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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

learns that the war stopped most road
improyements in Eastern Canada, alb
sorbing all energies in other directions,
and although he is in the most fertile
valley in lower Canada, that OF the
Chateaugay, where prize winning Ayr
ghires are to be seen TO right and lett
he discovers that the farmers aren't
nearly so we'll Fordized as in many
poorer sections of the Old L. 5. A. And
one man confesses: "The reason Is we
have to go down to Malone before we
can get a decent ride"
Il is sixty miles TO Montreal by La
Prairie, a waterside town, or about
seventy by the ferry over the ST. Law
renee at Caurhnawaga, an Indian VII
lagc, where the noble redman'S fire.
water is made by Rockefeller and
works overtime in a Ford runabout.
But one is told tales of PierceArrows
mired above the crank cases in clay
beds called roads, and natives say even
the Fords have a hard time floating
over the soft spots, so he faces south
again, to make 142 miles to Montreal
by loop back through the States.
The best mechanic in Huntingdon
draws one a zigzag map of macadam
and gravel roads, eight in number in
Just fourteen miles, that eventually
take one across the border at point
where there's no custom house and
only the change from the red, long
armed boxes o. the Royal Mail TO the
patented y. L. DIS of home marks the
political change.
One rides south in Canada here on
fine macadam and suddenly bumps off
just like riding off curb-into deep
sand; IFS the good old Z. s. A. again.
Such homecoming! Follows one of
the worst sandhills this side of the
Sahara, and then one steams-yes,
steams-into Chateaugay, n. Y, U. S.
A.--on the state road. "Aint it q
grand and glorious feelin!" Briggs,
please take note!
The new Malone-Rouse's Pc ~ high
way, which we here take up, is q
Seauty, with fine views of Lyons and
other Adirondack Mountains. and soon
cre turns left for the United States
custom house in Rouse's Point, which
is kept open O. Sundays even fol- the
.aotorist. Laco!le. named after a
Canadian general who "walloped" our
militia good and plenty in 1914
aren't there the red and blue chromos
to prove it?-hss the obliging Cana
dian customs. No trouble to pass
Americans. walk in, Messrs. Yankee
Dollars; the spending's fne!"
Montreal is about two hours away,
being at the tail-end of mean TEN.
porary plank road over q swamp east
Of La Prairie, and over the Victoria
Bridge, which is easy. But here GENES
in another warning. II you want to
get across in the evening arrive before
dark, as the bridge closes abruptly
then. You drive blithely up on /,
about 1881 and find two crossed guns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

II. 200 miles, refuses to 60 11,2091
The little trigger device that actuates
the sparkling contacts has worn out,
and tho makers of tho car and OF the
distributor have failed to warn one to
carry a spare part. Carrying extra
tires weighing seventy pounds with
rim isn't near so important as having
a spare of this little thing a-ma-ji g
that moves the sparker, for one can
get TO the next town without tires. but
without this sparkling part he can't
move the car even up in front OF inc
big stock farm that is half a mile
ahead Not that one learns this IN
stantly. As one, for instance, senses
the fact that the right rear tire has
blown out again. Oh, mol 1t takes
three relays Of blacksmiths, alias me-
ohanics, and fussy, nose-poking
owner besides, to discover what's
wrong.
There on the clay highway north OF
Ormstown, perched on dry part OF
the road between two mud holes ana
sixty miles from Montreal, one learns
that garages and real mechanics are
scarce in that section. Farm tractor
statesmen and horseshoers who have
learned how TO spin Ford motor are
to be found, and they are good-hearted
and energetic. Energy, however, is Of
no avail with sparkless motor, and so
ones s-cylinder car trails back to
Ormstown behind the local Ford
agents demonstration. SO inglorious!,
However, tho S-cylinder is afterward
TO null a twin-six out Of a mud hole
and so regain its self-esteem.
Parts for distributor systems can be
had in New York and possibly In Mont
reah so one gets from Montreal the
only duplicate OF tho worn down trigger
to be found in Canada. so the salesman
AYERS. Waiting, the automobiles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
A. c. A. Buys Ambulances
For War Service Abroad

