Evening star., 1909-02-07

The 1859 Mitchell is claimed by its
makers and the local agents to have
solved the mud apron problem. The mud
apron is of sheetiron and extends from the
front of the hood clear back TO the trans
mission gear case 1t is firmly seated
and can be detached quickly.
The Pope Auto Company is showing the
new Pope-Hartford cars with the bug
bear of rear axle construction done away
with. The means used to accomplish this
Is to support the rear OF the car, through
the springs on heavy tube on the out
side ends of which run the wheels. Thus
the wheels are free to run and TO support
the Independent OF their driving
power, lust IS are the forward wheels. All
the strains are carried by the tube and
not the wheels which do the driving.
T. b. Spence Is a governor Of the
Automobile Club of Washington.
Cleveland, Ohio, has taken to taxicabs
with a rush. Three concerns are now
operating them and thirty-five more cabs
are being Installed.
maker of commercial autotrucks is
now offering a vehicle with d carrying
capacity of ten tons. 1t is the largest
capacity single vehicle in the world.
fear has actually arisen among selling
agents in several sections of the country
that the supply of high-grade cars this
season will run short.
The number of automobile registrations
in London amounts to 3i.90S-only 1000
less than the estimated total for the whole
of France.
The Automobile Club of Syracuse N
Y, has grown in membership from - to
217 In the first year OF it's existence and
determined effort is being made to reach
800 before 1910.
More and more motorists are appreciat-
ing the fact that the absence of an oil
bill Il a sure sign of d repair bill, and
they also know that the oil bill is the least
OF the evils.
The German motor car indust rials has
worked out new formula for the Prince
Henry tour which will permit vehicles of
from seven to twentyeight horsepower
to compete.
A peculiar feature of the automobile
bill before the West Virginia legislature
is that 1t makes it obligatory to use a fire
chain or other contrivance" when the
roads are slippery.
BY far the best and handiest thing to
clean the lens mirrors is mixture of
equal parts of alcohol and water; 80 per
cent solution evaporates more slowly
than pure alcohol, SO giving time to wipe
the glass clean.
l.. W. X Vanderbilt, jr. donor of the
world-famous Vanderbilt cup, believes
that grand prize race should be held at
Savannah yearly. He recently drove over
the course there and was delighted with
II.
Ralph De Palma, whose fast laps in the
Savannah grand prize race gave him a
standard among the great racing drivers,
IS to be a star attraction at the New Or
leans Mardi Gras carnival February 30.
u and ~
In connection with the northern games
in Stockholm from 1909 are to be auto
mobile races. from February TO IA The
first event will be a race from Gothen-
burg to Stockholm for the winter cup
and the "Gothenburg cup
See that the storage batteries are al
ways held tightly in their box and that
all connections are tight. Rubber sheet
ing is good material for packing the
batteries and deadens vibrations TO a
large extent.
1t Is estimated that largely on account
OF the unimproved state OF the roads the
mere hauling to market and to shipping
points of the farm products Of the United
States costs the farmers of the country
$685., ,o0OO0 a year.
After recent snow storm in Reading.
Pa, in which the roads were left in bad
condition, Fl. l.. Hardy an automobile
designer. attached an ordinary land roll
Ter TO sextuplet and rolled six miles
VI iodu"dS, putting IL III eNCelIeNt shape.
4 movement is on foot at Hartford
Conn. TO make free such ferries as now
ply on the Connecticut river where there
are no bridges. AS autoists have no other
means of reaching shore without an ex-
tensive detour, the ferries derive quite a
revenue.
After a series of extensive tests. com
pany with headquarters in Jersey City
\. j.. and operating 323 branch stores In
the United States. has decided 10 displace
some 800 horses and horSedrawn We
hicles in favor of motor delivery service
There are in the United States 10 ON
miles of railroad and 2.15l.510 miles oi
public roads, only about per cent of the
latter being improved. For every mile OF
railroad there are about nine miles of dirt
road and one mile of good stone road.
Col F. NJ. Joyce, president OF the Min
neSota State Automobile Association. viii
visit Milwaukee shortly TO confer with the
Milwaukee club officials and to cooperate
with them in making arrangements foi
the handling of the "Glidden army
Preparations for the automobile show
TO be held i'm Detroit, Mich, February
1920. are going forward rapidly Th'
decorations will be on Il more elaborate
scale than ever before attempted locally
The lower floor will be converted into