The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1916, Page 5

What You Should Know About Your Auto; How To Drive and Keep Ii | Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Trouble— Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. GEORGE H: ROBERTSON doctor them up with paints. OTORISTS are experiencing considerable trouble with the new Hoene plates fur- nished. by the Secretary of State's office. While the color scheme is good and the plates visible at a dis- tance, the enamel will not prove very serviceable. If the plates are drilled for special number holders or are fastened too tightly the enamel! cracks and peels off. It will only be a question of a short time when many of the plates will be absolutely worthless as @ means of identification. A few years ago the same trouble with the plates oc- curred and many owners had to Instead of plates being enamelled, I believe &@ good common sense paint could be used that would prove just as efficient. > Automobile Editor T have a 1916 Overland and when 1 have gone abcut five miles my clutch makes a noise every time throw it in or out, I have greased it ‘well and have also new clutch rollers put In. LES™ER AITKEN. Would advise you to have tho clutch bearing looked over. It may be that it dees not fit pron rly and that a rattle fquecd by movement of the Jubri pi roandhy Editor Am very in inion on the following qu ‘ested in your oho up and give the service a Ford Do ju think a four (4) crank shaft with only two (2) main dearings a practical. A CONSTANT READER. rience | have had mention, would say good and if At After overhauling a storage battery @n @ 1915 model Maxwell « 1 find I have mislaid memorandum e@oncerning the correct solution with whioh to refill battery. If I reimem- ber rightly it is six parts water to one part sulphuric acid, but as to correct amount of water and used Tam im doubt. Your advice in this will be @reatly appreciated. J. B. NAGILL Would suggest that you purch: idrometer in order to properly test the solution of the battery he solu- on comoosed of sulphuric csid and ri Ned water, ydrometer. The top of the plates of the battery should be covered by the pela EAitor I have a machine, an Abbott (12) | roadster. When I throw her in first ord, and let in gradually on my luteh the car jerks and when she is reliing the jerking disappears, Now, ‘will you oblige me with correct an- ewer through your columns, G, M, F If the oar jerks while the clutch ing let in, would say that the clutch too hard. clutch should be out thorou~hly and pro} gare taki ” of Rs If the motor jerks low speed, would advise adjustin earburetor properly for werk. samtomobtie Ka!tor: Being a reader of your paper, I wish to have a little advice on re- 1 @ new carbureter in my car, ave Stoddard-Dayton roadster, medel 1912, Have bad no trouble until cold weather set in, It starts easily on the coldest mornings wae rans smoothly when not pulling on the road; in making a grade on second it does not pick up and does not give near the power it did in @ummer; it does not make any dif- ference whether the motor is warmed or not, and it smokes a great deal, carbureter is a Stromberg; the ents for mixture are not what should be. If it is the carbureter, would you advise me to get a new ene or not? I have been thinking of @etting a Schebler carbureter. Would edviee me to get a model or Boast R?. It neither of them, advise @e, and the make and model. R. C, BUREL. Weuld Suggest that the carbureter yeu have be properly adjuated for eold rear and that the hot roperly regula mb rq is a good carbure' wuld ‘do. your work. If it de: not the wor! 01 re, Id eu geet, hats Schebien asdel “Rebs Amtomotile Friitor: ‘Wall you kindly veotly or througt paper the following (1) Would sulphurous ether added te the present grado of gasoline in- erease the mileage per gallon of the peme? If so, what amount of sul- phurous ether should be added? (4) I haye received several circu- fave from companies manufacturing | compounds for increasing the mile. | age per gallon of ~«soline, claiming MOTORISTS’ PROBLEMS SOLVED George WH. Robertson, America's foremost nay aswer either di- columns of your ers ProRD owners to become chauffeurs pot Yall to take a course in Sour gwaction ae heute te ould cosveuience, Special Classes for Ladies Call or write for booklet. Stewart Auto School 286 WEST 57TH STREET Men desiring to be trained a Motor Truck Drivers tion without any 6 king with, evening at expense < uiday ie West se ould a Saxon roadster stand | ould test 1250 on ana 6 from 15 to 20 pc: cent. increase and Suaranteeme their compounds to pot a no ether, nitric or picric ds. Have such patented com- pounds any merits? (3) Will the addition of elther of the substances mentioned in (1) and (2) injure the carbuerter, cyinders, pistons or vaives by causing enorus- tation or by Cee, onntaee these parts? J. BL We The use of ether Ptr @ cline j tends to crea heavier explosive mixture, but bt if the increased f the ether “used would justify ire only a few of these ‘ations on the market that will increase the mileage per gal- The increase of mileage is us- Pp ually up to the adjustment of the | carbureter and the type of motor. | 1 do not advise th of some of | these preparatio fact that t le | 1 have a Flanders 20 horse | Power touring car and I have trouble With the clutch. It takes hold so |suddenly that it stalls the motor un- jess the engine speed is very high, when the car starts off with @ jerk and at a much too high speed for safe Sriving. Is this a characteristic of model, and how may I remedy Does the Hart Bell carbon re- mover do all that is claimed for it? Engine is all O. K. and pulls up heavy hills all O. K. F. 8. suggest that the facing of th b leather id off iN good condition for caret . Have had no personal perience with the remover you men- tion. Avtomobile Falitor you advise what size pro- -horse power twin motor engine would pull and how. it should be geared to get speed enough on the propelior to pull a light snow- sled, weighing about 360 pounds with operator on? Name of company sell- ing propellors would be appreciated, This is not most likely in your line, but any information that you can give or advising where same can be had will be appreciated, CARL G. | Would suggi | editor of some such as Flyin: tion you require, giving all the da possible. Automobile Editor Is there on the market a text book of instructions how to handle and operate an automobile? If so, what is the name or title of the best one and can I find the same? oO. J, MART. The Norman Henly Publishing i ish Company of New York C a set of books which de: cS and op ‘ion of motor cars. Automobile Editor Ihave an Overland with Remy mag- neto and dry battery system which I cannot start since I overhauled it, Have put in a new set of batteries and also cleaned the magneto. I have taken all the spark plugs out, Iatd them on their prospective cylinders with the switch ed on and turned the by hand. I received a at each plug in their regular firing, aleo primed the motor. °C be that dauipness has collected in the cylinders; as it is an unheated garage? A. WEED, it may be that the timing of the| overhauling of the motor. If ti are set properly and the ign at the proper time the motor should start, if primed, for , in spite of a will have no rious effect on the starting of the motor, if it is primed. Automobile Edito i Is it cone to run a car with| Atwater Kent Ignition System, a six- volt electric horn and two six-volt twelve candle-power headlights from jone six-volt sixty-ampere storage} battery, or could any two of thel above mentioned be operated from| said battery with good results? If! not, What size storage battery would | be required to operate the oar, the lights and horn? I have been Laing | dry cells on each, C, 0, BEL Would Suggest that two batte he be used of eit! sixty or eighty in the car and to be used as an extra, and to be carried fully charged. Aut Previous to putting my car up L had! jadded the 1-3 denatured aleohol for safety, and the other day I added one; llon more, I had used the car) la Editor Some time after putting in the first. | ‘A friend tells me I should start the motor, as the last gallon will not mix |with the water in radiator, otherwise will remain on top and not be of any Wj you kindly advise, me Ga. F, M. | benefit which is right? When the additional alcohol would suggest that the motor for a few moments jeombination of water and alcohol be thoroughly mixed, 4‘ of her twelve birthdays. she began motor has been changed, due to the rh BvtwinG Their Occupation’s Gone and the Prophets of Pas- teur.zed Attire No Longer Can Cry ‘“‘Immodest”’ —It Was the 1912 Girl With Her Slit Skirt and the 1913 Girl Who Were the Naughty Ones. