Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-25

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Honk. Honk, Heads up on 18th street
Wake up and clear the way. Here comes
1.-THE automobile herdic,
| 1t Is a fact. A Franklin omnibus thd'
will carry fourteen passengers IS 10 pe
| tried on the classic route. The COOK q
| Stoddard Company has contracted 10 1ur'
nish at least one such vehicle, ana II
| that is success-good-bye, horses. II
will be a repetition of the demise or the
old 9TH avenue bus line in New YORK
| which for years tottered on its way "itn
! horses for motive power. and which no"
| has a stream of big automobile omni'
buses running. The new omnibus Will OF
seen around these parts about Decenl'
| Der 1.
| Cook & Stoddard have just sold Baker
Stanhope to Dr. Wilmer.
L. P. Dorset Company has taken the
agency for Standardization cars
demonstration car is on the way and l9Vs
cars are expected November Is.
| Edwin II. Buff travelled to the scene OF
the Vanderbilt cup race from Washing
ton in a Franklin touring car.
Robert Callahan. jr., has been doing a
| little touring lately. He recently went TIC
| the Frederick fair from there to Gettys-
burg, and thence to Baltimore. He drove
20 Thomas. Mr.. and Mrs. McRae were
with him.
John ii. Nolan went to Frederick Thurs
day in a Matheson.
James Koran has bought a 1909 Pope
Hartford tourabout car. which will be
delivered within a few days. The Pope
| Hartford 1909 cars will be here about NO
| vember /.
The club car for Savannah is being
talked about in Washington A party OF
automobile enthusiasts will leave here fol
| the Savannah races, and live In private
railroad car until they reach town again.
w. C. Long has sold a model 80 Wayne
| car to H. j. Mattern.
Arthur Stanley Zell president of the
Motor Car Company, went to New Iork
Thursday in 40 Thomas runabout to See
| the races.
| Perhaps automobilists do not know It
but the Department of Agriculture is a
ers The bureau of good roads. under the
supervision of the Department of Agricul.
ture, Is working ceaselessly to produce
Experiments are being made daily with
dust preventives of every variety of OF
and tar. Trials have been made of the
various crude and residual oils. All kinds
of tar mixtures have been tried.
| Road binders, to prevent the wearing
down of roads. and the consequent ruts
| have been tried. One of the most move
experiments was with molasses, making a
road ALI to the candy
Speaking of tool bags for automobiles
Washington man has solved the ques-
ton, as far as he is concerned. He gives
the following directions for making a too
roll, and says the footboard is the proper
place for carrying it:
"A wooden case should be made to hold
the tool roll 1t can be painful in the
car colors and should have a hinged lid
fixed sides and back, and hinged, fall
ing front. The tool roll is then placed In
the case. The outer fold of the roll is
fastened down in the wood case by sis
one-inch screws, with fiat metal washers
leather. Two of the screws pass through
the strap fastening the roll when furled
| up
| Washingtonians who drive their cars tc
| Atlantic City will probably hail with Joy
| the announcement that the road from
| Absecon to Port Republic, N. j., will be
widened and made into splendid thor
oughfare
Manager Long of the Commercial Au.
| tomobile and Supply Company says that
sales are running along smoothly.
| The Thomas & Tolman Company Is
| among the great army of business enthu-
siasts. The company expects to sell cars
all through the winter, an unusual pro-
| cedure.
| = cable was received recently from
Paris, giving details Of the decision OF
the International Congress of Recognized
Automobile Clubs in the matter of racing
| limitations for the year 1909.
The new rules provide for a maximum
minimum weight of 900 kilos, or 1,9S4
| pounds. This cuts down the size Of four.
| cylinder racing motors one inch, and the
minimum weight about 600 pounds.
The action was anticipated from the let
| ters sent by the Italian club recommend.
| ing smaller limitation for internationa
| racing motors 1t is understood that the
English and German clubs also Endorsed
| the reduction.
The meeting under the presidency OF
of the Automobile Club of America b,
| w. S. Hogan and George Heath, VIII,
| transmitted the recommendation Of the
clubs technical committee to the con
/ gress.
| AS soon as full details of the meetings
arrive by mail. full information will b,
sent TO the American manufacturers In
| order that they may plan for next wears
| grand prize race.
| The Automobile Club Of America has
| been selected as the sole American repre-
sentative of the International Association
OF Yachting Automobiles of Europe. This
selection carried with it the governing
races or competitions held in the United
| States.
In most engines the piston heads car
be scraped clean Of carbon without remov.
ing the pistons from the cylinders by
means of specially formed scrapers intro.
duced through the opening over the
valves. or through the spark plug holes
when the latter are horizontal. The form
and size of scraper will depend on the
particular engine, but almost any suitable
form may be made from SIG inch stee
tubing, II inches long, having the ends
| hammered fiat and turned over at right
angles in wise. The ends are then filed
straight and sharp. and the shank OF
any scraper may be bent to right or
| left if necessary or left straight FIRE.
! ,lx, cor mar will h. IoI ~,