Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20
DOINCS IN THE AUTO WORLD
Auto Polo Proves Expensive Pasme- Opportunities For American Cars Abroad-Motor Trucks in Use in the West.

of additional delegates to this conven-
 tion, and it is already assured that it
 will be the most widely representative
 and nationally influential good roads
 gathering that has yet been held.
 Working to the betterment, if possi-
 ble of the great classic in motor rac-
 ing known as the 300 mile information
 al sweepstakes race, a, change has been
 made in the limitation of the piston
 displacement. After much careful con-
 sideration, the management of the In-
 dianapolis Motor Speedway decided to
 make the limit for the piston displace-
 ment, for the third annual 800 mile
 race, 450 cubic inches, as against 500
 cubic inches for the first and second
 annual events which were so success
 fully run in 1911 and 1912.
 In the field of 27 starters for the
 race of 1912 the displacement varied
 from 243 cubic inches to 5979 cubic
 inches; the latter figure being the pis-
 ton displacement of the Cutting car
 driven by Bob Burman.
 Among the guests at the Hotel Heu-
 blein, Hartford, Monday evening, were
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Robertson of Portland, Oregon, who are homeward bound after an absence of two years,
 travelling in their Pope-Hartford
 through foreign countries. They ar rived in this city in the machine on the homeward trip, Monday evening | and left this morning by rail. leaving the machine behind to be shipped by freight. MT. Robertson talked en- tertainingly about his trip, especially of the months spent in the widest
 part of India. He said he liked the country firstrate, but after all his travels was convinced that there is no place in the world like America, and his wife agrees with him.
 A review of the highway situation in Wisconsin at this time presents
 most satisfactory state of affairs. Dur
 ing the past year approximately $950,000 has been expended in per manent highway improvement and the estimates for next year, based on the demands of the counties for state aid. are in excess of s1,750,0 900. The coun- ties are asking $S11,150 from the state ] for permanent work in 1913. as com l pared with s45S.417 demanded for 1912 work. About 35 miles of concrete road were constructed during the closing season. The average cost was 90 cents I per square yard.
 All sorts of schemes are tried to keep radiators warm fin winter so that the 1 car won't be hard to start. There are tufted leather things that fit over l the whole cooling front and are so ar ranged that a small amount of air can | get back to the tubes. Other cars have leather strip that goes across the lower half of the radiator front A machine seen recently had a sheet l of paper fixed so that it covered half i of the radiator perpendicularly, like | a face half shaved.
 The only city in the world which | still refuses to allow the motor car to ! use it's roads is Odder, Denmark. Mo- | torists passing through the town have i to procure a horse to draw their cars through the streets. and those guilty | of contraventions of this regulation are l heavily fined.
 The members Of the Massachusetts highway commission have been mak- ing their annual inspection of roads and bridges in the Bay state. Before they finish they will have visited 32O towns and B cities.
 .EIgn's automobile road races for 1913 have been assured They will be conducted as last summer, under the
 joint management of the Chicago au-
 tomobile club and the Elgin automobile
 road race association.
 Automobiles equipped with two pairs
 of lamps or lights must use only the less brilliant on several leading streets of Philadelphia, according to a new
 police regulation.
 The amount of freight earned by the railroads of the country on shipments
 of automobiles from all factories is
 estimated at not less than $6,O00,000
 per year.
 It doesn't take much to make fat
 woman happy. Tell her she is getting