The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-27

vision of the American Auton obile as- sociation at the Indianapolis Motor speedway, Thursday, a new motor fuel called zoline was successfully tried out on the first leg of a thousand-mile trial. 500 miles being completed in stock Marnon car. The other 500 mile was run by the same automo obi1e. The new fuel, which is designed as a sub stitute for gasoline, is said to cost
 about one and g. half cents g. gallon
 The fuel was mixed at the pits un-
 der the observation of the A. A. offi-
 ctals. and the actual running time for the 500 miles was 9h-, 22 m., 32 i S-1Os., or an average of fifty-three
 miles an hour. The elapsed time
 was 1oh., 49m., 1 7s-, several stops be- | ing made at the pits on account of l the cold, the average temperature for
 the day being sixteen degrees above zerfo.
 The fastest lap was the 1e3d- when
 the two and one-half miles course
 was circled at an average rate of l speed of e1 6-1O miles an hour. A
 number Of laps were run at a rate of
 speed of more than sixty miles an hour.
 FEE. Moskovies. commercial man. 1 ager Of the Nordyke & Marmon Co. which has made the stills in which zoline is manufactured, told of the method of manufacturing the new | 11Gl. MT A40SkOV1CS Sa1Os 'Hrhe fluid, called zoline, was dis | covered by John Andrus, a PoTtu- i guese of McKeesport, Pa, who was I7recently paid $So,00O by the govern ment for discovery he made in | ttoughentng armor plate. Andrus has | discovered a way of breaking down l water without the use of great heat and the new fluid consists mostly of l water a little naphthalene and two
 secret ingredients that can be bought at any drug store. MT. tAndrus mixes these in still to which heat is ap- piled and the result is a fluid that is
 superior to gasoline
 l sehIr Andrus interested Carl Fisher. I president of the Prest-o-Ldte company I in his invention, and MT. Fisher went 1 to McKeesport to see it tested. MT. l Fisher insisted that another test I should be made in indianapolis, and I that was done. At this test were Rus I sell Huff, consulting engineer of the J Packard company: Howard Marmon.
 chief engineer of the Nordyke 6 Mar j con Go; William Guy Wall. vice pres T ident and chief engineer of the Na- 1 tfona1 company; the chief-chenist of 1.-the Prest-o-Ldte company; profes- i sor Of chemistry from the University
 of Michigan, and nyse1f. All had sI been invited to the test by MT. Fisher Ito detect any fraud if possible. Il 5s.Every movement of the inventor Twas watched by these experts. The II stin was set up under their eyes and
 the fluid made. "A Marmon 51 was I furnished for the test and five gallons of the fluid put in the tank. We die
 sixteen miles on a gallon. We made sixty-nine miles an hour with the tor J and windshield up and two passenger. in the car, which was four to five ! miles faster than the gar had evel
 gone on gasoline.
 ! ''Mr. Fisher went more deeply intt
 the matter, and afsma1 still built b! the Nordyke & Marmon Go. has beer set up at the Prest-o-I1ite factory ane Il is making from seven to ten gallons an hour.
 Z '~The formula for making the nev fluid is known to MT. Fisher and on,
 other man besides MT. Andrus, ane
 they declare it can be made for .abou
 one and one-half cents a gaIlon.''