The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

Very many amateur motorists de- light in always taking a hill on the high speed, not realizing that this often strains a motor or requires the rough places that could be taken with less strain and slower on the inter mediate speed.
 Where rubber hose is used to make connections in the water circulation pipes of a gasoline motor, and has bends in it, good plan is to rein- force it by a brass coil spring which any 1attening at the bend and crack ing resulting eventually in a leak.
 As compared with the estimate of 210,000 cars to be manufactured in the United States during the com ing tweelve months the output of France and England together appears small indeed. It is a question wheth- CT as many as 75,000 new cars are made in both those countries in a year
 Seven of the nine electric mail wag- ons ordered by the St. Louis Post Or fee have been put into operation. They are of 2,O00 pounds capacity each The two remaining ones will carry 2,500 pounds, or a total of 300,- 900 pounds of mail at a single haul They are to run fifty miles without recharging.
 The roads across the western prai- ries are always in very good travelling condition in the dry season, but the wet weather makes them so muddy that it is often difficult for the ma- chine to get through. The road dries rapidly, however, under a few hours sun, and transcontinental tou rists are advised generally to wait be in the prairie district during a rainy season.
 Western tales of rounding up cat tbe with automobiles were outdone recently in New York, when a po- liceman pursued a runaway steer in a taxicab. Twice the cab came within shooting range of the animal but the policeman's aim proved bad. The third time, however, and after the steer had knocked over a fat woman the cab was sufficiently close to en- able the officer to put bullet into a vital region, and the runaway fell lifeless.
 An agent of an American automo- bile manufactory, who was recently sent to Brazil to introduce American cars, has returned much disgruntled There are only two classes of peo- says, "the very rich and the very poor. In Buenos Ayres they sell Am erican $5 shoes for $25 a pair, have $5,000,00O theatre and four miles WOTkm0n imported from Paris for the job. French, Italian and German cars prac- tically own the market. To introduce an American car successfully requires two or three years hard work and an investment of fortune in cham pagne and social extravagance."
 The Police Commissioner of Lon don is threatening to have the auto- mobile horn abolished unless motor ists stop making so much noise. A bill has been introduced into ParIla- ment to amend the law in respect 10 the warning instruments on motor cars. With the concurrence of the Local Government Board the Com missioner of the Metropolitan Police has issued a circular pointing out that while drivers are bound to give audible warning with a view to pre- venting accidents, they go far beyond this and at night in streets where there is no hidden danger, and the only danger is reckless speed, they endeavor to prevent the possible con sequences of this by continuously and obnoXiously sounding their horns. disturbing the rest of residents.
 Handling motor car tires after they are discarded is a business of no mean proportions, which has grown up in the last two or three years Three facts enter into it, the junk collector, the dealer in junk and the rubber retainer, and the most inn portant of these is the last. For tire which cost originally forty or fif- ty dollars the junk dealers give from five to eight cents a pound, depend ing upon his and the owners bargain ing powers and the state of the mar ket-just now six or seven cents is the general price. In other words, the junk dealer gives the owner a cou- pie of dollars for his old $40 tire. The junk collector sells to the dealer at slight profit, and the dealer, who sorts out the different kinds of junk, sells the rubber tire to the reclaimer who eats out the fabric with acid, ex- tracts the rubber and uses it for mak- ing rubber boots and shoes, springs, valves and tubings
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