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. The Nineteen-Sixteen girl hardly has finished celebrating the second She is only a month and a few days old. Yet already the righteous are trying to frighten the poorflittle thing with loud barks of moral indignation, because of the clothes she wears! At her devoted head (and protected, this year, by the, tinfest of hate and the flattest of coiffures) they are hurling such adjectives as “daring,” “immod- est,” “suggestive,” “shameless.” The pure clothes campaign is on. Mrs. Thomas A, Edison, together with the Women's Club of Orange, is working to establish an Orange standard of evening dress. Capt. W. W. Myers of Richmond has brought before the Virginia Legislature a bill to elevate the blouse of the Nincteen-Sixteen wr Manwas girl's frock, and to lower her skirt. The pity of it is that so much militant virtue, so much ethical ardor, should be wasted. For by the standard of comparison—the ONLY standard which can be applied to sartorial propriety—there is less to censure in the dress of the Nine- teen-Sixteen girl than in the dress of any other girl for several years past, Oana NOT FOR THE MOHAMMEDAN OR THE “FIVE TOWNS” ROUE. which brinted no further Of course, if you area Mohammedan] back than m9 3: “It is an age of elimination. bt moralist; if—like the Five Towns roue in Arnold Bennett's latest tale~you believe that woman's place is “behind the veil,” the styles of to-day will not satisfy you, The Nineteen-Sixteen girl is rather far from looking like a pil- low dressed up in blankets, the only chaste costume in Constantinpole. But if you are just a common or Winter Garden moralist, if Sor the last half decade you have been solemnly de- ost a matter of afternoon waist a course. Ploring the “shameless fashions of! Was not the Nineteen-Thirteen girl the hour’’—wake up! Another hour has| a daughter of Belial, compared to her struck, good little Nineteen-Sixteen sister, in Th ti her decorous chin-chin collar? ‘In e of to-day is dena- | 1913—yes, and in 1912 and 1914—one tured, It does not conform to the jor the criticisms most commonly levelled at the girls of the period con- cerned their street decolletege, Little girls went to school with their shi waists cut down in a deep V, “looking like picked crows,” as Mrs. A. M Palmer, President of the Rainy-Day Club, once indignantly remarked to | me. Even coats were cut with el- natural contours of the body. In the emart daytime costume such comparatively innocent portions Ibows: and collar-bones are hidden deep- ly as ever were the Eleusinian Mysteries. Even the chin is mod- estly sheltered from the roving, iN-disciplined masculine eye. To sleeves stopped above the elbow. To-day the long sleeve—often with a ruffle which chastely conceals the) knuckles—is the rule with every co: tume, except the evening dress, The newest designs show collars reaching pass the verdict Of jest to whom a bald, afternoon frocks, and with frills ex- tending even above the stock itself. On coats the chin-chin collar is prac- tically universal, BOUFFANT SKIRTS NOW HIDE NATURE'S CURVES. So late as last winter dinner and ball gowns were cut extremely low, particularly at the sides and in the back, and were sleeveless. ‘This year the decolletege has crept upward to a point that doesn’t impress a decent | mind as otherwise than decent, Shoulder capes and even elbow sleeves are to be sec many eve- ning frocks, and whatever the artist may say to the pointed, consciously flat-chested bodice, the moralist may not condemn it as too accurate a copy of the feminine torso Wh ‘ou it is no si ‘robably a fair, if brief, exposition of the creed of clothes-morality is to say that they are intended to conceal rather than to reveal, Then the Nineteen-Ten girl was the first sar- torial sinner in recent times. For flirting with the hobble skirt, the skirt which proved that women have the full human comple- ment of four limbs and proved this not candidly, like the skirt of to-day, but with insinuating subtlety. In 1910 women donned skirts of which the fullness was caught in deftly on on at a point knee-high from th Gradually the circumference skirt’s hem crept down from rds to four, three, two-and-a- half, two—until in 1911 we were for several years wearing skirts a yard and a half or ‘clothes deliberately— even a yard around the bottom, The! and beautifully, in the en) tube, the hobbie, was here, many of us—followed ¢ of Compare that — skirt—which the figure, to-day that |i ut- ined. with a fidelity often seen the lower half-section of the feminine body—and the skirt now being worn. The latter is a few inches shorter