The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-14
Automobile News


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 A campaign against narrow-tired wagons particularly those designed to carry heavy loads, has been begun by the Good Roads Committee of the Milwaukee Autom mobile Club, with special reference to Milwaukee coun7 ty roads.
 Mayor S. L. Shanks, of Indianapolis has asked the city legal department to prepare an ordinance forbiddlng autom 0 piles to go around street cars on the left-hand side when the street cars are stopping to receive or dlS- charge passengers
 A chassis equipped with a spacious body is now used in San Franclseo, pound. It has~been in operation for six months, averages 1000 miles per month at a cost of s1 a day. The wagon is, operated by the Society TOT the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
 Fall River, Mass, has been treated to a chorus of a,utomo bile horns late ly that it has not at all appree1ated- necessary, the children of the town having developed a sudden propen- sity for testing the lungs of the horns of standing cars. Consequently an or der has gone forth to the ponce lor- bidding the practice.
 That the imports of crude rubber during the fiscal year 1912 reached S106. 100000 is shown by a report sent out by the Statistical Division or the Department of Foreign and Do- mestic Commerce. During the year 1900 only 58,50O,0oo pounds of crude rubber, valued at $32, 2,000,000, were sent to this country. as compared with 125,50o,0OO pounds, valued at S1O0,0 0,00O,OO0 in round figures
 may be a nice thing, but it is not all together an unadulterated joy: Penn Yan, N Y., has discovered this, and as result has just passed an auto mobile ordinance This limits the speed of automobiles in the town to 15 miles per hour, and was made necessary by the speeding on Main street after it was paved. A penal ty of $50 is provided with the terri flying addition that a convicted person shall be considered disorderly char acter and dealt with accordingly.
 American automobiles are regarded with great favor in Odessa, Russia. says the consul there. This is due, he says, s'to the fact that lately those provement over those that at first ap- peared. The results of a recent re- liability run have much increased the estimation of the American car. In this run from Odessa to Sebastopo1 and return, a distance of nearly 795 miles. only four cars finished with perfect scores, and of the four the one American car was given the cup.
 Road improvement during ten months of 1912 in Louisiana cost S2,- 31O,976, according to report issued
 
 Over five hundred miles of road was built or repaired. The average cost of new roads was s6,ooo per mile. Perm iss1on has been granted for the continuation of the policy of using convicts on road work in Louisiana. All convicts that can be spared from road during 1913, as they had been this year. It is hoped to improve at least 100 miles of highway with the convict gangs alone:
 T-1,o Ia of he oh a in Canada-and' incidentally the pros perity of the Canadian farmer-is shown in the latest statistics from the Dominion According to the fig tor cars in Canada, or about one car for every 323 inhabitants. The rate varies considerably in the different provinces, Nova Scotia having only one motor per 851 people, while in Alberta there is car to every 125 inhabitants. British Columbia ranks next as a motoring province.
 In the use of so1der-either soft solder or brazing solder-it is clearly the correct method to raise the work to the highest temperature that the solder and the work will stand be- cause under such conditions the pen etration of the solder into the sur faces to be joined will be better, and further, the soldering medium may then be squeezed out to the maximum from between the surfaces by suit a bIe means, and hence the require ment can be met, that the thinner the layer of cementing material and the closer the surfaces are together, the stronger the join. Additional strength, because of the additional in timacy effected, may be given to the work by rubbing the surfaces carry ing the liquid solder together.
 The Underwood bill revising the tariff on metals, which was passed by both houses of Congress early this year and which encountered the veto of Preside ent Taft, will probably form the basis of the new legislation to be adopted at the special session of Con- gress next spring. The metal sched- ule incorporated in the Underwood measure provided for a tax of per