The Automobile Club of America
has cabled $4,000 to the Red Cross
organizations of England and France
for the purchase and maintenance Of
ambulances on the Western front.
This amount represents the fund
raised by the club members to com.
pliment the Royal Automobile Club OF
Great Britain, the Automobile Club
of France and the Touring Club of
France by presenting ambulances in
their names to their respective Rcd
Cross societies. The ambulances will
bear the names of the clubs and the
circumstances of their presentation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Picturesque Canada Offers Everything
But Good Roads to the Touring Nlotorlst

with bayonet. ashine are dead ahead
Nothing in the Blue BOOK about 90
Giers ahead, go straight through! %
one hcsitates. Hesitatlng isn't enough,
even with a dubious hand on the gear
lever. No, indeed; brutal tommy
,harp words send the brakes swapping
On. "Turn back" is the word, rem
forced with rifles. and one turns BACK
horing he won't have to squash
through that wooden piecrust over
swamp again. And ono doesn't, Tor
there's very decent little hotel. the
B.auclaire, in what one later finds, IN
daylight, is the good-sized suburb oil
st Lambert. -,
The bridge Is entirely in charge Of
the military, and searchlights sweep II
by night and men of an overseas pat
TALON guard its every foot by day.
Motorists must be ready TO have bag
rage closely examined. After the bridge
closes ferry at Longuiel, french
town three miles down the river, runs
to Montreal until IL o'clock, but the
stranger caught in st. Lambert does
well to stop there.
The best drive out OF Montreal is east
out Notre Dame-they don't bother TO
say street toward Quebec. The ROAD
passes through many quaint French viii
lagos, and is in good condition, but one
has TO travel far through Montreals
purlieus to get out into the country.
Quebec IS long days drive away, part
" because our common American small
town speed limit of fifteen miles is here
cut TO eight or nine miles-and in
French at that-and the road is IN
many places one long string of towns,
like the Albany-Utica road as it nears
Utica.
But Quebec-a first, second and third
speed hill town, where you have to walt
IL a streetcar is turning ana thereby
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Hitting q'faAap Twelve
C.ET.Scharps

OVER prices will not have immediate effect OF revision
automobiles, it, indeed the motor makers fine
u possible ALL For thing most auto
mobile manufacturers working under steel contracts that placed
some time ago at higher prices until such contracts out they
fixed by the for the
commodity Therefore automobiles will up fol
time to
thing steel the most important
automobile building rather than materials the increa
Nothing will happen likely bring down labor costs In
fact tendency the other is logical expect ad
van will than offset the decreases made by
lower prices for steel As steel Just items and other
leather keeping with no signs OF crop
ping prices the public is not bright
impression that about the new rates on steer
automobile would drop at once
1t can be seen that this hardly justified by the facts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
News of the Highways

demonstration of the fests OF war
dogs, and some TO display their sAl'
and intelligence are soon to 70 to ne
front with their masters. The e1hle''
ton viii be on the track before the
grandstand. The 800 dogs to bark =
welcome to the Danoury visitors viii
be the pick of the best American and
Canadian kennels. those TO nominate
including Mrs. Roy A. Rainey. h: ;
Baldwin. Mrs. Frank Hix Fayant, Mrs
Henry Price, Miss Mercedes l.. Grim
Minis, William c. Browning, John 6
Bates, Mrs. Payne Whitney, ]. Robin
son Beard, Mls. Clifford b. Harmon
and Norman Mackenzie, of Humber
Bay, Canada.
Danbury is sixty.fve miles from
Manhattan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
example,, a s4x4 tire. inflated >.

