The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-06
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 Huckleberry pickers in Jefferson County, Pa., now go to and from the
 berry patches in motor cars.
 It has been decided to start the | Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island l at daybreak, which restores the event | to the, old time glamour and romance
 attendant upon sunrise "go!'
 For the entire United States, esti-
 mates place the motor car production
 of 1909 at S2,O40, -91O about 21O,O00 and | for 1911 about 500,000 with an average value of approximately s1,250.
 There are about 100000 cars being operated in this country today, or ! one for every 300 persons, according i to the latest census returns. Canada 1 is thought to own about 1902 cars, or one to every 1000 persons. i The newest thing on earth is a map for aeroplanists. It shows the 1 face of the world as a bird sees it I CTS New England from Portland. Me, ! and Burlington, Vt. to Bridgeport, | Conn.
 An appeal has been presented to ! the municipal authorities of Atlanta, l Ga, asking them to prohibit the use | of open mufflers within the city linn ! it's. The petition bears the signature
 
 | ists in the city.
 A gasoline motor-driven road roller | is now being used on the roads in Central Park, N. r., It may be also used as road blow, or harrow and | it saves the time heretofore consum- i ed by the workmen waiting for steam 1 to "get up'' in a steam roller. A piano firm which recently went bankrupt gave as one reason for its troubles that people nowadays buy motor cars instead of pianos. Now it is found that the concerns liabilities ! were only S25,000 and it's assets about | half that figure.
 A One-eyed chauffeur may apply for and obtain a license in New York, ac- cording to a ruling by the Secretary of State. In support of his decision that the absence of one eye does not necessarily mean defective visio1," the trick of marksmen, who, close one orb to aim better, is cited. A light overcoat for automobile wear has just been sent over by Lon l don makers. It is made up in an unlined wool, there is a half belt sewed on in the back, the coat flares out below that in order to give plenty of room and there is from the belt to the collar an inverted box pleat which allows plent of room in the back of the coat for the comfort re- quired in an automobile.
 ; record by building a road 3S0 miles long in one hour flat. Another re- markable thing about the building of the highway is that of the 10000 men who did the work, not a single one of them received a penny for their services, they volunteering them in order to improve their property. The road extends from Council Bluffs to Davenport.
 Purists in dress say that the polo coat has no place in the amateur motorists wardrobe, but it has been impossible to prevent the polo coat from being about the most frequently worn motor garment. These baggy coats, half flannel. half blanket, dou- ble-breasted and finished with their big white pearl buttons, have proved just as serviceable for all kinds of sporting wear in England as they have here.
 Guy Rankin, of Fort Dodge, one of the census enumerators for fourteen counties in Iowa, says the farm pop ulation is not as great as it was ten years ago, owing to the boys growing into men and moving to the cities. However, the farms are starting to gain through the automobile, which is causing people to want to get back to nature now that they have a cer- tain way of going to town whenever they want.
 The French chocolate king, M Men fer, owns a wonderful motor car which is a small hotel on wheels It is divided into two parts, bed-sitting room, with secret folding beds, and dressing room and kitchen, with every possible accessory for toilet and cooking. It reminds one very much of the three-roomed flat on wheels owned by M. de Fabreques, the we'll known millionaire automobile manu- lecturers of MarseilleS.
 Judging by the first batch of ques- tions put to chauffeurs who are be- ing examined before being granted licenses in New York State, the prac- obey the rules of the road is the end which the examiners have in view. The qquestions are for the most part, plain and practical. This being so, it is not surprising that the percentage of failures is only about two per cent and many of those who fail to pass are foreigners.
 The Massachusetts Highway Com mission is going to make an example of some of the motorists who refuse to slow down and use caution while passing along where repairs are be- ing made on the state highways. Sev- era1 cases have come up where work men were hurt and part of the road had to be gone over again through the fault of operators who were in too much of a hurry. Now there is a prospect of suspensions and revoca- tions of licenses.
 In Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa 427 banks report that about s15,- 000, 600 has been withdrawn for the purpose of buying autos. In Iowa, singly, since January 1st this year, it is figured s6,000,0O0 has been spent on out-of-state cars. About eighty-three autos are said to have been purchased by citizens of that state each day for the past three months a total of g. 960. Probably in the entire United States over S100,000 GOO has been paid | out for automobiles during the first | six months of this year.
 Nitrates are most likely to be pres ent in the cells of battery as they come from the makers, due to the use | of nitric acid in forming solution. | Chlorine might come from the use of ] salt water, or the presence of salt 1