The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-08
THE AUTOM0-
 BILE WORLD

quantity of sawdust, wet with gasoline, and little soap, is excel lent to remove grease stains and grit from the hands.
 The palm for age is carried by a seventy-year-o1d farmer who has ap- piled to the Secretary of State of New York for a 'chauffeur's license.
 The farmer is today the backbone of the steady demand for motor vehicles.
 An old stage coach which ran be- tween C1atskanie and Clatskanie Junction, Ore, has made it's last trip and has been supplanted by a mod ern motor car The new car accom- modates .16 passengers and is built with top and winshieId so that it may be operated all winter.
 John Harvey, a farmer living west of Indianapolis, Ind, has motor livering garden truck, butter and poultry to Indianapolis grocers He finds that he can do the work in about a third of the time formerly quarter the expense.
 The demand for good chauffeurs, appears to continue unabated, and thesa the average ca5 n price for the labor of has been for the last three or four years Even though there are so many chimes on the road. good driver gets on the average, $120 a month for his work There are some men who get as low as s15 or SIS a week, and
 
 $40 to $50 a week, but the average of this season is nearer $50 week.
 There are two methods of ensuring that the wheel cap will not come off once properly put on: CD If the cap screws up flush with the meal ring of the hub a small center punch hole it coming unscrewed: (2) If the cap overlaps the ring, drill a hole in the ring and in the cap, tap out and place a small set screw that just PS wi he I hardly be noticed, but may save trou- ble and expense later
 Queen Mary has consen ted to re- { ceive a petition from the cottage women of EngIand' on the subject Of the hardships imposed on them by motor traffic. The petitioners mum living on much-frequented roads They complain that their lives are made miserable by automobiles rush ing past, endangering the lives Of their children, and ruining their house. hold things with dust. They suggest that motors be required to go slowly through villages.
 That automobiing is making the American woman dowdy, is the con- clusion reached by Q Berlin society leader who has just returned from a. ic found that the women in America were all wearing the simplest kinds of wash dresses, mostly bought ready made and very cheap in quality It was the automobi1ing craze which was in the main responsible for this meta morphosis. The craze is not only encouraging simple dressing, owing to the dust of travel, but it leaves no money for expensive c1othes.''
 The taste for long distance automo- billing seems to be wanting abroad Many Americans, who custonarily took their own cars to Europe have left them at home this season, finding it more satisfac ctory in many ways to hire automobiles there and make ex- peditions from the centers where they are visiting. Perhaps Frances deci- sion to issue international certificates to foreigners belonging to the coun- tries not adhering to the international convention of October 1909, will revive the long distance tours, the cour- tesy benefits Americans almost so1e- ly, all countries except the United states being adherents of the conven- ton, even Switzerland with the excep- ton of the canton of Grisons.
 The charge has been made in Mas sachusetts. that motorists who have bought gasolene at certain garages