Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29

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father shot dead the driver and a beau
tiful girl beside him. the Marquis de
Dion has asked the Automobile Club or
France to establish a fund for making
inquiry into motor accidents and their
causes.
In using calcium chloride as an anti
freezing solution. care should be taken
that it is chemically pure. and that II
must not approach in density up to the
saturaton limit. considering boiling point
of water as the prevailing temperature.
\ 10 per cent solution is generally all
that is needed.
Reduced fares have been promised py
several railroads TO motorists attenoihs
the special meetings OF the American
Automobile Association during the Grand
Central Palace and Madison Square GARD
en- shows in New York. Only memoers
of the A. A. A. or affiliated bodies VIII
be entitled to the reductions.
The New Jersey State motor vehtcle
department has started a new series or
registration numbers. "a a &c eontrae. TOT
ready been placed. 1t will be necessary
for motorists desiring to retain their
present numbers to file an application
with the department on or before Decem-
Der 1.
Automobile touring abroad. under
normal conditions. is cheaper than any
other form of transport when one counts
everything. A party of four American
women toured Normandy and Brittany
in a hired automobile for ten days for
something like $40 each. and another
party of five did six days on the Riviera.
starting from Marseille, for 500 for the
whole party.
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Small cars made by big manufacturers
form the central feature Of the annual
automobile sa'on which has Just opened
in Paris. Heretofore the world-renowned
French makers have been too busy with
rich customers to pay attention to the
man of moderate means. The increasing
popularity of motoring with the general
public. however. has forced change.
AS was the case In the Vanderbilt cup
race the spectators In the grandstand at
the Savannah races had an opportunity
to watch the drivers and mechanicians
Of the racing cars make repairs Supply
stations similar to those used at the
Grand PriX in France and other foreign
contests were placed in front OF the grand
stand with platforms for tires on the op-
posite side of the road.
According to United States Senator
Buckley Of Connecticut the automobile
has been abused by irresponsible motor
lists. He stoutly advocates it's enforce
ment. not repeal.
New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsyi-
vana motorists will endeavor this winter
to have laws passed requiring lights at
night on all vehicles.
For the purpose Of still further enhance
ing the Importance of its traffic depart
ment the National Association of Auto
mobile Manufacturers. Inc, has arranged
for series of meetings of the traffc ex-
perts connected with the automobile fac
tories in Cleveland Indianapolis. Chicago
and Detroit. Later meetings Will be held
in eastern cities.
a novel warming Arrangement for win
ter use in motoring has been devised by
II. A. Fowler an enthusiastic motorist OF
Kansas City. He buttons a rubber or
leather hood to the dashboard and sides
of the seats and does away with the usual
sack" common furnace register face
is set in the floor board. connected with
the exhaust pipe, admitting a circulation
of warm air up under the hood
Collection of mail by automobile. intro
duced in Lynn. Mass, is reported TO be
proving SO successful that several other
New England postmaSterS are thinking OF
trying the experiment. Three collections
are made daily with one car. handled by
one man, doing the work which formerly
required the services or two horses and
wagons and two men.
Calculation of the production Of auto.
mobiles in America next year places the
output of all the factories close to 5000
cars. This total product, valued at APP
proximately s120OOO,OOO. will he built by
2Gi manufacturers which means that
car will be marketed for about every
LOCO of population in the country and
that the car will average $3.50 in price.
1t is mistake for driver to ever try
to correct an apparent fault in a coil.
There are no reasons for a coil to refuse
to work that can be remedied by an or
binary mechanic, except it be some out
side connection. If the coil is SO that a
current will not pass through it. either
the primary or secondary part. 1t is al
ways due to burning out, and calls for q
new coil at once
The number of outside trades which
reap benefit from motoring is astonishing.
For instance, artists. carpenters, diapers,
carpet layers. plaster workers, modelers.
sculptors, electricians, telephone men,
linemen. cabinet makers. scene painters.
plain and fancy iron workers. sign paint
tiers. steeplejacks. Triggers, laborers and
freight handlers all profit more or less
directly from an automobile show.
The directore styles have spread to
motoring coats for women. They are
made with wide revers which fasten over
the fronts by means of ''cabachon' but
tons run through elongated buttonholes
and having a high turnover collar. also
button trimmed. A favorite material Is
pelisse, of redingote shape, but with sides
slashed to the hips SO that there is no
strain on the lower portion of the gar.
ment when the wearer is seated.
CALIFORNIA; good roads movement,
which received setback by the action OF
the voters of Santa Barbara county in
refusing to authorize bond issue Of
81 21O, 600 to aid the construction OF q
thorough road from San Francisco to Los
Angeles, has received fresh impetus
through a plan, said to be favored by
Gov. Gillette, for system Of state roads
along the lines of those in
Massachusetts. 1t is said the governor
is considering a recommendation to the
legislature favoring issue of bonds
to $lS,OOO,0OO for state roads.
Brice Cowan fifteen years old of Los
Angeles and II. l. Gray, fourteen years
old, of New fork city, possibly are the
two youngest automobile makers in the
United States. Brice has built ma
chine he calls the California Midget
six feet long and weighing 800 pounds and
capable of twenty-five to thirty miles
hour. 1t runs by gasoline, and the mate
rails cost $780, all of which Brice earned
himself Gray's car Is steam driven.
with frame made of ang.e iron, braced
by truss rods. His car, too, can make