Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-09

When approaching rough ground the
caterpillar traction is quickly read
Justed so the machine can negotiate
any kind of rough going.
Sweden has $500 automobiles.
Motoring In England has been In ex-
istence for 25 years.
Concrete roads cost from $4,000 to
10000 mile to build.
The use OF steel tires on motor We
h!cles is prohibited in Connecticut
Public hospitals in New York City
operates fleet Of nineteen motor am
balances
In the last ten years there has been
decrease of 1880, 900 horses in this
country.
Pennsylvania has a Statewide law
regulating the sale OF secondhand au-
tomobiles.
Between 1909 and coco passenger au-
tomoeiles are now operating in Tien-
tsin, China.
Personal property taxes on motor
vehicles in the United States amounted
TO no less than 900 last year.
PRESIDENT William Mckinley received
delegation of the first Good Roads
congress more than 20 years ago
For tourists In automobiles, many
towns in the West provide cooking
utensils and free electric current at tho
motor parks and camps.
New Jersey has approximately IL. 900
women automobile drivers. This num-
Der is per cent OF the total motorists
in that State.
The au,omotive industry in the Unit.
ed states provides work for $50 OO per
sons with an estimated annual earning
of more than sI57. 900, 900.
ot the ss types of passenger cars
manufactured in the United States no.
less than so have some form of heaters
as standard equipment
The shortage OF labor has resulted in
an increase OF more than SO per cent
OF tractors on farms In Pennsylvania,
the present number totalling ss23.
or the importation OF automobile
tires into England. tho United States.
Ianada- france, Italy and Germany
provide the great bulk in the order
named.
The last tollgate on the State High
way system of Maryland was finally
eliminated when a sum of $4,000 was
recently paid for three-mile stretch
OF road.
The first gasoline-propeIIed automo-
pie to be successfully operated in the
United States was designed and built
IN this country between August. 1891
and September, 1892.
In Australia, motorcycles are altered
for the use of badly incapacitated vet
erans OF tho war. The manned soldiers
tfaVel in the business section of the
CITY or Melbourne with perfect ease.
Harry B. Lachmann. an American ar
xst. travels fhruout European coun-
Vies In Al, automobile studio. Ho
paints landscapes seated on the top of
mis- motor car. to get the necessarily
elevated views.
Because of a new traffic ordinance
every motorists in Detroit is having his
automobile headlights tested by the
folice Department No fee is charged
ana the examination requires but a
few moments
The minimum charge for an automo-
bile license in Texas is $3.50. which in
up to Il horse power. From % horse
power on up. there is n charge Of Is
cents per horse power.
During tho fiscal year that ended
with the last day OF November, the
motorists OF Massachusetts paid to the
state In fees for registration and Ii
cense a total of $3.50. I'll. while other
users of the highways paid nothing.
Before the war. ditch fences, dan
gerous curves and bridges in Germany
We're painted with n phosphorescent
coating, which appeared with lumin-
GUS brill!ance thru tho gloom. as tho
tho fenco or danger warning were
aflame.
Among tho novel automobiles man
ufactured in this country is a folding
car Weighing less than 100 pounds. 1t
IL of knockdown construction. SO that II
can DC fitted into n large trunk. The
machine vii! run from rs to so miles on
a gallon Of gasoline.
Because tho eyes of a dog of hixh
degree owned by C. w. Allen of Ros-
ton were weakened as result of
riding in an open automobile on windy
day, special pair of goggles was pres
oribed fitted by an oculist to relieve
the eye strain.
In England. the Ministry Of Trans
oort 10 drafting n compulsory law as
possible means of preventing or at
east curtailing the excessive and dan
serous glare from powerful automobile
headlights from which motorists as
veil as tho general public suffer
Tho Federal Government IL planning
IN increase of so cents a horsepower
IN motor vehicles. 2 cents n gallon on
,asoline and extra sales taxes, to raise
290.000.0o0 more from motor car own
prs, which would make the total taxa
ion from the industry practically $780,
10000.
a New jersey historian in request
made for . motor license number for
his car in 1921, wanted the number
1I76 for sentiment which he cherishes
about his ancestors of Revolut 'onary
days. Several college students asked
for members to correspond with tncir
year OF graduation.