Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-11
KNIGHT SLEEVE MOTOR WAS
CAUSE OF INVENTION BOOM
Incentive Given to New Automobile Engine Ideas by
Genius without Honor in His Own Country"
New Automobile Map of Jersey Issued

fair and from Media through Wawa to
Chelsea is fair. but there are four miles
of very bad road through Chester
Heights to Booths Corner From
Booths Corner there are 2Is miles of
wornout macadam to Concord, and from
Concord to Wilmington are 71k miles of
fair macadam. Mr.. Hogle found no evil
| dence of police activity on the Chester
route, but advises caution as to speed
regulation and horn signs,
|
| What man would try to ride bicycle
Weighing 100 pounds?
Surely, only a crazy man, and yet many
a gasoline motor is being asked to do
something equally absurd. The motor
does 1t because It is strong enough, but
1t does 1t only at the cost of more fuel,
oil and tires than would be used to carry
lighter load Carrying on the bicycle
analogy, the vehicle here weighs less
than one-ffth as much as the load 1t car
ries. The automobile. on the other hand,
weighs more nearly five times as much
as the load.
OF course, the cases are different, as the
automobile load does not supply its own
power but the fact remains that only one
NTH of the power of an automobile en-
glne is available for the transport of the
passengers, the other four-ffths goes to
the transport of the car itself Surely
Iour-flfths Is very large fraction2
The automobile has been given relia-
bility and wonderful hexibillty of
power that is best called roadabillty
throughout its development the word
efficiency has been used loosely with ref
erence to all sorts of things, but we
have now reached the stage where the
only real efficiency may be studied. Real
efficiency in the broadest sense means
work nOna hV
doing 1t, and the first step along the
road of progress is to cut out some of
that four-fifths OF dead metal II is no
impossibility; merely 1t means the use
OF more suitable materials and a better
proportioning of stresses throughout the
structure as whole. Let every part
help to carry itself instead of having
some other part to bear its weight.
The horn trap in Pennsylvania was
given hard blow by decision of Judge
Johnson in the Dauphin County Court at
Harrisburg last week when a verdict of
guilty was set aside and a verdict of NOT
guilty ordered by the Court
Secretary ]. Clyde Myton, of the Motor
Club OF Harrisburg. offered himself in
the case against a constable and tustica
OF the peace at Middletown, Pa, where
norm trap was maintained during the
summer for several years. Each Sunday
hundreds of motorists would be caught
and notified to pay fine or costs and
the constables and justice made a biQ
killing" The case was not foug6t IN
the court, Mr.. Myton pleading guilty hut
then the case was argued on the Grounds
that the constable had no jurisdiction 10
erect the signs and make arrests with
out the sanction and action Of the town
ship authorities.
The victory for the Motor Club shows
that horn traps cannot be maintainsd
unless signs are regularly authorized bv
borough or township official boards. Ao-
uon VIII likely be taken against the con-
STABLES ana the justice OF the peace TO re-
cover all money paid to them In the mast
and 1t Is possible that other mora serions
charges will be preferred.