The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-07


vigorous application OF this liniment.
Try it. You are certain to be delight
ed with the quick relief which 1t af-
fords. Sold by all dealers.
I AUTOMOBILE GOSSIP. 7
1t is we'll to paint the muffler white
it is hot, first cleaning it thoroughly.
Oceana county, Michigan, in the
heart Of the northern fruit belt, is
raising $4,000 for good roads work
this year.
A consolidation Of taxicab compan-
les operating in New York city and
reduction in rates is talked Of by
several men interested.
Henri ST Yves, the Frenchman who
who recently won the worlds cham
pionship Marathon race in New York,
was formerly a chauffeur.
1t is an excellent plan to use leather
washers next to aluminium mudguards,
through to absorb the vibration.
Wisconsin has two new motor clubs,
one at Berlin, with thirty-five charter
members, and another at Wasau,
known as the Wisconsin Valley Auto
mobile club.
| Miss Dorothy Levitt, a well known
English motorist, advises women driv-
ers not to wear wooden gloves, as the
wool slips on the surface Of the steer
| ing wheel.
Fines amounting to SASS were col
leCted from motorists at a single days
session of court in New York city.
during the recent anti-speed crusade.
Taxicab drivers in Boston are now
paid weekly salary instead Of a per-
centage on receipts. The cmange is
expected to result in better service
for the travelling public.
In cleaning rusty springs, after dis
mounting them, be careful not to mix
the leaves, bolts, etc. To avoid this,
1t is best to clean only one spring at
time.
The annual races at wildwood, N.
J., set for July and 5, will, as usual,
be run off over the Central avenue
boulevard, which provides one of the
finest mile straightway courses in the
country.
In addition to automobile events, the
carnival to be held by the Lowell
(Mass.) Automobile club, in Septem-
Der, will include bicycle races and a
motorboat regatta on the Merrimac
river.
Motor-d driven ire-ighting apparatus
has recently been installed in or or
dered by Newark, N. J., Bedford, Mass.
and Greenwich. Bridgeport and Water
bury, Conn.
Large diameter sprockets run
smoother and quieter than small ones.
Furthermore, with email sprockets the
movement in and wear on chain pivots
is greater.
The state of Washington has ap-
propriated $125,OOO, and Idaho $4,000
contestants in the ocean to ocean race
will pass.
Latest estimates place the number
Of cars that will be turned out this
year. by the fifteen automobile manu-
factories in Detroit, at $4,000, with a
total value of sSO.OOO.OOO.
Owing to the introduction OF motor
cabs in Brussels, Belgium, strike oc-
CURED recently. The drivers of the
motor cabs were rather roughly treat
ed and the police had to take a hand
in the matter.
Unquestionably the touring spirit is
growing-the real touring spirit
among owners Of cars. both club mer
and unattached motorists. Such tours
do more to popularize automobilinl
than anything else.
Montreal would like to have taxi.
cabs, and there are two concerns which
would be glad to .lease the residents
but the laws of the Quebec legisia.
ture are such that the taxicabs car
not get licenses to do a hacking bust.
ness.
The Grand Rapids CMich.1 Auto.
mobile club has practically completes
work upon the new driveway to Cas-.
cade springs in the vicinity OF chs
Thornapple river, and will occupy itl
club house at the springs by May 1.
Within the last two years sales o.
automobiles have rapsdly increased IN
Batavia and adJasent districts of ths
yapAnese capital. An agent Of ar
lA@aEtcan automobile cSrapany reports