The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-23

Company. barge canal contractors. With s0-horsepower automobile he lowed canal boat loaded with lunl- Der for a distance of three miles at the rate of six miles an hour.
 Prince Edward Island is the only
 povlnee in Canad that prohibits the
 and in public places. The penalty for violating this law, which was enacted sary to public interest and for the
 safety of the travelling public, is fine of $500 or six months in jail.
 With upward of 10000 actual auto
 mobile freight cars in service upon the various railroad lines of the United States and with the prospective ship ment of f00.0 900 carloads of autonobiles from the factories to market, the sup ply of freight cars for this service would appear to be sufficient if each car suitable for automobile shipment could be made to make two and a half trips each during the shipping season. Reports from Detroit that effort rods to furnish 50,O00 more freight cars for automobile traffic have been cir culated recently. Some additions to the present equipment will be made, but nothing approxirnating the num-
 Der requested. According to the rail-
 roads, the additional equipment will be
 about 5000.
 According to traffic managers of several of the big automobile compan- ies, the requirement is not so much for
 fpo eaen oars as It IS f9r oTg h Vere I
 age time for a trip from Detroit to
 New York is about sixty hours, and
 from any factory with 1rst-rate han
 ding facilities to any point of con-
 signTnent 1000 miles away is not more
 than five days. The return trip should
 take no longer. and the various de
 lays, loading and reconsignment
 ought not to occupy more than one
 month. On this basis. figuring the
 shipping season at 120 days and the
 number of automobile cars available
 at 50,00O and the average time Of the
 round trip at forty days, the cars
 should be able to transport 15o. 900
 a half automobiles to the carload, they
 would account for the shipment of
 375000 automobiles, or considerably
 more than the probable output. The difficulty that lies in the way of such
 a solution of the trouble is that auto
 mobile cars are used for other pur-
 poses during the rush season
 A frst-afd kit, consisting of ban dages, peroxide, surgeons scissors, aSr hesive tape. cord, Newskin or somei similar material, cold cream and heal ing salves, should always be taken along. Leather cases are sold which are adapted especially for these kits. but when required, the tourist will be thankful that he took it along. At least one vacuum bottle should be ta- ken on the trip. Two + are s better; 6i1e one the other is suitable for cold Other articles which should not be overlook ed in the emergency equipment are>l the tire chains, a waterproof cover, folding aluminium drinking tumo1efs, electric flash lamp, rubber spring bumpers. radiator mud aprons, leather straps, rebound straps, a volt-amme- ter, tire pressure gauge, small oilstone and a couple of blowout pa atches.
 Public attention is being called to called who work in the inner-tube fac tories of Birmingham, England. Girls receive the tubes which need joining extra piece for strengthening at the valves, etc. A mixture of chloride of sulphur and bisuIphide of carbon is required This produces volatile cure" The tubes are joined up and the patches put in with the liquids, which. evaporating, forms a naphtha gas. Its effect on the girls at work is that of kind of intoxicatfon which turns them into furies. This is fol- lowed by a state of coma, causing the girls to fall prostrate, moaning and crying for fresh air They shortly re cover, and return to work For all of this they receive the munlfcent sum of ii 1-2 cents for joining and finish ing 100 tubes For putting on a wrong-sized valve patch or putting a patch in a wrong place a fine of rejected on account of a twist in it, the girl must pay fine of cents. Philanthropists are looking into the conditions under which these girls are working.
 Comprehensive tests of solid tires in England, covering the use of thirty l seven British automobile trucks rang ing in size from one to six long tons capacities. have been concluded re- | gently with most Illuminating results 1 far tire nileages are concerned. The trucks represented six different l makes, including some motor omn1- 1 buses,. and the average of the whole 1 lot was 17.4o9 miles per set of six tires, and based upon the consump-i | tion of three sets to each truck. The compiler of the figures, A. B. M. Tur- | ner, of London, in commenting on the comparative service of tires, states 1 that with one exception, the British | tire makers are behind those of the l European continent, and that the | American tires were as good or better | than those of the continental factor 1 ies. In the face of the fact that us CTS of American trucks get materially lower figures in miles than the printed l table shows, the comment of MT. Tur- l ner the quality of American tires seems to prove that road conditions are accounts b1e. In The Automobile | last summer it was shown that the | average of 1000 truck tires in actual use was somewhat in excess of 11.000 l that the average guarantee of Amer l ican tire makers is on the eonserVa- tive. side.
 There are only three sizes of bulbs now in general use for headlight work, these being respectively 16 31 and 9 candIe-power For small motor cars which travel at comparatively slow speed, and where the owners would be satisfied with light that, while better than acetylene lights usually supplied with these small cars, is still not the most powerful, and where he will not be liable to compare his lights with those of friends who have higher pow CT, to the detriment of the 16-candie- power lamps, 16-cand1epower is un- doubtedly ample On the higher pow cred cars the 21-candlepower bulbs are in almost universal use to-day. These will give ample light for driving up to speed of say forty miles hour at night, Illuminating the road far enough ahead so that any object may be observed in time to stop almost as well as in the daytime, and in fact,