Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 78

"8 MOTORISTS LURED - BY NEW ENGLAND . Scenic Wonders There At- i tract Increased Number of Tourists Each Year. Every touring season finds an in | creasing number of Washington mo- tomsts visi 3 Tew England {turesque mountains, sant panorama of stre: v ke, forest, ‘rolling farm I ed coas this section of the country wins the | Mountain range ihe route traverses | Peru’ Mountain Pass soon after leav: ing Manchester. A succession of | typical “ermont villages, bearing such | Old World names as Londonderry, | Chester and Springfield, are passed until at Guild Mills the bridge over | the Connecticut River is crossed and | the State ew Hampshire entered. Thence we proceed in a northerly | direction through North Charlestown to Claremont. and east through Kel- leyville, Newport and Guild to Suna- pee on the lake of the same name. “After leav: Sunapee the route leads thro h mountain, lake and viver scenery toward the White | Mountains by way of Cilleyville, Dan- ury Village and Bristol, past’ New- | founa 4 West Plymouth and Plymouth. Our route, almost due north, ascends the Valley of the Pemigewasset and leads into the heart of the Franconia Mountains, the scenery becoming more and more im pressive as we g on. Unbroken forest prevails for some dist: shut- ting the more extensive views from our sight, but occ onal gl.mpses of mountain peaks indicate the presence J John Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1925—PART 3. ohn Smith and His Car BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. He not selfish; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. No. 115 — Handling Hydraulic Brakes. In an march of takes a comes out. in discovering that many of the new cars he hydraull new dej though t back Smith brakes to a point where he looked up | inders, a friend to philosopher and mathematician. equipped. Together they studied the brakes in an effort to see how they could use them to best advantage. This led to more intimate acquaintance with the Pascal discovery that a pres- sure applied to a liquid contained in a vessel, tube or tank is transmitted with the same force in all directions. partures in brake control, | He was much impressed by the fact he principle of the thing dates | that, since the pressure, or force, Pascal, the 17th century |reaching the cylinder that actuated the band of each wheel was equal to that reaching the other, three cyl- the brakes would operate evenly. He could see that with four- | wheel brakes of ad- effort to keep abreast of the f motordom Smith invariably ride in every new model that turally, he was not long tried were equipped with c brakes, one of the decidedly became interested in the new who had purchased a car so perts that they are the superior type, but here Smith revealed the fruits of his experience as a motorist. “Everything has its weak points,” he’'said. “I think you'can make your brakes an even greater success if you will learn these weak points and un- derstand how to compensate for them The best of car features can be spolled by carelessness on the part of the driver.” The owner of the car with the new type of brakes began thinking of what appeared to him to be something ap- proximating trouble with his brakes and suddenly recalled that where there were extreme changes in temperature the brakes varied a little in their ef- ficlency. A drop of 20 or 30 degrees in temperature, for instance, caused con- siderable play in the pedal. Like play in a mechanically operated brake sys- tem, this meant that he had to push his foot further down to the floor board before the brakes took hold. Studying the Brake Fluid. ““This may be due to contraction of the brake fluid,” Smith suggested. pect {o get best results from your e gine if you tried to start it, after a drop in the temperature, without us- Ing the choker. “Another thing 1 suspect is that you are not careful to see that you have filling the lines to a point where there is no play in the brake pedal. If the plunger does not seat properly there is Boing to be leakage back into the re- serve tank so that it will be necessary to pump up the brakes more frequent- ly than should be the case. 1'd be careful, however, not to make the plunger too tight, because, like spark plugs, you have to figure on loosening them again.” ““You talk as though you knew some- thing about hydraulic brakes,” Smith's friend commented. “I know this much,” plained simple that you're likely to make some equally simple mistakes motorist with my experience can't tackle a new subject like this without recalling the many foolish mistakes I made with far more complicated me- |chan! 1 features. Smith ex- screwed down the plunger tightly after | “The whole business is so| You know a | notice any diffevence. wouldn't run to the opposite and try to build up pressure to encour- age the fluid to force its way througk the wheel-cylinder or back into the re- | serve tank. Your hydraulic instryc-| tion book tells you to hold the plunge |loose for a minute after pumping and | before screwing down tightly. This is | |to allow excess of fluld in the lines and master cylinder to work back into the | reserve tank. | “I know enough about hydraulics to |know that you simply need to keep the lines filled. Your foot does the actual | pressure work when you are in proc ess of stopping. “Another thing I notice is that you keep pushing on the brake pedal when | you want to stop quickly. That is waste of effort. You're not working | the brake bands by hurling the fluid | {into the cylinders. It's a matter of | | pressure. T you hold your foot down |as hard as you can, the maximum | band. It won't do a bit of good to re- lease your foot and jam it down again, "’ Smith was actually surprised at his | tach | Though the dent may pressure is being exerted at each brake | .. . HOW TO REMOVE DENTS: Directions Given for Repairs With Hose and Mallet. tank is difficult to ppens to be in t can be reached - inserted in the filler open- a small dent is of no conseque: a large dent may be so unsightly that its removal may be de 1. The following method will give good results. provided the dent is 1 near the corner, where the beading may make removal difficult. First fill he tank to the top with water. Then, fter disconnecting the fuel line, &t an air hose carrying about 20 pounds pressure to