The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-18

that more magnetos go to the repair
shops because some one has been eX-
other reason. All the magnetic needs
is few drops of oil once a month,
but the bearings should not be food
ed.
There are $4,000 families in the
United States with an annual income
are able to support an automobile the
field is by no means as liable to be
exhausted as some pessimists would
insist.
who has written to the "Manches-
ter Guardian" at Manchester, Eng
land, motors are doing the church q
very great deal of good in bringing
our bishops more among u.s."
Along with other modern ideas the
Chinese are adopting the motor car.
Although the roads adapted to Its
use are very few and mostly in the
vicinity of the larger cities, wealthy
Cinnamon are buying cars. Consul
General Samuel S. Knabenshue, of
Tientsin, reports that there are per-
Tientsin. two or three of which are
owned by Chinese. the others belong
ing to foreign residents. There are
also about half dozen in Pekin.
Approximately 10000 automobiles
were bought by farmers in the United
States during 1910, according to lat
est reliable estimates. This was an
increase of S5 per cent. over the num-
Der of cars bought by farmers the
year previous.
Engine knocks are always annoying
and sometimes they are very hard TO
trace. One of these, which may be
recognized by q harsh, shrill noise,S is
produced by wear at the small end
bearings. either in the gudgeon pin
or in the piston. This will necessi-
tate reboring the hole in the piston
and the fitting of larger gudgeon
pin.
the sign posting car of the Auto
mobile Club Of America is ploughing
it's way through frozen ruts, mud,
snow drifts and slush. The tour
ing bureau has mapped out SO much
work that the car can not afford to
old iron signs erected by the club
in the early stage of its sign posting
campaign have become in. many cases
defaced and illegible. Once they were
the only signs on the trunk routes be-
tween New York, New England and
set and renovate the old signs that is
being DONE If that is not possible
the yellow arrows replace them.
May English automobilists have
adopted as car mascots the Continen-
tai patron saint ST. Christopher, who
is represented bearing lamb in his
arms and picking his way across a
stream. But there are countless 9TH
er badges of less dignified and more
humorous order. The comic London
bobby ranks as the most popular of
amulets among automobiles, closely
followed by a weird specimen of a
yelping dog. Then there is the
black cat, the proverbial bringer of
good luck; the polliwog, the jabber-
wock; horned fawn, a growing cock.
and a spread eagle. The teddy bear
has fallen into disfavor.
For some years the Belgian Congo
has promoted the building of the au-
tomobile routes for freight carria ge
in order to do away with costly trans
porta ton on the backs of men before
| the colony can be adequately supplied
| with railroads. One of these routes,
starting from Stanley Pool, extends to
the southeast and Will penetrate the
| Kwango-Kassi country, which is par
ticularly rich in rubber; another starts
| from Lusambo, at the head of navi-
cation on the great Sankuru affluent
of the Watanga province. rich in ag-
ricultural resources, but noted chiefly
for it's extensive copper fields.
New York is anxiOuSly awaiting q
| test of its new automobile fire en-
CINE, which is expected to make a
Sp0eu VI lWeHly-uNC IliAeS al nOuT IN
the city streets. The difference be-
tween fire engines that have been IN
service for twenty years or more in
different parts of the country is thar
this one is driven by gasoline, but is
equipped with a steam pump. The
combination of steam and gasoline
has never been tried in service, the
fire experts say. This piece of ap-
paratus is said to be the first of its
kind in this country or Europe. The
machine weighs $4,000 pounds, and
the motor engine is of 100 horse
/, power.
HIGH SPEED is SEVEREST TEST
OF MOTOR CAR.
cit is not the big jolts that break
the car to pieces" according to En-
gineer W. g. Wall of the National
Motor Vehicle Company. "Of course
he continues, that does not mean
that If you fall over a cliff you will
| not injure your machine. 1t means
| that the bumps on the roads which
! toss the OccunqnfS lroOCf ont IF rh.,