The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-09
THE AUT0MO-
 BILE WORLD

A computation in Motor Age sets forth that eff the total number of gasoline cars in the country j 250,- 900, for instance. and each aa ages 5,199 1-4 miles during the season. get ting twelve and half miles of ser vice to the gallon, the amount con- sumed is 103, 9S5.000 gallons. At an average of 15 cents a gallon, the cost is $15.597,750."
 The principle that the driver of a slow moving vehicle has no legal right to obstruct the highway to the disadvantage of a more rapidly noy- ing one, has been upheld by a jury at Newton, N. J. B. F. Snyder, mo- torist charged James Ross, a team ster. with failing to permit him to pass him on a road, and sued to re- cover S4, the amount of two fines that could be imposed under the law. He won.
 The attempt to prepare and pass a Federal license law for automobiles, is being pushed in the House Conl- rnittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, where a subcommittee has the preparation of the proposed bill under consideration.
 Quite the latest method of effect lively preventing the car being used while the owner is away for any length of time is to withdraw the axle shafts, if it is possible. The inten- tion of the makers of cars so fitted was to facilitate the removal of such parts as the bevel gears, without dis mantling the whole axle but the fur ther use should not be forgotten. It stands to reason that if the magneto or a valve is removed, the car cannot be used; but less trouble is required in removing a shaft; besides mag netos and valves are not uncommon things
 The bill to construct national au- tomobile highway along Or near the 35th parallel of north latitude from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, which has been introduced in the House at Washington, by Representa- tive Hamill, of New Jersey, provides sioners from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, New Mex ico, Tennessee, Alabama, MEssissip- pi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Ne vada and California, and two from the District of Columbia, and two mated 'T'he National Automobile Highway Commission The automo- bile highway proper is to be 143O feet wide and within this width and running, for passengers and two tracks to be used for freights; two macadam- surface roads, each where- ever practical, parallel one with the
 
 surfaced roads, each 20 feet wide, each road to have two tracks to be used 20 feet wide, each road to have steel plate track for fast automobiles; two macadam roads, each 20 feet wide each road to have two cement ways for automobiles going p miles or less an hour; two macadam roads, each 20 feet wide, each road to have eight ce- ment paths for bicycles, motorcycles tricycles and other cycles, and one ce- ment way ten feet wide for use of rol- Ter skates. The total cost of the pro- ject is placed at about $1O0 900, 900.
 "Duralumin, the new alloy discov- cred by the head chemist, D. A Weeks of vickers Sons and Maxim of London, bids fair to become an impor- tant factor in automobile construc- ton" said Assistant General Manager B. c. Spitzley of the Abbott Motor Co.,, Detroit, land our mechanical staff are conducting a series of ex- haustive and comprehensive tests with a view to using 1t if it is practical. The new metal which isf already hail. ed abroad as substitute for steel. will undoubtedly be used before long