The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09

Under a decision handed down in the Municipal Court of Brooklyn, an 1nn~keoper or hotel man who issues storage checks for automobiles to his patrons and then allows some unau- th0riSed person to get away with an automobile without producing the ap- propriate check. must pay damages to the owner of the abstracted car.
 Because freight rates on the Penn sylvfnia and Reading railroads af- fectiny milk shippers in New Jersey and Philadelphia suburbs have been raised, members of the Interstate MIX Producers' Association are se- riousiy considering the wholesale em- pIoyment of motor trucks to transport their products and have appointed committee to look into the feasibility of the plan.
 Following the failure of all efforts to secure the passage by Parliament of a bill to render compulsory the carry inE of rear lights on all vehicles using the roads at night in England, the Au- tomobile Association bought 10000 re- fex lights which 1t is distributing demonstrate to all users of the road how cheaply and simply their safety can be assured in these days and nights Of fast motor traffic.
 When . gravity gasoline tank is mounted so low in the body that 1t
  ing the carbureter properly when as- cending hills, 1t is sometimes possible to remedy the difficulty by soldering up the air vent in the filler cap of the tank and hitting g. small hand pump with connecting pipe and check valve % that pressure can be applied. When this is done. however, a small safety valve should be provided and set at a pressure which will not cause leaking of the tank
 All the roads of France are classi- fled by the government as national, are six distinct classes, and by giving the order of their importance, 1t is possible to regulate the precedence of tho traffic on them. Thus, a wagon travelling on a first-class or national highway has precedence over an auto mobile turning out of a rural or sixth class road. the rule in each case being that the traffic on a lower grade road shall give way to that on a road Of superior class. This regulation is rem dered easy of application because the road classification has been in com mon use in France for years.
 How to cope with the criminals who make sensational and successful use of automobiles in their predatory and often murderous exploits constitutes a modern problem which is beginning to peitate the minds in Europe The e6i- yOI or OIuuld WTlLcS on tQ1S SuDJcCC, In part as follows: "Brigandage by automobile stupefies us. But what a pudding 1t is compared with the brig Rndage by aeroplane which will start to-morrowi What is an automobile which drags Itself along at 40 miles per hour. which has burstable tires, which runs up against barred grade crossings. which meets curious and iII- tterfering persons, contrasted with an Reroplane which fees at the rate of 4 miles per minute, which will be in Brussels an hour after leaving Yer sailleG without leaving more race of its passage than an arrow? Oh, good days are coming for brigands!"
 Automobiles are now admitted to the Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, the General Grant Ma tioual Park in California and the Cra- ter Lake National Park in Oregon un- der sregulations formulated in 1910 by the Department of the Interior. The Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota and the Platt National Park 1n Oklahoma are also open to auto- mQbilists, although no special rules governing the use of machines within them have been. formulated owing to the character and width of the roads. Tho general rules for the government of these, parks apply, however. Since it is held by the Interior Department that the use of automobiles in the Yellowstone National Park would be dangerous to persons passing over the roads on horseback, or in hOrse-drawn vehicles, motor driven vehicles are not lllowed in this reservation. At the fEegent time there are no plans under ~~-n VI 7.s-.- --