The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-13
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

1 Automobile caps with purses cum | ningly concealed in the crowns are a novelty just put on the market. | If an acetylene headlight throws its flame too high, the trouble. in all prob ability, is due to clogged burner open | ings.
 back to 1460, and is described in a
 manuscript in the Royal Library of IDreSden. | 1 Massachusetts is now credited with | more than IS, 900 automobiles and some | thing like FOG miles of scientifically ! built, smooth macadam highways: | A movement is on foot for the con struction of a first-class highway from New Orleans to San Antonio, Texas, a l distance of some 200 miles. Worn gear wheels are almost in | suitable in the matter of fabrication, and should be well looked after as they are subject to considerable fric- | ton.
 In replacing sparkling plugs in hot | SylinderS they should not be screwed
 up too tightly or difficulty will. be ex- move them. . Now comes a new terror for joy rides" According to report, a company has been formed in New York to spot | machines and inform owners of their | chauffeurs' actions.
 Chicago now has 14 motor vehicles | engaged in municipal service, one of
 which has travelled 97,0OO miles in two | y
 miles in a single year. A handy thing for the motorist to keep in his tool box is an assortment
 of wire nails of various sizes. These | nails may often be used to replace | split pins and the Ike.
 Calcium carbide is deliqueScent, and | to preserve its qualities it must be kept in tight packages so that mois- | ture will not be absorbed by it, thus | reducing it's ability to form acetylene. I The Automobile Club of Canada is backing a movement to oil the p miles
 of roads skirting Lake St. Louis, near Montreal. Heretofore a dust cloud has J hung over the region daily during the touring season. The dashing driver who starts with 8. jump. throws on the high gear with in a short distance and then drives almost to the desired point, stops, then slams on the brakes, will find that his tires will not last long.
 There are more than 250 firms now engaged in making motor cars in the
 United States, and latest estimates in dicate that no fewer than 90,O00 cars
 will be added to the visible supply dur ing 1909.
 The Professional Chauffeurs' Club of Philadelphia is actively working for a bill in the Legislature requiring every professional chauffeur to pass a rigid examination before being licensed to drive a car.
 Now that the present tariff rate of 45 per cent. advalorem on automobiles | and parts bids fair to remain in force, l it is very likely that several prominent European manufacturers. will arrange | to start branch factories in this coun- | try.
 It is estimated that with the stupen- dous development of the American au- | to1nobile industry there are now in vested in plants for automobile build | ing and all necessary kindred indus | tries, such as the plants making ac- cessories, leather for machines, parts, | lamps, tires, etc., more than $500, ,00O,- 900.
 l A new motor-gas. 'alkoethine". is a
 mixture of air, alcohol vapor and ace tylene, resulting from the spraying of dilute alcohol over calcium carbide. It 1 proves to be a cheaper fuel than gaso-
 line, and the necessary apparatus for
 producing it can be adapted to any | high-speed gasoline motor.
 | According to the announcement of a | large tire-making company of Ohio, a
 new tire-making machine, invented by one of its employees, promises to revo- 1utionize the tire-making industry. The machine averages 50 tires day to
 a mans six or eight, and it is claimed
 turns out a much stranger and more | even fabric.
 Austria-Hungary has appropriated l during the last five years about $2,000,- i 00O, to be used entirely in the use and development of the automobile in it's
 various departments. The post office l gathers up and delivers it's mail by | tomobile truck exclusively for baggage 1 and transport wagons.
 l The schedule of sanction fees drawn | by the contest board of the A. A. A. is | as follows: Road race, where stand 1 is erected. $500; track meeting, s1O0;
 track meeting, including 24-hour race,
 s250; hill climb, $50; endurance con
 test, $50, and road or bench speed l trials, $100. All clubs affiliated with 1 the A. A. A. will be entitled to a re-
 duction of 50 per cent. of these rates.
 An automatic automobile protector
 of practical use for private garages at- | tracted a good deal of attention at the Buffalo show. It was designed by
 Mrs. S. c. Burlington, a motoring en- l thuSiaSt, and consisted of a cover of I icanvas-somewhat similar to the old | fashioned mosquito fly for bedrooms | suspended from the ceiling of the gar age and lowered or raised over the car by a clutch pulley.
 If the bill that has been introduced | in the State Legislature by Senator Page, Of Milwaukee, becomes a law Wisconsin will have one of the most 1oeral, yet practical, motor statutes
 yet enacted The speed limit provis- ion says: "NO person shall operate an automobile, motor cycle or other simi- lar vehicle recklessly at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable or proper. | having regard to the width traffic and use of the highway, or as to en-
 danger property or the life and limb | of any person.
 The first national stock classes road
 race for the trophy donated by Ira M. | Cobe, president of the Chicago Auto mobile Club, will be the first big road | race in the history of automobiling in the central western part of the coun try. The Contest committee of the | Chicago Automobile Club is devoting | it's energies toward arranging the pre- | liminaries for the coming event. which ! it is proposed to hold on May 18th and
 June 1st-Decoration Day falling. on Sunday.
 | Under an amendment to the Vermont motor laws, adopted by the State Leg | islature, the license fee is now one dol lar for every horsepower of the ma l chine, with a provision placing a bonus
 on the keeping of the, same car from year to year, the second year the fee being reduced one-Quarter and the third and each succeeding year by one-half of the first sum. A motor