The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-25
THE AUT0M0-
 BILE WORLD

Philadelphia has installed an auto patrol wagon, the first to be used in the city.
 It is predicted that by August 1st, all of the cab and taxfcab business cern.
 Persistent sulphation of a battery is often due to permitting it to stand in a discharged state. The preventing is to see that the battery is charged inn mediately after it is discharged. New York has S0.000 miles of public
 highways 5000 of which are State roads. maintained by the State. The remainder are under the care of county or town. The Highway Commission hopes to add 500 miles of improved
 roads this year.
 A compilation made by well-known motor car company of the cars 1t turned out last year shows that green has been the favorite color, it ranking 3042 per cent; blue follows. with 2S.77 per cent, and then wine, with IT. .46 per cent.
 By a number of experiments, most of the French and German aviators have satisfied themselves that a trail ing tail secures steadiness or flight, and this construction feature has therefore been incorporated in nearly ali European flierS-
 Judge James A. Collins, of the In
 dianapolis Police Court. has ruled that policemen must warn motorists against violating the speed laws before arrests are made The motorcycle police are
 accordingly warning hundreds of driv-
 CTS, keeping the list of the warnings for reference.
 One editorial paragrapher has been so impertinent as to ask how it has happened that Chancellor Day, of Syracure University, has condemned motoring as 'curse' to the country,
 when it has proved such a source of profit to the Oil Trust, which he has often praised.
 The Delaware Optical Society has taken up the matter of vision of auto
 mobile drivers, and may ask the leg1s-
 lature to pass an act requiring auto mobile drivers to have their eyes test ed and to show a certain standard of efficiency before being granted H-
 cense to operate machine. A judge in a Dayton (Ohio) police court has acquired the habit of fining all automobilists convicted of exceed ing the Ohio speed law s10 and costs, and thenu, to make things more inter esting for the offending automobilists, he adds a dollar for each mile in eX- cess of the legal speed.
 Members of the WinOna (Minn.) Au- tomobile Association carry cards that
 correspond in numbering with the numbers of their machines. They are | issued by the chief of police, and will
 be accepted in place of bail in the event of the bearer being arrested for violating the speed or other ordinances reg gulating automobiles.
 Nothing will hasten the destruction of tires more than to run them insuf- ficiently inflated. Ordinarily they should be inflated leach one the same per square inch, considering the 34- | inch sizes (other sizes to cOrrespOnd), and this full and even imitation pro- | tects the tires under the most adverse
 conditions.
 | In the four-cycle motor there is one | power stroke in each four strokes, there are two strokes per revolution | of the crankshaft; valves are used to regulate the inflow and exhaust. In l the two-cycle motor there is a power stroke for each two strokes. and ports are so placed as to admit the mixture l and permit exhaust on each down 1 stroke of the piston.
 New York's new motor law provides that the term chauffeur shall mean any person operating or driving mo- l tor vehicle as an employe or for hire. This definition is inclusive and exclu- sive. Any person coming within the definition is a chauffeur. All persons who do not fit the definition are not chauffeurs. and consequently do not have to comply with the provisions of
  Secretary of State Knox and Senor | de Ia Barra, ambassador from Mexico, are now working over a treaty which | will shortly be submitted to the Senate | for ratification. to take cogniZance of | international airship traffic. This step | is rendered advisable in the minds of | both men to prevent the smuggling of | lightweight articles, such as diamonds.
 silks, drugs and gold from one country | to the other
 | Noise is said to be the most annoying | part of an automobile; it creeps in at | the invitation of age but slowly in a | well-made car: but it has the unhappy | knack of starting to wear out it's wei | come much too soon in the other kind. | The man of experience defers the evil 1 day and puts money in his pocket at a | single stroke. His recipe is very sim pie; it calls for liberal supply of good | lubricating oil.
 l In reply to recent charges that the automobile is an economic waste a | leading car manufacturer has figured | that there are 100000 horse-drawn vehicles in the United States in daily | average use. employing 10000. 900 I horses. at a yearly cost of s1, ,S56. 900 900, | to maintain and operate He then fig | tain automobiles in place of these horse-drawn vehicles would be s359 0O0- 1 GOO per year, or an economic saving of l $997 000. .000.
 The spectroscope. which is an instru- ment employed in determining the