Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

Pennsylvania state highway depart
| ment expects to have issued over 200, 600
licenses by the end of the year.
Although the life of tire is said to be
$500 miles. probably less than one-third
| are given the proper care to secure that
! longevity.
| When S. F. Edge made the worlds rec
! ord of practically siXty-siX miles an hour
/ for tWenty-fOur consecutive hours the
shaft of his speedometer revolved 4,039, 200
| times.
The Amateur Athletic Union has de-
| cided to refuse registration as an amateur
to any motorist who may have raced for
! cash or against professionals.
Within the three months ending Novem-
| Der 10 Boston's polio arrested 1877 mo-
| florists for violating the automobile laws
! and collected s6,115 in fines.
Don't attempt to ford a stream and
I shift the gears in the middle. Start in
on low speed with the determination of
driving through without disconnecting the
clutch.
The district attorney of Oakland, Cal,
recently announced his belief that auto
| mobiles should be barred from new
macadam road in that city until it is six
/ months old.
|
| the best of condition it should receive an
| application of commercial castor oil at
least every three weeks; oftener if the
| leather becomes dry.
! When radiator caps stick, piece of
| channels leather wrapped about them
| often will afford sufficient grip to avoid
| the necessity for using pipe wrench or
| cold chiSel.
muff for motor car drivers. a sort of
| mitten, large enough to cover both hands
| and most of the steering wheel as well,
| is a recent. invention of an Indiana au-
| toist
The Automobile Club of Cincinnati has
erected road signs which really are di-
rectories, showing the direction and dis
| lance to practically every place to which
roads on which they are erected lead.
An excellent license tag and tail light
combined can be made by substituting
| the usual round glass of a lamp with a
rectangular one of frosted g.ass and
| painting it black, leaving the figures and
| letters clear.
Nine minutes at home spent in looking
over all the important bolts and nuts.
steering mechanism. hub caps and clip
/ nuts holding the spring to the axle often
will save nine hours of trouble on the
| road.
| When cars using storage batteries are
! laid I'D for the winter the batteries should
! be emptied of acid and thoroughly wash
| ed with clean water. then filled with dis
| titled water until they are to be used
| again.
| RIow-outs frequently are caused by tires
! being insufficiently inflated, the pressure
! of the ground on the under side having d
tendency to loosen the several phys OF TAB
ric so that they rub together, soon pro-
ducing weak spot.
Although the principle seems wrong. it
frequently is advantageous to lubricate
the working surfaces of service brakes
On the cheaper type of brakes 1t prevents
dragging, and on the more powerful forms
it prevents the bands from gripping too
suddenly.
The rapid advance made in automobile
power is shown by the fact that only
quarters horse power were considered
quite up to date, whereas today slx-cylln-
der cars with ratings of forty, fifty and
sixty horse power are common.
The petrol which Lieut.. Shackleton of
the British navy will use in the car in
which he will attempt to dash over the
| ice to the south pole next sprung mas
| been produced by chemists OF the BRIT
| ish government and tested at remarkably
| low temperature.
| A San Francisco philosophic motorist
| laws down three rules of action to avoid
| running down pedestrians, as follows:
IF it be man, steer behind him. Tor ne
| is sure to run ahead; If a woman, steer
| straight ahead, for she Will stop every
time; if one boy, slow down. II two boys,
| turn back and go around the block.
] NJ. Carson. northern California mo-
| toring enthusiast. drove his car flfty-three
tfNr fNsl1 r1C
walton of 800 feet to a place called Snow
| Camp There a man who owns ranch a
/ little farther on said he would give it to
| Carson if he could drive his machine TO
it, but the road was too rough.
| In the historical section of the Paris
| Salon the first Renault. a car of one ana
a half horsepower, and IL prehistoric Pan
| hard ct LeVaSsor were shown
! An American motorist who attended
| the Olympia show in London, in writing
! 10 friends in this couRtry, states that one
| of the points which most impressed him
| was the fact that n shaft-driven car was
exhibited by all of the 40 exhibitors OF
| motor cars except one.
w. X. Vanderbilt. jr.. recently ordered
| from the house of Renault ten cars of the
racing type of forty-tive horsepower, for
which he paid $4,000 apiece.
Barney Oldfeld wants to quit racing
I and is anxious to secure a snug berth
with some automobile concern, manufac-
turing automobiles and anxious to ex-
plot them. But Barney finds the matter
not so easy after all.
The Ormond meet of 1908 will be the
greatest ever run. The Automobile Club
of America and the Florida East Coast
Automobile Association, with w. j. Sen
ator" Morgan as managing director and
Sam Butler associated with Mr. Morgan,
will make the event
Frank Nuts great victory in the Re
liability contest Of the Chicago Motor
Club won for the veteran driver of Amer
ica's first car unstinted praise. Mutt
brought the Haynes through without the
loss of a point in field of thirty-five
prominent drivers and almost as many
ears of the first class. He drove from
kokomo TO Chicago. 80 miles. and drove
200 miles over the Ottawa section of the
route. placing his car. Immediately after
the last trip, in the hands of the COM
mittee.
Arthur kumof, second man with the
Pierce Greater Arrow of sixty horse
power. in the great Reliability run of the
| Chicago Motor Club, is but seventeen
years of age, and is hailed as the boy
wonder of the country.
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Confidence Man at Work.