The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-31
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know


 Hat manufacturers are now com | blaming that the motor car has had a bad effect on the stiff hat indus try. because of the popularity of caps. | In place of the skepticism of a | year ago, it is now noticeable that banks and bankers are quick to in- vest money in the automobile trade through money loans.
 In order to know personally how, when and where the money voted by the recent Pennsylvania Legisla- ture for good roads will be expended been making an extensive automo- bile tour. At Easton friends present. ed him with an electric torch to light his way to Philadelphia.
 Motor truck agepks throughout the country report rush of orders since the recent hot spell, due largely, they believe, to the number of hoisted overcome. In New York City alone more than 1,2O0 horses are estimated to have died from the heat during the eleven days of the torrid temper ature.
 Tn two years there will not be a horse drawn bus in all Paris. The company operating these buses has made an agreement by which it will abandon the use of horse-drawn vehicles on June 1, 1913. There were 9s,00o horses in service within Paris at the close of 1900. In 1909, notwithstanding the increased popu- lation and traffic of the city, they had diminished to 78,000, and are still decreasing at the rate of about 2,000 per year.
 There is one State highway engin- ger in this country who, believes 1t will not be long before the roads in the United States are on a level with the ideal highways of Europe. This is Major W. w Crosby, chief en-
 
 Commission, who, in a communities tion to the Good Roads Board of the American Automobile Association, ex- presses his opinion of the develop ment of the science of road construc- tion in this country. He said that struction the best practice in the United States is away in advance of the foreign.
 The only person in Ottawa, Can ada, allowed to use siren on his car is the chief of the fire brigade. All others must have plain reed horns.
 Automobile thieves have been bold of late and the wires from various sections of the country report talk ings. Some small garages have been entered and in other cases machines have been driven away, from the curbs.
 An automobilist reports that the most dangerous bridge in Massachu- setts is to be found at Cheapside, near Greenfield. This is a covered bridge tf fos years ears. old; , It a:s is two, TO- either side for vehicles.
 The Capital Club, the oldest bicy- cle club in Washington, has disband- ed because of the advent of motor cycles and automobiles. The Capital Club vas organized when the bicycle was fashionable
 Colonel T. Coleman duPont, the Delaware powder magnate, looks up- on the fine new stone highway which is to run the length of that State as, in sense his monument He part of his time to the surveying and building of the road, being deter mined that it shall be properly To- cated and constructed.
 Missing in one cylinder may be caused by that cylinder having a seats, by the inlet valve opening too much and not closing as quickly as the others or by a valve not seating at all, or by that cylinder being car bonized. These things cause the en- zine to take a different mixture. If the cylinders are right the same cars buretors adjustment will suit all.
 Ithaca, N. Y., has a garage with a. novel set of cages for individual cars Any one storing his machine finds the floor divided off into spaces large enough to accommodate the various sizes of cars There are large doors and sections are built up of iron bars, so that they look like big animal cages. The owner or driver backs his car into a cage and then 1t is lock- ed up. No one can get to it unless he has key for the cage and that makes supervision easy.
 Starting out on a hot morning, with long drive ahead, every precaution should be taken to prevent mishaps It should be remembered that an en- zine runs better as it goes on. There fore, the thing to do is to start off at a moderate pace, and let the en- zine warm to it's work. If it is right at the beginning it will be go- ing perfectly at the end of twenty or thirty miles. By that time every thing will be going just right, the engine being warm, we'll fabricated and delivering it's maximum of pow
 This is the season of the year when it is no uncommon sight in the city to see a number of cars stand of steam issuing from their radiator caps. Overheating of the engine may be caused by many things, as in- sufficient water circulation, improper timing or insufficient lift to exhaust valves Either too weak or too rich a mixture burns slowly and gives up a larger proportion of heat to the cylinder head and wall than a per- feet mixture does. A poor spray overheats, so does poor oil and like wise the too constant use of the low speed gear.
 The obnoxious smell that is some times associated with an automobile is not always due to overlubrication In most eases this odor is due to oil or grease leaking from the gear box and thrown by the shaft on to the hat exhaust pipe. At this point the pipe may not be hot enough to really burn the oil up immediately, but it gradually fries it and makes the most unpleasant odor in so doing The remedy is simple and obvious one AS a rule, the leakage. if round the primary shaft of the gear-boX bear ing, cannot be stopped, and the thing to do is to protect the exhaust pipe from the splashes. This can always be done by fitting thin iron shield an inch or two from the exhaust pipe and between it and the line of the oil splashes.
 To illustrate the tremendous i'm petus which has been given to the nationwide movement for improved public highways, the United States Office of Public Roads has prepared chart which shows that nearly 15,- 900 miles of transcontinental, inter- state and trunk-line roads are con- templated in various parts of the country North, South, East and