Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-15
AUTOMOBILE NEWS NOTES
FROM WORLDWIDE FIELD
detroit Manufacturers Find Play.
grounds Success in Keeping
Children Off Streets.
ACCIDENTS ARE DECREASED
Highway to BE Built to Summit of
Mount Whitney, 14,5O1 Feet Above
Sea LeveI-Registratio of Cars
In All States Show Increase.

".1ees py the fupp Motor Car Com
pahy OF Detroit. Since the opening :
me recreation Fairgrounds I'm the !:
rear or the factory for the benoht NJ
mo children of the neighborbood r. &.
estimated that tho number of acci-
dehts has decreased from 60 to rs per
cent. on'cials of the Hupp Company
niaoo the decrease az 60 per cent, but
traHc oihcials In that section of the
IS per cent
Just at present. the recreation com
inittee, which has charge Of all the
pid!srouhds In Detroit. has not cong
picted its data on the value of play3
grounds as a safety first movement 1
although the directors know In a gem
eral way tho results obtained in tax
ing the children from the streets into
playground or on to the special
streets which are being set aside for
their use
The officials at the Hupp plant have
discovered that it not only decreases
accidents near their factory. bu, in
me entire neishborhood. which Is in
one or the automobile manufacturing .
centers OF the city. At the Hupp play
grounds. children of families Of en-
nioyees OF not only the Hupp. but Of
the Dodge. Packard. Ford, Detroit
SteeV Products. Aluminium Casting,
studebaker. Maxwell and the Bur.
ronghs Adding Machine Company make
daily use of the playground
We are highly pleased with the re-
suit or the play ground which We
turned over TO the recreation commit
tee. said President J. Walter Drake
Reports from our officers and from
trafhc men in the neighborhood show
II remarkable decrease in accidents in
the neighborhood of the playground.
The children seem TO enjoy the
place immensely and their parents
seem TO realize how much safer they
are away from the heavy traffic In this
section.
II would be wonderful thing IL a |
national recreation movement wa.
started for the use OF vacant property
belonging TO the manufacturers in |
every city.
Manufacturers generally will find |
'hat they are not only aiding the COM
munity In the humanitarian use OF !
their property which they may be hold |
ing Tor various purposes, but by bct-
tcrinE tho conditions secure insurance
against accidents which have been in
creas!ns more each year on account
of the Increase I'm popula ton"
Americas h!ghcs, peak. Mount whit
nsy. in southern California. Il 10 he
conquered by the motor car. high
way is 10 be built to the summit, 1891
feet above the sea level.
Michigan has over 100000 motor cars
10 date. This is $4,000 more than the
total number registered In 1914 Early
th!S year II was estimated that about
10000 cars would be registered in
Michigan this year. Now officials say
that this number IL likely TO be passed
Registrations numbering 2oolss have
been made In New York since Feb
ruary l. This breaks all records. Re-
ccipts for the ;irst half Of the year
were sl.667.O1o compared with ST.
63$,367 for the entire twelve months OF
1914.
Iowa has taken new departure !
from the practice OF issuing license
plates each year, and has contracted
for 100000 tags. which will be put into ,
use January |, 1875. and be good for
three years instead Of one
Water Jackets and radiators may he
cleaned by introducing. under pressure,
saturated solution OF washing SODA
In water.
Usually the first indication Of weak
magnets is mistring AT low speeds
When the magnets are weak starting !
on the magnetic Is quite d!fficult. owing
to low-current generation when the
motor Is cranked. II the magnets are
very weak the motor may stop IL the ,
throttle Is closed too much.
Red lights at night and danger nacs |
unrepaired roadways, will be demanded
by autoists OF Gloucester County, ~ :
j., unless the authorities take action
toward improving the county high !
ways
A marker has been placed on the j
Burlington trail at Medora. ILL.,. TO com
mcmorate the famous antislavery
speech made by Owen Lovejoy, July 20, (
1860. when ne addressed 10000 persons 1
hal, al Of hroh I'm,
against stephen a. Douglas. y barbe- +
cue was feature OF the day fifty
flee years ago, twenty head OF sheep
and seven head OF cattle being killed {
to furnish food for the people 4 num- !
Der who heard Lovejoy deliver his /
speech attended the dedication of the ,
marker.
Ohio is the leading State in macadam 1
mileage, having 5000 miles more than
the second macadam state. Illinois.
The respective mileage o. macadam
roads in these two States is 1000 and
10000. Kentucky has 5000, Massa-
chusetts, with It's fine highway system.
has 3,7S3; New York has 5000 Wiscon-
sin has 1000. New Jersey. .. 600. and
North Carolina. 1920. Many States
such as Louisiana, have no macadam
roads at all.
A total of 21.S2S automobiles renre
senting 1877 different makes. ia colo
radios registration for the first six
months of 1915. This is a gain of more
than 5000 cars or 80 per cent Over
the same period last year, and a gain
Of 1896 cars. or Is per cent, over the
total registration for 1914, which was
lS,433.
Rubber has become so scarce in
Norway that private and public auto.
mobile traffic is seriously hampered
and great number of motor cars
have had to be taken off the roads
until some arrangement can be made
for securing tires from abroad On
several routes the tourist service by
omnibus has been stopped. The ROYAL +,
Automobile Club and the Foreign Of
flee are trying to obtain England's
permission to purchase limited guam
titles Of manufactured rubber in Lon