The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know

A British peer recently had deliv- cred to him a touring car" of 120 horsepower,
 The War Department, Navy Depart ment and Bureau of Standards in Washington have placed orders for B electric trucks.
 Under the recent order of Mayor Gaynor freeing bridges over the East River of toll charges, New York will annually lose about $275.0o0 income.
 As result of several accidents, the Toledo (Ohio) City Council has pass ed an ordinance to punish boys who hang on the backs of automobiles.
 Motorists are being advised to avoid Staten Island, N. Y. as far as pos sible. A speed limit of eight miles an hour is being enforced there, even on lonely roads where houses are few and far between.
 The order for $750,0O0 worth of mo- tor fire-fighting apparatus given by Greater New York is not only the largest of it's kind ever made. but will place the New York department ahead of that of Paris in motor engines and carts.
 Nebraska has a section of it's auto mobile law which provides that upon approaching any place where passen- gers are getting on or off Street cars motor cars must come to full stop
  car has started up.
 Motoring comment throughout the country generally favors the sentence of 90 days in jail imposed on a speed ing chauffeur by a Chicago judge. with the remark that by the end of the jail term the court hoped the prisoner would develop a sense of reason"
 The traction company which has been operating a 20-passenger auto mobile between Greenfield and Max well, Ind, has extended the service to Fountaintown. In addition to the usual passenger traffic, the company forms connecting link between three electric interurban lines.
 Another inventor now claims to have found a method of manufacturing non -puncturable tires. He is Clarke F. Fisk, of Allentown, N J., and the puncture-proof quality is given the tire by al tread of special construc- tion. He also claims his tire will last three times as long as an ordin- ary tire.
 ern car is astonishing. Speedometer, top, windshield, electric generator system, combination oil and electric side and tail lamps, electric tonneau lamp, demountable rims, horn, muffler cut-out, robe rail, foot rest and trunk rack are among the prin- cipal ones.
 In contrast with Barney oldfield, who recently declared that racing on mile dirt tracks should be stopped, Ralph De Palma is of the opinion that steps should be taken to reduce the danger to minimum. He suggests an inspector of practice racing and separation of experienced from novice drivers in practice hours.
 It is noticeable that the observance of. the universal light law in New Jersey Is more general than it was last year. It is rare sight to be- hold horse-drawn team being driven at night without light of some kind, vehicles are pretty well convinced by this time that the law works to their 
 King George, of Great Britain, is not only the foremost motorist in his domain. but invariably sets a good example to others by refusing to per init speeding. even ip the open coun- try. although the royal cars are of high-power construction. The King first used a car in 1900.
 According to latest descriptions and pictures from abroad, Prince Henry is a prince of motoring as well as of the Prussian House. He worked in his shirt sleeves on his car before the start of the Prince Henry tour: drove the car himself; climbed under the car and fixed the petrol tank and other wise conducted himself much as an motorist
 The new motor law in Iowa is mod eled on the Callan law of New York, and, like it, contains a provision that a motorist involves in an accident