Evening star., 1911-06-04
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direct to Atlantic City. and to be devoted
exclusively to automobile traffic.
The acetylene lamps on a car should
not be neglected. Wires should be passed
through the gas and air apertureS at in
tervals in order to keep them clear. The
burners should be unscrewed occasionally
and blown through, and. the interior OF
the burner body should be scraped clean
of deposit. The lenses should be kept
brightly polished
During the recent forest and brush
fires in many parts OF Massachusetts mo-
not only in preventing loss, but in saw
ing the other equipment. The motor ap-
peratus. in most cases equipped with
chemicals and carrying brush fire fight
their incipient stage or to get about
quickly on different sides OF an advanced
fire, so that it is reported in many in
stances there has been prevented mucn
loss of property
The timing device used to record the
result of the big 5O0-mile race at the
Indianapolis speedway Decoration day is
an instrument which has completely mas
tered old Father Time, and is the only
machine in the world known to accurate
ly record the division OF time into hun
dredth parts of second. The electrical
horograph was invented by c. II. Warner
of Beloit, Wis, and is adopted by the
American Automobile Association as The
timing device of all automobile contests
held in this country. Contact wires.
which are placed at intervals about the
track. operate in conjunction with the
machines, and 1t is capable of recording
accurately the time of any number or
cars travelling at any speed so long as
there is an interval of six inches differ
ence between the positions of the front
tires of the machines. The instrument
was used to gauge the cars in their trips
around the speedway before the race
Memorial day, as they were required to
do seventy-five miles an hour or better
in order TO qualify. The race was the
greatest hest of the machine which 1t
has undergone. for forty large cars were
travelling at the rate of eighty and ninety
miles an hour within distance OF two
and one-half miles of one another. and
the timing device necessarily was re-
ouired to carry a heavier load than ever
before in the history OF automobile
racing.
Benedict, Md, on the banks OF the
Patuxent river, was the objective point
for q number of Washington motorists
last Sunday. The various cars left this
city early last Sunday morning. the after
noon being spent in sailing on the river
after dinner. The return trip was made
in the evening after sundown. Among
Mrs. ]. Levy and party in Washing
ton car. Mr.. and Mrs. Isadore Freund
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Bender in
a Packard phaeton. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed B.
Terry and family In a Washington tour
ing car, Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Cohen and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Steinehardt and
families in a Columbia touring car, T. B.
Spence in Matheson racing car and
Mr. and Mrs. ]. ID. Darnall in their
Washington r. adster.
A Standardization "50' was delivered
last week to B. F. Pilson. The car Is
seven-passenger one. fully equipped, fin
ished in blue with cream running gear.
IF 1t Is found necessary to take down
the gear box it would be as well to see
that the clutch leather is in good condi-
tion. and If it shows signs of burning or
is worn thin this opportunity of replac-
ing the leather should be taken. With a
little care in removing the rivets and
taking off the old leather it can be kept
intact and will be useful to mark out the
new one. which should be cut from the
thick part of the hide and will not cost
much Be careful to countersink the
holes for rivet heads. so that they sink
well below the surface of the leather, and
put it on rough side out 1t will be bet
ter trued up in the lathe, but if carefully
and truly fitted it may do without, and If
soaked IN castor oil will very soon ac-
commodate itself to the seat.
1t has been truly said that the motor
car broadens the life and outlook of
the city dweller; but it's broadening in
fiuence on the lives of the farmer and
his family is vastly greater than in
the case of the people who live I'm
towns.
No one has been quicker to grasp
the Significance of this than the farmer
himself If evidence is demanded to
bear out this statement, one need only
remember that thousands of automO-
biles have been and are being sold to
farmers all over the country, and par
ticularly in the great west.
X x y X
w. B. McBurney, for the past two
years connected with the Pope Auto
mobile Company Of Washington, is now
located at 1917 14th street northwest.
where he is engaged in handling the
Mack line of trucks. These gasoline
trucks are made by the Mack Brothers
Motor Car Company, at Allentown, Pa.