The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1914, Page 5

toe out.” To Drive “What. You Want to Know “About Your Auto and How It and Keep It caNSpert Advice How te Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly A | ; 0.H. ROBERTSON. enough for a vehicle to pase either and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Treublee— Traftic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. UTOMOBILE owners should now equip their maci skiddiag devices as a precaution against the uncertain weather aud ‘travelling conditions that are bound to extet for the next few | °° g@etths. Non-shid tires are a necessity, not only on the rear but on the * WHR non- front also. The car must met only be stopped when necessary, but the direction or steering of the machine properly controfied. Ohaias ate o good preventive of skidding, and for best results ehould be weed on all four wheels, A non-skid tire is o good insurance againet accidenta at all times, espectally when @ driver meets a dlosk or two of pavement which has fast been watered. Traffic conditions on Kast Siatieth Btreet between Third and Park Ave- nues are at present bed for motor- ists, The street itself is somewhat narrow, end beehuse of the many wagons backed to the east curb near! Third Avenue % provides just room one way or another, It éometimes happens that one or more wagons will be stopped against the sorth curb, thus making it next to impossible for traffic to continue until the tangle fe Undone. It should be « rule of the Traffic Department at this peint to pre veut any vehicl: landing at the north side of the street. Tho crossing at Lexington Avenue and Sixtieth Street is in very poor condition. Street entrance to the Park at Fifth .., It would be well for drivers of cars to use extreme catition at (hi f point because of the hauling of dirt and debris from the subway. Caution should also be exercised when approaching the Fifty-niath Avemué while trivelling south. Be- causeof the construction of buildinga at this place it is hard to see any- tafag or anybody that approaches that corner of these buildings. ANSWERS TO LETTERS. Autsthodile Editor. Dafa sa] Kindly uaswer the follow- ing: What is the diffculty in starting alr-cooled motot and how over- come? What are the differences in con- @truetion in high and low tension Magnetos and what are the featutes of each? What care is necessary to Led the valves in es order; how would you bo gel to that valves are in time, what are the causes of valves Betting. out of time? Give list of touls, supplies and extra gasoline this time of the | rte you would consider to] Will you kindly let’ me know or bor ry i an automobile in general| Publish the beat route to follow from RR? New York to, Philadelphia? Any information that you ‘ re able to give me in regard té the New York, cross Forty-second questions will be appreciated very| Street ferry, climk hill tq Hudsen much. +d. J... W. [County Boulevard, proceed to New: coe start| ark, Elizabeth, Rahway, xo jon, jown, nlogs it tp very sold, te i ‘SFrenton’ to White tte Bordentown, Seuneee Mount “ing With a little raw gaseline will help| Folly, town, Camden, erece ferry to phia. 2 eat ia neo ty for the proper prc Me Mest oe a sep: T magneto Late wirite Ieoout 200 turns of medium gauge covered with a double layer of ingaiating material. The wiring of thig.type le very sim: « igh tension magneto, in addition to the primary wiring, has the induc- poend: aneary wiring wound directly ‘autrent ytirough the primary ing throu im wit 1g induces a hi our- in the secondary. urrent then passes through the cendenser, where the current pressure is in- creased, This current is then dis- tributed through the timing deviee te yt meg should be taken out and wy three or four thousand re h grease ‘ean A small can of bot! Cipmed all ip essential, to; er ‘ a k pl ind ibly a oes renciths ator tod “ ‘and exhaust. je Battor: ire that wi some mileage AR. KATZEMMAYER. Will write you and yeu my ree ia, me know the best road ‘ork Central Railroad at eee See = ‘wihomodite Editor: to Dover Plains vis R. HL enct on Main Sti i rect erence ad fe four nd Tae tyen loti than crese R.A. into Lal twain Milbrock, turn