The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01
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at the seventy sub-stations of the li- brary; others arranged on shelves on either side in order that selection may be made as the vehicle stops in front of farm houses and homes in villages too small to maintain sub-stations Now that permission to use the roads in Glacier Park, the nations newest playground, has been granted to automobiles, the old agitation for the opening up of Yellowstone Park to motorists is receiving new impetus. The question of allowing automobiles in the national parks has been urged since the invention of the motor car, and only recently the authorities at Washington, D. C., have decided that machines would be allowed in Glacier Park The permission, however, is limited with very stringent regula- tions which give precedence to horse drawn vehicles.
 So great have become the difficult ties which the graduates of technical universities in Germany experience in getting suitable employment that the subject has been taken up in the .'eitschrift des vereines Deutscher In- genieure." It is assumed that the large number of very acceptable prac- ticians turned out from the technical colleges of the second class has had much to do with the shaping of the situation, also that the great expan-
 
 dustries has rendered purely theoreti- cal and general studies less valuable. The adoption of certain practical courses is recommended.
 "If you ever have trouble procuring gasoline, think of what the automobile owners in other countries have to con- tend with.: says R. M. Lockwood. head of the Regal Motor Car Co.'s Foreign Department. Quite natur- ally gasoline and oil prices vary ac- cording to the location of the country and the facilities for receiving these products. In Manila, Tokio, Yoko- hama and other large ports in the East, the Standard Oil Company and other gasoline and oil producing con cerns maintain stations, and in such places the price of gasoline varies from twenty-five to thirty cents a gallon when purchased from garages. Gasoline can be transported only by many of the out-of-the-way ports are oftentimes inconvenienced by delays in the arrival of these boats. Siam and Sumatra, especially, have trouble in this respect. On one occasion, to my knowledge, the automobiles of Si- am were all held up for six months awaiting the arrival of an oil steam CT. Such conditions, of course, make the price of fuel very high in these ill-favored regions. In certain parts of South America, also, there is a scarcity of gasoline, and often the American manufacturer will receive an order for one of his cars together with that for two or three barrels of gasoline to be shipped along with the machine. Such a quantity often lasts the purchaser for an entire season. You see we are not as bad off in the United States as a great many people suppose. It is very seldom here that even the smallest and most isolated towns run short in their supply of gasoline. A glance at the diff culties which motorists in other coun- tries face, should make us consider ourselves exceedingly fortunate and the man here who drives a car that Is ieconomical in gasoline consumption is dOubly blessed. He can buy it at a low price and he does not need a large supply"