The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-28

is called the Automobile Manufactur- ers' Association of America, and IS composed of manufacturers who. be- fore the recent Selden patent decision, were c,assed as independents.
 The European single passenger car has not met with favor among Amer ican manufacturers, but the three wheeled tUo-seater has arrived. on the other hand. the passenger capac- ity of the large cars has been 1n- creased by enclosing the drivers seat, winch makes the passenger place on the front seat as good as any in the car. The large cars are generally equipped for seven persons.
 One of the successful adaptions of the commercial vehicle to municipal uses is as a part of the fire fight ing apparatus of many cities. The advantage of using power wagons IS great and has it's effect in reducing ed. The speed with which motor ve- hicles can go to a fire has its result in preventing fires Or in starting to attack them before they have had @ chance to go very far. The speed Of a motor fire engine is greatly in eX- cess of anything that horse-drawn vehicle can hope to maintain for any length of time.
 The Massachusetts system of admin istering the construction and main tenance of State Highways through an appointive commission, the members of which are named for terms of sev- eral years. is approved by the Amer ican Automobile Association and is urged as the model for other States. struction and maintenance in the hands of short-ternied elective off, c;als. the A. I. 4. holds has resulted in frequent changes, of policy. re- petition of mistakes of former offi- cials, and has by reason of short tenure of office not attracted capable highway engineers, and in short, has been found by good roads advocates everywhere to be undesirable.
 Charles E. and John c. Tribbey, brothers and both business men of Washington. D. C., recently met with a peculiar motor accident. They have a large automobile which they use in common. While Charles was trying to crank the machine the handle slip7 crank struck his arm with such force as to break both bones of the fore arm. Thereupon John, while his brother was grooming with pain. took his turn at the crank in the hope of conveying Charles to doctor, but he, too. let the crank handle slip and it broke his arm in precisely the same way as it had broken his brothers.
 The State Motor Vehicle Commis- sioner of New Jersey, has come out flat-footedly against free privileges for nonresident motorists on Jersey roads. He declares the repairs to the States roads .now cost $1 100000 a year, and that. motorists both resi- dent and nonresident, should help pay the bill.
 A feature of the 1911 ear that ap- peals strongly to the purchaser is the plan followed by more manufacturers than formerly of having the list price cover complete equipment. including top, lamps, win shield. gas tank and sometimes speedometer. Under the older method of listing a car without these things a purchaser was fre- quently disappointed to learn that, after he had paid the advertised price, he was obliged to add $2O0 Or $500 to get his car ready for the road. A number of the leading makers have made practically reduction in price by including equipment at the same figure at which the car formerly sold without equipment. Even on some of the small cars the list price in- cludes the full set of lamps and a top.
 : In three years the number of mo- tor trucks in use in Chicago has grown from forty-five to nine hum dred.
 A combination of goggles and wind shield is not necessary. The wind shield is designed to keep the wind, dust and rain from the eyes and the same holds true of goggles. While goggles is supposed to give the driver a racy look; their constant use will tend to impair the eyesight.
 An emergency spare tire can be made from stout rope wound around the rim. either lengthwise or cross wise, and a combination of the two is even better. This temporary make shift has been known to answer for several miles and has the advantage that the rim is protected and the tire saved from being torn to ribbons.
 A felt shield fitted to the back panel of the front seat of "a touring car will protect the varnish and at the same time act as a convenient carrier if small pockets be fastened to it. If made with a loop of some very handy as lap robe for the oc- nupants of the tonneau in rainy wealth CT.
 Down in British Guiana, where the Colonial Government is interested in the cultivation of plantation Para rubber, 250 acres of the hills out of the 15,00O acres have been planted
 
 soon, be planted. Along the division lines 3.200 Para rubber trees have been planted and clearings are being made as fast as possible to plant the remaining part of the territory with rubber trees.
 Government estimates on the actual cost of transportation over Indiana roads indicate that for each ton haul ed one mile the cost averages 25.5 cents; that is, the cost varies in diff ferent parts of the State from 16 over a bituminized road between Phil adelphia and Atlantic City demon strated that freight can be transport ed over country roads for less than cent a mile. It is estimated that over roads in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey freight can be hauled for less than 5 cents a mile. so that the cost of transportation over Indiana roads is unusually high.
 Under a good roads bill recom- mended by a special joint committee of the wisconsin Legislature an ap- of $30o,000 is to be made yearly. Five per cent of this is to 20 ta a road maintenance fund and s25, GOO a year is devoted to the ex- penses of the commission-salaries expert services. experimental road building, etc. The residue is to go' into the road construction fund, to which an automobile tax of $5 a li- ,ense is also to contribute. As the States aid is to be about one third of the total road costs. the appro- about ss0O, ,00O a year for good roads 
 Upon his arrival in Germany, the foreign automobile tourist if not pro-