right to laine. Baie! tel] nie the new Garage tome Tota of New York and New , and where I can obtain a copy e? Y. 8. ‘ New York laws rem Themes ds Ahearns State Fire ‘ at Albany, N.Y. 4 jerecy lawe will be issued by sthe Otte Fire Marehal at Trenten, automobile Bditer: Kindly advise me the moat aimpll- fied method in circulating the horse power of an automobile correctly? » When will the next Auto Bhow be \"s ip New York? iE. M. abt, P. 25. O—Diameter of piston. of de: I a Mitenell car, Ker lately it jakea a terrible racket on second Could the cause be is the care ome ene bureter, which is a Stromberg? Th i second speed will not be caused the rbereee i" jer runs all rij he. A forky, meter mi bined a little noise in ever seco and cee if ¢! ood a file, Lack ‘etrisetlon wil this noise. Also when a car runs be. cortain wilt yond a mi get a natural nels Would advice you to take it to the Mitehell service Station, where you will reseive first clase treatment. Autemtoite ititor: 2 Can you let me know where I can obtain a book with the questions and answers in relation to automobiles. GRENHORN. The oy gee Bt oe refer te ie the i Aid to Autelst. Vou can secure this book at the Secretary of State's office in thie city. Automobile Editor: ‘Will you let me know how I am to tighten the bearings of a Pope Hart- ford 1907 model automobile? Also how tight they should be. WILLIAM Weuld adivee you te take the en- ine metor apart and make jeb Bathe ‘Bearings chevia. Be tight ene" Soation bet’ net enought any ' vent a free swing of the red. Automobile Rditor: Kindly recommend a bile school where f{ can and repair an auto? to pre- od automo. rn to drive the grade of oll ic poor or |. GRIFFITH. uh, the heads ef the ti 4 Ai tee erooniaed and. the| , There are two or three goed schools robabl; ted. They sheuld| in town here where you can secure are 4 ei ed up. The ply this instruction. If you will forward wreel te Md ly marked for the vaive|me yeur addrese | will cord you these ing and clesing. Otherwise a rod | names. rough the Geek to the head of | Antamobile Editor: the nm will hy . Wear will] Kindly tell me what maken of race- put theese valves abouts will be exhibited at the Auto- There kite 0 mobile Show at Grand Central Pal- el ses which inelude every: | ace? " need in addition te the 9P¢-| 14 is » trifle early to find aut just ‘slat Tsle given by the manufacturer | what medele there will be at the show. ft u something definite in a oe es —_—_—~_———- NUTS TO MAKE A BIG NOISE. Yorkv' re to Held 5 The Nuts, hundreds of them, of ail descriptions, will make noise enough tonight to scare all the squirrels in ral Park. It he night fer the. Organisation Yorkville Original Nuts to hold their annuel ball at the Yorkville Casino, and ‘as Yorkville in full of Nute there ts to be a grand emblage present. ‘This ts a strictly charity af Her- man Mueller, the Chief Nut, and Frank Frits, Assistant Chief Nut, will be on the job as greeters. President John J. Hogan will ke assisted by Thomas 1. Meehan, Floor Manager; Fred May, Floor Director; John B. Moberts, Chair- man of Arrangements Somamisies Fra +» Chairman Floor Tren ethe: Henry Hott, Chairman of Entertainment Committee; William Van bi 3 an of Reception Com- mittee, and Charles Bushkemper, Chair- bi th ont candidates who won out wail 8 those who t fall, as thought they had @ chance to win, will be present. —___— Fears Madness, Sheets Self, Menry Phillips, = cigar salesman, for- ty-seven years old, conducting a fur- nished reoming house with his wife at No, 308 West One Hundred and Twen- |eyetnird Street, to-day shot himeeit in ieee ster oro es ene time had a ptore Farvaty-toiee aireets but Np an seepunt (4 Me one Sat atkieg tors re BETTER BABES GET PRES I CHELSEA Evening World Awards Given to Infants Who Showed the Greatest Improvement, FULL LIST OF WINNERS. Chikiren Make High Averages in the Final Marks of the Judges, Rest babies came into thelr own Jeet night when The Evening World's money ‘prises were awarded to the winners in the Better Babies Contest Conducted by The Evening Warld, the Industrial Branch of the Woman's Municipal League and the Babies Weitare Asavelation. Ht was « happy group that gathered om the