The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29

AQLOInODlleS are uSeu III the CdtCIe ruSl- linS business in western Canada. A speedy revival of the automobile in- dustry is predicted in Vienna, Austria. l The average wage In the automobile in- dustry in New York state is $30 a week. Motorists are arrested in Philadelphia foi excessive sounding of signal devices o1 motor cars.
 During the first five months of 1920. the consumption of gasoline increased 26 per cent over last year The state college at Amer, Ia, offers a two weeks course on tractor operation for the sons of farmers. St Louis, Mo, produces more motor vehicles of 4000-pound capacity than any other city in the United States. Massachusetts is 206,094 passenger auto- mobiles, or 26 per cent, ahead of the regis tratior for corresponding time last year. Recent tests of motor fuel just com pleted by the bureau of mines shows oan Francisco getting the best summer gaso- line!
 As a means of quick delivery, the Great Lakes freighters are remodeled to carry automobiles from Detroit and Clevelan1 to other lake ports. A good roads association was recently formed by a large number of prominent Argentine, American and British bus:ness men of Buenos Aires.
  company issued a catalogue showing sev- enteen different styles of electric vehicles. but only one gasoline car.
 Parisian taxicab drivers, afraid of being assS ssinated in the deserted streets at nightfall, have asked the prefecture of police for permission to carry revolvers
 TheNJefferson highway is 1900 miles long, extending from Winnipeg, Canada, through St. Paul, Des Moines. Kansas p6 Tcn1tl1 tn Now Orleans
 Senator Boise Penrose received motor license No. 5e0o00, the highest to be awarded by the Pennsylvania state high way department.
 It is estimated that the number of new motor cars which will be built and sold this year will be 2,250,0O0 while the num- Der that will be retired from service will be 1,525,0co.
 !n a recent check of different state li- censes on passenger automobiles entering Eanada, twenty states, representing cars from Florida to Washington, were count ed in a single day.
 Through the scarcity and high price of gasoline i'll Italy. every drop of which must be imported from other countries, there are not more than 10000 privately owned automobiles operated in that coun- try.
 As a result of the British government imposing a tax of 8 per horse power on all foreign-made automobiles agencies Of American made tars in London are cut ting the price 0 meet the new horse power tax
 The Rev Charles Everett Draper, pas tor of a Methodist Episcopal church in Kansas City. Mo, announces that he Will deliver his Sunday evening sermon from a motor car in front of the church dur ing the summer and fall.5
 Orders for 60o,000 tags for pneumatic tired cars and S2.000 tags for motor trucks for 1921 were recently placed by the Penn sylvania state highway department. It is the largest order in history placed by the department.
 For the first tim ein it's history, the Canadian national exhibition at Toronto, sugust 90, is to have an automobile day.
 he passenger car exhibit this year. it is ated. will be the greatest ever staged in Canada.
 Over a tour of 15o miles in British Guiana, J ohm D. Clark of New York killed three chickens, two dogs, hit pig. struck two oxen. narrowly missed an alligator and skidded close to a twenty-foot snake in his automobile.
 Miss K. C. Gallagher and Mrs. NJ. A. Stenberg os Columbus, O.. have invaded ibe motor truck transporting business with emore than seventy trucks of three or more tons capacity each. The women are specializing in hauling for road and building construction.
 A new unofficial record for transcon- tlental automobile trip was recently es- tc blished when a fve-passenger touring car covered the distance from San Fran cisco to New York in four days. fourteen hours and forty-three minutes The route travelled by the machine was 3,3i7 miles. The first time that nearly all of the nety 1921 models of passenger automobiles to be shown to the public will be exhibited at the Michigan State Fair when it opens on the morning of September<3. Thirty two different makes of cars will be shown each In number of different models.
 Tn Cor necticut, motor vehicle driver Of that state is constantly under the con trol of the authorities. After he becomes eighteen years of age he is required U have an operators license, for which he has to pass rigid examination, including rot only actual operation. but also a test of the law
 On the vast sugar plantations of tho Hawaiian Islands, the molasses which has been allowed to run to waste oi burned for the recovery of potas. IS eing distilled into a new motor ruel. motor a.cohol,' which is said to give more power. greater mileage, easier start Ing and mere freedom from carbon than ordinary gasoline.