Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 69

S S ¥ . 7 i . WASTE OF GASOLINE IN FAULTY DRIVING -~ e e e e pemec |AJTO CLUB FORMED | AWMAKERS FOND {among whom are the wealthiest and ! most prominent business men of that jeity. Each one of these men has | {pledgéd himself to bring twenty h members into the new organization, |failed to utilize the automobile in con R ¢ Ra s 2 ~ v iglvin‘ the club a membership of 2,000 | ducting their campaigns, says the Na- > 7 / at its inauguration. Recent reports | tional Motorists’ Association. i = £ ¥ 2 7 indicate that about 1,000 of these| DUuring the new Congress many ques = = 2! 5 tions of fmport to motorists will come s small amounts of gasoline. Accord- Ing to the bureau of public roads this fact is shown by tests conducted by i'rof. T. R. Agg of Jowa State College tn co-operation with the bureau un- der the auspices of the National Re- search Couneil. i The tests were made primarily to! diacover the effect of various kinds of highway surfacing material and different grades on gasoline con- $5,500 in Fines. LADY'S CAR, L2 , Minneapolis® (Minn.) seven motor e el Founders Pledge 2,000 Members, ) . cycle policemen nette e city a i " S et Change of Gear on Hill One of | pTont or at lcast 330,000 during”the 7 i 274 and Strides Are Made To Congress of Motorists” Will 1922 riding season, now drawing to ; i Siisess . 3 a close. { ward Success. ¢ Instances Susceptible of S = Octobaralonaitiioy rrested | ; f ! i Take Office on 245 speeders, who paid a total of 2 { Economy. $5.500 in fines. Each motor cop costs An entirely new system of automo- | March 4. o the city onan !‘l‘;;ra“r;n:lth :fl:r- bile club organization has been in-! 5 month, counting Eiboen $10 2 month for gasoline, $3 a month troduced at Cleveland, Ohio, by the | - i Here 1s a suggestion to motorists | for ofl, and repairs and depreciation Cleveland Motor Club Company, which| A congress of motorists wul Tahe for the saving of gasoline which may | on their machines. Seven times 3300 is sponsoring the Cleveland Motor |office at Washington on March 4 next 5 nglelany’s | 12, $L400. T The faevén jcopsiduring Club, & new A. A. A. organization,| That this, broadly speaking, will be be £mall in amount for @ sing October profited the city almost ex- 1 Club. s mem s A A O e ey mweh s = drive, but which will be worth while | actly $4.100 at this rate. Jjust formed, it was learned today. 2 Y 'ormation as i« n a year's driving. The common To make the showing better, Lieut. / The plan of operation differs from |the partiality for the automobile show: practice-of waiting to shift gears on | Nelson pointed out, during three / any ever attempted in the United |bY those holdovers and newly-elected cticene months this s x - hills until the car has almost come t0 | men were kept off the streets much (== States. The Cleveland Motor Club ;“:mbfl" :t the nadfmal Sen'l_te .n,d a stop is one of the causes of waste of | of the time, ready for emergency / =f i Company is composed of 100 founders, | House of Representatives who will make calls during the raflroad strike. = up the Sixty-eighth Congress. A bis = majority of the members are owners o motor cars. But few if any of those who were chosen in the recent elections (AT < ) members have aleady been obtained. | o7 s William J. Raddatz is president ot | 17 for &itenfion, With the members 1 the new club, Charles E. Cole is first | perience with the problems suggested b Trafic Innovation Will Be Tried = : = vice president, Charles F. Biegrist is | automobile tazation. lack of uniformity Sumpclone’ Hidhe, feonchiston ithY ; ) 2 > second vice president, Lucius W. Da- | i highway regulations. and the incor - reference to faulty driving is merely | Out on Baltimore vk 2 3 e Yisis thira wice president, E. T.|leniences and dangers of poor roads :ncidental to the tests, but it is onme Lines . 2 % E A - BP24 . |Shannon is treasurer and A. H. Fie. | mhe aoensor of @ Sare! dd:“,‘e::':}'.,',z,’ which will mean a small saving to, nes. 7/ o4 Z = bach is secretary. The directors of | (o S0, %P1 5300 Poads lekisialion every man who drives a car if the : 3 {the club are all men of equal promi- | tion at all times. advice of the bureau is heeded. Special Dispatel: to The Star. ] / 9 {7780 tar as T know. this Is the first | poce Tvine mt o fistance. mEr e su The vehicle used in the tests were| BALTIMORE, December 9.