The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-15
AUTOS AND
 AEROPLANES


 men is about the same as it has been for the last three or four years. Mo tor Print" Q magazine devoted to au- tomobiling. says, "A good driver gets on the average $120 a month for his work. There are men who get as low as $15 or SIS week, and others who are paid anywhere from $40 to $50 a week, but the average in the citiesfs nearer $30 a week."
 Men who claim to know say that no owner can expect to pay less than $125 a month for a really good man. A capable and industrious chauffeur can save a great deal of money for his employer. A man who is salar- fed high enough to take a keen inter- est in his work will look out for things and will keep a car in such a condition that expenses of running it are bound to be less.
 It is not exactly reasonable, from the standpoint of the chauffeur, for an owner to expect to get an exper- fenced driver and mechanic, the lat ter point being the more important, for anything less than $50 a week.
 In New Y ork some taxica1b compan- ies pay men a fixed salary by the
 
 tips. One company, for instance, gives its men $17.50 a week, and the lucky ones with tips of $1.25 to s1.5o a day get more than $25 per week most of the time. There is a consistent and steady demand for honest and able men in the taxicab line. The com panies find great deal of difficulty in getting enough honest men for the work, and in this connection. Some of the best chauffeurs we have are recruited from the rural districts, . says Allen Grant "a mechanical en- gineer. Tarrytown, N. Y., formerly of the engineering force of the Max el1-Briscoe Motor Co. Automobile owners are learning that such men make better drivers than the usual ,. hangers on" about garages. During a recent tour of Indiana and Illinois, MT. Grant was so much impressed with the opportunity chauffeuring of- fers to country boys that he had pre- pared a leaf1et describing how any ambitious young man can "get in'' and learn the business. A copy can be had by addressing him at Tarrytown, N. Y. r
 No one thing has been such a fac- tor in popularizing the automobile as newspaper advertising. It has been the one great force that has made of the automobile business what 1t is to- day. It has spread the story of the automobile to the most remote corner. From an unknown factor of few years back, advertising has proved to the farmer that he can's afford to be without one.> It has sjown the tired business man that his car is a pleas ant bridge between home and office. and the doctor's buggy Is now al- most curiosity.
 Millions have been spent in spread ing this knowledge; yet it has return ed the automobile builder a hundred fold, and because this advertising has created a market where none existed before, the price of cars has steadily dropped. while the quality has con- stantly increased.
 Aeroplane manufacturers can profit through the lessons learned by the automobile builders.
 If all reports are true, some auto mobile manufacturers are giving con- siderable thought to aviation. and a few are actively engaged in building aviation motors. ( Farmers are of g., class in the best position to make use of flying ma chimes. Contrary to general opin- ion, flying in a well built aeroplane Is safe. Statistics show ibut-few acci- dents and these are, for the most part. caused by care1essness. or lack of knowledge of the principles of Gigt&."
 The modern aeroplane has factor of safety of about eight tS) which. roughly translated, means that 1t is about eight times as strong as neces- sary.
 Flying machines are today beyond the reach of all but a favored few, but so. too, were motor cars a few years back There seems to be no logical reason why the aeroplane should not follow in the footsteps of it's land brother, the automobile, which, in ten short years, has become the servant of the masses; not just the toy of the rich. What has brought about this change? Simply building automobiles in quantities. To-day better car can be bought for one thousand dol lars than three thousand would buy five years ago.
 Who will be the first to adopt these principles to aeroplanes? He who does will find himself established as the Ford" of the flying world.
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