Evening star., 1907-11-03

In recent collision between an auto
bus and trolley car at Philadelphia, the
car was the more seriously damaged.
New bridges are to be built and $50 900
spent for roadway repairs on the famous
meadow boulevard leading into Atlantic
City.
Don't forget to watch the oiling system
carefully. especially the jack shaft, trans
mission and other parts
Although the price of gasoline in Eu-
rope is much higher than in this country,
the oil comes in sealed cans and motorists
always are assured of good quality.
A motorist at Medicine Hat. Assinaboia
drives his car with natural gas without
having altered the original machinery ex-
cept to add tank for carrying the COM
pressed gas and a tube for leading it to
the Carbureter.
Tarnished aluminium is hard to restore
to its original beauty. especially If 1t has
the frosted finish. 1t will be improved in
appearance if immersed for time In
weak solution of sulphurc acid.
A test by government officials at the
jamestown exposition showed that It takes
one and one-half gallons of denatured al
COllOl 10 pTbtluCe DIS U1UClI power DIS d gal
Ion of gasoline.
A Los Angeles scissors grinder has
mounted his grindstones on the rear of
an automobile from the motor of which he
obtains power to drive them, and now
covers the entire city in a day, where for
merly It required week or more for him
to reach his regular customers. chiefly
butchers and restaurant proprietors.
A planetary transmission gear which
persists in overheating may be kept
cool by the use of graphite grease in mod
crate quantities instead of oil.
Claim is made that the biggest garage
In the world soon will be established in
Berlin, Germany. 1t will have tanks hold
ing 1900 gallons of gasoline.
Motorists who complain of headaches
and ill-feeling after driving should look
to the google lenses. Many cheap goggles
have lenses that are not entirely neutral.
as they should be, the effect being to
strain the eyes badly as if they We're
severely astlgmauc.
The Princess of Wales has her own
ideas about the way car should be
built Her newest one SHE had fitted with
a table for use on picnics with her chill
dren and with special seats for them. The
car is finished IN pecuilar Shade OF
green which she ordered to match bunch
of fir leaves which she sent to the makers.
Men who few years ago did not be
lieve that they could afford a bicycle are
today buying palatial six-cylinder lin
cuisines.
In the eighth national automobile show
in Madison Square Garden, which opened
Ia ip and will run for daES,
thte prospective automobile buyer will
world. The licensed maker this year has
not been radical, except as to elegance in
appointment, and there is no doubt he has
planned wisely.
Long Island Notwithstanding justices
are becoming very touchy. Just because a
prisoner accused of speeding and fined $40
remarked that he was willing to spend a
similar amount in seeing that the fine
reached the county treasurer the justice
imposed a second fine, presumably for
contempt of court. But this did not throw
any light on the matter at issue-that is
do the fines reach the county treasury? :?
Do they?
Horses and horse racing used to be the
long suit of most county fairs but now
adays the motor vehicle quite eclipses the
steady going equine a drawing card and
a feature. The farmer has awakened to
realization of the worth of the automobile
and is buying it with remarkable free
dom