the fuel line con nection. Then tap lightly with & # mallet around the edges of the dent not be entire will at least unless position tha remc suct by ing art_of the touring motorist where equality + Berkshires, the White Mountains.of nearby ranges. » Vermont and Maine are becoming Franconia Notch Narrow Defile. wmore and more familiar to motorists ; becau. of the improved routi “Beyond West Campton and Thorn New nd itory ton the narrow defile of Franconia 4 Notch is entered at North Woodstock. Auto Club Outlinés Tow A side road leaas to the Flume, which Automobile Club is well worth a \isit, and is easi ap- describes a toue throug proached by the path, which is re. land, sta its ted to pedestrians and horse In New wn vehicles “On As the Not tour follows the road, |.rocky profile of the historic higl the | Mountain' is noted shortly heart of southern end of the days' 82-mile run mediately the “The next day’'s run to Crawford Notch vamble of only miles, but the opportunity to ling 1ther | day amid such surroundin, will be “But I don’t see why that should wor- ry you. Why don’t you lift the hood and pump the plunger of the reserve tank of the system before starting out | after the temperature has changed? 1 think a fine braking system like this | Judging from the number of cars|deserves at least that much attention using hyd lic brakes, Smith and his |from the driver, especially since he is|fluid in the system. I'd give the plun- friend assumed t s some- | not obliged to fuss with brake rod and |ger a few extra pumps. Then when it hing in the argument of many ex- band adjustments, You wouldn't ex- turned cold, venture to say, you = own knowledge of the system, and even more surprised at his ability to work out new problems sensibly. (Copyright. 1925.) | justment is essential, the basic theory hydraulics obviated a multitude of difficulties. miles from New York. | Learn Brakes' Weak Pois Sensitive to Temperature. “or instance, if I found that the |brakes were unreasonably sensitive to |drops in temperature I should assume |that T was riding with not enough thence across the line into New York | State and through Westchester Coun- ty to Bedford, Mount Kisco and Briar- cliff Manor, | A ple: nt morning’s run may now be taken through the Watershed district, reaching New York by any one of the | Ix leading south | s. , = Forty-seven prize winning cattle were recently taken from America to Hawali in an effort to improve dairy farming there. he price must be cut $ 5 9 5 but lwant one of these| . new features ncluded!” Such was the President’s order. RESULT? A new- day automobile. A light-car classic. A car-of-tomor- row at a price unbelievable until today. A full-size 5-passenger Sedan, with sliding-gear transmission, for less than $600 —for the first time in all history. L' The New Eng headquarters ¥ City on Post rn Yo leaving is ascended, ‘the The Old Man in the before the our Bo: -y founded instz from which were days. Rye, for recommendation the heart White Mount and _some well be devoted to exploring ting the places hborhood. miles separates Poland Spring, Our route of the Tug- through the hant's Head e Cascade, with its From Stratto rou t fall, and the Silver Cascade, a leaving the Bo alt of whose 9vu-foot fail is visible follawing the road. The route then pro 1 River to Shelton. We then <h Bemis, Bartlett and the crosy the bridge to_Derby and follow cd hamlet of Intervale, to the the Naugatuck River through a very e boundary at Fryeburg, in the countr 8 Valley. Continuing east, with he city nt looming in the far dis from our star Louz Lake comes in sight. and cnient \ br ples, with Se: i o stretching away to the most attract «d on this day's ~one of the mos of New Engiand. ins south from Poland al Maine country {o the coast of Portland, the largest city in Maine, finely situated on a hilly peninsula projecting into Casco Bay no les: time ma the mountains and vi of interest in the ne “A distance of 80 Notch from objective point firs route, is Nor- the New I rich in folk wi Pequot mouth Stra sti gland town a Revolutiona ed the f War: Bridge of Pequonnock busy manu zers tha 89 mil stopping bury es > cross procee: northward Naugatuck Valley toward yond Waterv clock manu the e o resort Jur route Spring throu Burrville or that via N Beyond Norfolk the wwings west to Canan, turnir again _along the Housaton P2 the Massachus Ast ‘alls, v and Winstec uth route north River line a Norfolk Last Town on Maine Route. Ve run along the coast to Kittel the last town on our route to Maine. e then cross the Piscataqua River, which forms the State line, to Al’l)l‘(fl- mouth, in New Hampshire. We run through Portsmouth to the coast re sort of New Castle, 84 miles from Po- | \d Spring, which marks the end of day’s run Cext day Tye Beach, Hampton and attractive seaside resorts are oute to the Massachusetts - { boundary at Salisbury. Newburyport, ks | [pswich and several other places rich | in memories of olden days mark the “Cressing over the Vermont line, | route to Salem. The route is then fol- Bennington recalls the bitter strug-|jowed south to Lynn and Chelsea into gle of the Green Mou boys for | Boston. independence. | .eaving Boston, we pass through "At Manchester, Sudbury, famous for its old tavern, ox Mountain, immortalized by Longfellow's ‘“Tales comes to an end W ag £ « Wayside Inn’; Worcester, on the 134 from Waterbury. Here the mo. stone River, with handsome torist may rest a day two in the | streets and public buildings is next ple; nt Old World vi taking | y ed. The route runs south to the opportunity to enjos ngfield, on the Connecticut River. view from the 3,800-foot elevation of | Rich valley country is traversed until uinox Mount: | we reach Hartford. where the route om Manchester to Lake Sunapee | strikes west and pursues a somewhat fs a comparatively short run of winding course, passing through sev- miles, but it passes through interest- | eral attractive villages to Waterbury. ing country, not unlike the north of | On leaving Waterbury the Nauvjpatuck Treland or western Scotland, with its [ Valley is followed through Woodbury tree-clud hills_ and old-fashioned | and the Housatonic Valley to Dan- farmsteads. Through the Green bury, through western Connecticut; AN INVITATION TO ATTEND The Formal Opening Week of Wardman-Justice Mstors, Ine. 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