The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-20
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

U kkA xAO x V AA V The supply of good help in the automobile trade is much below the demand. Just at present there seems | men to work on 1911 models, for as- l semblers and engine men, body build CTS and painters, lathe hands and tool designers.
 Commercial motor vehicles are now firmly established in Portland, Ore, and according to the present outlook nearly all the apartment stores, contracting, construction and delivery companies will within a year be using automobile trucks and light delivery cars in place of horses. Powerful new gasoline motor cars are being used on the Suothern Paci- flo Railroad to carry settlers from Los Angeles, Cal, into the fertile San Fernando Valley. It is thought prob able that these motors will be used for all the suburban traffic of the Southern Pacific in the near future. It is probable that no more streets in Milwaukee, Wis, will be paved with asphalt. The new Social Demo- cratic regime has thoroughly investi- gated the paving question with the aid of experts, and has come to the conclusion that other materials than asphalt must be used, at a saving of money and to get a maximum of ser vice.
 It will surprise some people to learn how easy it is to procure the release and delivery of their cars when received at the port of New York after having been abroad with their owners. Most returning travel CTS have been charged by their brok- CTS for procuring this release. but Collector Loeb has announced that no such charge is warranted
 The Motors Cups Holding Company has decided to increase the distance of the Grand Prize race, which is scheduled to be held over the Long Island Motor Parkway and adjoining g roads on next October 18th, from 22 laps of a 12.64 miles circuit, or PESOS miles, to 30 laps or 379.2 miles. The course used in the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup race measured exactly 12.64 miles to the lap.
 The Neenah Club, a big commer- cial organization of Neenah, Wis, is about to put into operation a new and novel plan for advertising the city. Five touring cars, decorated with advertising banners, each car rying five hustlers and one good press agent will be sent through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minne- sota, exploiting the advantages of the city and making an effort to bring new business and new industries to Neenah.
 That "joy riding and recklessness is in a fair way to be eliminated in the Bay State, is shown by the ac- ton of the newly-formed Massachu- setts Automobile Operators Associa tion, of Boston, which has just offer tfon regarding the drivers of cars who figured in accidents at Ware and Middleboro. In the Ware accident a woman was killed and at Middleboro a man was injured. The drivers never stopped after either accident.
 Automobile owners of Pierpont, Day County, South Dakota, have demonstrated what can be accom- plished by practical good roads campaign. Every morning for two left Pierpont in autos for the country roads which lead to the town equip ped with picks, crowbars and shovels. As result the little town of Pierpont is approached by one of the finest road systems in the country and one that is bringing this section much mo- tice throughout motordom of the ad- Joining States.
 It is common practice in making calculations to assume that 60 per cent. of the weight of an automobile rests on the two rear wheels.
 An increase of almost $500, 900 in the value of automobile exports oc- cured in April. British North Ameri- ca bought the most cars, with the United Kingdom second and France third.
 Use of cars without the owners permission has become an unhealthy sport in Philadelphia. This is the result of @ sentence of thirty days in jail imposed by Judge Davis, of Com mon Pleas Court, upon a chauffeur who helped himself' to a car in garage. \
 Advocates of the use of heavy grease instead of cylinder oil for lubricating transmission gear sys- tems, maintain that cylinder oil Is too high priced, that grease is more likely to stay in and that a lubricant oozing out prevents dirt from migrat- ing in, hence it is a good and efficient seal
 French technical papers keep close tab on the doings of American designers, and it is interesting to note that American engineers are in the lead in divers ways, even to the eX- tent, sometimes, of using ideas which are only known to the French scnooi of design through the medium or the technical press
 Careless drivers of automobiles who have been responsible for unneces- sary noises at night have caused the Board of Health of Hoboken to pass an ordinance prohibiting the blowing and ringing of horns, bells and other
  piles or other vehicles in the streets and public places of the city between the hours of D. m. and a. m. Horns must not be blown only as warning to another vehicle or person in danger and no noise must be made while car is standing still or for the purpose of arous1ng a person in a garage. Fines of S5 to $50 are provided for violation of the ord1- nance, which was adopted without a dissenting vote.
 The Delaware State Automobile As sociation has asked the Levy Court of Wilmington to withdraw stand ing reward, offered by it some time ago, of s15 for the arrest and con- viction of automobilists going beyond the legal speed. The association con- tends that the reward is an incentive to persecution by persons unscrupu- lous enough to give or give heed to false or unreliable testimony.
 One complaint which is frequently heard in connection with ainnn1nup