The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-12
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

HE AUTOMOBILE WOKLD The 1Oo-mile race for the $2,ooo Min neapolis Cup, at the Florida Beach meet next month, bids fair to establish some now speed records. Constantly feeding kerosene to the cylinders of a motor, even if mixed with lubricating oil, is bound to result in the unbalancing of the explosive mixture.
 A touring car service-much like the tally-ho of old-is being established be- tween New York and Phi adelphia. The distance is 90 miles, and the round trip fare $20.
 In emergencies, an excellent washer for tire pump may be cut from the tongue of any ordinary walking boot, treated with grease from the gear-box. The motorist who is contemplating an ocean to ocean tour should be pre- pared to travel 4,000 miles instead of the mileage of 5000, that is generally credited with being the transcontinen- tai distance. A special course in road work, for in structing drivers how to avoid skid ding and slipping on ice-covered pave n1entS, has been instituted by the West Side Y. M. c. A. Automobile School in New York.
 The Automobile Club of America in- tends to Sign-post a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast during the summer, and keep car exploring the passes through the mountains in order to make Seattle and other coast points available to the globe-trotting tourist.
 The town board of Hazleton, Ind, has passed an ordinance putting a pre- mium on noise. The ordinance limits the speed to eight miles an hour and compels drivers to sound 8 horn at least twenty times a minute while passing through the town
 The prevention of any collection of carbon or metal dust in the high ten sion compartment is matter to guard against ins the operation of combina- ton contact makers and synchronized high tension distributors. If this ac- cumulates, uncertain ignition is likely to result.
 Mrs Joann Newton Cuneo, of Rich mond Hill,, N. Y., and Miss Alice Por- ter, of Elgin, H., who have entered the Woman's Championship race dur ing the Mardi Gras Carnival, at New Orleans, February 20-22, are both skill ed drivers and the contest promises to be exciting and close.
 The Long Island Motor Parkway plans for the future seem to be some what in doubt, but the indications are that ultimately work will be resumed. Nothing can be prophesied at this time as to any 1909 race for the Vanderbilt Cup, but it is hardly probable that this famous trophy will be allowed to drop out of sight.
 A careful analysis of the motor legis- lation, being considered in nearly every State in the Union this year, shows that the general tendency is toward compelling drivers to pass some kind of an examination, and that criminal abuse of roads should be punished by revocation of license, temporary or per manent.
 Capt. O'Brien, of the Chicago City Detective Bureau, has become enthus- ed with the project of establishing a special department-a rogues' gallery for the portraits of scorching motor ists. By preserving the records of all difficulties into which habitual scorch- CTS are plunged, he thinks the prac- tice might be suppressed.
 The new high-pressure motor fire wagon, built at Springfield, Mass, for service in New York has thus far met every test to which it has been put. 1t has a maximum speed of F miles an hour, and it's rated load capacity is 5000 pounds; power is supplied by 60 horsepower, four-cylinder engine, and it carries 1,050 feet of hose besides many firemen.
 1t is now confidently expected that the New Jersey Legislature will amend the present drastic motor law, so as to permit visiting motorists from other states to use Jersey roads for 10 days on payment of $1. Another bill likely to pass, makes it a misdemeanor to op- crate car while intoxicated, and third bill fixes penalty of $10 for fail- ure to display white light at night, visible for 250 feet.
 It is a mistake for driver ever to try to correct an apparent fault in 0of1 ovn nn o to refuse to work that can be remedied by an ordinary mechanic, except it be some outside connection. If the coil is so that current will not pass through it, either the primary or sec ondary part. it is always due to burn
 ing out and calls for new coil ers once
 William H. Page, of New York, coun- sel for the Automobile Club of Amer ica, who has been in Washington in the interests of the club, with regard to automobile speed legislation, is of the opinion that a law fixing the speed of automobiles not at an arbitrary liTn- it, but at a reasonable limit, is the de- sire of automobilists everywhere. A reasonable speed through crowd, he holds, is not a reasonable speed on an open stretch of road.
 U. s. Senator Boise Penrose, of Penn- sylvania, is said to be behind an auto mobile racing track project for Allan tic City, the famous New Jersey coast resort. According to plans in course of preparation, the race track will be two miles long, ten feet wide on the flat, and 150 feet wide at t~~ns. It is to be surfaced with bituitrsc pavingl Engineers are preparing plans for a steel and concrete grandstand to seat 20 900.
 London has been a little ahead Of New York in taking up the subject of taximeter regulations On January two new police regulations, concerning it compulsory to have a lamp fitted near the taximeter, so that the hirer may read the register at night, while, under the second, it will be necessary