Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Capitalization arrangement, in which full
advantage is taken of both beams, is con-
siderebly more advantageous than that in
which both beams are held perfectly
parallel.
A new automobile paradise has been dis
covered in northern Africa, by Captain
James Archibald of Washington, D.. c., who
reached Paris recently, after having spent
two months in touring through Algeria and
Tunis. He predicts that these two countries
will soon become favorite touring ground
and considers the roads the best in the
world, superior even to the national roads
of France.
While there is much doubt as to any
great change by the incoming legislature
in the New Jersey motor law so far as it
relates 10 Jersey motorists and speeding,
yet there is good reason to hope for the
adjustment of the $40 tax imposed on visit
ing motorists from other states. The New
ark and Atlantic City trade boards have
declared war on this tax and Governor
Fort has announced that he is with them
in their fight.
An automobile expert who has made a
study of horses is authority for the state
ment that sorrels are the only absolutely
safe horses; white animals, on the other
hand, always being dangerous. Between
these two extremes comes the bays and the
blacks, the former being the better natured
of the two. Automobile drivers will save
themselves lots of trouble by remembering
this point and driving very carefully past
a white horse.
~ NANGAA oAh tAAA GNRAAAS " 10 ~
colored leather the following mixture may
be used with good effect: Boil a pint of
milk, let it cool and add one drachm Of
sulphuric acid. Shake well and then add
half a drachm of oil OF lavender, one pint
OF vinegar and the white of one egg, beaten
to froth. Keep in a tightly corked bottle.
Rubbed on the leather with a soft cloth, 1t
greatly improves the appearance and re-
moves the stains.
Valuable assistance has been given the
automobile school of the West Side Young
Mems Christian association of New York
by motor manufacturers, several of whom
have donated cars for laboratory work and
road instruction. The school is not a
money-making concern and any profits go
Young Mems Christian association. The
school was aided by a grant from the
Automobile Club Of America for a number
of years.
AS two women were travelling in a motor
car near Roumale. on the outskirts OF
Paris, a stag, hard pressed by the hounds
jumped into the car for refuge the dogs
clamoring and leaping around II. The car
was stopped, the women made a hurried
escape and the hounds soon disposed OF the
stag. Similarly, a stag charged a car con-
tanning the Gaekwar and Maharonee of
Kapurthala, on a road through a German
fo~rest-and paid the price or IT'S misguided
valor by dropping dead with a broken neck
A mixture of olive oil and white lead, re-
dl1ced to a workable consistency by white
lead, makes an excellent coating for metallic
parts of the engine or machine tools as a
' preventive OF GOTTpElOHs q NlNhAdii hBOi
the coast line. Olive oil does not dry or
oxidize as linseed oil does, and therefore
is easily removable by means of turpentine
when its presence is no longer REQUIRED.
The white lead adds metallic body TO the
oil and assists il In preventing the at
tacks of moisture, sciduous vapors, etc.
Experiments show that a 2-year-old steer
is capable OF about three miles at an
eighteen-mile pace, and hates TO be con-
quered. The horse invariably seeks a side
road when chased by an auto, but the
steer continues straight along the road
until exhausted. Invariably the goose
steps from the road on approach OF an
automobile, while the chicken loses its
mental equilibrium and cannot decide
whether TO race the car or select one side
Of the road or the other. The turkey VIII
stand on it's dignity as long as possible
but 1t is not as cautious as the goose.
A remarkable new motor engine is re-
ported to have been invented by Newell o.
Ollyn of Hiram, o. IL is of the rotating
cylinder type, four air-cooled cylinders
being used. These are operated on the
two-eylinder principle, and have no valves,
the inlet and outlet ports being opened and
closed by the rotating part of the machine.
No flywheel is provided and, contrary to
most motors, a muffler is provided and
somehow attached TO the cylinders, Most
remarkable, It is claimed that there Is
no battery. A company has been formed
at Warren, o., to manufacture the engine.
A load of 1000 pounds per wheel gives
about one ton go weight per axle as the
heaviest load which should be carried on
pneumatic tlreS. IL Is true lndl many power
full closed touring cars. fitted with all
l~uXuries that human ingenuity can devise
have a rear axle load Of about 1850 pounds.
But such a load is only carried at enor-
nous cost IN tire up-keep, for the gem
orally accepted rule is that the life OF a
tire IL IN Inverse proportion 10 the cube of
the weight which It carries. Thus, 10 the
weight is doubled, the wear will, on an
average. be eight times greater. An in
crease in weight of but 5 per cent causes
an increase IN the wear OF the tires OF
about IL per cent.
The proposed uniform motor vehicle law
which has been drawn for submission 10
the state legislatures Of Massachusetts and
other New England states is favored by a
majority Of New England motorists. The
proposal to fix the speed limit at twenty.
five miles an hour in tbs open country is
thought to be high enough to suit the
drivers and low enough to please otheI
users Of the roads. The provision that 4
judge may place on file any COMPLAINT al
excessive speed. n in his opinion ii wa,
unintentional. or n mo person or propertS
could have been injured thereby is
thought TO be a reasonable one. There ars
many instances where an AUTOMOBILES driver
BY q competent mar could exceed twenty.
five miles an hour and not be a menace
TO anyone.