The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-16

carry the load and hold their original shape, yet they psust not be so hard that they are uncomfortable. There must be enough leather to cover the or draw too tightly, and every seam must be sewed to remain closed no matter what the strain.
 Moline upholstery and Moline tops must be up to the standard of Moline quality and in order to insure such we do this work ourselves in our town shops, and where it can be inspected from operation to operation. Qual- ity is a Moline by-word and it is not our intention to slight the bodies and top work any more than we would slight the making of the chassis.''
 Pioneer Automobile Campaigning
 An unheard of political campaign is that of the Progressive party candi- date for governor of MaSSa chuSettS, Charles Sumner Bird, who is visiting every city and town in the State Over more than 5000 miles of highway, some stretches all but impossible, up and down mountain sides, through mud up to the hubs, through sand that clings like clay, he and his parA ty are going into the smallest ham lets as well as the largest cities in four high-powered cars. Were it not. for the automo obiIe, such a tour could. not even have been dreamed of.
 
 Flying Squadron, as the outfit is, called. Car No. 1, which carries MT. Bird and is driven by Charles Henry Davis, of South Yarmouth, the man ager of the tour who, incidentally, is president of the National High ways Association, is a six-cylinder ma chine which had been run 12 900 miles before the party left Boston Septem-5 ber 29th. Cars No. 2 and 3 had been run more than 50,000 miles before the tour began. Car No. had been driv- en 27,00O miles before the tour start. ed. All of them are seven passenger cars, carrying their full quota of pas sengers over all kinds Of roads, be- sides heavy extra loads of Baggage.
 It was in Western Massachusetts that the party went through its most rigorous test. The schedule aca1led for an average of 90 miles a day over mountain roads that are seldom tra- versed by automobiles for the most part, and to towns that hardly see. one automobile a month, to say noth-l ing of such cavaIcade of high-pow- cred machines as the Progressives. have. It was of the utmost fmpor- tance that the schedule be kept, for should the party be delayed at any one place the stops for the remainder of the day would be off schedule, hundreds of persons might be dtsap- pointed and harm be done to the cam paigners.
 Feeling off Precious
 Metal by the Pound.
 When motor-car manufacturers buy steel varying in price from to 35c per pound. it would be expected that these metals are so free of flaws that all that would be necessary would be their shaping into the desired parts, machining and polishing. And that i is the usual way, but to receive the  things must, be gotten at with all the adjuncts that the physicist, chemist and metallurgist fathom steel. There is no. X-Ray that will search out the minute blow hole, the tiny fracture, or a non-h omogeneous forging. Noth- ing will do~ft save the modern auto matic machine which, turning off met al strip by strip, reveals the very "souP' of the forging It is amazing to see what a vast amount of material must be peeled off because of the in scrutable things which chemical and