top floor of the Muhlenberg branch of the NeW York Publiie Li- brary, No. 209 West Twerty-third Mreet. Theté were mothers and fath- @rs and big sisters and brothers of the youthful champions, and a full dozen of the latter. They are all residents @f the Chelsea district. Immense Dains had been taken with their ap- Pearance, and they were festive with the freshest and daintiest of white ftocks and the perkiest of pink and blue hair ribbons, Their hair was Curled when it was long enough, and their firm, red cheeks and plump, solid Uttle bodies attested the interest thet's been taken in baby hygiene wince the opening of the contest six months ago. They behaved remarkably well, too. ‘They trotted about and soclably made friends, and there Was scarcely @ wall during the entire ceremony, A num ¢ | ver of the children were old enough to receive in théir own hands their prizes and certificates, and they did #o with bolile appreciation. All the prises in this contest were given for improvement, and at the final examination two weeks 10 twelve babies qualified as definitely improved wince the first test last July. The Evening World offered $50 in brise money and members of the In- dustrial Branch of the Woman's Mu- ‘nicipal League added to this amount @nough to permit the dwatding of re three prises of $6 three prizes of And atx prizes of HERE ARE THE NAME! WINNING BAB The list of awards follows, Thé ages given the children are theira at thre time when they entered the oon- test and were grouped according to age. FIRST CLAI 18 MONTHS, First prize, $10, Anna Hughes, No. 155 Tenth Avenue, 14 months; first cote 90 per cent., second score 95 per cent., gain’ per cent. OF PRIZE: 8. Becond prize, $5, William Kearney, No. 596 West Twenty-eighth strevi, 6 months; first score 05% per cent., fecond score 99 per cent., gain 344 r_cent. prize, $2, George McCrossin, No. 248 West Tw months; first score ond score 99 per cent., gain 3 Sd ‘ent. rise, $23, Gertrude Kiernan, feat Thirty-seventh Street, first score 8&6 per cent, second score 8% per cent., gain 2 per cent, Third prize, $2, John Murphy, No. 161 Went Fifteenth Street, 16 months; first score 88% per cent., second score 90% per cent., gain 2 per cent. SECOND CLASS, 18-36 MONTHS. First prize, $10, Gertrude McEntee, Fire Department | Band Only 16 Months Old, One of the Best of Musical Organizations Perhaps the most popular feature of, partment the Fire Department's many tions is the now celebrated musical organization which came into} te SHE EBVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, ro14, ert St a ey a Giese | From left te right, upper row, Anna Mughes and William Kearney; lower row, George McCrossin, M Murphy and Gertrude Mefintee. —»— No. 236 Tenth Avenue, 28 months; | a bit weak and under weight. But he first score 88 per vent. second score had the operation on the advice of 92 per cent., gain 4 per cent. the doctor who looked him over dur- Second prize, $5, Rose Toye, No. ing the first examination Inat July, West Twonticth ‘Street, 34 months; | and his mother and the managers of first score per cent., second score} the contest feel that it did him. aa 91% per cént., gain 3 per cent. much good as if he'd won a prize, Third prize, $2, Helen Caberet, No.| Mrs, Martin, Chairman of the Con- 307 Tenth Avenue, 33 months; first) test Committee, gave a brief account ‘score 93 per cent., second score 95 pet | of the work done, cent., gain 2 per cent, “We owe our thanks,” she sa Third prize; -92; Myrtle’ Mooney,| tte Babies’ Welfare Association, No. 864 West Eighteenth Street, 22) which has helped us with necessary months; firat score 98 per cent., 46C-) paraphernalia and advice; to Mise ond score 99 per cent, gain 1 per cent. | potter and Mins ives, who interested THIRD CLA8®B, 36-60 MONTHS. [the mothers of the neighborhood in First prine, $10, May MoCrossin,|the first instance and secured the No. 248 West Twenticth Street, 36) rooms for tho first examination; to Months; firat score: 8# per cent., nec- | Miss Gertrude Cushman, who loanod i us @ house for the aéeond examina. Carrere coer mente Per|tion; to the doctors Who gave thelr Hecond prize, $5, Katherine. Kler- | #ervices ‘for the examifhations, and