The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-07
THE .AuT0M0-
 BILE WORLD

~ One day recently W. .aAlonzo Craig
 proposed to MT. Sam Foreman, of the Foreman Gresham Automobile Com
 pany, dealers in Ford cars at Padu-
 cah, Ky, that if he would climb the
 two flights of. concrete and stone steps
 on the north side of the Paducah
 Court House, go through the court
 house hall and down the steps on the
 south side of the building and yard.
 hea (Craigl would buy a Ford Model T. automobile- at $7S0 cash and no questions asked MT. Foreman took him up promptly and. made the trial,
 successfully motoring up the two
 house and down on the other side
 with comparative ease.
 The power plant is the very vital
 part of the auto and of this most es-
 sential combination. the motor is the
 central feature. Each year we look
 to the automobile shows to see what. II,
 if any, changes have been made in
 the motor, and this year is.. no excep- tion. We have heard much of the long strokes and small bores used abroad where the law makers have been fixing heavy taxes on. large bor- ed cylinders and we look to see if there has been any effect produced
 by this foreign practice. The, only example seems to be small. speedy roadster. of foreign manufacture, which has a bore of 5 Is inches with a stroke of 10 inches. :. But in the main, the strokes slightly exceed the bores That American makers are like 1y to go ito much dnference petMeen the bores and strokes seems not to be the case. They for years have fought to reduce weights and sizes and it is generally admitted that the large bore, short stroke engine, can have shorter cylinders and connect ing rods than long stroke engine This keeps down the height of the sistance of the motor front and is in the interests of neatness and compact ness.
 If migh be said that pr. MacNab, manager of the United Motor Chsca- go Company, is a we'll balanced pro- D." The MacNab family determined to have a physician in the family and Scotch name of MacNab.. Ten years of studious application of the doc, tors part added the 'M. D." to the family designation. But as the best laid plans of mice and men often go hang. just so Doctor MacNab laid down his case of vials to pick up the tools of commerce. He has been sig naIly successful in his / new work. Now peculiar as is this ''M. D. Mac Nab M. D." It IS no more peculiar than the case of Doctor aMacNab's younger brother. The family sought to make sure of his future at ten- der age by prefixing the initials "A. B." to the proud name and an oblig-. ing college added another brace of alphabet openers and so this young CT brother is privileged to sign him. self "A. B. MacNab, A.. B..
 . Many a man has won a.. s'plug hat" in a wager of one sort Or another, but it has not been: recorded hereto fore that municipalities have indulg- ed in & filtration with Dame Fortune; yet the census returns from. the south were the subject. of an interesting bet between the cities of Richmond, Va; and Atlanta, Ga. The Virginians bet the Georgians that Atlanta would fall behind in the census figures. When Richmond lost it's bet, that commun- ity made good" by sending on a A. OO0-p pound "stove-pipe" made. out of cast iron. To transport this two ton headpiece, an auto truck was pressed r.into service and this truck carried the hat through Atlanta in the presence of thousands of people.