The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-17
Automobile News
Record With Packard.


 kept no Weord of his actual running. time Thirty hours was the best pre- vious time for this run. Hunts s rec ord is authenticated by a route card which bears the time stamp or the Marquette and Pontchartrain hotels.
 Hunts performance was preceded by no unusual preparations. He drove a Packard st3-38' phaeton, taken from stock, with windshield ups and made stops for meals and gaso- line. There were no b1ow-outs or me- chanical troubles. and the mud roads of Illinois and Indiana were in good general condition, though wretched in certain stretches.
 Hunt drove from a. nd. to 8:46 p. n1, maintaining an average speed of 33.6 miles per hour for the total elapsed time. His miles per hour in Iathe 6 hours. 41 minutes going between Indianapolis and Toledo, climbed to 38.05. This performance is an i'm : pressive one and will be appreciated most by drivers who are experienced in cross country work.
 Kerosene Keeps Motor Cars from
 Freezing.
 A great many suggestions have been made for various sorts of anti freezing solution put into the radia,- tor Of motor cars to keep them from freezing in zero weather. But there is one antf-freezing mixture that we do not hear vary much about that easily stands at the head of the list. That is common, ordinary kerosene oil It is about the most satisfactory anti-freeze liquid that can be used. because it is not detrimental to the water jacket of the motor. It has an actually beneficial effect on the radiator as it has a tendency to clean out any sediment or dirt that may f-, Al will not freeze in any temperatures in this climate, and best of all it is cheap. It would be likely to boil away quicker than water perhaps cause the moter to overheat, but if the cool ing system is properly designed, kerc- sene is the ideal anti-freeze liquid. I Keep Radiator from Freezing.
 One of the things of prime impor- tance to the motor car owner who drives his car throughout the cold months is radiation. If care is not ex-s radiator and all connections. In com menting on an anti-freeze solution tol be used in the radiators during the winter, the production manager of al motor car company says:
 Winter is coming on and you, MT Motorist, are liable to wake up some fine winter morning and find that your radiator has turned into an ice box during the night To be on the safe side, mix an anti-freeze solution for your radiator.s Experiments with motor cars in cold storage rooms at various temperatures show that al mixture of 50 per cent denatured a1co-1 best anti-freeze mixture.
 If the radiator is kept covered, the solution will last throughout the year if occasionally one adds a small quan- tity of alcohol
 Horses Vs. Motor Trucks.
 Thousands of horses a day are be- ing destroyed in the war. Six months from now there will scarcely be an ble-bodied horse left in England or on the continent that is not in use in the war In the British-Boer war a million horses were shipped from l America. Their market price in. this country went up fifty per cent. Com pared with the struggle now on, that 1 war was slxirnish As the months roll by, this country will be stripped l of vast number of horses, their price will go up; and users of horses who 1 have been hesitating for years, solely | because of the initial expense, to sup I plant horses with motor trucks, will now do so of necessity And this does not take into consideration at all. the great numbers of motor vehicles used I abused and destroyed in the war l where their use has become a necessi- \ ty of mobilization. and transport o1 supplies.
 Chauffeurs to Secele.
 I Chauffeurs Organizations through out Connecticut. allied with the Ma | tionaI Chauffeurs' Association, ars I preparing for secession from thar
 body. and during the next few weeks I it is expected every association or tna l kind in Connecticut will have severed l itself from the national body and will
 join the Connecticut Chauffeurs' Pro I tectiVe Association. which is now ir ] the process of formation. The decla- I ration of independence was made l early this week. and was caused bJ l dissatisfaction with the methods o1 I the mother body Bridgeport Stam- ford and New Haven organizations l which have been members of the Ma | tionaI Association, have quietly drop. ped their membership in that body and are the clubs of the three cities who have combined to form a state ] association The Connecticut Cthal1f- feurs' Protective Association is the l outgr owth of the withdrawal and il has already been incorp orated in New l Haven. Re
 Primtng Cold Engine
 Easy starting of the motor in winter I is not only a. convenience, but almost I AASSCSo1ly fFA4O4A 4IOIOEf IS used. A motor which starts hard wastes a great deal of energy through 1 the useless churning of the starting motor in endeavoring to make it run l under it's own power. This is a strain on the battery. which is operating uia- der trying conditions anyway. Al cold I motor turns hard because the iubri- l eating oil is more yiscous at low tefrl- l peratures, therefore an exceptionally heavy current is required from the 1 battery. Under these circumstances ii 1 is seen that it is desirable to make the combustion occur as soon as possible 1 after the starting switch is thrown 1 When the motor is cranlzed by hand l the necessity of easy starting is so ob- vious that nothing more need be said
 It is difficult to start com bustion in