The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-03-23

| City Engineer Kerr, of Ottawa, Ont.
is getting prices on an automobile
street sprinkler.
The Private Bills Committee of the
Legislative Assembly at Quebec, Que.
has accepted the clause of the Mon
treal city bill giving the city the right
to prohibit the use of sirens and
other dist motive automobile alarms on
the streets and reserving the employ
ment Of such devices to police, fire
ambulance and light and power COM
panies vehicles.
The City Street Department of Mil
waukee has purchased four street
flushing machines, making a bat. cry
Of eight machines, which will keep the
asphalt-paved streets of the city clean
during the summer. The department
has purchased 100000 gallons of as
phaItum Oil for macadam road preser-
walton and dust-prevention, as COM
pared with 800, 600 gallons used in 1911.
It has been found that it will be I'M
necessary to treat the streets oiled
last year until the spring of 1913.
Leakage in the joints of the circula-
ton system, loss OF water through
boiling, and evaporation must be elm
mated to the greatest possible extent
There is only one method of detecting
the bad spots, and that is by rigid In
spection. When the joints are leaky
they will be readily found by the wa
ter which works its way through, teav-
ing a rusty-Iooking mark near the
weak point. If the leaks are large
they will, of course, be shown by the
dripping of the water through the
weak spots, but the owner of the car
should not wait until the leak becomes
as bad as this before rerairing the
Joint If IT is a Hanged joint, his IS
done by carefully removing all signs
of the old gasket after having taken
out the bolts which hold the Ranges
together This is accom- plishe6 by
means of a. hamme~ and chisel. When
this is done the fanges Of the pipe
should be filed until they are bright
and smooth. ut is then ready for the
new gasket.
A large flour milling company at
Minnea ro';s has decided to provide
the world, and has ordered seventy
five emachineS as a starter.
An order for a ful1-page advertise
ment in three Mexican newspapers re-
Gently placed by an American motor
car firm arrived only after all three
papers had closed up shop owing TO
the political upheaval.
A recipe good for keeping the mo-
hair top in share is soap and water
occasionally applied, with little sun
light for drying purposes. A stiff
brush, with which the soap and water
is aCp.1eQ, Will keep the Top III pei-
feet condition.
ST. Louis has a new anti-noise au-
ton,obile ordinance. which makes un-
lawful the use of the muffler cut-out
and provides that automobile warning
s. mails shall be sounded only as
warning of danger.
In many foreign countries it is the
custom of the automobile agents not
to quote prices openly. Each auto
mobile sale is the subject of special
dickering and barter. Some Of the
returning travellers to the Urited
States tell rich stories of the enor-
nous prices that foreign agents for
American cars are getting i'm many
instances.
1t is astonishing how far the life OF
the steering gear derends on the skill
of the driver. A needless or nervous
operator usually yanks the steering
wheel unnec essarily, bringing severe
strains on the connections and oAus-
ing needless wear on the front tires.
1T pays to learn to drive skilfully, even
THOUGH rot pursued as a means of
livelihood.
The Paramount cemetery, at Newark,
Y. j., has decided to permit motor
driven vehicles within its gates. Mem
hers of the associa ton con-. rolling the
Gem etery said that during the past
year n,anv funerals from New York
ard outlying sections OF the State had
Neen made by automobiles. When
hese arrived at the cemetery gates
there was nothing to do but to allow
them to enter.
Two motorists of Winst on- Salem, N.
G., have accepted proposition ma6e