example, 34x4 tire. inflated "a.
proper pressure Of T2 pound,
square inch, with air at 50 d..,M
F.. would have pressure OF onlv -
pounds per square inch at l25 Dr..
+. One hundred and twenty-fys =
grees is pretty hot, but the iners.s.,
pressure is not sufficient to csu,. .
blowout. You can readily apprsri...
that this increased pressure Ia n.s
factor, because any we'll nads ~.
will Withstand several time, n.
amount of pressure recommended =.
it's use.
Then your expert further say, IL,
he "presumes that the average ov,..
would rather have comfortable ridi,s
even at the expense Of tire mil.,s.s
This is very decidedly a presump.ss.
on his part, because any tire adjust,
will tell you that the one thing sy.r
tire user insists upon is mileage M
the thing that he usually deriss 4
that he runs his tires too soft. n.
never mentions comfortable rdi,,
when he is striving for an adjur'
ment.
Heaven protect US from the Ana.
teur tire expert! IL Is easy enous,
for him 20 recommend driving Tin,
soft. The unfortunate part 81 h
Is that thousands OF people vi
follow his advice, and then expect n,
tire company 10 make good when n.
tires fail TO deliver the milssys Tia
expect Of them.
According 10 your expert, I'm
must be built By "rule-ot-thumb'
That only proves that he dozen,
know anything about tire buildlns
The present pneumatic tire is enc o.
the great Developments Of the A..
The strains and stresses 70 whie.
tires are subjected are as carefully
worked out in advance by tir. enr,.
neers as are strains and stresses N
the steel work of skyscraper. Ar
time self-appointed expert bes;ns
giving advice contrary 70 the advice
OF the tire engineers he is simply
encouraging a lot Of people to ruin
expensive tires.
Riding on tires that are too nh
sets IN a hinge action in the sid,
walls Of the tire that will ouekly
ruin Il. I'm addition, these soft tires
by presenting too great a surface "a
the street pavement, serve as d7s
upon the engine ard consume power
Translated into present prices q
gasolene, this means the burning .,
OF lot OF money, 50 that IL results
not only in the rlining Of the tire,
but the reckless dissipation Of power
from decidedly expensive gasolene.
Tire engineers build tires to be rur
at q definite and stated air pressure.
Your expert says that he doesn't BE-
lieve the reduction OF ten pounds per
square inch would hurt the tire. vii
he pay for all the tires he causes 70
be ruined BIZ this so-eslled advice!
Ny advice as a tire man is for ID.
automobiles 70 pump up his tires 70
the pressure advocated by the tire
maker. II he finds this pressure JOLT
~ him around too much advise him IN
get another car equipped with a good
set of springs.
This will be all on this subject for
1917. Next year ! expect to read the
same old story. and | VIII then write
you another letter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
CITY LINE
STATE HIGHWAY
MAINTENANCE END

is warning TO Jam on both brakes
and take the coming jar at four miles
an hour unless you want TO buy a
spring that day. Great towns for
automobile spring dealers! Albany it.
self gives its own inhabitants and the
visitor bit of the same kind OF rough
ness. One must needs hold tight TO
false teeth driving through these
places.
Coming home from the Adirondacks.
via the Berkshires, is a hard two days
yum from Lake Placid or Long Lake.
One can make Bennington, VT, or
Williamstown, Mass, in one day and
New York the next.
The Vernon. highway, through the
Green Mountains, is good gravel but not
speedy, because of thank-you-ma'a ANS.
You leave these behind at the Massachu-
sets line, but not all roads in that
state are good. There is a bad detour
just now at Williamstown and North
Adams. Most cars that see this latter
town go up the Mohawk Trail, steam
ing or not, as their nature may be, to
the sweeping view at, the top. II is
partly second speed for most of the
way. but some greyhounds do it in
third.
Through the Berkshires as far as
Great harrington the roads are fine. but
this side of that town the Under Noun
tain road. near South Egremont, is
continuously bad The rest of the
New York route, by Sharon, Armenia
and Pawling, is good enough.
All along the line the average garage
seems to think So bill about right
for each car. They manage to get
mighty close to it whenever there is
the ghost Of show. 1t is sort of a
stock figure with them, just as seventy
five cents is with most tea rooms. Buy
much or little and the bill is usually
the same in these places.
In just few places the country folk
are getting clever and there Is rising
the new sign:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Detour Around by
Masten Lake Discontinued
70 the Automobile Editor of The Trib-

To the Automobile Editor of The Trio-
une.
Sir: | wish to advise you that on
the main route No. 4, as We call 1t,
running from Middletown through
Bloomingburg, Wurtsboro, Monticello,
Liberty and on TO Binghamton, the
bad detour recently in force west OF
Wurtsboro, the detour around by Mas
ten Lake, has been entirely discon-
tinued, that short portion of the road
which made it necessary having been
completed.
There still remains the three-mile
detour over the old Newburgh and
Cochecton Turnpike between Wurts-
boro and Monticello. the only dctour
or this whole route now, but this is a
wide road and fairly smooth so that
it is not at all bad detOur.
1t is expected that within four or
five weeks this portion of the road will
also be completed which will complete
the whole route from Middletown TO
Binghamton and on west. Very truly
yours, II. B. MLAUGHLIN,
Sullivan County Automobile Club.
Liberty, n. Y, Sept. %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Motorists Going to
Danbury's Dog Show

