Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-26
ALONG MOTOR ROW

motorcycle and sidecar. He soon
tires of this and trades for road
ster. This roadster was little out
of date, chain drive, ETC., so ne
trades this on another diminutlVe
roadster. His wife frankly tells him
that she will not ride with him II
he should get that certain roadster.
Rather than have his wife ride with
some one else he trades this car,
before he even gets 1t, on another
roadster. Now all concerned are sat
isfied except maybe, one certain au-
tomobile agent.
C. e. Rugh drove to Topeka Sat
urday by way of the Santa Fe Tran
route. He went that way expecting
to find better roads than on the
Golden Belt. He says, I'VE found
the roads UNNECESSARILY worse than
thew we're on the Golden Belt and
It is forty miles farther by that
route. The Trail route takes In ev'
cry little town, laps back and forth
and is not direct road by any
means. We returned over the Gold
en- Belt and found that 1t outclassed
the Santa Fe Trail in every way.
MFR. Rugh left here at $3.50 in the
morning and did not get into Topeka
until IL o'clock. Returning, they
beat this time a long ways. With
the exception of couple of washed
out bridges, the Golden Belt Is IN
good shape between here and TO
peka.
The trend toward multi-cylinder
engines continues in the motoring
world. In the 1916 announcements
many companies have Joined the T.
cylinder builders and have dropped
making fours. A large number OF
new Fights have been announced
for 1915, also two or three 12-cyl'
inder cars. The general belief
seems to be that the 12-cylinder cal
will not prove such a drawing caro-
as was at first expected.
Automobile advertising In tn'
Saturday Evening Post increased
$500, 900 during 1914.
An Eastern automobile company
paid $4,000 for an automobile II
order to tear 1t to pieces and ex
anime the parts. That's what tn
rest OF US do, only we don't know j
until later.
The secretary of state has ad
dressed letters to the county com
missioners of each county in Kan
sas. asking them to take some IN
terest. other than the mere forma
interest commanded by law, in the
expenditure OF the license collected
from automobiles. He also calls at
tention to the fact that in round
numbers this license fee no"
amounts to s27O,O0O, that it is to
be used solely for the improvement
ard maintenance of county roads
The secretary of state says;"ln many
counties the provisions OF the law
are being carried out by the county
commissioners, but have informa-
ton TO the effect that In a few places
the commissioners have neglected
or refused to designate the county
roads as the law directs, while IN
other counties the boards have used
the automobile and motorcycle IL
eense fee for the laying out and
building of new roads and the con-
struction Of bridges. This is con-
trary to law and hinders the enforce
ment of its provisions.
Finely pulverized graphite is a
fine tonic for any engine II applied
through the crank case in the pro
portion of a teaspoonful of graphite
IN n gallon Of oil. The graphite
filIs the pores Of the cylinders and
psston rings and increases the COM
preston ana furthermore II helps
% stop 40 engine from smoking e