The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-12
THE AUTOMO-
 BILE WORLD

A motor funeral car capable of car rying thirty persons. in addition to a body, has been bought by the Lawn-
 croft Cemetery Co.,, which owns a cemetery located on the boundary
 line of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The car is of a limousine pattern. and will facilitate the handling of funerals from Wilmington, Del, a distance of
 ten miles, and Chester, Pa, four miles.
 It will be put into use this month.
 Using mOtorcar which will carry
 twice the load, at twice the speed,
 and requiring only half the space,
 Will be like increasing the width of
 our streets six times. It must always
 be borne in mind that there are at
 present 100000 horse-d drawn vehicles
 in use in this country and an aver age of, 900,O hOrsedrawn vehicles be-
 ing made every year, almost all of
 which, in time. will be supplanted by
 motorcars. In addition, the govern
 ment census shows 31,O00, ,O00 horses,
 awaiting relief from their drudgery. So seldom do women enter and drive
 their own cars in reliability contests
 that the achievement of Miss Regina Rambo of Marietta, Ga, in the recent around the State of Georgia tour,
 places her in the front rank of wom- en motorists. Miss RambO not only
 completed the contests of 1000 miles
 but also finished with a perfect score, despite the fact that every car in the tour was lashed by the tail of a hur ricane and endangered by fallen trees,
 As her guest Miss Rambo was accom- panied by the wife of Governor Jos. Brown of Georgia and two other wOm- en. The Georgia tour was conceived as result of the good roads move ment which is sweeping through the South, and which has made such mark ed strides toward the improvement of roads and automobile touring condi- tions. At a lunch rendered to the tourists upon completion of the tour. Miss Rambo was presented with a handsome loving cup as an apprecia- tion of her excellent driving, and her enthusiasm in the movement for good roads.
 European makers generally. and those of France in particular, are pay | ing special attention to developing the | small. popular priced car, on the prin- ciple that the large car has reached approximate perfection. What is most sought is more compact and smooth CT running four cylinder engine. More than 60,000 owners licenses ! have been granted in the State of New York under the new Callan Law. The chauffeurs who have passed the required examinations number about 25,000 and of these about 20,O00 are from New York City. The figures show that great majority of the chauffeurs are to be found in the metropolis of the State. and also that | there are nearly three owners to one l chauffeur
 In voicing his approval of the prop Osition to submit to the voters of California an $18.0OO,000 bond issue, to | be used in building highways in Cal l ifornia. Governor Gillett, who strong ly favors the proposition said: T I think that today the question of good roads is the greatest before the people | of California. There is no other is- | sue so important as the construction of first-class highways in this State
 This matter is important in the re- l spect that 1t means great saving | to the people who are compelled to i market their fruit or produce. Moth | ing will do so much to raise the value | of property in this State as a splen- did system of excellent highways. | Keep the gasoline tanks and all gas oline pipes free from sediment. Above | all, see that there is no sediment in | the carburetor.
 A great many people drive mostly at top speed, burning their tires up. Then they complain that they have not had sufficient mileage. This is | just one instance of where the tire I is always getting the worst of it. The head office of the Bank of, New South Wales in Sydney, uses 15- | horsepower car with box inclosure at | back. for carrying coin and bullion. This car. is specially constructed with
 auxiliary springs, which come into ac- in the car. The car will carry 100000 sovereigns in the ten steel cases. There is promise of better things in Switzerland, where automobile tourists have been having a pretty hard time of it. A multiplicity of laws and reg ulations in the various cantons so bind down the motorcar owner that touring there has been robbed of a great deal of pleasure Certain roads are barred during certain hours, and different speed regulations almost l make a course of legal instruction necessary before tourist dares to venture across the mountainous little Republic. In most instances tourists who have been detained by the Swiss authorities have paid their fines and left the country as the cheapest way out of the matter. During the last six months, many letters of protest have been published in the papers of Germany, France, Italy and England. Now. however, concerted movement is on foot to do away with the an- noyance of travel there. A tabulation is being made of the instances in which motorcar users believe they have been dealt with harshly, and tn6Se VIII De presented 10 the nlSn6r authorities of Switzerland. The Ann
 erican and other tourists in France, who are at the head of the movement
 will have the support of the hotel keepers.
 Its a peculiarity of the conditions
 surrounding all big cities, I think, 9
 says Frederick H. Elliott, of the Tour ing Club of America, that the roads
 leading into them are bad. Look
 around you and see: New York, Buff
 falo and Rochester are in this fix.
 No matter how good the roads may
 be up to the city line, once you are within the corporation limits they get
 very bad, indeed. There's kicking
 enough among automobilists about it,
 and this objection is bound to have
 its effect.
 Perhaps there's no particular req
 son for it, but I believe that my car
 runs better on a slightly damp day."
 the owner of a $6 900 machine says
 'I know that, time after time, when it gets a little cloudy or else at night
 when the 1nists are rising, the car ap-
 pears to act differently from its or
 dinary conduct. And I'm not fooled
 either by the dampness flying in my
 face and softening of the ordinary
 noises of running the car. I can feel
 it in the way the clutch works and
 the way the gears slide. They slip
 in easily without the least fuss.''
 E0RNET.T, WINS CROCC