The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-21

taken rank among the inventors or the
 automobile industry by an innovation which he introduced on tour of 1885 miles, which he recently made from
 San Francisco to Tia Juana, Mexico. Major Grubbs' car is completely fit
 ted for camping, after the adequate fashion of the army, but it also en1-
 bodies one feature which is altogether
 new.
 A stove, which consists of six com partSn ents, is incorporated in the ma chine, being built around the exhaust pipe, thus utilizing all the heat from that source. Automobile Shows.
 The dates for the two national au- | tomobiIe shows to be held next winter
 in New York and Chicago have been decided upon. The New York ex-
 hibition will be held in it's entirety in the Grand Central Palace during the | week of January 3-1O. The Chicago exhibition will be held at the Coliseum ! and First Regiment Armory, the date | being January 24-31. Both will be ] conducted under the auspices of the
 Automobile Chamber of Comm cree. | The Gasoline Problem.
 The constant change in the quality l of gasoline in the last six years has | developed one of the hardest prob l 1ens of the automobile manufacturers l in having their carbureters so con l
 the latest gasoline mixture, says Stew
 art Mcdonald, vice-preAdent of the Moon Motor Car Company.
 "The carbureters of automobiles
 gave very little trouble in the early
 years of the automobile business" he
 said. When the purest gasoline was | put on the market. But soon gasoline l manufacturers began to cast about for
 means of increasing the given amount of gasoline that could be obtained from the crude product until much of
 the gasoline of to-day is little better | than a very high grade of kerosene. "One thing in connection with mod 1 ern gasoline that causes much trou- | bIe, particularly in the winter time, l is the mixing of low-grade gasoline with what is known as casing-head
 gas. The latter is a highly volatile | gas that for many years was permit
 ted to escape from wornout oil-wells with no attempt to use it and was of l ten set on fire by owners and Hum | mated the country for weeks. When | it was discovered that under compres-
 sion this gas went back to a liquid
 which was a very y4high grade gasoline l it began to be utilized.
 l When a gasoline which is a mix
 tureN of this compressed gas and ker- 1 osene is used in an automobile the heavy liquid goes to the bottom As
 the inlet to the carbureter is from the | lis only slightly volatile that enters
 and hence the difficulty in starting a
 machine with such gasoline in cold weather.
 t'But the carbureter man is keeping pace with the gasoline man and if the | change that has been made in the last
 six years continues automobiles will
 soon be using gasoline that Is practi-
 cally nothing but kerosene"
 l rr.I,a TXncoIv, Way
 1 "A1I reports and rumors to the eff feet that the route of The Lincoln
 Highway has been finally settled said l President Joy, in a recent interview, 1 tare erroneous and misleading
 teThe naming of this great trans l continental route must, in large l measure, be governed by the following 1 factors: Points of scenic, and historic interest, together with centers of pop
 u1ation, which can be advantageously I and econ ornica1ly reached;s the char l acter and amount of real support 1 rendered to us in making possible this T great artery of traffic; all with due regard to the cost of preparing the l roadway for the final surface, etc. It l is jexident that tre routing of this l great trans- continental road must be I governed in g. measure by it's conven- l fence to railroads. This highway.
 when completed, must be of the great
 est use to the greatest number dur ing the longest period of each twelve
 months. It is my belief. and this
 belief is Joined in by many of the Di- T rectors of our Association. that this
 Lincoln Highway will prove the ob- ject lesson necessary which will in
 duce the Federal Government to es- ta ablish other trans-continenta1 high
 ways"
 Knock Out Carbon Deposit.
 Many motor faults may be traced directly to a, deposit of carbon on the
 cylinder walls. Usually the motor 1 user allows the carbon to collect un-
 til he is finally forced>to take the en-
 zine down and scrape the cylinder
 head, but this Is unnecessary, expen-
 sive and often harmful to the motor ) Pre-ignition is nearly always a sign of carbon deposits. All that is needed to remove the carbon is an efficient
 solvent, and if nothing else is avail } able good old kerosene fills the bi1l' ) wonderfully. Do not wait until the deposit has been allowed to collect for months before giving it's removal your attention, but attend to elirninat- ], ing it at regular intervals. The old saying, Ian ounce of prevention is '] worth a pound of cure,' applies read fly to this. condition. Each day, pre- : ferabIy after the car has been used } open the prining cups of every cylin- der and inject three tablespoonfuls o1 kerosene close the Lprinfng cups and ! allow the kerosene to remain in the cylinders until the motor is started ) again It will be found that this little attention will keep the cylinders 1 in perfect condition. The kerosene can do no harm by remaining in the cylinders and is blown from the ex- haust as soon as the motor is started
 More Smoothly at Night. | Does an automobile motor run more : sm ootflly at night than in the daytime l That good old question has again beer revived, and despite endless discus < sions. there has never been given T really satisfactory answer. In dis 7 cussing the subject, Motor World