The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-05

The latest estimate as to the world s product of gasoline is at the rate of 1000, ,00O 900 gallons. per year.
 The thriving town of Dayton, Ore, has recently established what is said to be the first automobile street car service in Oregon.
 What is believed to be the lowest tariff of fares charged in the. country by a. motor bus company has been placed in effect by transit company at Indianapolis, which is now selling six tickets for p cents and twenty five tickets for $1 This reduction has been made to meet the fares charged by the street railway company .
 Varnish should be applied to the surface in a rich, full volume, making the surface carry all it can assimilate and take care of. In this way, and only in this way, is the deep, lustrous, mirror-like surface so greatly to be desired on the automobile developed and rounded out. Thin. skinny, la are the natural forerunners of seedy, specky, dull, unsatisfying finished sur faces.
 England is adopting new, up-to-date tactics in the management of her army. The latest thing is a scheme whereby civilians are to be enrolled in the special service as army motor car drivers. The department which takes them is known as the Special Reserve. The wing of the army comprises men who perform duties similar to those performed by them in civil life and needing no instruction as soldiers. The new reserve will consist of me- chanical transport. motor-car drivers for the army Special Corps, to be en- listed for one year at any age between IS and 45, provided they are sound in health and measure feet 3 inches in their boots
 Before standing the gasoline can on it's head in the funnel, be sure to wipe the dust and dirt from 1t. Otherwise in the absence of a channels, the Saso- line will wash it all into the tank, to clog up the feed pipe.
 Street car tracks should be avoided whenever possible, and at crossing points, where there are frogs, addi- ticnal care should be exercised in lodging them as the frogs frequently are worn until their sharp edges cut a tire as effectively as though knife were used.
 Quick stops, caused by a sudden and violent application of the brakes, are hard on tires. The action is more than apt to tear the rubber from It's base. And in this connection it may be noted that the most difficult prob lem confronting solid-tire makers has been the devising of means to hold the tire together,
 An autobus line which runs along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, in Paris is disturbing the collections of wine and pictures of Baron Henri de Roths- child, who claims that the vibration set up by the travelling buses shakes up the wine and disintegrates the pie lures. He is doing all in his power to have the cars barred from the avenue even though they may have to run on a I1rao iS wine more traffic.
 Consul Albert Halstead, of Birming- ham, England, says the success of the low-priced American automobiles In England has received careful atten- ton from English manufacturers, with the result that one firm is now ready to put on the market an S00-pound car with wire wheels and gear drive that is expected to do about forty miles an hour and to go a little over thirty miles per gallon of gasoline, The car complete is to sell for $650. One of the foremost French manufacturers IS also prepared the consul adds, to put car on the market to sell for the same price.
 Several of the tire companies are now supplying inner tubes nicely done up in envelopes. This is more for the protection of the tube than TOT appearance or advertising, and the covering should not be removed until it is desired to use the tube. In the tool-box, where spare tubes are usual 1y carried, it protects the rubber from sharp tools and oily boxes, both or which wreak havoc with tires. The best plan is to carry the tube In some place where there is no danger from either oil or tools. Never put tube in loose with a. number or toois, for a few miles will serve to put the sharp points through the rubber In a -.ee.sa--