—"Stop” 4 time 1n the history of the automobile | mobile in traveling batwetn iheir hameos equipped with an ingenious devioe | LSS T street cars =2 A club organization that a number of {and the National Capitol and in avail. which makes a continuous record of A ‘wealthy men have gotten together|ing themselves of it 4 g he Sasoline consumed as the vehicle |13 to be the latest innovation in Bal- = and virtually underwritten the first ' weekoend trips to ,.,':';';,‘:‘;":g'",,f,'”,','}‘ which makes a simultaneous record | Anpnouncement was made by Herbert executive chairman of the American | Penrose of Pennsvivania. :he big red . i 2 = A o> Y/ - iar rigl to thousands f TSONS for the tests and the esact grades of | United Railways and Electric Com- 7 7, ! course, highly pleased to welcomea | throughout the eastern DL prEso moves over the road and another |timore. A i IZ,ODO members,” said M. O. ridge. During the life of the late Senator Bolse ucks and automobiles, were then = n states, trese sections were determined. T""l'a.ny. that a full equipment of the lat- 77 N ! this new organization into the ranks The prevalence of automobile owners Apecially equipped _vehicles, both [ (XML Rt B0 SRS TS e been %57, \§ b . 2/ ) of the A. A. A. and we are contident |in the National Congress is true like- that within another year ~we will | wise doubtiess of the membership of the riven over the various sections, tak- jsecured, and that within a short time .o~ 1have one of the strongest clubs in {ory-th staie legislatures whicl ing the records of the gasoline con-|the light system will be tried out on G {Ohio at Cleveland. The organiza-|meet earls he new vear, and 13 sumption and speed with the two in- |, h Hisa: Cfl— 2. tion of the Cleveland Motor Club|same fellow-feeling which should insur: truments described. - Several trips| ‘%o OF three car line 122, b MermeaTins Nesopmow Suder 23] !gives us a fourth club in Ohio, the | motorists proper treatment at Washing were made over each section, and the | If the experiment proves successful rate of fuel consumpticn and epeed n"‘?cln‘!?g to regulate tratfic automati- ally. other three heing the Cincinnati Au- ‘mn should guarantee it for them in the for each trip were plotted on a graph v. Flowers stated, all cars in tomobile Club, the Youngstown Auto- | different state legislative bodie: B and will even wear out spark plugs at|ammeter reads eizht amps before the | mobile Club and the Toledo Automo- ! ‘the profile or grade of the road. | the city will be equipped with the o b s = 5 s ile_Club. H : diagrams that show the | safety-stop light. o 7ato of one to evers thousand milee? | gears will mesh quietly fn ‘high. “Our activities at Cleveland have | Use Lights to Horn. 3 ; ° Uneven compression can be located by | S5 s - : ¢ ehifting of the gears| Xo lonzer will motorists and pedes- tomting. oach” csiinder. opening. all the| *Then you're goin’ up hill and want | prevented us from organizing a new ! <.0u14 the horn o “dead” so S arimot et e L o o e un a other pet cocks and cranking by hand. | to shift to ‘second’ you know that the | club in Maryland up to the present!nizh¢ Lere is a suggestion that mav Variance of Instruction. oen mome 16 il onls Do e - If the compression is unusually“low or | motor has got to go abut twice as|iime. bt we hope to go into theisave a trip to the police station o: Txact instructions for the most |to look on the car and to sce what {high In any one cylinder the matter|fast in order to make the shift. Sup- | S\°F, SI%C 1%, (0Fce mmediately fthe hospital. When approachins wconomio driving will vary with the | colored light 15 shinins. fust as on the An Abridged Magazine for Car Owncrs. | ehould be attended to without delax. |55, vou want to shift at eighteen. street crossings switch on the head- make of tha car or tru but the | automabi A red light will flash S T AT lights for an stant. Any dri i 10 i 4 All vou've got to do is speed up the + i = follawing peinter valuc to!whenever the car is “stopping” or Fo ment. H b v 2 The test of greatness is being im-|proceeding along foliowingnpol | Shenbver e esTiis Saonping e ‘ood for Argu i motor_when You pass through ‘meu-|portant enouzh 1o make 4 jot of | Kireet will see it—and slow down, Ju In ascendinz 't wait unt'l [to indicate when the power is on and EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN Advocates of the reincarnation the- L - =p money by writing fiemoirs~Canton jas he would had you sounded your 1o 1a E to a lower | the car in motion Al MA: | ory might be interested to know that (Continued on Eighth Pagc.) New! norn n'the very city where a million sou u do vou will not only | “Itis a very good idea, T think, : 5 hes il E ax w in explaining the light 3 " = T T oy ... lcans were discarded a million au m TR ST TN m s : “Bi flashing the ‘stop’ and 'go’ lights| NO one altempts more W adflcevh;\\ drivers realize ;_nn they are gq‘my | mobiles were stamped out. U T WTHTFTRVRTITI \‘ gasoline. on l}:- cars motorists can make no |concerning the motor car and its u!e':‘h"p‘:r:\':fi:‘lg:;l hro’;]‘:“;"l‘:;f:l'n;h"‘slen"; — The accompany rt shows the | mistake about whether the car they ‘ : Yy 3 dlights o - . ramate ot oo ot s ore ton truckc | are following intends o stop. and man) than the man who/niever cwned o snoihecicastinsteaniohatonning onalon) The Old Mechanic Says: n one trip the gears were shifted jaccidents m: be avoided. It seems N - 3 L 40 1¢ b “See some one’s patented a device ¥ 2 tpeed of ten ‘miles an hour and |to be a very simple system. the lights Outdriving the Lights. sumption that since nothing was in the | 2 Ed I “m = e on the other at a speed of five miles)flashing red when the current is off | g onoo oSl 0t oy oo | WAy when vision was imipaired nothing | that tells a driver when he oug| n hour. The rate of gasoline con-:and green when the current is on. 3 jcouid be in the way. Lut a difference | gnift gears. The jigger gives the sumption is indicated by the size of | ‘““We are equipping two of our car | finu that he is doing something extreme- | of a few seconds often proves the fal-| revolutions per minute and the miles the cans which represent the amount | lines with the lights first to see just|ly dangerous. Sometimes he dmsn't\my of this dangerous reasoning. per hour, so that all the driver has tn ; GRAY BREAKS WORLD’S RECORD £ . of fuel ured in each sectinn of 300 | ROW the system works out. Ican seeno | diccover the truth untll he has had a ! — ! do is wait for the indicators to match Averages 33.8 Miles Per Gallon T6ot &’ the snecdometers w the |Teason why ‘h-‘llrghla should ngé’;;m\‘- s it e i G Did You Know— and then shift. Don’t know 1usth)m:\- s F = N Y k B o - | highly satisfactory as an additional . which wa er- | v ion works, or wheth- aristion Feceein el | mat v E it b anireme | o SoiSntzaptoni e an Francisco to New Yorl <uction can be made in the 4.000,00 ©00 lons of gasoline consumed cach year. That the chain which invariabiy drags | with the gears in neutral, they’ the economy of the | S4fety device for the publi (tain motorist who recently learned that er it would be practical. but while _— g iving” his headlights. all the power which the engine expends | we're waliting for it to find a way to i, ] trips over the same| e wac ioutgrlvie his headlie! in compressing them? 1t is an inter- | the market I'm showing all my cus- :0g 4,519 Tailes from coast to coast, the This was an official test run, Girected through 1 with a truck haying | The point of this practice is that the | gz fact. The camshaft has to lift | tomera how they can use the amme- Gray stock car has sct a new officlal rocord. 2ut by the American Automobile Aszociati It of a little over four driver constantly drives under the as-'each valve and compress a epring at | ter to help them in shifting. proving its economy on every sort of road Every detafl of the Grav's sensational per- Sithe sicrage snoedivwas approct sumption that the safety revealed by the same time, but when the Jab is over | -Nine-tenths of the jnb of shifting Mountains, desert trails and deep mud were formance is certified by this recognized the same in hoth ecases. In the range of his headiights extends into the spring in cxpanding and pushing | gears is in knowin' abou: how fast encountered, as well as city streets and broad authority. was at that portion of his path which is mot |down the valve and its tappet actually | vour motor's running. Some drivers highways. Its record of 53.8 miles per gallon And it was etrictly a steck car—just such a o rate of 1.2 miles ner zallon and in lll;l)r:x'xr;\s;te% bs;“lh;‘ "zr"uu lIf m’- -::nfser | exerts a force upon the camshaft which | try to shift ‘down'—from ‘high’ to ot t:solfno unflerlhh?s; c?ndnn:nu isb_aln a;hlta\'e- car as we can show vou today. other 3.5 miles per zallon. with his headlights two hundred feet | tends to revolve it. This force is equal | ‘second'—when the engine is idling, ment never paralleled in automobile histors. Neith tatel Riot i dee. Shcerning ahead he drives as though he could see |to tho force exerted by the enging in ' and, of course, it can’ . It establishes a new standard of performance Tr?' the Gray yourself. See how evonemic (driving w considerable’ re- &:fl}"fifidkflrfigtgcfflfi ur;ed reasons, compressing the sprine. after they've been and efficiency. this economy car meets your needs n 11 the chances are all's well up to flveluong on the ground from the frama of | to shift back into ‘high’ without gi T - R hundred. * ies in the portion | [7G,30tomoblle gasoline tank wagon fa | Ing the englne proper spced. All ouring—! ster 4 . . su: e danger lies in the portion |a safety device and not an oversight of | you've got to remember is to hav Thirty Lines, Covering 625 e of the path which is outside the actual | the drivers? Through vibration and | the speed of the engine in proper pro- range of vision. The driver sees the |friction static electricity is generated in | portion to the speed of the car. You i Miles of State Roads, Big |da"ser, the moment it appears within|the tank wagon, and. unless this s car- | know, for instance, that if the car is ! € H0QUS, BIJ |the range of vision, but as he has been | ried off and grounded a spark is likely | traveling at twenty-five the engine - traveling at a speed necessitating a five- | to diacharge across a gap of gas vapor |must be spinning fast enougn to make { Freight Factor hundred-foot range he is powerless to|and blow the truck to pieces. the ammeter needle register, let us ; . - javold the danger. ¥ | That excessive compressior in any |say, eight amperes. Well, then, if vou All Prices F.O.B. Detroit | poOutdriving” the headlights is one of jone cylinder of a car will frequently | are coasting along in ‘neutral’’vou've & R £ e | the commonest hazards in motoring, vet | create the equivalent of a piston slap | got to speed up the engine till the - | Special Dispateh to The Star. _—m 1 ——— BALTIMORE, December 2.—Motor t Tuesday night. the|trucks, in thé past few vears, have| - ter term ciasses of the service|bccome an important factor in the| ® «1aszes are being held in the Semmes| There are trucks with a carrying 3100 14th St. N.W. 1419 Irvmg St. N.W. Motor Company auditorium, at 613 G |capacity of 240,000 pounds making Phone Col. 3007 Phone Col. 4467 from three to six trips a week each | way over thirty different routes that every Tuesday for twelve weeks. The|cover about 625 miles of Maryland's ‘ludes detailed fnstructions | state roads. transporting‘all kinds of & all the small routine re- |light nad heavy freight, from milk pairs necessary to keep a car in good | to machinery, and from dry goods to running order, as well as “trouble | tobacco, the weekll’y lo(‘al antmdtaunlius ahooting” and descriptive moving pic- { {7y 25 AT 43680 be estimated, some- tures. modities, which means more than An unusua! opportunity is afforded | 65,000 tons yearly, and would fill a the owner to really learn something | frelght train two and a half miles about the car, since no charge is made | 10D The Nationally Famous ! schedule, nineteen run directly into T o aeaing e risinies | Baltimore from different parts of the oy owners evers day. ave piad | state, or connect in such a manner as give their time to spread the [to reach this city. These lines are homledge of how to care for the | between Baltimore and Rutlege, Bal- -ar. This is the only school of its "T‘"; ;ntd é’rlinco Freg:j-l‘ck. to be y LR L G O A i S el The constantly increasing number of HOOD TIRE enthusiasts in the i Baltis d E: G Balti: Jati 1 1 H H jori e bt X | ore. audl Menoe Balfoyore: aui National Capital is substantial evidence of the superiority of these famous o ; ving | Q tow d Denton, via by bt H R 5 e = Pictuce: Blo “Bndurancer which de | Baltimore and Butler, Baitimore and tires. Equipped with HOODS and your tire troubles are over—easy rid- niots unusual operating conditions in | Taylor, Baltimore and Olney, via Elli. ing; long wearing, economical. the Burkburnett oil fields of Louisi- [cott City; Baltimore and Hereford, HOOD CORD PRICES~ -ana, where it is said that there is,Baltimore and Chestertown and Bet. more mud to the square mile than|terton, via Philadelphia boat; Balti- anywhere else in the world. This|more, Chesapeake City and Elkton, _ The prices of these tires are comparable to those of vastly inferior quality. Here we offer the best tire i value, backed by strict guarantee, on the market today. s e other lines run into Washing- : : brakes form a necessary part of this[y;; from points outside of that oits, M S B, Haviland, director of the | some of them being on the Potomac In addition to these regular lines, Z there are a large number of concerns 33X4 . forty gallons of gasoline and five | business will not fall far short of zallons _ f oil. _total expense for|those making regular schedules 35x5 m,oo facl, $1570: mechanieal repair. $¢-|within Maryland, ealisieRlol siielsaRaioRe ool G e crand total. $19.70. Some economical transportation over 3,368 miles of Delivery Sleag Heutes. work, where