The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-17

cnlIa, han., the automobile cost tha1
 city its baseball team T actually
 know of lot of good baseball fans
 here who bought motor cars this
 spring and who have not attended q
 single ball game this year, simply be-
 cause they could not afford both, and
 as their families enjoyed the rides
 they decided to let the ball game gC
 and stick to the motor car"
 Animals and particularly horses in
 the business district of Boston, which
 are injured or taken sick, will now be
 taken care of in a motor animal am-
 bulance, the first of it's kind ever con-
 structed. The ambulance was built
 for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It
 is larger than the usual animal ambu- lance and is equipped with all the lat est devices for convenience of veterin- aries and comfort of patients.
 If motor cars had never been in-
 vented we should still be very igno- rant people" says a leading English knew our own immediate neighbor- hood; if we hunted, our knowledge was possibly more extended, though probably more peculiar; otherwise we knew only of other parts when we happened to be visiting friends who lived in them, unless, of course, our lawful calling took us about the .coun- try"
 A horse delivery wagon on the streets has an overall length of about eighteen feet and occupies ninety square feet of area. To stable this outfit requires about IA squaPe feet of area. On the other hand, the mo- tor wagon of like carrying capacity will average an overall length of about ten feet or sixty square feet of area whether on the street or in the stable, saving of practically one- third on the street and nearly 100 per cent. in the stable, where the high rental value has to be considered.
 The best safeguard against side slipping is to travel slowly at steady uniform pace. A sudden, violent ap- plication of the brakes, sharp turn of the steering wheel or a sudden ac- celeration of pace may set up slipping. The driver, should, therefore, try to run his engine at an absolutely uni ing at a pace which would necessftate a strong application of the brakes should an obstruction suddenly block the road. Tn fact when the grease is really bad, he should regulate his speed so that the manipulation of the throttle lever will slow the car sufi1- ciently to provide for the ordinary ex- agencies of traffic.
 How commercial history repeats has been illustrated in California, where the old stage coach line, for many years considered an obsolete institu- tion, has been refncarnated. The new stage route service has been opened between Kernville and Cahente. Cal, a distance of forty-five miles, with an automobile as the stage" Though the road has a good surface the grade averages 15 per cent. In making the run the car climbs from an altitude of 1, 700 feet to one of 5000 feet in little less than forty miles. The route lies a most attra ctive part of pie turesque California, and reaches a section of the country not touched by the railroads. The car which is now making the trip carries seven passen- gers, and has an extra wide platform in the rear for baggage. On account of the grade an automobile can make the round trip in a third of the time required by a team of horses.
 A new and interesting theory as to the wearing effect of pneumatic tires on roads is offered by the London Times. It is that the rubber tire is stretched as it rolls, and that on rising from the ground it reverts rapidly to it's unstretched condition, giving a | binder which had become imbedded | in the tread during it's brief moment | of forcible contact with the road. This | is additional to the backward kick | given by the driving wheels when | more power is transmitted through | them than the adhesion between tire 1 and road warrants. The destructive | work thus begun is completed by the fall of air pressure in the wake of the l car, due to the badness of it's lines from an aeronautical point of view. This fall is slight, but 1t af- fleets a large volume of air. and this semi-vacuous space is refilled by ed- dying currents flowing in to restore the l atmospheric equilibrium.