The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
Automobile News
Oiled With VarnisI1.

Louis Polo of Manchester, has not been running his automobile the last few days. MT. Polo has only recent ly joined the ranks of automobile own CTS. Intending to take a trip to Plain vile, he remembered the instruction to keep plenty of oil in the oil cups and, getting hold of 8 can he poured the contents into the machine. It might have worked all right had it been oil, but it wasn't It was var nish. The machine was run as far as Hartford and then refused to go. It was all stuck up.
 Monkey Took Ride.
 An organ grinder and a, monkey ap- peared in East Norwalk, Monday af- ternoon. The monkey danced about the street, and a big red touring car came tearing down the road. Too late the monkey saw it. He had not time to step before the machine was air and clear of the wheels and front of the machine, landing finally on the cushions of the rear seat. The dri- yer of the car at once applied the brakes, but not soon enough to pre- vent the organ grinder who had the monkeys chain attached to his waist, from being dragged several feet. The monkey was uninjured, but the organ grinder was badly bruised. A five dollar bill salved his wounds.
 New Fuel Control Device.
 An interesting test of the doxame- ter, the new fuel control device in vented by John A. Doxey, was made about the streets of Indianapolis Sat urday afternoon. pr. Nusbaum, who had never seen the device before, drove his car. Motor spirits were used instead of gasoline. On the first test, the engine was throttled down to it's minimum speed. The car was then run eight miles an hour. With out touching the fuel supply, the dox- ameter was opened, and in a distance of approximately 300 yards the cars speed rose to sixteen miles an hour, a gain, in engine efficiency of 100 per cent. A few minutes later, with the car moving at ten miles an hour the doxameter was again opened and the car promptly lifted in speed to nineteen miles an hour without con- 1 sl1ming additional fuel, a gain in effi- ciency of 90 per cent.
 Auto vs. Horse.
 w. R. Stephens of Montana says: i 'sYou see in me a living exponent of the automobile. am alive solely be- | cause I have turned against the horse and buggy. I'll run away from a horse as I would from the devil. I was sent almost across the great divide | by my friend, horse. E- was in a | runaway. l came out W1IIl d DTOh0I1 l leg. Once my father sent me down ] to the farm. A horse kicked me off 1 the hayrake and when they picked me up one of the rake prongs was stick | ing out of my ribs like an arrow from | a redskins bow. Finally I tried to stop a runaway in Minneapolis and it | took, a week to patch me up.
 | "Oh, sure I'm strong for horsepow- 1 CT, but it's got to be all in the cylin- ders. I've turned turtle with an auto mobile and came up srnilinge It cost me no more than a suit of clothes. A | horse wau1d be alright if you could 1 control his magneto and I've found | that you never can tell when his cyl 1 finders are going to backf1re. I am l for the quiet sane, moderate, abso- | lute method of present-day locom otion horsepower on rubber tires instead of on horse shoes"
 The Ford Motor Co.
 There is a little strip of wooden roadway in the loading yard of the mammath plant of the Ford Motor 1 Company which could tell a, wonder full story of the motor car industry if | it could talk. All the cars leaving the assembling floor pass over this platform and when the manufacturing year of the Ford company closes next October approximately 430,000 cars 1 will have been run over it. The plat | form was laid when the Ford com pany built its present great plant in 1910 and to-day it shows but little wear. But in 1910 10000 cars were run over it, in 1911 S5,ooO, in 1912 l 75, 900 and this year the number will be close to the 100000 mark
 Don't Try to Travel Too Far in One
 One Day's Tour.
 This is the season of the year when hundreds of motorists are planning their summer tours. Many make the l common mistake of trying to go too far in one day. For a man who is accustomed to driving over the coun- try roads and handles @, car every day for a certain distance, 200 miles a day is not a very hard drive, but for | the business man, who drives his car only few miles over city streets, 200 miles a day is too much.
 A tour is spoiled by arriving at the destination each evening, tired out and ready to fall into bed. One should not travel faster than is enjoyable to every person in the party.
 It is much better in all ways to get started early in the morning, as start is made. it may cause late even ing driving before arriving at the stopping place for the night
 Count in Factory.
 Guests of the Hotel Pontchartrair of Detroit were very much surprised several weeks ago to see dappe1 young man in a rough working suit make his way from the elevator to a waiting taxi while a person, evidently a valet brought up the rear with 3 suit of overalls carried openly in his hand.
 Inquiry brought out the fact that fhe young man was Count Pa11l Vor