The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
THE FARMER: JULY 30. 1915
Automobile News

Officials of the Sheepshead Bay Speedway are already 5beginning to be besieged with applications for boxes seats and parking spaces for the op- ening race on October g. So large is the number of applications and in quiries that the management has thus early been forced to make arrange
 nents to handle them. Accordingly a ticket office will be opened on August I at 1896 Broadway. It is located be- in the heart of automobile row, but convenient to the hotel and theatre district as well.
 i Inquiries come not only from .indi- viduaIs but from clubs well. It is evident that not only in New England i. and the eastern states will club, runs II be organized with the Since pshead II Bay inaugural race as their objective point, but that the middle west will also promote race going. tours; for the 1 Wolverine .Autom obile club is plan ming a. run that will land the caravan from the motor car building metropo- lis in town early enough for the De- 1 troit mechanical sharpS to witness as well the elimination trials, which will begin on September 24.
 A noteworthy contingent of visitors who will come to the Sheepshead Bay contenders in the big team reliability 1 contest which is being promoted by C.. G, Sinsabaugh. editor of Motor. Five-men teams are being formed to represent New York, Philadelphia and. Baltimore. It is probable that Chicago, Boston, Buffalo and Cleve- land also will compete.
 The contest will start at Washing ton and continue through Baltin ore and Philadelphia to this city MT. sinsabaugh has arranged the time schedule so as to land the contestants 1 in New York in time for the race. I t is his belief that the competitors will be accompanied by a big escort of non-contending race-bound caravan from the cities. and towns genroute. In this connection it may be noted that owners, makers and drivers are already asking for entry blanks. They may be had not only from Everarc1 d Thompson, general manager of the Sheepshead Bay Speedway. Corpora tion, IT Battry place, but also from James C. Nichols, 1871 Broadway, and Fred J. Wagner, Room 514: U. s. Rubber Building, 1790 Broadway. where entry blanks for Minneapolis. Des Motnes and Elgin may also be obtained. --@
 Spark Plug Leakage
 Spark plug leakage is a frequent and unsuspected source of power loss. Some plugs have tendency to leak when very hot and for this req
 
 test by dropping little oil around the packing joints and watching for bulb i bles. With a good plug such leakage can usually be obviated by taking fup on the packing gland.
 ! As a rule, owners of electric ve- hicles show their wisdom by leaving the care of the storage batteries to 1 thosew ho have had experience with 1 them. But there are a few things that are of particular importance to those who either have or want to do their own tinkering One of them is to refrain from putting acid in the electrolyte to bring it up to the proper lhydrometer test. A cell that tess co How in acid usually needs a long slow soaking or overcharginE, which has he effect of driving the acid out of the plates into the solution, and so not be added unless the req ding can not otherwise be. brought up.
 Curing Engines of Smoking.
 Engines that have serious smoking proclivfties frequently can be pernna- Inently cured by converting the lower packing ring into a wiper. This is done in effect by drilling. series of cry. small holes into the interior of the piston through a small chamber the lower edge of the lower ring slot. This permits oil that is scraped off the cylinder wall by the downward movement of the piston to drain through into the interior of the piston. l instead of accommodating in a very small sort of bank and finding it's only escape between the ring and the cyl inders In making the chamber care should be taken not to rob the ring of proper seating. The holes should not be- over one-sixteenth inch in diameter. and should be drilled at 1SerYo <aF o1a do f0 axis of the cylinder.
 New Auto Signals.
 l It is said by many that the new ] some signal code, as originated by a N1idd1etown, O.,g concern will revol- Eutionize traffic everywhere. The sig nals are simplicity itself The motor ist is to sound one blast for. straight
 'turn to the right and four for a turn to the left,
 l ."'If these signals are adopted gem eral1y,'' said c. H. Murray, president of the company traffic troubles will be at an3 end, and the tourist will no longer be confused by finding a differ ent set of traffic regulations in every city he visits. All the police, pedes- trians and motorists will understand this simple code Under present con ditions, many drivers are not familiar with the traffic regulations in their nome TIOWH, nluCH less -OtHSI. cll1eS and there. ares frequent accidents and arrests.
 ''f everyone understand that one blast meant that the car could pro- l ceed straight ahead, the trouble at crossing would soon disappear. The traffic officers would find their work much easier and the motorists invar- iably in front, behind and all around the machine signaling would know in which way it intended going. The present system, which compreheands silence, or sounding the signal any