Evening star., 1907-11-10

The Connecticut highway commission
has received requests from 134 towns
asking for the state appropriation for
road Improvement.
San Francisco automobillsts are much
wrought up over an ordinance passed by
the reform supervisors which provides
that any motor vehicle caught after dark
without an owner Is to be impounded.
The ordinance is designed to prevent the
use of the street as garage.
A scheme to sell gasoline to motorists
on the nickel-in-the plan Is under
consideration in Cleveland, the promoter
Of the scheme offering to rent the vot-
ing booths Of the city to use as auto
matte supply stations.
One person Is killed every fifteen hours
of the day by trolley cars in New York
city. according to figures compiled by
Coroner Hamburger. making the number
killed by automobiles small by contrast.
Although the ordinary insurance COM
panias are not permitted to insure auto
mobiles against loss by fire by the Mas
sachusetts laws. the marine companies
may do so.
The speed laws in nearly all European
countries are less stringent than in the
United States. the ability of the operator
to handle his car being taken into con-
sideration.
The Missouri State Automobile Asso-
citation has a political fight on It's hands,
Representative H. F. Stapel of Rockport,
who Is a candidate for governor. having
announced himself opposed to the auto
mobile.
According to the head of Philadelphia s
police 1890 out of the 10000 motorists
who operate cars in that city have
paelarte1 RI take city licenses ..llS
year Prosecution Is threatened the de-
! linquents.
A horsepower car has been trans
| formed by an ingenious Paris inventor
| in such a way that direct drive Is Sc
cured on all four speeds by a method so
| simple and effective that the problem OF
a really ffrst-class transmission Is well
on the way toward being perfected
Charles Blake. a farmer, living twenty
five miles from Waterbury. Conn, who
uses large touring car to take his
! produce to market, estimates he saves
| ten days time in year as compared with
a horse and wagon, avera~ing one trip a
| week.
The most serious invasion yet Of the
| French automobile field is that of an
! American manufacturer. who has placed
on sale at Paris a light four-cy ylinder
| car SelllHS Tor SttD.
| An ordinance is before Chicago's coun-
| cis to require all cabs and other public
| Conveyances. whether motor .Iorse
| driven. to be equipped with taximeters
| after May /.
| Swiss court has acquitted of man
| slaughter Ernest Stahl. chauffeur for
/ Heinrich Corried, the New York i'm
| prrsario who ran down and killed a deaf
| peasant in August.
To meet the demand for automobile fuel
the Standard on Company recently
| brought $500 tons of benzine from Su-
matra to San Francisco in a tank
| steamer. It the first time such q
dangerous cargo ever had been carried
! IN bulk.
Pittsburg owners of six-cylinder cars
have formed the Six-cylinder Club, to
which only persons possessing automo-
biles OF that class will be admitted. The
| initiation fee is to be So and but six new
members will be received at a time.
II the motor stops firing sudd denly tn,
| trouble Will most likely be found II
either the sparkling system or the valv