The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-23
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

I be strictly enforced this season.
 All motor vehicles used in Washing though owned by persons who have registered their cars in the States where they reside. Up to last week tn enumber registered had reached G. 357.
 During the last year the Automobile Club of America gained 2O4 active CTS to the clubs bureau of tours. The total memb berst1fp of the organization is now 22s2: At the @ annual aaa4if meetiing ftsting abolishing the clubroom membership was carried by one vote.
 France leads the world as an ex- States second in rank Statistics conn piled from official publications show that the exports of vehicles in the hand were: from France, in 1903, SEA- 5e9, 900; the United States. in the call endar year 1909 $s S67. i .ss7; s7 the United ga 1908, s5,533, ,000; and Germany. in 1903, $3, ,031, 600.
 That the proposed field day of Con- necticut autornobilists under the aus pices of the State Automobile AsSo- citation will be held at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, the last week in June the big gathering are as yet undevel- oped. Charter Oak seems generally favored as offering the most advant- ages for such an outing of automobil- ists in view of the fact that the mile track there will make it possible to hold a program of automobile events.
 Sixt cen automobile makers are ad- vertising automobiles to the farmer in the 450 farm papers of the country, and most of them are arguing that the automobile will keep the boy on the farm and make life more livable for the wife. Automobile men are con- stant1y being astonished at the price are ears and T the % way they tn ys are ' paying is in cash, with as little fuss as if they were buying a new draught horse.
 During the coming summer exper1- nnentS with materials for the construc- ton of roads that will withstand mo- tor. vehicle traffic better than those supervision of the road inquiry divis- ion of the Department of Agriculture. Probably the most interesting work will be a. number of experiments with mixtures of Portland cement concrete and as1haltic base oils. It. is hoped that this combination will give the of the cement, and the great tough ness and maleability of the asphaltum or bitumen.
 An automobile agent at Padua. Italy, has devised an arrangement which protects the driver and passengers of motor cars when passing through dis. throwers. It consists of wire netting similar to that used on bird cages in uprig ght tubes and joined to the wind shield. the glass plate of which it helps to protect. Tn the tropics the exclude the bothersome incests.
 Baltimore physicians now have the right of way with their automobiles as fire apparatus. police patrols and annbulances. They are allowed to speed to sick bed calls. to the aid of in being halted by the police. while troll ley cars and wagons must make room for them. In order to distinguish the eioia V7eS of of owners, the police department has pro vided each physician with a sign about five inches square, bearing red cross.
 row on duty in Chicago with special instructions to watch for speeding au- tomobile drivers. Each of the police motorcycles is equipped with speed ometer so that the riders can tell just how fast suspected automobile driv- CTS are travelling.
 Automobile owners fin Minneapolis now have al-night- service as far as regards the repairing of their autonao- piles. A garage has started keeping open house A hours a day in it's re- permits owners to have their cars washed or repaired at all times.
 As the New Jersey State Legislature has adjourned without amending the motor vehicle law of the State, which requires non-residents to take out New Jersey registrations before they can drive their cars in the Mosquito State, it is likely that a great many auto mobilists of other States who had in tended to tour in New Jersey if the law were changed, will keep out of the State, as they have for several years past. Pennsylvania now requires New Jersey automobilistS to secure regular Pennsy1vania registrations before al lowing them to enter the State with their cars, and it is expected that a similar law will be passed in New York.