Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-21

/ to make the wheels grip the track, and
| Immediately when the sand was shut off
| the train stopped again. This was re-
peated again and again. SO that the en-
gineer had to keep his sand running I'M
til the caterpillar belt had been passed.
tive to crops that the only thing the
farmer can do is to sit down. resigned to
his fate. until they have passed by
::
Bert Dingley. the veteran driver has
been making some fast trials in practice
on the Santa Monica course in his new
Simplex racer. preparatory 10 the road
race May 4. He made several fast rounds
| Of the S4.17-mile course and has pro-
nounced 1t fit for real speed. He predicts
Herrick of 74.6, miles an hour, established
over the course last year. is very much
in danger of being shattered. On GER
! tain stretches Dingley Travelled at the
rate of log miles per hour.
VI late Ding1eyS work has been con-
fined to racing on the Pacific coast where
he is popularly known. although in the
early DAYS of racing he was very much
in the limelight in the east, having won
the 1904 Vanderbilt elimination race. He
also won his class in the 1903 Paramount
Park contest Dinsley has competed in a
number of European classics. winning the
elimination race of the 1903 Grand PriX in
, Paris He was also contender in the
~
fornian has been identified with racing
since 1902.
Erratic action in an old carbureter fire.
quently may be caused by a DAMAGED
jet. the irregular office of which causes
the gasoline to be delivered to the mix
ing chamber In chunks" which cause
the phenomenon sometimes referred to
as loading" The effect will be noticed
most frequently when muff1er- firing fol-
Inv nd
obvious remedy is to substitute a new
jet for the defective one.
Bar Harbor. after having for years
nourished a violent antagonism to the
automobile, has at last decided that it
cannot afford longer to deprive its own
people and the highly profitable summer
folk. out of whom the natives live, Of a
means of locomotion which from a mere
luxury has become. If not necessity for
everybody, at least a near-necessity for
considerable part Of the general popu-
latiOn.
San Francisco has added to its fire de-
partnent the first Of number OF motor
driven fire-fghting machines.
\ y
1t is astonishing how far the life of the
steering gear depends on the skill of the
driver. \ needless or nervous operator
=
sarily, bringing severe strains on the con-
nections and causing needless wear on
the front tires. 1t pays to learn to drive
sklllfully. even though not pursued as a
means of livelihood
F.. B. Hef1in is the latest purcha ser Of a
1917 self-starting Hudson touring car
Sales of Overland cars were announced
l1a CT fnll
Lieut.. Com. j. R. Y. Blakely, model g,
T.. thirty-fve horsepower: George l.
Fisher, model % T., thirty horsepower:
William Bowman. thirty horsepower
horsepower touring car. Deliveries We're
made to the following: S. r. De Pue.
model 81 touring car: Mrs. Stewart, 50
roadster; DR.. Bowker 50 roadster
Four successful business men, all lead
ing factors in the movement for the i'm
provement of the public highways Of the
United States and ell familiar with the
methods OF holding conventions of inter-
national scope. have just been appointed
by Charles Henry Davis, chairman of the
executive committee of the American
Road Congress. as the committee on time
and place, which will determine the date
and place for holding the joint conven-
tons Of the American Association for
Highway Improvement. the American
Aecdu IpuiiuciS <aSSOCidllOIl, the american
Automobile Association and the National
Association of Road Material and Ma
chinery Manufacturers
The committee is headed by Elias Van
Ger Horst of New York, as chairman
and includes Frank d. Lyon OF Bing-
hamton, \. Y: Charles P. Light OF
Washington and Nat Taylor, jr.. Of New
York. 1t has been arranged that this
committee shall visit Chicago. Atlanta
New Orleans, Detroit. Kansas City, St
Louis, Atlantic City. Buffalo and Wash
ineton, d. c. All of these cities have
been making strong bids for the conven-
ton. but bids also have been received
from milwaukee,, Philadelphia, Cincin-
natl. Cleveland, San Francisco Denver
Colorado Springs and Mountain Lake
Park. Nd. Some of these cities may be
visited later
At the present time the executive COM
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