Evening star., 1909-01-24

in England and carried thousands Of pas
| sengers. The advent of the locomotive
and restrictive laws drove the auto out Oh
| existence there, and left 1t for Germany
! France and America to revive fifty years
| later.
Since the adoption OF motor trucks by
leading express company 1t is asserted
the time for through express packages
from the west to a consignee in New
! York has been reduced fully twenty-four
| hours.
| Members of the general staff of the
army at Washington are particularly
! happy these days, as result or the IN
| staIling by the War Department or a
new forty horsepower car for their spe-
| cial use.
The total amount of money now in
vested in the motor trade In Boston Is
estimated at s10.ODO.OCO: the total sales
in 1908 at s7OOO,OOO and cars sold at
$500 There are siXty-fve makes rep
resented by thirty-one agencies and four
! teen branches.
To straighten a bent pin grip the
splayed ends between a pair of pliers and
rest the head upon some hard surface.
A tap on the head Sof the pin spreads
that end and closes up the other, straight
enins the pin and restoring it to its
original shape.
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lamps going out is the choking of the
/ draught holes in the cap of the lamp
| by heavy deposits of carbon. These
should be looked for and removed be-
fore any lengthy drive by, night.
The monthly journal to be issued after
| February | by the American Automo-
bile Association will start off with list
of about 900 subscribers, composed OF
| the membership of the A. A. A, COM
prised in its clubs and lndivlduai mem
/ berS.
The old stage in Yellowstone Park is
being replaced by a modern air-cooled
/ touring car, and the stage line oetWeen
Placerville and Lake Tahoe. made Ia
nous by Mark Twains story OF Horace
| Greeley. is to be brought up to date by
the use of motor buses.
! About the only way 10 remedy spring
saueaks is to jack up the body OF the car,
| separate the leaves of the plates of the
| springs slightly with screw driver ana
| pour a cooiouS dose OF oil between eacn
plate Then push little grease between
| each leaf with a thin -bladed knife.
! When replacing broken ball in pan
| caring 1T is better to renew the whole
| set, unless the new ball can be carefully
| gagged to be of the same size as the
| others If this is not attended to. the new
| ball. having to bear more than Its share
| of the weight, quickly succumbs.
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/ the earthquake in Italy is the planning
| of tours to points near the devastated
regions. The bureau of tours of theAuto-
| mobile Club of America is being deluged
with requests for information concerning
| the devastated district of the recent dis
/ aster.
/ a new road running from Modesto to
| Empire, Cal, has just been completed.
| 1t will be operated exclusively by gaso-
i cot
| ing with the Santa Fe at Empire is sue
| cessful it will be extended to Oakdale.
where it will connect with Sierra rail-
| way.
Motorists of New Orleans are specially
! interested in the construction of a road
| twenty-five miles in length to Chef Men
teur.' The road, as surveyed under the
| direction of the Louisiana Motor League.
| will cost between 5000 and $1,000 per
mile, and will be the regulation width OF
| twenty-one feet.
| There are now Seventy-fve tax1cabS In
daily operation in Boston.
| A regular line of automobile service be-
tween Ormond, Daytona and Palm Beach
! is about to be inaugurated
| The number of cars sold in California
| in the past year Is placed at 900.
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| The Louisiana Motor League has made
application for admittance to the Ameri-
can Automobile Association.
| More than 600 farmers in central Kan
| sas alone now own cars. with orders for
spring delivery of 100 more.
| The Denver Automobile Club is planning
] an illuminated street parade for April, a
gymhana for May and an orphans
day In June
! The council Of administration of the
A. c. of Belgium has decided to run the
circuit of Ardennes race in 1909
| Keep all oil Or grease away from your
| tires. See that the garage floors are as
| clean as possible, and wipe off oil from
! tires soon as seen.
| Oddly enough the left hand control
which has lately gained greatly in favor
with taXicabs, was tried, condemned and
abandoned some years ago.
| A novel tire pump in which the exhaust
| from the motor is used instead of atmo-
| spheric air is claimed by the inventor to
be able to initiate tire in two and one
| half minutes.
| With the establishment of another motor
car factory at Dayton. Ohio, that city
looms up for second place. after Detroit,
as au automobile manufacturing city.
/ An entry fee of 500 will be charged
for the Glidden tour for cars entered prior
to May ID and $500 thereafter until June
10, when entries will close.
| Twenty taxicabs are to be installed
! in Atlantic City, the famous New Jer-
sey coast resort, by spring. \ taXcat
service is also being organized at Read.
ing, Pa
/ Promoters of the taxicab service be-
ing installed in San Francisco are con
fident that with moderate rates the serv-
ice will. prove as popular as in eastern
cities.
! From paper thickness. when frs
| used on bicycles, tire tubes have grOWT
until those in excess. Of An eighth of ar
inch in thickness are more the rule or
modern automobiles than the exception.
! A new garage under construction a
| Los Angeles, at cost of 100000, viii
be the finest OF its kind in southern Cal
ifornia. Bakerfield, Cal. is also TO have
| handsome new garage. costing $4,000
| Forty quarts of nitroglycerin wer,
| recently carried 100 miles in an auto
over a road none too good from Bolivar
to Bristol, n. Y. and the man who did 1t
w. ID. Tracy, an oil we'll shooter. Is aliy,
to tell of the feat.
A cubic inch of oil will lubricate over
thousand square inches of surface. o.
replenish the supply on square inch o
motor bearing surface once for each revo
luton for a minute of time.
Horns which have been exposed to tn,
rain and dust occasionally refuse t,
sound. If the rubber bulb is taken of
and d piece of thin paper passed be