The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03
Automobile News

Where there's smoke. there's too much oi1''
 Ohio has so far this year contracted miles of road. Between now and Jan uary 1st contracts will be let for the construction of about 25 more miles. York, have completed six-ton motor truck, made entirely in the prison, with the exception of the motor. The truck
 has been offered to New York City
 GIycerine and kerosene mixed in equal parts form a. good mixture to apply to windshfelds- It prevents rain and mist from accommodating and fog ging the glass, the drops running down as soon as they touch.
 The city codifying commission of Dayton, Ohio, is planning to exclude
 boys and girls. under IS years from operating automobiles. There is also l some talk of barring women from driving gasoline cars.
 1 L. s. Davidson, of Portland, Ore, has equipped a 1-ton motor with a complete motion-picture outfit, and is ed out of the city recently to visit towns where electric lights are not
 used. With the power from the gas- ohne motor, a 110-volt dynamo gen. moving-picture outfit and one arc
 light. His equipment weighs 1,500, and the truck is rated at 25 horsepower. A peculiar angle of the war in Bull garia came to light in Detroit recently when road construction work almost came to standstfn Some 125 Bull
 Wayne County Road Commission, were called home by their government to help fight the Turks. Ordinarily the places of these men could have been filled with Italians, but some time ago large numbers of these were also call ed home for service in the army, and
 thus. road work came almost to a halt.
 Going even a step beyond the aims of most cities that are seeking to in
 troduce automobile fre-hghting appa- thorities of Cleveland are at work up- on a plan to adopt, an electric pump ing system, patterned somewhat after
 that employed in the city of Berlin.
 the municipal lighting system. electri- cal connecting plugs will be establish ed alongside the water plugs, so that be directly obtained The pumps will
 be mounted on automobile chassis and manufacturers estimate that outfits to weigh about three tons each, and cost in the neighborhood of $2,000.
 During the past two seasons the
 gray colors-automobfle gray, French gray, battleship gray-have become ex-
 ceedingly popular, and very properly so, for, above everything else, they or. whatever it's particular designa-
 ton, is an easy keeper. It is neutral in effect, shows usage and dirt less
 than almost any other color, and looks
 well There is one thing, however, to
 be guarded against in connection with the use of this family Of pigments, namely: a tendency to streak out and disclose a. glimmer of some one or
 more of the pigments entering into the composition of the gray Only re- gently the writer had his attention called to a case of this streaking. It appears that a gray made up from a white lead base, this base being sat urated with ultramarine blue and 1ampblack, developed dark streaks.
 When an engine has been lying, un- used for some time rust will often &C., cumulate in the cylinder jackets and, being heavy, it falls to the bottom, collecting any other particles with it and forming into solid mass, thus preventing the cooling element from getting to the lower portion. of the ex- terior walls. Some, and even exper- fenced users, recommend softening agencies that do not easily dissolve absolutely, but the writer strongly de-
 1recates the introduction of any sub stance that does not form saturated
 .olution. There is nothing better or
 cheaper than common washing soda.
 which has the advantage that it can
 e obtained at any village store. is best to dissolve the soda in warm