The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08

must stop and give his name, ad- dress and registration number. This provision of the New York State law was overthrown in the Rosenheimer case and it will be interesting to see what happens when some such case comes up in Iowa.
 According to the president of a tax icab drivers union in London, Eff a lady is very smartly dressed she walks to be admired, but is dowdy or shabby, she calls a cab so she won't be seen. To this he adds: "A gentle man who is wearing stays which will give him a nice figure will want to be admired as well, but if he has for gotten to put on his stays, he jumps into cab.''
 A nonresident may operate his car in Massachusetts for not exceeding ten days without taking out a regis tration certificate, but if he intends to stay longer he can take out a reg istration good for July, August and September. Last year 8 total of 750 of these three months registrations were taken out. This year, although the period began about three weeks ago, 37S, or more than half as many as in all of last year, have been fs- sued by the Highway Commission.
 Not only has the limited license privilege for touring in New Jersey been withdrawn from motorists of New York, but only one license bureau for Jersey tags has been kept open.
 A bill has been introduced in the English House of Commons that pro- vfdes that no exhaust blown instru- ments shall be used in the streets of towns and that at night warning shall be given by bells.
 Whatever may become of the par ticles of rubber that are worn away, it is certainty that few tires ever wholly disappear. Old rubber is used over and over again in the compost ceasing value. It is probable that no tire ever has completely passed out of useful existence unless it has been burned up or lost in the water. The old shoes have always a market value and can be made use of.
 The chief of the ancient roads of England were those originally mark ed out by the Romans. and generally 1t can be said they crossed from the south to the east and from the south to the northwest. Generally they have been maintained as highways by various public authorities through whose areas they happened to pass, but in some isolated districts where the roads have not been necessary or desirable for linking up large towns portions have never been maintained as ordinary roads, but have been con- tinued as bride or dirt roads without any telfordizing or macadamizing. In England these terms are called, re- spectively, ''foundationing" and sur facing"
 A novel scheme to prevent accidents at dangerous curves has been devised for use in Redlands, Cal There are don 1rAo iyfo ioyoS c at compound curves in that city, and as there are many tourists who are unfamiliar with the thoroughfares it was deemed wise to take all precau- tions against collisions and wrecks. Therefore a crew was put to work, painting lines of luminous aluminium paint at the difficult curves; broad and conspicuous bands, which ran down the center of the smoothly paw ed streets for the guidance of drivers At the intersection of three streets. one of which has a railroad track, there is a compound curve and hero the line has been carried fon 300 feet with arrows to mark where the ve hicles are required to take their own side of the street and keep it.
 In view of the country-wide ag1ta- ton on the subject of unnecessary street noises, the following opinion by Hudson Maxim, recognized as an authority in the matter of sound, is of especial interest: "I am firmly convinced, from many years Of prac- tical experience in automobiling, that the automobile must be equipped with a distinctive signaling N1evice, capable of giving an effective warn ing signal, which must, of necessity, in order to be warning signal, be a harsh and startling sound. Such a signaling device enables the chauffeur to avoid many serious accidents, which would inevitably result from the lem ployment of device emitting a pleas ant or musical sound. Caution and skill on the part of the chauffeur in the choice of speed and in the use of his brakes are not alone sufficient to prevent collisions He must be armed also with strong, effective warning signal''