Danbury will be the destination of
many motoring parties, 20 attend the
State Fair, which begins tomorrow for
the week. and especially the thirty
fourth renewal of the dog show. on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. With
$1,000 in cash premiums, Danbury is
the only dog show in the East this
year to offer money in every class, ex-
cept the big Garden show. Parking
spaces will be reserved for motorists
on advance notice being sent to the
committee Of information.
On Thursday afternoon there will be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Watch the Road; Not Your Feet

Keep your eye on the road. Man!
operators are continually looklni
down at their feet, at the accelers.o'
pedals, ETC., while operating. III
takes their attention away from tas
road. which is dangerous. With ht,le
practice you can soon locate all tn'
necessary pedals, etc, without looklas
for them. This is the safe way 70
drive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Taking Rough Roads at Speed

oERHAPS the weknown copybook principle of graspng the
1 firmly, better drive rapidly rough road
We have found of the most uneven OF Staten
roads, twenty-five to thirty miles hour with
25nc anywhere the Earring that
when rolling along eighteen twenty miles an hour
probable the smaller dpressions, which would
their force fully are rather
skinned over speed unless road is full Of
considerable DEPTH continued COM
discomfort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Nav Be Water in Carburetor

One of the causes o; an engine miss.
ing explosion, which Is sometimes yei'
mysterious. may be water in the car
buretor. IL you have eliminated a.
other causes of skipping, try draining
tho carburetor. II scme is caught 70
the hand, the water will be repelled .!
the gasolene ard form globules.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Sunlight Not Good for Tires

Keep your spare tires covered. Sun
light on the spare tire takes from 1t
much Of the resliency and weakens
it materially. The same advice ap-
plies to the leather cushions of your
car. When stopping, seek a shady
spot or put up the top. This will pre-
vent the leather upholstery from get
ting dry and cracking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Visiting the Underworld

An interesting and profitable trip
that every motorist should take, put
few think of, is a trip under the car
TO see the conditions of things there.
Inspect brake connections to see if
there are any which do not get ,atten-
ton when the car is oiled. See If they
are wearing out or weakening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Severe Owner Test

EXPERIMENTAL the hands Of factory be driven
IL great many miles without showing defects that arc
This Things which will hang the
ordinary the expert for moment
therefore, which has mpeed manufacturer who
grueng test to have them driven by
motorists expert The of trial being made
over going possible find When they
peed certainly ought TO be possession of the vital
facts aboutth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Putting the Quietus on
Hot Weather Tire DefIada
Lighting.Up Time
TO-DAY. s:ls P. ".

Monday. Oct. i....s:13 Friday, OF a..
n,ssdsy, Oct, 2. s:ll saturday. ocs S".s&
Thursday. Oct f.sos Monday. Of 80
LaD requires that lamp, on all -
vehicles be lighted oHs-h1Y borxy 49,
sunset. THIS time Tor the day, ~
tfoted ~ figured above for Hsw -
ChD, New Jersey, Connecticut and p,sn
svlUnri1.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Another Lighting Law

AVNG battery the effects of legislation proposed
y TO be introduced in Roughly the law will provide that
where standing within certain distance of street
perfectly revealed by the of that light snail
necessary keep lights burning at night
obtains few other communities IL
thing real necessity for keeping head
tail going when there is plenty of other light to sho" an automoDe
standing a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
New Rochelle-Sea Cliff
Ferry Suspends Service

Owing to the breaking of shaft on
one of its boats, the Sound Transit
Company has been compelled to sus-
pend the operation of the ferry service
between New Rochelle and Sea Cliff,
l.. l., for the season.
The ferry between Rye and Sea Cliff
will continue TO run until further
notice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Under the Head of New Business

Silver specials will be launched, comprised of
a series Of specially designed and equipped
closed and open models.
The New York leadership in Cole cars will
be transferred on October from the Colt
Stratton Company 20 Russell l.. Engs. Inc,
formerly dealer in the KsselKar. whose sales
room is at the Circle Building, Central Park
Wet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Enter the TWin=T hrec

