The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-07-27

eral manager OF the OlusInoDiie ConipdhJ
that the selling agents for that machine
has been instructed 10 dwell more on the
extreme safety and roadabllity of the
| Oldsmobile than on its wonderful racinI
record is regarded in the trade as con-
elusive evidence that the public has passed
through the speed craze period, and tina
automobiles have now arrived at the prac
ticabinty state of horse vehicles
f. l., Smith, general manager OF the
Oldsmobile Company and probably the
best-known manufacturer in the trade, III
spite of the victories of the Oldsmoblle
in the Decoration Day races and the
sealed bonnet and other late tests, claims
that the "roadability' of an automophe
is now the supreme test of the modern
automobile Many manufacturers are IN
clined to agree with him.
The automobile always has proven a
friend of the farmer, but there is no agfl-
culturlst who prizes his machine as does q
farmer In Western Massachusetts,. Last
spring he p]owed his field by attaching the
plow to the car. He uses the engine or
the auto for churning milk, threshing corn,
saving wood and for drawing water from
the we'll His wife devised a plan where
by the engine of the car does the hard
work ON washing day. The farmer uepV-
srs eggs, perishable farm products to the
markets in the neignborins towns ana re-
ceives a high price for his products be-
cause of their freshness and prompt dellv-
cry His summer boarders take Joy
rides" and as these rides are not included
In the board, he nets quite tidy sum
from them. Doing similar work for his
neiehbors has made little fortune Tor
him. and he Is now contemplating buying
car of higher horsepower.
IL.
When Congress convenes in the winter
the bill requiring uniform automobile laws
in the several States will be urgently
pushed by the representatives. of the Amer
ican Automobile Association, and every
motorist who believes in this law and Is
not n member should support the national
body by Joining. Information can always
be had of Secretary =. II. Elliott, 4S7 Firth
avenue, New York
Gravity is inexorable and 1t is In mortal
opposition to the levity of midnight Joy
rides" This should be craven on the
visors of chauffers' caps, lest they them
selves 1be engraved.
A man who really wanted to know, en-
tered the Park Square Auto Station, IN
Boston, and asked Manager c. f. whitney
what was meant by the expression anti
fatigue car" He wondered whether 1t was
claimed to cure that tired feeling, or that
one never got wearied when riding in it,
Mr.. Whitney answered: while both those
claims might reasonably be made, some
thing very different is involved In the
term. 1t is the car itself that does not
get tired, particularly the metal in IL.
Fatigue In metal is another name for crys-
talization. 1t seems as If after time In
use the steel gets tired and the molecules,
Instead of knitting themselves together,
become 'unstuck This Is disintegration
or crystaliza1on. When vanadium Is IN
troduced as an alloy In steel 1t will not
crystallize. j. Kent Smith, the greatest
exponent of vanadum dubbed it the anti
fatigue metal and as all the steel and
iron in Berliet cars has this alloy of vana-
dium, 1t is peculiarly appropriate to call it
the 'ant-fatigue car.
A careful investigation of the scoring of
the Neutrality-suspicious. endurance race re-
Gently held in Chicago has been made by
the Matheson Company, of New YORK,
with the result that 1t has ample evidence
in hand. supported by affidavits. to prove
that the Matheson car driven by Buck and
Monginf covered the greatest mileage In
this race, although awarded second place.
1t will be remembered that this race was
a close struggle between c. A. Coey, the
young Chicago driver. and the Matheson,
and that the officials announced at the end
of the twenty-four hours that Coey mad
won by the narrow margin or Iour mics.
The evidence gathered by the Matheson
Company. of New York, and its Western
representative, Paul Pickard. with the
affidavits have been laid before the racing
board Of the American Automobile Asso-
citation. These Il is claimed, go to prove
that the scorers not only failed TO credli
the Matheson with Its correct mileage, Dut
that they gave Coey more laps than he
actually covered. An officer of the Matne-
son Company said yesterday that II the
racing board did not act in this matter
the evidence and affidavits would De maze
| public.
| Complaints that certain coils "eas Ut
batteries" are heard frequently, and here
is some wisdom from a high autnorliy, 80 D.
| on the subject of adjusting vlDrators
/ 'The vibrator should be adjusted so ina
there is as slight a tension on 1t as possible
and still fire regularly If the tension Oh
the vibrator is decreased, you Will reach 9
point at which a cylinder VIII miss. lf
then, the tension Is increased to tha'
point where the cylinder again nres regu'
arly, the vibrator will be adjusted to ap-
proximate correctness.
] broken bottle in the road should al
ways be allowed to haze the right of way
Although its first demonstrating cal
will not be on the road until August ] th'
| Colt Runabout Company. the latest addi
| tion to the ranks OF automopie manu1ac
turers. is being swamped with correspond
ence regarding its product; Orders TO-
| forty-eight cars have already been oooket
and sixty people are on the waiting lis
for demonstrations This Interest in th'
Colt Runabout is not to be wondered at
| A six-cylinder, forty horsepower, two
| seated car. built Of chrome nickel steel
with sliding gear selective transmission
and fitted with detachable rims and iistet
ct the very low figure OF $1,000, conin no
do otherwise but attract n great deal OF at
tention William M. Turner. president o
the Colt Runabout Company, says that n
will enter cars in a number OF contests II
the near future to demonstrate their ex
ceptional qualities
The gradual suppianting OF the horse by
the automobile is no better illustrated thal
by the large number of well-to-do peopl
who formerly purchased high-cass horse
drawn vehicles and who now are spending
their money for automobiles. several con
Germs which handle both classes OF roa'
vehicles state that a great many OF thei
old customers are now owners OF autono
biles Perhaps the best known OF thes
concerns is Studebaker Brothers. z. Du
mont. the head of the automobile depart
ment of the New York branch. states tina
I'm one day last week he sold cars TO thre
old customers who heretofore have bough
hOrse-drawn vehicles BY a strange eoil
| cidence the three cars sold represent IN
three Studebaker models which, are on IN
market this season.
To complete the Glidden tour and sue
cessfully meet the very severe CONDITION
which governed it, with the entire mechan
ism OF his car sealed. is the pefformanc
made by j H Becker OF Clyde, Ohio. MI
Reckers car was a thirty-hve-norsepoWe
Elmore. the only two-cyese car In the nos
| famous tour Previous TO the start OF tn
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