The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
AMONG THE kUFOMODLlSTS.
MOTOR TO REPLACE OLD STAGE
cO4CR IN RAXTON.
Massachusetts Town Gets Ready 10 Dis
pose OF Old Relic -DGnaturlLed AlcOhOi
to BE Exhfbfted At jamestown ESp"-
sItIDn -AutO snow PrOgress-GOeSfp'

SItIOn-.AutO snow PrOgress-GOsSip
PAXTON, Mass, oct. 2O.-rhe days Of the
Pd stage coach in this town are numbered;
The automobile will. in a few days: succeeu
the relic of fifty years ago which has twice a
day made the trip from this little town IN the
bills nine miles north of%Worcester TO tnat
city for passengers bound for the famous OLD
Paxton Inn and TO carry the mail. George II
Warrington. the new owner Of the old hosIeirS'
has decided TO put into commission a large
passenger, Oldsmobile which he purchased
this week. Beginning next wednesday Che
automobile will make frequent trips from tnls
kown TO connect with the Tatnuck cars IN
worcester. Harrington will carry baggage
and do a general express business with the
new car. The transportation rate VIII De
tust half of what the old stage driver received
As Harrington intends to bid for the Joo
of Transporting the mail next year-and owing
70 the fact that his trips will he more FREQUENT
10 Is believed he will get 1.-THE old stage
coach will be retired. It is the only vehicle
Of Its kind seen in these parts. For years IL
has been the connecting link between the
city and this town, as electric railway pro-
moters always turned down the proposition OF
running q road here.
WORCESTER, Oct. 2O.-what long suffering
automobilists. who do their best to respect
the speed laws of the different localities
through which they tour, regard as a step IN
the right direction is the sweeping oroer
issued this week by Assistant superintendent
James Nash OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT air line.
n high speed electric railway. to all the motor
men on the road hat in the future the speed
laws Of the state and of every township
through which the road passes must be re-
spected to the letter. He further orders that
no time must be made up hereafter at the ex-
pense of the speed laws. Some OF the towns
through which the whiz line, as it Is called.
passes restrict the running OF electric cars 10
the same rate of speed as automobiles. He
further stated that arrests would follow viola
tions OF the speed laws in the aristocratic
town of Southboro. Mass. the home OF
former Ambassador to England Joseph
Choate. These orders have had their effect
on the running time OF the road, so that pa
irons are unable to tell when a car will arrive
or start. Another running schedule will be
arranged and more time allowed for the run.
because nearly every car loses a few minutes
which now cannot be made up by speeding.
The distance between the two cities is forty
Ave miles by electric railway. The running
time is ~ hours. The State law is twenty
miles an hour. Therefore the law is being COM
Piled with.
One OF the features of the jamestown
exposition that will interest automobilists
Is to be q very complete exhibit showing
the uses Of denatured alcohol for power,
fuel. light and heat. II will include tests
OF its application TO domestic and Industrial
purposes in a building designed especially
for that purpose. The experiments and
tests will be under the direction OF DR.. Charles
u. Monroe. professor Of chemistry at the
George Washington University, Washington,
d. c., and chief OF the special denstured
alcohol exhibit, who Is now travelling TO
secure an exhibit that will be one Of the at
~tractive and instructive features of the eX-
position. He is making extensive plans
for the display of the many uses to which
II can be applied. and has Just completed a
series OF tests embracing the application of
this agent in several branches of industry.
The exhibit has received the Endorsement and
cooperation of the National Alcohol Associa-
aion. which has appointed a special com
missioner to assist DR.. Monroe in the work.
The Court of Chancery in New Jersey holds
that theowne Of a garage licensed TO store one
barrel of g~asolene in the building. which is a
frame structure and adjacent to other frame
buildings. will he enjoined from introducing
g~ssolene into the tanks of an automobile inside
the building, and from storing automobiles
with gssolene in the tanks inside the building.
the court holding that upder the facts in the
case the garage was a nuisance. The court
distinguishes the risks in different surroundings
saying. in a proper locality, amidst proper
ulAOululAlAEs II - W "ih " hhN N"A
gerous fluid used in these vehicles to be stored
and used to ill the tanks Of the vehicles. or for
the vehicles with the fluid in them to be stored.
But there is no occasion to relax the general
principle so as 10 hold that this dangerous
fluid may. because it is disable by these We
hicles. be stored or used in a locality utterly
hnsuited, and 70 an amount giving rise to great
danger: or that the filled vehicles may be so
stored
The directors Of the A utomobiie Club NJ
Philadelphia have erected 4 number of warm
ing signs on Church road. in an effort to pre-
vent a repetition of the collisions between
automobiles and trolley cars on that highway.
Half a dozen signs have been erected at points
along the road where il is crossed by different
suburban trolley lines.
The snow committee Of the Automob il0
Club Of America is making rapid progress
with the plans for the decoration of the show
the organization is to hold in the Grand Gem
trail Palace, December Ito 3. The committee
will make an announcement in a few DAYS
OF the allotment of space recently made to
all applicants for exhibition spaces. Alfred
Reeves, general snager Of the American
Motor Car Manufacturers Association, which
secured a large block ofspace for it's members.
Gays that practically all OF the firms TO whom
space was allotted At the drawing on October
have completed the plans for their eX-
hibits.
After struggling for three years in an
effort to TX regulations for automobiles
driven in the city limits Of Toledo, the city
council there has framed a set Of severe
measures. The speed limit H. fixed at ten
miles an hour and no one under the age OF
rs years Is TO be allowed 20 drive a car. In
case OF an accident the driver OF a car must
stop and give his name and address as well
As the nar1e and Hddress OF the owner OF the
machine to the injured person or to any
spectator who demands such information.
FOR the first offence the penalty Is SIS, and
zach subsequent offence Is punishable by a
me Of $50 and ten days In the w~Orkhouse.
No provision was made for licenses. but City
Collector Northrup Is preparing a license
ordinance to be submitted 70 the city council.
MANY otherwise excellent cars suffer from
tAe bugbeAr OF noise, says Motor NetDs Of
Dublin, Some Automobiles do not object
20 rattle and noise; to others IL Is most irri-
tatinR and Objectionable, and to all we should
think silence. or as near silence as possible,
would be infinitely preferable. Some design
ers have turned their attention dire fly to the
elimination OF noise, and II Is a big problem.
IL means that every working joint or bearing
must not only be a good 1T when new, and
Of good material. but the provision must
be made for easy and accurate adjustment,
Toward this end some makers have adopted
hall socket Joints to all central rods and levers
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