The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-10
THINGS ABOUT
AUTOMOBILES
WORTH KNOWING

WORTH KNOWING
If a cable dispatch from London
is to be believed, England fears an
invasion of American automobiles.
The organization Of the Board of
Trade, the successor of the Associa
ton of Licensed Automobile Manu-
facturers, has been practically COM
pleted. There are fifty charter
members.
Considerable satisfaction is ex-
pressed in motoring circles over the
decision of Massachusetts, court
that driving an automobile is man
ual labor when the driver is in the
employed of the company owning the
car, and that fellow employees who
may be injured while in the vehicle
have no just claim for damages.
The New York Department of
Health officials threaten to become
very active this season in the en-
forcement Of the ordinance requiring
motor boats plying the waters ada
cent to New York City to be equip
ped with mufflers. A similar move
ment is under way at Newport, R. T.
president of the Automo bile Club of
France in a letter from a Norman
farmer in behalf of the lives of
sheep-dogs, which, it seems are con-
stantly sacrificed by reckless chauf-
feurs. The writer says that his own
shepherd has within a short space
had three faithful sheep-dogs killed
before his eyes by motor cars, which
flew by SO fast that it was impossible
to see the number.
Although ''auto'' and "aero," to
designate automobiles and aeroplanes
h TO ha 6o1xr nd
good use is dependent somewhat on
custom, Motor World and motor
Print two trade publications, OBJ
ject to the short form for motorcar.
''The auto" says the latter publica-
ton. -" is a thing known best to
gents who wear plaid pants ready
made ties and hats on the sides of
their heads That ought to settle
it.
The debate in England over gait
ers'" for chauffeurs has waxed furious
made this point: Caters are rem
nants. When motors were in their
infancy the drivers sat exposed to
wind and rain entirely unprotected,
with the steering columns between
their knees and half a dozen levers
and handles absolutely vital to pc
manipulated ever and always. Rugs
were out of the question, for in addi-
ton to all these gadgets there was
the constant necessity for them to
be always getting in and out of the
car, occasionally lying under it, and
very often the pushing of it home"
When a party of Nevada ranch
men wanted to go down into the Big
Pine, Cal, region recently, for the
purpose of rounding up and driving
to the National Forest Reserve a
herd of cattle that had been winter
i,oo rnSnrtQ6 o.
mobile as being the quickest means
of conveyance. The expedition start
ed from Reno, and the trip of some
thing over 400 miles to Blackburn's
ranch at Big Pine was made in rap
id time despite the fact that almost
All members of the party were most
enthusiastic over the possibilities of
the automobile for herding purposes,
as similar trip made on horseback
in former years would have taken
anywhere from two to three times
as long.
"Antiseptic surgery, as practiced
to-day by the medical profession has
a lesson for. every automobile own
err" says H. Clifford Brokaw, princi-
West Side Y. M. c. A. eff the tire of
an automobile is cut or broken it
should be treated at once in the same
manner that a physician treats a,
bodily injury. In the case of a bro
ken or cut tire, moisture, oil and
other foreign substances get into the
fabric of the shoe and cause decay.
Such injuries should be attended to
at once by washing out the cut with
gasoline and filling it with cement.
Follow this method with even the
smallest cut, and your tires will give
their. full length of service. Many
people complain that their tire bills
are excessive, but in most cases of
this character that I have investigat-
ed I have found that neglect was the
cause of the trouble"
A tourniquet fashioned from an au-
tomobile strap saved Oscar Bartle-
son, of New York, from bleeding to
death following an automobile
smashup near Barnegat, N. j., in
which he and companion were
hurled through the wind shield of
the machine.
more care, or the people are exer-
cising more caution, the number of
deaths due to automobiles is decreas-
ing, according to a report by the Ma
tional Highways Protective Associa-
ton. Seven. deaths were caused in
New York City during the past Nav
as compared with 16 during May a
year ago.
A new truck wheel has been pat
ented and will soon be on the mar
ket. It is an innovation in wheel
construction, and displaces rubber
tires on the ground. being a wheel
within a, wheel, the pneumatic tire
being between the inside wheel and
the outer. 1t is claimed that two
thirds the cost of tires will be say
ed.
Not less than $4,000 miles of road
were improved throughout the South
from 1904 to 1909, according to Lo-
gan Walter Page, director of the
United States office of public roads.
This This makes a total of improved
mileage of 42,2SO, or 6.67 per cent.
of all roads in the South. "Once the
South has complete system of pub
lie roads," he predicts, sit will be-
come the most prosperous section of
the United States. Good roads mean
more to the South than to any other
part of the country, because it is
here that the cost of moving crops
has been so high
A curious motor mania has been
discovered in a woman who has for
some time worried chauffeurs by
driving about Paris all night and
leaving them in the mOroinp with a