Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
NEWS OF INTEREST
TO THE AUTOMOBILES

soon will put on more. Automobiles also
are being used by the Egyptian govern.
ment In the police inspection service.
mixture Of alcohol and hydrocarbons
has recently been produced in Germany
which liz fully equal to gasoline In point Of
energy and infiammability, and which can
be directly used In motors built to consume
, gasoline.
1t practically has been determined that
the feature of the 1908 Ormond-Daytona
Beach tournament will be 3O0-mile con-
test, run in two 15O-mile relays. for a gold
cup to become the property of the winning
driver
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While In emergencies any oil may be bet-
ter than none. some which might be util-
| lied form a pretty expensive sort of ex-
pedient The use of linseed oil in the crank
case has been heard of more than once,
but the accounts never detail the amount
or work which even Its most temporary
use entailed upon the driver. Generally
speaking, any organic compounds OF this
nature used by themselves are SO yery
rich In carbon and fatty ACIDS that they do
even more harm than good. The one eIe-
ment tends to befoul all surfaces with
which 1t comes into contact in a heated
decidedly corrosive in its effect.
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iit'SpufS Is ABOUT 10 Try the experiment
of the automobile for transportation pur-
poses in the parks. The idea is Tor the city
to purchase six automobiles, seating twenty
passengers each. to do the parks In a sight
seeing way. The fare will be fixed to meet
the expenses of operation.
A vapor emission competition is the latest
project Of the Automobile Club of Great
Britain. Awards will be made to the car
which gives the least offensive exhaust and
to the best device to enable driver 10
continuously observe his cars exhaust
When three similar cars were run with
gasoline denatured alcohol and kerosene as
fuel. from New York to Boston, the results
attained were about equal, but il was found
that the alcohol motor exerted a strong
pull at as low speed as 100 revolutions u
minute.
Although women have been authorized to
drive cabs in Paris, as yet no woman has
applied for license to drive a motor cab.
However, women are daily seen on the
streets driving their own cars and the sight
of women astride motorcycles has ceased
to be novelty.
An amusing situation has developed in
connection with the adoption of an automo-
bile by the Springfield fire department for
first aid to fires. An auto chassis was
fitted several months ago with an emer-
gency outfit, consisting of chemical tanks,
200 feet of hose and equipped to carry eight
men, 1t is housed at the central fire sta
ton in Springfield and has attended every
alarm since its adoption, rendering inesti-
mable aid and saving thousands of dollars
worth of property by reason of its prompt
attendance.
The chief of the fire department ana his
deputy are supplied by the city with horses,
which necessarily require the attention OF
a driver. Their services so far as active
participation in the confiagration are con-
cerned have practically been dispensed
with. as in many cases the automobile aux
Hilary has reached the fire so much earlier
than the horse-drawn vehicles that the fire
has been put out before the arrival of the
latter. This situation is realized by tie city
fathers, and the council was advised by the
board of fire commissioners at their annual
meeting some time ago to purchase two OF
the lighter four-cylinder cars for the use of
the chief and his deputy. The council was
also advised to Immediately purchase an
other of the larger cars and equip 1t SINH
larly to the one in their possession, that
each may cover different sections of the
town.
. The attention of the city council was
drawn, not so much to the fact that the
automobile auxiliary was able to outpace
the chief of the department. but that when
the latter arrived his driver was occupied
in taking care of his horse, and consequent
ly not available for fire duty, whereas If
furnished with an automobile the driver
could leave the machine and assist in the
work of fire-fightng.
The feeling In the city is so unanimous
as to the use of these auXiiaries-tke coun-
Gil itself being of the same opinion-that
the complete service is expected to be es>
tablshed within the next thirty days.
The United States aqueduct highway III
this city is being thoroughly investigated by
New York motorists furnishing prece-
dent for the construction of an automobile
highway over the line of the Catskiil aque-
duct.
The projectors of the second annual show
at Omaha fixed it's dates as March 1916, so
that 1t would be held the week following
that a Kansas city, thereby giving factory
men opportunity to visit it with least in
convenience.
be reserved for farm work, o. III. p. Bel
mont will convert his extensive Long Island
stable into garage. Other wealthy New
Workers also are planning to replace their
horses with automobiles.
Although Detroit is the metropolis of the
automobile industry, a newly elected coun-
Gilman wants cars the drivers of which
exceed the speed limit impounded for vary
ing lengths of time. He believes fines fail
to accomplish the desired reforms.
An idea of the progress made by the auto
industry in France is shown by the fact
that the expectation of French machines
during the first nine months of 1906 eX-
ceeded that for the corresponding period Of
1905 by 1854 600 francs.
When a car is run into a garage with q
Debated tire 1t is best to jack up the wheel
soon as possible to prevent damage to
that particular shoe and tube. If a car is
placed in storage 1t should be lacked up ali
around and the tires Debated.