The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-20

at an average speed of CPS miles m hour. In 1910 my estimate was that ft would require an average of about sS miles an hour to win. Our average was 65.1S, but the victory was by a very narrow margin We should have made a higher average Sometimes I think the hardest part of race is in getting ready. A great amount of study is necessary in order to know a course just right. One should know every turn, every hollow and bump, and every grade intimately"
 Solid rubber tires were introduced in the United States between 1870 and 1880, although patent for a tire was issued as far back as 1855 The first patent for a pneumatic tire did not become popular until about 1888
 The National Highway Protective accidents in the streets of New York City caused by various types of ve- hicles during April. It shows that of the forty-1ve deaths caused by ve- hicles in that period, ten persons were killed by automobiles, eleven by trol- ley cars and twenty-four by horse drawn trucks.
 Water is the natural enemy of any road and best results can not be ob- tained from the materials used until it is eliminated. T1Hs is 9 matter which, generally, has been very much
 
 to the good quality of any road, and no one cause operates more quickly to destroy it. If earth roads could be made so that their surface should be practically impervfous to water. and the water beneath the surface be removed, such a condition would produce really ideal roads. The soil absorbs water easily, so that ft is scarcely possible to make a surface that will shed it all, especially in cIf- mates where the surface is subject to periodic freezing, thawfng and rain fall. Roads which are excellent dur ing the summer season, when the Yoats can be kept intact, lose the sembfanos of their summer and fall conditions during the winter and spring months. mainly because the surface is not wa terproof, and when a road builder so utilizes local materials as to producs a roadway the subgrade Of which shall be dry-either naturally or artf- ficially-with a surface which Is irn- pervious to water, then he has the per- feet road. X
 A stir has been caused in Broadway, New York, by a car equipped with Q motor horn that plays snatches Of tunes as 1t moves along. One wag has suggested that a speed car bs equipped with hymn tunes, to bs
 According to the latest estimate. there are now 7s0,000 registered motor cars in the United States. New York leads with approximately 10000, Penn sylvania and California each have about 10000, Ohio has S24O0. Illinois. 30,000 Iowa 24,200, Massachusetts z2,- 900 and Michigan 18.O00.
 King Georges new automobile will be fitted up with quiet luxury and with due regard to the convenience. The headlights will not blind and stu pefy the Approaching traveller, and the kings motor horn is a compromise between the musical hooters and those which are merely alarming. It will be inoffensive and yet such as to ar- rest the attention Of the wayfarer. His Majesty will also have a speed ometer fitted inside the car.
 After a recent study of the deprecia- "Times' comes to the conclusion that between 15 and 20 per cent. Of the value of a new automobile ought to be written off as lost after the first days run. Intrfnsically, it finds. the car may be none the worse and even better for a good "shaking-down" of the machinery; but it is secondhand from that hour, which makes nevness an expensive item in buying a car. about the same for the whole Of the first year; in the second. 15 per cent more should 1t thinks be written off Of a s5,000 car@slightly less than is allowed by dealers on this side of the water, who take off about s1,000 year on cars of the best American makes. The cheaper English cars ought to be regarded as deteriorating at about the same rate, it appears, so that at the end of two and one-half years half the value of $2,5o0 car should have dis apDeared