Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15
Sparks !!

IN automobile motor blowing contest is
| to be held in Paris soon
bridgeport, Conn.,, is one of the latest
cities to buy motor driven chemical en-
CINE for it's fire department.
recent aid to motoring comfort is a
water and dust proof circular hat box
made to be carried in the space inside the
emergency tire.
A skirt of soft black leather. trimmed
with black Persian lamb, is one of the
| most striking motoring costumes shown
this winter for women's wear.
With Russian caviare concealed in the
hollow rims of the wheels of his motor
car, smuggler recently was caught cross
ing the RusSo-AuStrian frontier.
Twelve automobiles and a full-sized
sightseeing car are used in a production
at the New York Hippodrome. which has
the largest stage in the world.
Probably the youngest motor cyclist in
the world is Clement Marchand, five and
one-half years old, of Paris, who already
has raced, and has made his twenty-five
miles an hour.
Because several horses have been fright
ened. accidents resulting, the authorities
of Paterson, N. j., have forbidden the
use of automobile searchlights in that
city.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, of New
York thought it such a good joke when
his chauneur was arrested for speeding,
bail for the man.
In a recent twentyfour- hour road race
| at Springfield, Mass. between two cars
| of the same make, one water-cooled, the
| other air-cooled, the former made 7O5
| miles to the latter's 6SSA.
London police magistrate recently
| fined an American motorist the equivalent
of $1,000 for offering half sovereign as a
| tip to a policeman who had arrested him
for speeding.
During the fiscal year which recently
| closed the motor vehicle board of the
| District of Columbia issued $50 permits
| to operate cars and registered 100 cars
| from different states.
Old castings, cut into 1S-inch lengths. with
| the edges rounded off, make as good tire
| sleeves as can be bought. They can be
attached by wires or leather thongs run
| through eyelets set into the edges.
Cast aluminium, now coming into gen.
| eral use for automobiles, is easily cor
| roded, but may be cleaned with good sand
| soap applied with stiff brush. A mixture
of emery and washing powder also is eff
| fective.
| The smartest wells for winter motoring
| are of lace or heavy tulle. with deep lace
| applique borders. Most of them are two
yards square. although some wearers pre-
| fer them three yards long by one and
| half in width.
The government of Brazil has purchased
|
use of the Rio Janeiro police from an
American manufacturer, whose cars are
carrying the mails in Java and are used
| for auto buses in Japan.
| Under policies which are now written
the owner of a machine can insure him
| self against accident, damage and LA
bility of any nature whatsoever. with the
single exception of a breakdown Of the
car due to faulty construction.
Eighteen different makes Of six-cylinder
cars were exhibited at the recent Olympia
show at London to six single cylinder.
eleven with two cylinders and two with
three cylinders. The our-cylinder ma
chimes numbered nearly 200.
| A combination of one fourth wood alco-
| hol and three-fourths water will with
| stand zero temperature without freez-
| ing, while 40 per cent wood alcohol and
60 per cent water will not freeze until it
reaches about 20 degrees below zero.
If black smoke and red flame come from
! the carburetor the mixture Is too rich;
| If yellow flame, too weak while an occa-
| sional blue flame and a well-emphasized
note from the exhaust pipe shows the
carburetor is properly adjusted.
Automobile headlights of more than
| thirty-two-candle power rarely are seen
| in France, so when mysterious flashes
| were seen on a recent night in a rural
| district three volunteer fire departments
| turned out. to find that an American mo-
torist was trying to find his way with an
| acetylene searchlight.
On land in New Jersey at present of but
| little value and convenient to both Phil
adelphia and New York a twenty five-mile
| automobile track will be built by the
| owners of the property, who hope to have
the Vanderbilt cup races held there and to
make it the greatest motor-racing center
| in the east.
| Definitely deciding to hold a Vanderbilt
1 cup race next year, the committee of the
| American Automobile Association having
the matter in charge selected October for
the month and increased the maximum
weight limit for cars to 2,424.4 pounds,
to agree with the limit recently fixed by
the European automobile congress.
/ Within two hours after LIE Matin of
Paris announced its race from New York
to Paris, via Alaska. the Boring straits
Siberia. Russia and Germany. 1t received
two offers of pilots-one from an ex-
sailor. whose life had been full of stirring
and the other from Pons, who tried to
drive a tri-car in the Peking-to-Paris race
The first definite entry came from an
American, c. H. Tangeman of New York
Sonora, Cal, has hopes of some day
becoming an automobiling center. A
query as to the prospects brought the
following original response from the edi-
tor of the towns leading daily: Most
of the transportation here is per fourteen
mule team, driven by jerkline, or by Jeru-
salem jackass. Our subscribers who use
| automobiles arb so limited in Tumber
that a census of the same would not leave
more than a trace on a government
blank. We are sorry. and hope some day
matters will be different. and that. when
our gold deposits are opened up more ex-
tensively. every one will have his own
smoke wagon"