The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-02
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know

i Operators of Motor Cars Should Know
 The Amir of Afghanistan has sent
 60 young Afghans to Bombay to be taught to drive motor .cars.
 It is estimated that fully 400 auto | mobiles are now in active use through out the country for evangelistic pur- poses. A novel vehicle has made its appear l ance on the streets of Springfield, Mass.
 It consists of a fire department water tower, with a motor attachment in front to take the place of horses. Massachusetts State Highway Com mission has been active of late in de- | priving reckless car drivers of licenses | and is being backed by the best ele- | ment of motorists all through New England.
 The government of Russia is outlin- ing a scheme for the construction of 165, GOO miles of new roads during the ensuing ten years. The money cost of constructing for European Russian alone, sufficient roads to provide one | Hneal mile to ten square miles of coun- try, is estimated at little under two hundred million sterling, a sum far be-
 yond the capacity of Russia to provide 1 for this purpose in money. But if Russia has not the money she un- doUbtedly has the men, and these have nowadays plenty of spare time, holi- | days. etc, so that the eminently prac- tical plan of the Council of Ministers | to get these roads made in the course of the next decade by requiring local labor and resources to give up so
 much otherwise wasted time to the task, materials being supplied where | not found on the spot.
 An important conference in the in- terest of highway improvement will be held next week, when the highway of | f1cials of New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut will make a tour of in spection over some of the more impor- | tant roads of their respective states. The New York delegation will meet at Albany and from that point the motor tour will be made to Pittsf1eld and
 thence to Springfield, where the general conference will be held While the ob- l ject of the tour is to discuss methods
 for the adoption of uniform plans for highway construction, whereby trunk line routes may be available for motor ists travelling through Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, the con-
 ference has also been planned with the
 object of bringing about a personal
 meeting between the highway commis-
 sioners and engineers of these states. Col. T. Coleman duPont, United States senator from Delaware, who re- gently created a sensation in the mo- tOring world with the announcement of his determination to build a public highway running due north and south I>. bought a unique camping motor car.
 The body is especially constructed and so laid out that it has sufficient length inside to accommodate a hair mattress six feet long. The tent is one of the
 most unique feature of the entire lay out and is made of balloon waterproof
 silk of very light material for packing in a small space. There are six tent poles, each six feet high.ss When the tent is not in use these poles are car ried on a board alongside oH the car. The tent is so constructed that there
 are division curtains hanging from the side of the car to the ground, making
 practically three compartments, two outside of the car body and one car
 compartment inside. A unique feature is an electric light plant. This Is composed of one 150 ampere hour stor- age battery, which is constantly charg- ed by means of the engine, thereby fur nishing current for the storage bat tery.
 It begins to look as if the fore-door body has come to stay.
 There will be plenty of moderate priced coupeS and other enclosed cars for fall and winter use.
 One concern announces 25 different y,ond<AIc 1Q19 That iC hot
 one model movement has not swept all
 before it.
 Among new books is one devoted to
 motor law and legacies, making sug-
 gestions as to how wealthy motorists
 may make wills so as to provide
 against contingencies in event of mo-
 toring accidents
 Among the. higher priced cars nearly
 every make in 1912 will have a six
 cylinder model. Early reports from
 factories indicate that the demand for
 sizes among big cars is to be heavier
 than ever before.
 The Commissioner of the Bureau of
 Weights and Measures of New York
 has received many anonymous letters
 complaining of alleged short measure
 in the purchase of gasolene by motor ists that he has begun an investiga- tion into the matter.
 A matter that is causing New York City users of gasolene motor trucks considerable anxiety is the refusal of the steamship management to admit motor trucks to the various piers. The subject is an old one and has been un- der discussion ever since motor driven vehicles became a commercial neces- sity, but all appeals made to the steamship men appear to have failed to accomplish anything. There is now hope, however, of an adjustment. A French newspaper has been calcu-
 lating what various champions gain
 by the hour or by the mile The gains
 of Andre Beaumont, the aviator, work
 out at almost $37 a mile. He can
 not compare with the winner of the
 Grand Prix at Longchamps, as d'At- out, who won money at the rate of
 $24O a minute, or s3S, 400 a mile. Au-
 tomobile driving in 1905 paid a winner,
 Thery, at the rate of $58 a mile, or
 3,857 an hour. The chief bicycle prize
 of. France pays about $1, ,O66 a mile or
 from $2O0 to $4O0 minute, but the
 tour of France for bicycles, wherein
 men have just cycled more than 5000
 miles around France during the hot