The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-07

The fault of a squeaky brake gen.
 eralIy lies in the fabric used as a
 lining. The best cure is to remove the old fabric and replace it with
 new material
 The Government of the Gauternalan
 republic recently bought four AIneri- ran automobiles for it's army. The
 cars were equipped with field piece each. and two of the four were also fitted with wireless equipment
 Adulterated turpentine, along with gives both the painter and the car owner trouble in various ways Tur.
 pentine adSElterated with some one or the various forms of petroleum nm parts to the paint or the color an un.
 certain drying property, this lack or
 uniformity working harm to the du-
 trouble of a serious nature is visited directly upon the car owner
 broIIzllt about a storm of protest from New York garage proprietors Wno
 claim tslat the metropolitan district is
 being subjected to adverse dlscrlmlna- sAccordIng to leaders in the business, the price of gasoline sold to automo- upstate is around IS cents gallon; vxhile they are obliged to sell at 20 and 25 cents a gallon in order to break even on their gasoline business Ss Many drivers make the mistake of
 neRIecting to clean their carbureters sTaf sufncfently frequent intervals A ,ee-tsjn amount of sediment falle from
 
 -tan commercial gasoline and settles fin the base of the float cham her. This may be removed by opening the drain sspIug- at the base of the chamber and sf41shRnez it out from above with fresh asoIfne. This operation should be . Derfornyed at rather frequent intervals ssfr, nj fFe operator gains a pretty good EEdea of how rapidly the deposit accu- unulates. If this is, done, and the structiorl, there is small chance of stoppage due to the clogg1ng Of the
 For some time a special soap-and- oil emulsion has been used for sprink- ling the streets of Berlin, Germany. It Is mixed with water in the propor- every to weeks secures freedom from. duse, to a certain degree, even on the streets with the densest trafffc AS no sprinkling is done in winter SIX .g-nrinJc5inzs per year is the rule, and rfe cost Of this method, which Is continued and therefore seems to be what the cost of the old system of sprfnkiing with plain water would be When the oil used is f1ch +aS m aS- because in that case the streets are found in better condition at the be. ginning of the following season ana r-eutIfre less gprink1ing.
 French motorists have been was!ng a campaign against the advertising lbeauties of the landscape, with the re- suit that heavy tax is to pc P4aceo son all boards. The motorists hopeo ] to get a law passed prohibiting the sboards. but the French courts decided that 1t would be an encroachment on the personal liberty of the landown- isigns on their own property The re- suit; is the tax, which is sufficiently high. 1t tsazthouEf1t tos adinlnlsh .ns ne l been increasing in disturbing man ner in some of the most beautiful re- gions in France. All advertis1ng
 e a or inclosure or within BPS feet of any group of houses or buildings, will be taxed annually at a 5aee EaFging sa Y 1nere nrom feet to S77-20 for those: over 2!5-zS square feet. This tax will be doubled | for two advertisements together, four or more.
 The ordinary automobile naphtha
 So to 6e is used to the greatest extent | in races In former years racing dri- vers were under the impression ion @ lnae found out that it did not have the power of the fuels of lower tests, all | though it was easier to start the mo- tor with these fuels. The demand for | gasoline of a high test has now prac- ficalIy disappeared since the drivers have become educated to the point that the lower tests contained the greater number of heat units I'm provement in carbureters has also been responsible to a, great extent for 1 the difficulties of starting are now 1 not nearly great as they were. Cas- ofine from one part of the country | will have a different test than from | another part, so that allowance will | have to be made for this when stat ing the best quality for use in rac- ing car Tn the Atlantic Coast States | 6s gasoline Is very good for racing. The best Ohio gasoline from Lima crude is from 5S to 50 test, and Texas and California crude produces gas- o1ine which is best at 56. In Mary land it may be said that the best is as stated. 66.
 All track of the Alec transcontinen- ] tai truck was lost for three days. | when owing to the distance apart of ffowrs and telegraph stations the crew were cut off from comm un1cation -xrrffe travelling across the Great Salt | Lake desert When last heard from the coast to coast truck was headed | for EIko, Nevada, after reporting at Kelton, Utah, with a distance cover ed of 3,154 miles and with 800 miles of it's trip from Philadelphia to Pet aluna, Cal, yet to be negotiated The heat from latest reports has been ex- | cessive; despite the great height above sea level, the temperature has hover ed in the upper eighties. Good roads through Utah were reported by the crew in contrast to the series of Hoods, cloudbursts and other difficult -ies in Wyoming.
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