especially to Dr, Rudolph Moffett, y re renth nan, No, 419 West Thirty-sev who gave a course of lectures to the | Street, 47 months; first score 00% per cent., second score 95% per cent., Gain 5 per cent. Third’ prize, $2, Mildred Mulligan, No. 307 Tenth Avenue, 62 months; first score 91 per cent., second score 93% per cent, gain 244 pér cent. Covtificates of honoralte mention were given to Anna Hughek, William that cards and records and to The Evening World, We thank The. Evening Wotld most heartily for its td-opera- tion'and for the prize money which it has given us. “The’ contest has unqui bly be® of great benefit to mote and 2 , My , Hel Heeger Aeenee Meroe et ‘children, and the rormer huve doyally Cromain, Kati. ine Kiernan, who all) tried to get the best out of it. We hope that wo may see these mothers and bables often in the future, and be of still further service to them.” -| There will ne a special effort to “keep after” every baby In the con- test who didn’t show Improvement, | and thus prolong the educational scored betwee and 100 per cei and to Elisabet ulligan of No Tenth Avenue, and Bernard M of No, 214 Ninth Avenue, who Il wise came within 6 per cent. of a per- fect score. Mrs. B. E. Martin, assisted by Mrs Harvey W, Corbet, distributed the | work. =.) . prizes to the victorious youngest hnd their mothers. ‘The tertiicates| CARMELITE JUBILEE. were tied with gay red ribbon, and the prize money packed neatly away in holly boxes. There were dainty Twenty-elehth framed pictures aa remembrances for Firat Avenue, wilt i the following little ones who went twenty-fifth anniversary faithfully through the but just Dec 13. Four Carmelite missed the prize-winn' OUD: fathers from: Dublin started the Car-! Francis McKiernan, No. 237 Tenth | mneiite community in this cit Avenue; Josephine Mahoney, No. 504 West Twentieth Street; Charles Thea, No. 171% Tenth Avenue; Frank Car- beret, No, 242 Tenth Avenu Edmund five years ago, taking over Stephen's parish and the of the sick and dying in pital, night and day, durin particular ca Bellevue Ho: this time. Walsh, No, 468 Weet Thirty-thira ose fathers havo worked, and the| Street; Vincent McDermott, No. 605] result ia told in. the allent records of West ‘Nineteenth Street; Katherino | Bellevue, where they at tal of the night and day ov Spencer, No, 841 Tenth Avenue. a ir, which ia the Little’ Frank Carberet deserves a Nah tage will be Paragraph to himself. His aiater won| the Right Rey, Bishop Colton of Rur- & prize, and he undoubtedly would | falo and the on will be preached have done 4s much, save that he was | by the Hight shop Cusack. | In only 4 week out of the hoxpital ufter | ihe, avening, af Te oclodk Archotaon an operation for adenoids when he| yeapera, sermon will be preached took hin last test. Of course, he was! by Rev. John H. O'Rourke, 4. J CHELSEA DISTRICT BABIES WHO WON EVENING WORLD PRIZES | inol Ointment $1), and Res ~ | inol Soap (28¢). es, ‘spirits—until rel BLS “ofr ie —_——— jelen Caberet, Gertrude Kierman, John STERS CLUBBED AFTER TRYING TO ROB Kelnienson| Policemen Wield Nightsticks in Fight and Capture Five Men On West Side. Five members of the “Raliroad Gang," giving the namen of Barney Murphy, Joe Lawlor, Vieter Herb, ‘Thomas Currie and John Kelly, broke inte the Polo House, @ edloen and hote!, at No. 1954 Amsterdam Ave- nue, fast night and tried to rob the eash fegister, Henry Pepper, the proprietor, blew & police whistle and managed to slip around to the front door and lock the gangsters within. Policemen Rice and Irwin came, unlocked the front @oor and waded ‘A bitter fight ensued. Both policemen wore kaocked to their | | ‘neon more than once, but they took tho five to the police station. a TWO BIG EXPOSITIONS. fety and Sanitation and Other of Invention: second Kxpesition Safety and Sanitation will open t night at the Grand Central Pala under the auspices of the American Museun of Safety. brings together over 125,000 business d manufacturers Crom all over PUT OUT, SHE WINS SUIT | GAM AGAINST METROPOLITAN $492.37 From Opera Company for Alleged Ejectment. People pay to stand up and hear Geraldine Farrar sing her role “Madame Butterfly” at the Metropdll- tan Opera