The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-29
THINGS ABOUT
 AUTOMOBILES WORTH KNOWING

There are only two automobiles in the town of Stavanger, Norway, al- though it has 37,00O population and is rated as "live.''
 Anthony Redellsburger, of Pottsvlle, Pa., who recently celebrated his tooth | birthday, has just taken his first auto rie. As result of the plans made by North Carolina good road enthusiasts to build a highway from the sea coast to the Tennessee line by getting 10,- 900 citizens to volunteer their services, similar movements have been started in several other States.
 In sentencing two men to States prison for five years for stealing motor car, Judge Davis of Newark, N. J., remarked that automobile thefts were becoming too numerous, and such offenders should expect to be severely punishel. Death Valley, once the peril of trans continental tourists, is now a common automobile route. Borax is produced there in great quantities, and a thriv ing industry is in progress. Overseers and mine superintendents are daily l driving in and out of the valley in automobiles.
 While motoring between Harrisburg and White Haven, Pa, Daniel J. | Shern, a. member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, got dust laden with
 streptococci, minute bacterial organ isms, in his eyes and nearly lost his sight. Hereafter, he says, he will l stick to goggles.
 During the recent forest and brush l fires in many parts of Massachusetts. motor fire apparatus proved of great value, not only in preventing loss, but
 in saving the other equipment. The I motor apparatus, in most cases equip ped with chemicals and carrying brush fro GrI, fn reach fires in their incipient stage or | to get about quickly on different sides | of an advanced fire, so that it is re- | ported in many instances there has been prevented much loss of prop erty.
 The governor general of Korea has asked for a domestic loan of $2, GOO, GOO
 to be used for railway, road and har- Dor construction and improvement in Korea, and the Diet at Tokio has
 granted this sum, fully recognizing the importance of improving the means of communication in the newly annexed country. Ten million yen are to be used for road-building within the next five years. In the interior of Korea
 there are hardly any roads deserving that name. Goods. vegetables, fire
 wood, rice and other necessaries of life
 are carried by pack animals or by
 men. During the rainy season even InlS mas to De SlOpp0u, TOT Clo SlIodIlS
 swell to torrents, carrying with them the wooden bridges. Carts can hardly
 be used and most of the farmers in the interior have none. When these farm. CTS have a chance of bringing their products on better roads quickly to railway station, and so to an open
 port or large city, not only will they realize good profits and have an in- ducement to improve and enlarge their
 work, but the products will also be cheaper to the consumer.
 Several towns along the roads in New Jersey leading to Atlantic City which are travelled daily by motorists from all over the country are prepar- ing their usual summer speed traps to catch the unwary. As result mo- torists are talking of a motorway to run from Camden direct to Atlantic City, and to be devoted exclusively to automobile traffic.
 Governor Dix has signed bills appro- priating between s4,OOO, 900 and s5,000,- 900 for the improvement of New York State highways, to be provided by bonds issued under the $50, 900 high way act.
 Two farmers of Lahoma, Okla, re- gently converted their motor car into a COW pea threshing machine and per- formed the work successfully. z They made a drum with nails sticking out about an inch with concave to match, then jacked the rear wheels of their car, attached a belt from the wheel of the automobile to the drum and start ed the motor They threshed twenty bushels of peas in short time with out breaking the peas and then ran them through the flaming mill to clean them. All the work was done by the automobiles engine.
 A bill providing for two national auto highways has been introduced in the House at Washington by Repre- sentative Hobson. It authorizes the appointment of two commissions, with members from various States, to work out two gigantic improvements, one a highway to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans along the thirty fifth parallel of North latitude, the other to extend from Canada to Mex ico on a line near the twenty-third meridian west from Washington. These highways, the bill provides, shall be known respectively as the National East-West Auto Highway and the National North-South Auto Highway.
 There are a number of causes for pounding in a motor, and among them is that of preignition. Carbon in cylinders. which keeps aglow from heat of the explosion, will ignite the incoming gas before the piston has passed the top of the compression stroke. This tends to drive the piston downward and against the momentum of the f1ywheel, thus causing a pound It tends to spring the crankshaft and wear the bearings. The use of kero- sene or carbon remover may eliminate the trouble to some degree temporar- fly, but the surest way is to take the carbon out through the valve cage holes in alve-in-the-head motors or by removing the cylinders in other types. Excessive fabrication causes carbon deposits.
 One of the causes of a cylinder miss ing fire can be a broken vibrator or a vibrator point missing. A vibrator will not work in a satisfactory man. ner if the spring is either too weak or too strong: if the spring is broken or bent; or if the points have become very badly worn or lost. When any one or more of these conditions are found to exist the simplest remedy is emergency a vibrator spring can be strengthened and made to do service. If the platinum point is lost a new point can be made from German sil- ver iron wire, a piece of silver from a dime or almost any soft metal even copper. A little piece can be riveted to the vibrator so as to permit the motoristS to lose little time on the road.
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