The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-22

Seventy-five convicts of the Ohio
 penitentiary have started work at
 Carroll, Ohio, on roads. The plan to
 be followed is to permit the convicts
 to select their captains and 1ieuten-
 ants, and the discipline will be mod eled after that obtaining in the Unit ed States army.
 The Ohio State Highway Commis- sion is going to do extensive exper1- menting in highway construction dur Ting the present season. and has se- lected a stretch of the road leading from the Hartman farm into Colum- bus as the place for the experiments. It is proposed Nto divide the road into sections to give all road material men a chance to build a section and com
 pare it with. the other sections of the road.
 Tn England each policeman is an l inspector of vehicles. If a car passes him and he notes, anything about the 1 car that renders it dangerous for it's l occupants or the occupants of other vehicles he has the power to stop the 1 car and order. it off the city streets
 until it has been adequately repaired
 and has passed a city examination. | While in this country it is not prob- able that the city police will ever be given such power, owing to a wide
 difference in conditions, it is very probable that the city ordinances will
 make it unlawful for a vehicle to be travelling through the streets with
 unsuitable breaking power. A recent decision from the Pennsyls
 vania State Highway Department
 holds that every man operating a
 machine must take out a license. It
 matters not how many are in the l family if they all want to run .pop's machine they must procure a per- 1 init which costs $2.- 4..f iaez .s sz5s< l A road which is closed to horses, l but to which automobiles are well
 come, lies on the Chino ranch, about forty miles from Pasedena, Cal. There l of the road which reads. No horses al1oWed,r and it marks ther dividing line between the rights of horses and motor cars. Yet, on the ranches, the i horse is supposed to reign supreme! It has come to be a fully recog-
 nized fact that the priming coat Of paint. whether upon wood or metal
 must be endowed with sufficient
 elasticity to not only hold it secure | ly in place, but to likewise securely hold the coats of material placed dl- rectly over it in their proper and appointed places. And while this need of elasticity is understood clear l ly, it is equally we'll understood that l to meet latter-day requirements the primer must dry promptly-faster in fact, than some of the sO-called in- pregnable first coats of earlier years. The drying or baking ovens are more and more contributing to this result. and it is almost certain that thesA ovens are to be very, largely used in the painting and finishing of the 1913 automobile. Abbe Gavois, village priest at Rainneville. near Amiens, Trance is proud of the fact that. he possesses p1. He bought it in 1894 from the Mayor of Troyes, in the Champagne district. who had purchased it new on Decem- Der 4, 1891. From that day to the present time the car has never niss- ed day on the road, and after 21- years rough service it has undergone it's first serious overhaul. and is again ready for 21-years' hard labor. It is not sentimental, but sound economy which causes Abbe Gavo.s to prefer his old two-seater to more modern vehicle. Its speed of 12 miles requirements; it's steel tires never cause him delay on the road and they have never called for cent in upkeep.
 Since the announcement of a mo- tor carnival in New York was made
 some days ago, the automobile traoe,
 members of the various automobile clubs and associations in and about the metropolis, and others, are n1ani- festing great interest in the pageant. which will be staged on Riverside Drive, the Great White Way and
 urday, July 18th. This will be one of the big features of the motor carni-. vap period July 8 to 20th. Many
 women motorists already have made inquiries about the affair and plan to enter and drive their own machines
 5vs~v
 Practically all of them will make an
 effort to win prizes for the most
 beautifully decorated runabout or
 touring car, whereas the male ele-
 ment seems to be more interested in
 the industrial, advertising and
 grotesque divisions. There is to be
 a used car division in the grotes-
 que section of the motor carnival.
 Several automobile salesmen along
 Broadway plan to obtain some anti
 que-almost prehistoric-vehicles aud
 have them in line in this "used car"
 division. It is foregone conclusion
 that number of these old machines
 will be unable to run under their owll
 power so. their drivers and mechani-
 clans may have to. push them. At
 the head ofn the division containing
 these dilapidated vehicles there will
 be streamer carried with this le-
 gend "All Cars in This Division For
 Sale Cheap" George. Robertson, who
 retired from race driving some time
 ago to enter the auto supply business
 is fixing up an entry consisting chief
 ly of an ancient racing car. A novel feature of this-Robertson's own de-
 sign-is that all four wheels are to
 be of as many different sizes. Neil
 ''Whirlwind" Whalen, the speed kid,
 says he will go Robertson one better,
 with racing car fitted with square
 wheels, while pr. Percival, who re-
 gently completed 100000 mile au-
 tomobile tour says he will drive
 car that runs upside down and barks
 like a dog. Aside from the ludicrous features a number of the foremost