The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-30
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

There are now 300 automobiles in Porto Rico, and according to a spe- cial agent of the State Department, the demand exceeds the supply.
 The city of Minneapolis has adver- tised for three automobiles truck. feur-passenger car and runabout. It proposes to establish a central city garage. A new motor patrol wagon has been ordered.
 Runabouts and miniature tonneau cars entered in the 1910 19lidden Tour will compete for 8 handsome trophy Motor Club The property will be awarded to the runabout or toy ton neau making the best score.
 Recent rains in southern California resulted in the sale of an exceptionally large number Of motor cars in San Francisco during the past two weeks. Most of. the. buyers were ranehers, who piles by the early rains, which are forecasts of. good crops. the coming season.
 declared valid by the Circuit Court of the United States, was granted by the Patent Office in 1895 on an application filed in 1879, more than 16 years be- fore the grant was made. The patent therefore has a remaining period of duration and term of two more years, provided that an extension IS not ob- tained by a special act. An appeal has been taken.
 "A chauffeur is one who drives a motor car for pay decided Judge staake, of the Quarter Sessions bench in a recent opinion delivered in the action of the Commonwealth vs. Coop CT. According to the judge, the laws of every State in which autoYno bile laws have been passed, define the term sschauffeur' to include the idea of compensation for the operation of a vehicle.
 One of the special features of the National Championship track races al Indianapolis May 30, will be event No. IA, race the conditions of which have been framed to test the claims, made by makers Of stock cars that their machines can travel a mile a minute. passengers. John A. Wilson of Franklin, Pa, has donated a cup val. ued at $50 to. the winner of such race. Under the rules the competing cars will be required to race a mile in one direction and then traverse the same distance in the opposite diree- tion In order to win the successful car must average at most a mile a minute. Torpedo bodies and baby ton neaus are barred and the entrants must not rate higher than 50 horse power, according to A. l.. A. M. stan dards.
 A good example for motoring wom- en in other sections of the Country Club, of New York, which will have a division all of it's own in the Or phan's Day outing this year. Every
 
 a woman. and Mrs. Joan Newton Cuneo will have charge of the divi- sion.
 Some London taxicabbies recently aired their grievances before mem bers of the British House of Commons. Among other things it was urged that the drivers license should be reduced from los to 5s., that speedometers should be made compulsory and that bicycles and other vehicles should be compelled to carry a red light be- hind
 Looking ahead to time fifty years hence, a we11-knoWn London rnotorist predicts some interesting things. By that time, he thinks, the horse will be forbidden in the streets, which will be paved with something like artifi- cia1 rubber, that motor cars may run with iron tires, the cost of run ming thus being reduced to little more than the price of fuel and 1ubri- eating oil. At the same time, he pro- phesied that motor cars to carry three or four people would be sold for some thing like $250, and as everybody would use the new vehicles, the prejudice against them would completely disap- pear. There is considerable agitation l against an ordinance pending in the 1 City Council relating to the future es- tablishIaent of garages in IndIanapo- Us, should the measure become 2 law. except in district bounded by