The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-31
The AUTOMOBILISTS.
TENDER CARE or THE CAR 81 G-
GESTED BIZ ILLNESS.
Pneum onia Compared to an Engine Thh'
Is Out Of Sorts-Experlments In lr0n'
making Interest Manufacturer Cape
May Men TO Try for American Team

"One is apt to be In much closer sympathy
with his car and 10 treat 10 more Conslderatcly
after he has been laid up for a spell and had
a chance to ponder IL. remarks a man whose
illness WAS acquired through his being over
enthusiastic about motoring in an open car
Il do not recommend any one 10 court SICK
ness for this reason. I" he continues, but you
will not have an adequate idea OF how much
the hydro-carbon engine and the human
engine are alike until you have an attack
of pleu and lie abed and think
il all over. was in just about the condition
an en- CINE is after being run a while and not
properly cared for. My lungs were not
making the proper mixture and consequently
nothing else would work right. Without a
good mixture from the carburetor you
don't get good compression, explosion or
power of stroke. The Wheeling. creaklng,
coughing and grinding In me and the pains
made me think Of my poor engine When " Is
pounding and grooming. They had me in what
they call a pneumonia jacket. and | was re-
minded that | would have done well II | had
put something like il around the carburetor
of my car last winter. OF course the doctors
like TO speak OF the human body as an engine.
but when a man comes to thinking OF his
automobile engine AZ something like the
human system. 1t is apt to make hun give IT
better treatment. You can think OF the
different parts Of the en- CINE and name them
all TO correspond with the stomach. lungs,
heart, DC, If every one felt this way toward
| his car there would be scarcely any troubles
with them. know that 1t seems TO hurt me
now when any part Of the engine or inc car
Is not working well, but is sick,
Rimms-Tm all mixed up in my economy
now that | have my car.
Tiors- You mean short in your accounts?
Rimms-- Not that yet but you see | bought
L. . a,,a tip,a nm thn aCOn nnllCAl theOry
| of time being money, and now | cannot tell
how much fof the time save by using the
car | should spend at making money and how
much OF il | am entitled TO spend In the car
saving UP more time,
Experiments in iron making which II sue
cessful will be of tremendous Interest to auto
mobile makers are now being carried on IN
nrivate at q New England furnace by an old
time iron master, who Ia being backed by
New York capital. The aim ia TO produce
the equivalent of wrou ght iron direct from
iron concentrates. This has been done with
n small furnace, and a patent on the process
has been issued to Gustave Westman oil New
York. A furnace for the production OF this
metal in commercial quantities Is now belng
built. Tho experimental product il said 10
be perfect, a bar Of il showing not the least
trace Of rust after having been cut for a year,
Such a material would be almost revolutionary
in the chan gcs IL would make In building,
because il is said that this iron can be pro-
duced from tho furnace with any percenta &c
OF carbon down TO almost total exclusion,
and could be used in moulds, yielding some
thing that in quality would be a wrought
iron Glstins. For nuts and bolts and parts
liable TO crystalline and break a pure iron
of this sort would permit Of great improve
ments II made at a price to compete with
steel, and it Is the present plan to do 40. q
lime factory Of New jersey EMPLOYS ar
automobile, stripped or its body, as q loco
motive for hauling a train OF small box cars
about the factory grounds and finds tht
acknowledgements much cheaper thar
the steam one II formerly used,
Some Of the purists Of England are frettinl
because the motorists Of this country per
slst in calling them touring cars. " instead o.
tourist cars, as is the custom In Grea,
Britain. Perhaps the idea Of present action
the ind di fs Mbllc6 So she Rpsi isb'T cousins 9i Oh Oh,
motoring years ago, and had some tours,
cars that never were guilty OF being a tourinl
for any length oil time,
Two members of the Cape MAY Auto.
mobile Club are the latest ones TO announce
heir .m msehssEn team ca epin IN sRs sa GsdhqiSafte c iEl
race The gentlemen are Charles ! swayne
S Tessidents Of iPPhiladelphiiie' Mr. swayns wog
quite a few prizes at the Cape May beach
rueets last year, driving his own car, and
Dr, wilkins has also competed In severa
stock car events. Both have heretofore
pinned their faith 10 ~gasolene cars, but hav We
ordered a Stanley steam racer TO represent
ther1 In the elimination trials for the Ameri
can team on Septembe ~,
READ LIE, Mass, May 70, More thar
10. OOn persons witnessed the Bay State auto
mobile associations annual races here thit
afternoon, Joe Downey, driver for J. r
Harding OF Rome, n. y, had a narrow escape
from death, Downey was tuning up MIR
iiarding's car at a forty mile clip and in max
ins thelast turn 10 the home stretch IL collidec
with s Winsor Blossoms Mitchell. which wa,
turning preparatory to starting in the seconC
race The Mercedes bounded to the RICH
and tearing dow fifteen feet Of fence turned
completely over and caught fire. A mum
her OF women tainted, while a crowd Of mer
rushed to DowDey's rescue, Everyone sup
posed that he had been crushed to death blu
when extricated, it was found that his onl,
injury consisted of a slightly sprained wis!
When the car turned turtle, Dovney fel
forward and the back of the seat prevented
the weight OF the car from coming upon him
The m airy:
Five MIes-open to all stock Cars-Won b!
Il, $, Rogers, Stanley lMr, Rogers: Stanley Motol
Comnahy's Stanley ". H.. NaTriOtp, second
Time, 8 minutes IS as seconds,
Five Miles-Open to All GAsolene Stock Cars
Iist Prize. n ,O00-Won by Dr., j, +, HovcSttdt'