Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12

| a municipal garage to be maintained by
| the city, special revenue bonds to the
| amount of $4,000 will be issued for the
| start of the project The new garage Is
to be located at the Brooklyn end Of the
| old bridge. and as many as possible OF
| the city-owned automobiles will be stored
there overnight.
The Pueblo (Col.) city council has
decided to purchase an automobile
chemical and hose truck, which is to
be added to the equipment OF the local
| fire department. The machine. which
costs $3.50, is rated at seventy horse
power. and is adapted to carry seven
ladders. 1000 feet of regulation hose.
a quantity of chemical hose. chemi-
cal tank, located under the drivers
seat; axes and other apparatus.
One OF the things that will cause an
engine to skip is water in the gasoline.
To remedy this. open the petcocks.
of water from the gasoline, daily. IT,
after testing this point thoroughly, the
engine still misses. the fault, no doubt
lies In the mixture, and the carburetor
needs adjusting. but before doing any
thing to the carburetor-and unless it's
|
better to employ man competent to
| do the work-be sure that no dirt lies
under the needle-point valve.
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Three bills have been introduced in
the Tennessee legislature, which is
now in session, relating to the i'm
provement Of roads in that state. One
provides for the creation of a state
highway commission, another author
ICES the Issuance Of bonds by the in
dfvidual counties for road building pur-
poses. and third specifies the manner
nectfon with the work. The sentiment
In the state is so strong in favor of
the passage OF the measures that 1t is
almost certain they will go through
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A bill has been introduced in the Wis
cons1n legislature requiring the state to
build a public macadamized highway
from the illinois border to Ashland. Wis,
on Lake Superior, the northern limits of
wisconsin. Fifty miles Of this road shall
pc Dullt each year. according to the BILL
beginning with 1911, the work to begin in
| the middle OF the route and to proceed in
each direction at the rate of Twenty-Five
miles each year The cost is toSbe paid
by the state, and the work shall be super
vised by commission Of experts, who
snail draw no salary, but receive actual
expenses.
Believing that It is a great help to the
spread Of Christianity. q committee of
the North Woodward Methodist Episcopal
Church In Detroit. Mich, has been So
letting funds to buy car for the pastor.
When Rev. Eugene Antrim preached his
nrst sermon there, last fall, he said that
, 1t was his intention to visit each of the
LOO members Of the congregation. Since
then he has visited 300 of them, and has
lost no time.
A law passed in 1903 has been invoked
for the widening of the old Albany post
road where 1t passes through Tarrytown
and other villages along the Hudson, in
New York 1t is claimed that numbers
OF valuable estates have so encroached
| upon the historic road as to make it too
| narrow for safe and easy travelling.
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1t is estimated that II the 1S7, 600 motor
cars produced in the United States during
1910 should travel on an average Of ten
miles day during the present year. the
| total mileage would be 6S2, 500. 600, or o.
3O2 times as far as the distance around
| times as far as the sun is distant from
the earth.
| The Berlin Tageblatt has been inter-
viewing leaders in the German automobile
industry. and in the sport. as to whether
racing in the emperor's dominions. and
has obtained a surprising number of
opinions to the effect that racing has
helped, and still can help. the development
of the car. even from the point of view
of the man who uses it as family con-
veyance.
Entry blanks for the twenty-four-hour
| race that is to be run at Los Angeles, in
the motordrome. April and 9, show that
1t is open to any motor car under the
piston displacement limitation of class c.
The first prize is the Los Angeles motor
drome twenty-four-hour trophy and Ii
per cent of the gross gate receipts. The
| second prize Is to be per cent Of the
gross gate receipts and the third prize 4
per cent Of the same.
recent census, collected by a trade
paper devoted to motor interests. gives
the number Of motor vehicles Of all kinds
in the United Kingdom as 21S,6SO, an in
crease over 1909 Of 36925. distributed as
follows: English and Welsh counties,
u III o ;ooe; English and doo Welsh boroughs.
total. 21s.6S0 In London there are 1881
| motor cars, 1888 motor cycles and 1867
heavy vehicles, making a total Of 52.721
Of all types. Middlesex has the largest
county total. S,035. followed by Kent with
5.T5. OF provincial towns. Birmingham
leads with 5.527 cars, motor cycles and
vehicles, followed by Manchester, 3,677:
Liverpool, 3,447; Glasgow. 2,154; Edin-
burgh. 1880; Dublin. 1851, and Belfast,
1.O96.
E. c. Belden. a farmer, of Suffield,
Conn, owns an automobile for which he
has a number Of uses. The recent heavy
snowstorms had little effect upon the
service given by Mr.. Belden's runabout,
for he equipped the car with runners, so
that 1t ran with ease in twelve inches Of
! snow. He took off the two front wheels,
from which the tires had been removed,
and bolted on a pair of thirty-inch wood
en- rims, set with steel runners, in their
place. During the storms the car has
been operated In connection with his laun-
dry work, In which he has half interest,
to collect and deliver all the family laun-
dries in Sufield. Windsor Locks, Ware
house Point and West Sheffield.
bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey legislature for the abolition of
grade crossings. The measure provides
that the governing body of any munich
pality may petition the public utility
commission of New Jersey. alleging that
public safety requires an alteration in
certain railway crossings. and that the
commission. after investigation and CIV
ing a hearing to all parties in interest,
shall order and determine what altera-
tions and changes. If any. shall be made
Where the highway existed before the
railway was constructed over 1t at grade,
or IL the layout Of the highway was
changed for the benefit Of the railroad