speed was the essential | That.the motor truck haa come to = 5 toreaa for. but this trip scross was to | stay as & feature of transportation 1s The Home of Minute Service! prove the rell.lbl]lti and economy of | evident from the fact that the lines = The little machine he rode. That he [have increased in number recently Alm is shown to each class which |via Philadelphia boat; Baltimore and Si. Price school, has announced that all Dodge [ Fiver. as well as covering the eastern 1zes 1 S { lains, deserts, through| These regular lines have headquar- o M s N oge EET T a"and snow. Baker 15 a larwe jaun | tora in Baitimore and tho other end inter Motoring Necessities . did a good job is proved by the above | 2nd their business is said to be stead- B ° ~ = Authentic figures. His riding time was | {ly _growing. ~ The rallroads have = =L : ay complained of this competition, and as = street northwest. Classes will run from § to 9:30 p.m. Open Evenings and Sundays Dealers Wanted in Maryland and Virginia 00000t T il Ml Capitol Gasoline Station Announces Standard Benzol Gasoline — S JL_ At 26¢ Per Gallon We wish to announce that we have added to our line o1 FILTERED 'GASOLINE STANDARD BENZOL GASOLINE, the popular gasoline of Baltimore,” manufactured by the STANDARD OIL COMPANY. This product is a pure standard filtered gasoline blended with benzol, so your know what that means—the best of all motor fuels. You have tried the rest, now buy the best. If you want easy starting, more power and mo- tor free from carbon, then fill your tank with STANDARD REXNZOI. BLEND and notice the difference. NOTICE Sy Make this your headquarters for your gasoline and good oils. We change oils every day from 7:30 AM. to 9:30 P.M., and when you ask for Mobile oil pr any other good oil remember you will get what you call for. If it is good oil we have it. Inferior grades of oils are not handled = ALCOHOL Our prices are right for alcohol for your radiators, and don't | will get the best service tn the city. Open every day from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. CAPITOL GASOLINE STATION Foot of Capitol Grounds 1st St. and Maryland Avenue S.W. I * casesescssnacs W. G. (commonly known as “Can-|that do not run machines on regular si0nball”) Baker of Indianapolis has | schedule, but do ll sorts of hauling 34x st arrived at Los Angeles from New | throughout the state, as well as into Considerable stress is lald on safe- | and Dorseys Corners, Baltimore and ty precautions in operating the car|Glenwood and Baltimore and Sykes- Yosdm;k‘e the sn;r.(! fs“el‘;-) n;r!thl ville, . estrian well as for e driver. Proper lubrication and adjustment of Nines Ints Washington. 2. Decemher 5, at 8 o'clock. shore are under one management and - cover a large portion of that section S e of the state, the business being so 3lx4 524.50 "CANNONBALL BAKER” l" extensive that this concern has its 4 own motor boat to carry freight be- ~ TRIP ACROSS COUNTRY |S535 Daltimors and the other side 32x4 . casia ) o 3 : .-$21.50 _ e > .. $36550 York, crossing the continent on a | Virgin ennsylsania, New Jersey, lightweight motor cycle of 13% cublc|and even to pointa in northern New 33x5 mjo inch piston displacement, consuming | York, and it is estimated that their @8 s s s s s sssssrseae 0 ds and this performance is a|Well as deliver, freight at given . Bcs. wintecoils he s = H -l:ve'y:t"sfin of what the small motor | points along their routes, the people Best grafie of alcohol, .hood and ra@lato; cove;‘tsl, auto rol s(’)u intero filteat:h_m | cycle can do. llnlr‘aufor Baker has ffl’:fl&.‘,h:nfm' g:n;:: t:';r}:".-}“;f fact, everything the motorist negds during the col season:l.' riple-filtéred pure = sed an ool O P wenrey | ments accordingiy. gasoline, makes for quick starting in cold weather, Try it! Jjoins the owners’ school. Blencig, Baltimore and Eldersburg Brothers car owners and their friends | shore and western part of the state. i S e | e B B TR 30x3%................514.00 physically, weighing not less than |Of their routes, but they pick up, as miles per gallon of gasoline, 84.4. This | Atlantic and Maryland, Delaware and brings his average cost for transpor- Virginia roads have suffered consid- 3 5 %) 5 ti; ip to 8. erably from the inroads made on s Nw Ed E. Mgr M Ao for te e D s oL s | their business. This condition has l7fll LSts. N.W.. W. ly . ain 1394 1 i - {been very seriously discussed by long long "n”'m 1.;:::;‘ is very en AN eactanalyndine by, thusiastio welgh! ' jeyel predicts fte great popularity in | find & solution of the problem, with- ;I S Q:A::rafuture. 1 = " out any definite result. : i