The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-17
ABOUT
 AUTOMOBILES WORTH KNOWING

 The Central Highway, to extend | from Beaufort, N. C., port on the Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of
 the inland waterway, as near in a
 straight line as possible to the Ten- nessee boundary, not far from Hot
 Springs, N. C., will traverse nineteen counties and about sixty-fve cities and towns.
 4 contract has been let by Robert Bryson, postmaster at Indianapolis,
 for automobile collection of mail in that city for four years. to the Den- yer Rapid Transit Company, Denver, Col, the only bidder. The contract price is s2,750 year for each of three cars and drivers. An additional car is to be held in reserve.
 Within short time the Board of Public Safety of Indianapolis will ask for automobile apparatus for the fire department. The apparatus to be purchased will include a squad wag- on combination hose wagon and en- zine, and a combination hose and lad- der wagon. The squad wagon will carry seven picked men, 250 feet of chemical hose and a 40-gallon chem ical tank. One squad wagon has been used by the Indianapolis fire depart ment several months.
 With the signing of the New York Montreal highway bill. Governor Dix, of New York, has made it possible to start work on one of the most 1mpor- tant sections of a highway stretching from Palm Beach, Fla, to Montreal and Quebec, Can. The stretches be- tween New York and Atlanta, Ga, and from the latter place to Jackson vile, Fla, have been routed and all that remains is the completion of the section from New York City to Rouses Point at the Canadian border, and the improvement of the roads in the Do- minion of Canada. leading from Rous- es Point to Montreal and Quebes.
 The announcement that the Wander bilt Cup race would be held at Sa- vannah, Ga., this year has caused surprise and discussion among follow CTS of the sport of automobile racing, for it was understood that William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., the donor of the cup bearing that name and the orig inator of the famous races on Long Island, was determined that further races for his trophy would be contest e4 where the previous ones had been. Sometime ago when the Savannah peo- lle declared their intention of apply ing for both the Grand Prize and the Van lerbilt races they were not taken was concerned.
 The exports of automobiles from this country is still over the million and half mark per month the latest re- ports from the Federal Department of Cornmerce and Labor showing that d,Iing April, 1911, there was exported by American manufacturers $1,7S6.- s64 worth of automobiles and parts, an increase of $573,820 over the same month in 1910. During the month of March, 1911, the figures touched s1, ,63S, ,947 While the increase for the
 
 March over the corresponding month of the previous year, the figures for the ten months ending April 1911. show gain of $4,$2S,730 over the same period of 1910.
 David L. Bruce-Brown, who won third place at Indianapolis, is a New York youngster of wealth who took be derived from 1t. While he showed al attachment to automobile racing his family was very much adverse to it. and in March, 1908 he ran away from school and was taken to F1ori- da by Cedrino. His mother heard of his intention to race at the Florida beach and telegraphed Referee Mor- reI. who was officiating at the meet there, not to allow her son to side. Morrell refused to allow the young ster to drive, but Bruce-Brown was not to be denied the chance he had travelled to Florida for and one day when Morrell was not looking his way he jumped into Fiat car that was being put into readiness for Cedrino aad established worlds amateur one mile straightaway record.
 Automobiles all over the country are showing interest in the project which is now attaining definite form in Kentucky from Louisville to the Lincoln Park. The route most favor
 I-:- r y,d Nashville pike, which for years be- fore the war was the chief medium oe communication and transportation be- tween the cities whose names it bears. The week of July 31st to August 5th has been set aside as "Good Roads Week. and during that time 1t IS planned to rebuild the highway from Louisville to the birthplace of Lin- coln in Larue County, about fifty miles away It is then planned to carry the road, in it's reconstruction tc the Tennessee line, where it will be taken up by the good roads build CTS in that State, and will be made to connect with the big Memphis to- Bristol road which is projected there. |
 A tri-State automobile association, i of motor clubs in Pennsyl- | vania, Delaware and Maryland, the chief object of which $ to promote | the construction and maintenance Of | 8 drSt-cIdSS puDllc lIIlptONoQ IOdu U3- | tween Philadelphia, Wilmington, Bal l timore and Washington, is proposed ! by officers of the Delaware Automobli A Association having it's headquarters | m Wilmington; the Maryland Automo- bile Club. having it's headquarters in i and representatives of clubs in Philadelphia, and it's consummation | iron, what can be learned, is likely | to materialiZe in >ery short time. Besides the matter of better roads, l another object of the proposed asso- ,iation would be a United effort to ! secure uniform laws in the three States al.0 also uniform regulations for the of those laws. It would l ,lso promote sociability among the | automobile club men of the three states.
 An enterprising undertaken of Tren- ton, N. J., has bought a motor bur- al car.
 There is man out in Illinois who las connected up a permanently at .ached tire gauge with bell so that when the air pressure falls below a | certain point the bell gives warning of it.
 The Maryland State Roads Commis- sion has organized force to patrol | .oads after heavy rainfalls and make .epairs before the damage becomes se- -ious.
 The acetylene lamps on car should not be neglected Wires should be passed through the gas and air aper- ures at intervals in order to keep hem clear The burners should be | 1nscrewed occasionally and blown through, and the interior of the burn 1T body should be scraped clean of
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