Houne, but Kelmenson of Brooklyn will get paid for leaving the opera house tn the middie of Puccini's opera, night of April 18, 1913, whe pala mothers; to the devoted committee |for the privilege of atanding in the labored patiently over . soore | family circle, but a fury before Jus- tlee Le Fetra in the City Court te- 37, plus a 10-cent War tax, for having been ejected from the Metropolitan. During the opera Mra, Kelmenson |muddenly felt rough Nonds upon her shoulder, and says that before she could see Who owned. the hands she waa lifted up and carried out, shriek- Eyes turned from the stage to |the woman battling, It wan charged, two uniformed minute later Mra. herself on the sidewalk, She brought suit against t day gave her $ into the gang. Among the items which ap- peared in her bill of particulars were “black and Ulue bi bodily pain, shame, |tion, embarrassment and degradation | yy, jand great mental anguish.” The Metropolitan denied anything This exposition Fach day next week*will be de- -\cluimed Mra. Kel on had placer else atanding| There will be municipal Life Baving Co! lustrating how b will give drills, fl- it to treat drowning Awards will be made and medals given fer the different safety WASHINGTON, Dec, 12.—A total of $1,806,033 hax been paid out by the Fed- eral Government during the past five yeurm to more than 14,000 of its em- | appitances. ‘oon who met with accidents tn the All the available apace allotted at urae of their employment under the | ene Grand Central Palace fof tha Ex- ; porition of Inventions, which opens to-night | apd = will ‘ederal Compensation Act of cording ta 4 ret u of Labor Btatlatic BANS, NEw YORK Mr hards was then uyexpertmental stage aud certainly de serves lo be FIRE DECART MENT member of 0. and he formed in the ¢ la “Drass quartet" and undertook to] M4, the bund | ch three men how to playyis Aterlainnient at existence Aug. 23, 1913. j their instruments, This was a nucleus! Ter: raise funds The discovery of the large amount) fF the present band, which conaiate/an elaborut 0 he of musical talent which existe among | Of 'WOHty-Aine inen. prepared, One features of the | In looking about for musical talent |Geeasion will Beauty box the five thousand uniformed men was) in the dep t Mr. Richards made} This is @ box at the Garden given by made by Thomas 8. Richards, en-| several “finds,” one of which consisied| Kanker James M Leopold for the gineer of Steamer No, 237. Mr. Rich- gt a splendid cornet player who hed! purpose of secommodating the five | partment 5 formerly been with Forepaugh's Cir-|handsomest firemen in the depart: ards was an amateur trombone player) og col, Appleton of the Saventh| ment. and singer of ability, and conceived) Regiment Armory placed the bullding|in this box will he solected by Chiet| he present at the idea of bringin, 4 He the latent re the, aieposs) of the new band on) O'Reilly, who lu Chief of The a the Fire De-! Tour. ops, which exial throughout next week, has been | These products of American ingenu! cope and there is ao! very profession from a patent ated lace and embro! from a patent horse shoe nail to an automobile engine. ne genre HARMONIES may be made to the heart of yor You may acquire the DIAMONDA, AND, Ww, rath o Wilde Lane SG rT flow forth from 0, concert stage ABOUT THREE PAGES OF Winter Resort Advertisin Will Be Printed: in the | Big Sunday World TO-MORROW! Announcements will be | made of Popular Resort | Hotels and Boarding SAVINGS BANKS. IRVING SAVINGS INSTITUTION AMBENS NT... ¥, 8 dertared a “Meike Wt 1D14, ‘at the rate ot FOUR PER CENT. from $5 to $3,000 evtitie! | Ws, payee OU aud alloc ¢ Jan, Oth will drow California, « < Louisiana | Washington, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, fhe Carolinas, Arkansas, The West Indies, sof (ner box 1 New Jersey,’ and | one ¢ been! dance H hax recently brok ‘The Bahamas, ete. An excellent opportu- hity’to plan your Win- ter Vacation! ented to the members of the All persons who take an interost in The man who occupy positions! the Fire Department are expected to | 0 ‘nief,|day night to give the fire , end now it bas. passed gue and not in the Fire Department. The the public recognition it deserves,