The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-16
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners ard Operators of Motor Cat-
 Should Know

r The present limit is 9 miles an hour. Hardly county fair has been held this year without special display of motor cars. and in many instances en- tire buildings have been devoted to the exhibits.
 Cincinnati city officials are much
 pleased with the new automobile fire
 engine recently placed in seryfs9
 there. As test it was loaded wft5
 IA men and ballast equal to it's conn
 plement of hose.
 When rounding a curve with a heavy automobile there are number of stresses set up in the car at any speed These stresses become mors severe as the speed increases, but the
 strains increase in intensity with t5Is square of the speed, so that lfftIf added speed means greatly augmentes stresses. e -ttF The motor-car industry is giver large credit for the enormous incTess<
 which United States census statistics
 show for Michigan, turing the past five years. During that period Mic1. igan's investment in manufacturinf increased from $s37, ,S94,000 to $533,947.<
 900; salaries and wages paid from $9S, 749 900 to $153, ,S3S 600; and the value of the products less cost Of material,
 from $190, ,039, 900 to $316. 6.497 GOO.
 Southern California has telephone
 service that is unique, being a system of roadside stations for the use o1 automobile drivers in case of ernerRer5-
 cy.F For instance, in case of d break<
 down, it will not be necessary to wsIH for miles to the nearest telephone toll station, as the new system provides
 portable telephone outfit for the caf
 of each member. All that is required
 is to plug in" at one of the numerous
 telephone poles which have been c0n~
 verted into emergency stations, and
 phone to the nearest garage.
 The Socialist city administration oZ
 Milwaukee Wis, has been making thorough investigation of the app1ica- ton of motor-driven apparatus for fire protection and 1t is probable that
 within a short time the Common Council will begin systematic can1-
 paign to replace all horse-drawn
 equipment with trucks.
 A bill recently introduced into the
 House of Commons has to do with a recent decision of the House of Lords, to the end that taxicab drivers are not
 entitled to the benefits of the Work
 mems Compensation Act, 1906 on the.
 ground that they are not "workmeny
 in the legal sense of the word. The bill is intended to reverse the decision The Milwaukee Electric Railway 6 Light Go, of Milwaukee, Wis, has purchased three electric trucks. one
 being of 2 ton capacity and the other . two of 700 pound capacity. The big
 truck will be used for pulling in cable and other heavy work and the wagons for general delivery. The company now operates about eight gasoIens trucks.
 After considering various financial plans for building boulevards. along
 the banks of streams in the city. t1e Indianapolis Qnd) Board of Trade Commissioners has decided to ask for a bond issue of $5000o0 and increase in the, park sax, Ieyys fren s5s to, Scents on each $100 of taxab1es. In addition the board will collect $100,000 an- nually by assessments on park dis tricts.
 There are a great many people who are located in various parts of the country at distance of between twenty-five and seventy-f1ve or even more miles from large cities who make their living during the summer by carrying passengers to and from the railway station, besides having con- tract with an express company to de- liver all goods which are directed fo houses within the district covered by the wagons
 The rapid development of the man. ufacture of automobile fire apparstus is shown very plainly in the spirited bidding for contracts at Indianapolis A year ago when bids were asked for squad wagon, only a few bids were received. When bids were asked re- gently for four pieces of apparatus, there were numerous firms anxious 10 supply them. The Board Of Public Safety has been visiting the differeE- factories and will later let contracts
 For some years there has been an insistent demand for standardization of lock washers, principally to cut down the unneccessarilyfl large number of stock sizes. After a great deal of conference and committee meeting. this has now been brought about by the Society of Automobile Engineers. the number of stock sizes being re- duced to twenty eight as against sev- era1 hundred. In lieu of specifca- tions for chemical composition of met als of which lock washers are made a suitable test for determining the temper and toughness of the washers when made, has been established.
 American automobilists can secure the international plate of identity just as soon as they land in any one of three French ports. France, recog nizing well that she serves as lthe chief gateway for automobilists enter ing Europe, smooths the difficulties which hitherto have been something considerable, and allows the American debarking upon her shores with his automobile bound perhaps to Italy, to Switzerland or to Spain. to use as a temporary residence any one Of the three ports tor Paris as WelD, and, without a penny to pay, avail them selves of all the privileges granted to Frenchmen.
 Crude rubber prices remain lower than they have been for several years. and indications are for notifications in tire prices for the new season. A steady decline in crude rubber quota tions has been noticed for nearly three years, ranging from a high point of s a pound to dollar rubber" which was the rate recently. The present rate of about $1.2O is consid- cred by local manufacturers to be likely to continue, and they declare that in all probability there can be no return to the former high prices of the crude product. The high rub Der price is credited by local manu- lecturers directly to London and Bra- gillian attempts to corner the crude rubber market When Brazilian job- bers and producers combined to raise prices by withholding rubber from the market, and at the same time bor- rowed money from the Brazilian gov- ernment on what they stored. Amer ican manufacturers bought as little as possible and fought the combine as hard as they could. even at t1e expense of their own ability to turn out orders and the corner. finally broke. The slump has been steadily continued ever since.