ONE automobile manufacturers trying out an engine
~ surely novelty 1t twnhree to take the place of the
which has them all IN row. ner
cranhf body for the and certain other
mechanical claimed for this of has not yet
got 10 the marketable stage, however.
Twnone in the cold days In other words
two cylinder engine. So why not twinthrce?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Camouhage Hits the Row

It had to come. A Broadway deafSs
has. "camoufaged" a car. IL IS s'ars'
but not guaranteed, that 1t VIII n.s
for low visibility when spprosch'h'
motorcycle cops and speed trappen'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

William l.. Colt win be the new manager
Of the Willys- Overland branch in New York
CITY. assuming his duties on October j..
Colt Is an executive Of the broadest kind OF
experience in manufacturing whole5aling
and retailing automobiles. Lattcr!y he has
been Eastern sales manager for the Cole
Motor Car Company, in addition 10 his inter-
est i'm the Colt-Stratton Company, metrOpoh-
tan distributors for DODGE Brothers cars.
Colts new job calls for man Of excep-
tional training, and his appointment shows
the Willy verland Company regards New
York az an all-important point A Cornell
graduate and an engineer. in earlier days he
was an automobile maker. having been presi-
dent of the old Cleveland Automobile Com
pany. following a previous association IN the
Cleveland Automatic Machine Company end
business connection with a. l.. Garford, who
built the Cleveland and several other cars.
Colt turned to retail merchandising in
1908. when he organized the Colt-Suatton
Company. What that concern did IN giving
the Cole reputation in the East became so
well known that IL was the logical SeleClloh
when Dodge Brothers sought metropolitan
representation IN introducing their ne"
product.
Harry J. DE Rear, manager OF the Ne"
York branch OF the Maxwell Motor sales
CorpCrstion 1S0S Broadway, has placed on
csbibition the 1913 Maxwell model.
The new car embodies great many mover
features such as compensating underslung
rear spring, fifty inches long crown tenders
fully inclosed. front and rear. between
wheels and body Simms-Huf unit motor
and generator: one-man mohair top. win
opick adjustable storm curtains; clear vision
and double yeutilating windshield; gasolene
gauge, etc, etc.
Tho Horandsr Sales and Service, Inc,
handling Ford cars in the old home Of the
company At 1921 and lt23 Broadway, has
appointed l.. l.. Weed. IT,, as sales manager.
Charlie, Ewing Easter. well known on
Broadway as veteran automobile man. has
been appointed manager of the used car de-
partment Of the Brady-Murray Motors Cor
poratiou. with headquarters at Broadway
and SiNty-second Street
C. T. Silver has taken on the Kisselkar
passenger and commercial cars, in addition
10 bort & Silvcr-Apperson cars. With the
present siN-cyludcr Kisselkar line OF all
year models as a basis changes will be made
involving tho use OF a new radiator, hood.
coWl venulator, Windshield, top, head and
tail lamps of the Silver bullet type, wire
wheels. cord tires. rear spindle, gas tank
upholstery binding. etc, calculated 20 par
ticulariy appeal 20 fastidious New Workers.
Becnning with the New York show IN
January a new siX-cyIinder line OF kisseikAr-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Nothing in All His Names

There is an automobile destf ~
Paris, Tex, whose rame is bns.v,
Dodge Chandler, No, you're wrvns
He's the Overland and Willys'hn's"
man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Forget 1t

Much Of the enjoyment from q GU
depends upon peoples ability TO ioIs.:
unpleasant experiences they have ns
with or through it.-Arnerican MotonsN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Encouraging Automobiling

A Kansas City restaurant is doing
its bit TO encourage the sale OF motor
cars, says 1.-The American Motorist,'
by displaying a sign thus:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

1--WE Pay the Waiter a Living Wage.
IF You Want TO Buy Him an
Automobile, Go To IT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

Charles Ewing Easter. well known on
Broadway as q veteran automobile man. has
been appointed manager of the used car de-
partment Of the Brady-Murray Motors Cor
poration. with headquarters at Broadway
and SiNty-second Street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

The Holaudsr Sales and Service, Inc,
handling Ford cars in the old home Of the
company At 1921 and 1928 Broadway. has
appointed l.. L. Weed. jr.. as sales manager