The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-07

Detroit is said to have more cars per thousand population than any other city in the world, except Los Angeles.
 A New York actress has averted the danger of clipping with her chauffeur by employing a woman to drive her car.
 The price of rubber boots and shoes is to be increased it is announced, but rubber shoes (for tires) have been doing nothing but going up for some time.
 Present indications are that the number of foreign cars represented in the race for the Grand Prize gold cup. to be run on Long Island October 15, will equal that of previous years.
 According to one estimate, 100 licen- ses for new motor cars are being is- sued daily by the State of Illinois. Allowing $1,000 as the value per car, this would be a total value of s1OO,- 900 every twentyfour hours.
 In the month of March alone, New Jersey received $52 184.95 for automo- bile registration and licenses, or all most double that of last March. The receipts for the current year, it is es- it was $245, 5,0O0.
 An up to date undertaken of Shell byville, Ky, has added a seven pas senger touring car to his equipment, and according to one report of the enterprise, he is using the car to good advantage in his business, to which is added the curious fact that his son is the driver.
 Even though the touring season has hardly started, there is every indica- ton that more Americans will use their cars over the European roads this year than ever before. All previous records were surpassed last year, ,<~l> +1r nv,% nf ft1n rrr%n- pean touring was during the summer and fall months.
 Charles T. Terry, chairman of the legislative board of the American Au- tomobile Association, has received many letters recently from prominent automobilistS in many parts of the country stating that both personally and through their clubs urgent appeals have been made to their Congressmen for favorable action on the Federal registration automobile bill under con- ,sideration by Congress.
 The schools of Imperial county, Cal if, have placed in service an auto mobile truck to gather up the children in the morning and take them back to their distant ranch homes at night. When not engaged as an educational agent, it is used fer a countryside eX- press and bus service. The car has a three-ton carrying capacity : and a speed of twenty miles an hour
 On the ground that the taxicab is a public conveyance within the mean ing of the law, the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia has sustained the suit of widow, whose husband died from injuries received while rid ing in a taxi, for a double indemnity provided for in a casualty insurance policy. The policy provided for the payment of $10,000 in addition to its face value of that amount in case the holder should be killed while riding in a public conveyance. The decision probably will be carried to the Su- prenle Court.
 Police Commissioner Frank H. Croul, of Detroit, who has prevailed on the an appropriation of S40,000 for the pur- chase of seven motor-driven police patrols, declares the vehicles will save the city $20.000 during the first year they are in operation and perhaps more When the machines are in stalled the city will be redistricted by the police department, as each of the motor patrols will be able to cover a great deal more territory than the present horse drawn wagons.
 A number of chauffeurs who drive cars for Bostonians have asked the Massachusetts State Legislature to make several changes in the State motor vehicle law. The amendments which they requested be made to the law are as follows: That chauffeurs be exempt from the obligation of wear ing badges in conspicuous places on their outer clothing, that the Legis- lature repeal the section of the law requiring that horns be sounded at every street intersection, that no driv- ing licenses be suspended before the accused driver has had a hearing be- fore the State highway commission. and that the mandatory suspension of a license following an appeal from a conviction for reckless driving and similar offences be dropped.
 It is estimated that the up-keep of motor cars in New York state in 1909 was about $97OO0,O00 and in the na- tural order of things it will be con- siderably more than $100,000,000 in 1910.
 Plans have been started by members of the Imperial Aero Club, of Ger many, for an airship exploration of the Desert of Sahara by an aeroplane assisted by automobiles. Conditions along the Nile Valley are to be the special object of the investigation. The cost of the expedition is estimated at $1S0. GOO.
 Citizens of Elgin, H., having rais- ed $20,O00 to finance a road race next