The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-05

There are five elements of time used in truck operation, as follows: Time of loading, time of running loaded, time of running unIoaded, time of uI.- loading and idle time.
 Prisoners in the county jail at Pom
 tiac, Mich. will be hired out to the different villages and townships in ths county. The men will be sent out un- der guards to do highway improve menI work on the streets and roads.
 The fresh y vanished car naturally Is more sensitive to all the litter set ting upon it's surface along the ways of travel than the car less recently vanished, which is in itself an ex- planatiOn why frequent water baths are in order and why the car upon coming in from the road should get it's dose of clean water invariably. 4 gentle flow of water over the shrface hardens the varnish and sharpens Its luster and frees it from the enemies which destroy its just balance of in- gredients.
 While the Madison Square Garden shows for several years have not been primarily for retail business or the es- tablishment of agencies, the show this year proved an eye-opener in these particulars. Two companies that are rated within the leading score of ma kerS of pleasure automobiles have re- ported that they have respectively done twice and five times the amount of business ever done before by them at MaGlSOn square OaTQen SHOWS. SeV- eraI others dec are that they equaled the figures of their previous best show and only three companies acknowl- edged that they did less business than last year.
 According to an interesting decision handed down by the First Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, it is held that an automobile company is liable for damages when it's demonstrator allows an employe of a prospective purchaser to run the car, providing an accident occurs In this case a company, in endeavoring to sel a car, employed a demonstra- tor who allowed the chauffeur of the prospective purchaser to operate it on the streets of New York. youns woman was knocked down and badly hurt owing to the lack of skill dis played by the chauffeur. The court held that the company was responsible for the acts of it's demonstrator, but the prospective purchaser, who had not authorized his chauffeur to en- gage in a driving test of the car, was not liable in damages.
 It is said there is not a single horse drawn omnibus in London now.
 The fact that the British motorist is taxed very heavily on the basis of cylinder dimensions has led to the sug- gestfon that this method be changed and tires be made the basis.
 It is satisfactory to see the general landslide to governors for the en- zines, governors which will not permit
 
 800 or 900 revolutions per minute, acc coFding to the dimensions and design of the engine.
 Automobile racing at the State Fair at Syracuse, N. Y, cost the state al- 1 most twice As much as in any previous year. A grim portion of this was $3,- 1 s02 spent for hospital and funeral bills 1 for those hurt in the accident precipt- l -ated by a bursted tire.
 Only six automobi es are in use on | the Island of Zanzibar. Of these, | TWO are private machines, luxuriously | appointed, for the sole use of the Sul- 1 tan, while the other four are in the l service of the Department of Public 1 Works. This scarcity of motor ve- l 1icleS is very unaccountable, because l many of the natives are wealthy and l he roads are excellent.
 Automobiles have been blamed for pretty nearly everything, from the decrease of the birth rate to. the tight less of currency throughout the land. Now it is accused of raising the price