The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-21
Automobile News

The theft of five cars in Milwaukee in eight days has caused reneWa4 of the agitation for state law which will place automo bile stealing on the same plane as horse stealing.
 Taxicabs in Norway. Sweden Den mark and Finland are to run on Am erican tires. A contract for 75O gets of tires for use on taxis in these cOun-
 tries has just been closed between a Stockholm and an American firm Chaufeurs in the St. Paul, Minn.s fire department have received an in-
 crease in their pay from $s5 to S1oO and the assistants will receive $85. The positions of drivers of motor appara-
 tus will be open to competent men
 outside as well as inside the depart
 ment.
 In the past ten months the value of French imports of American ma chimes has been $340,000 in excess of the total value of the imports of the
 the same time, so for from losing ground on this side, French makers | of automobiles de luxe have doubled | their exports to America during the
 present year, the total up to October l 31st representing a value of $SOO,0
 The correct vulcanizing tempera- l ture ranges between the limits of zbO
 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit There are thermometers on the market
 winch are just graduated through the range used in vu1canizing and which
 are of good use in this connection.
 Many of the patented vulcantzers are
 so designed that the temperature can
 not rise above what Is proper for vul- | canizing. This is necessary because
 where the temperature gets above 1 32O, the rubber structure Is broken
 down by what may be called a term i of destructive distillation, while below i the Vu1canizing range the action is not thorough enough to give good regults-
 Pittsburgh chauffeurs, 1t seems, have been in the habit of shouting their intentions of turning, stopping and reversing to the drivers of the
 lear behind" instead of employing
 The city fathers have tired of tho shouting and have Incorporated In the new ordinances which recently went into effect paragraph 1orDid- ding the shouting of drivers to each | other Another rule in the new law | limits the speed in the down town sec | ton to 12 miles an hour
 Massachusetts. by recent action of | one of its courts, has instituted a new 1 ruling in the use of the highway by
 m otor vehicles, and it is now impera- i tive for an automobile to pass street 1 car on the left side when on the high
 ways of the State. The feature of the decision lies in classifying the trolley car with horse drawn and motor we- hicles using the road. Heretofore t has been customary to pass trolley
 cars on the right side, but the injury 1 car by a passing automobile has re-
 suited in the new decision.
 The use of kerosene in the radiator l as a com mbfnation non-freezing and cooling agent is an annual suggestion 1 It is the opinion of many who have studied the matter that while it might be a success in the very far | North, it is a failure in our latitudeg.
 In the State of Iowa there are oc- casional warm days even in the win ter During these periods a motor would tend to overheat readily be- cause the kerosene would eVaporato
 quickly, and because the specific heat of the kerosene would not permit it to carry away the necessary heat or the 1 combustion. .chamber%per cGbfE foot of the hose connection. It cannot bo mixed with water and possesses an uA- pleasant odor at high temperature. For these reasons 1t is unsatisfactory. | A campaign is under way in Boston
 which has as it's object the exemption
 of physicians from the city 0roinances | regarding automobiles. The speed | limita tions have been set aside for physicians by court order, but M iB cIaimedi that the police use petty of ficiousness in enforcing the ordinance relating to the standing of automO- | piles at the cub for more than tWen- | ty minutes. It is pointed out that | ed hurriedly to the bedside of a pa l tient and is there detained beyond tho | twenty-minute limit, it would be en- 1 dangering the life of the patient to | compel the doctor to take his cnT to
 the nearest garage before entering tho fers, and the value of the motor car l in cases of illness is considerably le8- sened by the too literal enforcement | of ordinances that were intended 10
 prevent crowding of the streets by | hacking" cars and by strings of carg
 left standing in front of hOtels and restaurants