time as 1t has taken to
bring the automobile to its present state.
Motors I'm Commerce.
There is no getting around the fact that
the commercial motor vehicle has come to
stay. Not only for use in delivery service,
but also In the handling OF passenger
traffic has this type of car shown itself
! to be FAR superior TO the horse drawn
conveyance. Especially is this true in the
case of vehicles which are used the year
around The problem of heating and light
ing may be very easily solved when a
gasoline motor is used for propelIing
power. The heat from the exhaust gases
or the cooling water may be utilized by
making use OF radiators which are placed
: along the floor of the car. This heat
would naturally go 20 waste, and therefore
this very desirable advantage may be OBJ
tanned at practically no cost at all The
lighting problem is almost as easily solved
A small dynamo driven direct from the
| xrFIfn
furnishes an electric power plant which
may be depended upon at all times. Many
OF the up-to-date stage lines in the west
have contracted for such wagonettes, and
those who have been using them pronounce
the proposition a great success. The same
principles may be applied to delivery
wagons, so that ere long the delivery man
can make his long winter trips in compar-
alive comfort. keeping himself in better
health, and In many ways give his house
more effective service.
Anti-FreeEinR Mixtures.
With the coming Of cold weather 2
formula for a good anti-freezing solution
10 be used I'm motor vehicle radiators may
, not come amiss. One of the best solutions
! which has been used for this purpose Is
/ as follows: Glycerine. ~ per cent sodium
carbonate, per cent; water ~ per cent
one nlhng OF the water system will last
indefinitely neither the water or gaso.
line win evaporate to any great extent
The mixture is comparatively cheap and
thorough testing has proven that It ha,
no effect on galvanized iron or rubber hos,
and very little action on copper mix.
ture OF equal portions OF glycerine anC
water shows up very well, but is not QUITE
1 as good as the formula above A solution
OF calcium chloride and water having 2
4 density of about 20 per cent baume 1,
sometimes used, but the one objection Il
fl is that il attacks galvanized iron anC
\ must be carefully kept al nearly the sam,
4 density all the time to give It good anti
| freezing qualities. Another mixture some
4 ! times used and one which has PRACTICAL,
no action on any of the metals is given
a ! Alcohol, % per cent; water, rs per cent
y / or, alcohol, 80 per cent; water 6 per cent
S | When either Of these solutions is use,
!, the water system must be kept enclose,
and perfectly tight in order TO keep tn
. solution at the proper strength.
side Door on Front Seats.
For the coming winter side doors OF
the front seats will be the proper thin
i In motor car equipment. They have bee