than the hob- ble, but many, many inches wider, Lule Mane ae chine fe out the skirt o tac ier f bit~oh, pet word terly obscured by bouffant ot Pointed bo: it is ‘0 place them be- of the last few years, or beside the basques of 1) which made every woman look like a Rubens portrait or next to the off-shoulder decolle- tege of the supposedly immacu- late Eighteen-Sixties; or in jux- taposition with the simple fittle frocks of the Empress Josephine, For the moment, at least, the ear. torial censor’s occupation’ 1s gone, gyen though he or she may not know What and thats chiefly high-topped, swol- len-looking boots. There are no | hints, no innuendoes, And there are—or there may be—petticoats, sub - petticoats, sub - sub - potti- id infinitum, THE NINETEEN-TWELVE GIRL AND THE NAUGHTY SLIT. The Ninetcen-Twelve squad of dress reformers should be happy, for the slit skirt Which so disturbed bey that year has utterly disapp When it wasn't overdone the sl Not ‘To the Editor of The } On my return trom Washington 4 | where I went to arrange for sp {ts moments of beguiling naughtiness, | £2" the Jefferson dinner of the Na- And with it went all the iniquity of| tonal Democratic Club, to be held on umps and gauze hose, for iiigh|April 13 at the Waldorf-Astoria, an joots hadn't “come in.” There is a certain breezy athleticism about the] P short street #kirt, even the very Short street skirt. But the sly slit— articla was shown to mo which ap- d in your Wednesday edition to effect ‘that I war in Washington candidate for New York Post- Master, Iam nota canaidate for this sometimes at the back, sometimes|appoiniment and never was. My pres. in front, sometimes on one side—!ence in Washingt wae due entire! was reminiscent of pretty French|to completing arrangements for + actresses at the races, Or so our) Jefferson dinnor |Moralists declared. Why are they! Yours very truly, RINE not grateful that we slit no more? National Democratic (lub And liaten to this “fashion note” | reb, 11, 191%, : how sleeves, and in many blouses the |“ to the ears, on both shirtwaists and | 1916 Girl Is Muffled in Denatured Dress And Her Sartorial Censors Rage in Vain OLD LANDMARK, i; 1gia THE QUINTESSENCE OF SENSATIONAL STYLE G CUNGING DRAPERY MISSIONARY BACK, TELLS OF HER FLIGHT FROM CANNIBALS Miss Marie Suckow Says Shortage of Food Has Led to Horrors in Liberia. | Shortage of food in Liberia has led to fighting and a revival of cannibal- ism, according to Miss Marie Suckow, @ missionary of Newton, Kan., who arrived to-day on the steamship An- tonlo Lopez from Cadiz, Spain, She was bound for the Methodist Episco- |pal Training School for Missionaries, [18 Brooklyn | "Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiiliama, | Miss Freda Roberts and myself were |missionaries at Jacktown, Liberia, jtwenty miles inland from Greenville, on the coast,” said Miss Suckow. ‘Woe were the only whites there. The {natives in the back country are still cannibals. They cut off the legs and arms of their enemies, cook them and eat them. “Ever since the European war be- gan the English, French and Ger- mana Have struggled for control in Liberia. During the last few months the English have cut down the food supply in order to coerce the natives, who seemed to favor the Germans, As half the food in Liberia comes from foreign countries the situation became serious. The natives stole from us, threatened us and burned |some of our smaller houses near the station of the canni- | “We were more afra there unhurt and stayed in great fear until the United States scout cruiser Chester came up with 200 Liberian soldiers from Monravia. | we They drove the cannibals away, and took us to Monravia, where 1 gol a ship for Cadta, ei NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. | |, :RIROL, RACK. maiden 10-76 % ‘Vere tom = Pelion Bul 1 "atnpion, AG toting, dyew-vnroite, at * southern 100 o e i Soe Haliot Wing, 108" Meclicks, 108; Anepa. 110. Hromuatone ley 112 ates Val Delenta, Selling, ty vans, * York Tainode, 108: Alton, pieces 10s M2 « enty Hedge, i, aper, 10) don, 111; Yeuauee * apprentice Krite-Feinbe: ir, and Mrs. B. Krite of 31 “Amos| Street, Brooklyn, announced that atte wedding of their daughter, Miss Btta| Krite, to Mr. D. Feinberg Wwill be held! at the Hopkinson Mansion, Brooklyn, on Feb. 26. The announcement has caused much Interest among the soctety folks of the city, —_™ mie))) a7 bals than anything else, so we four with a native escort set out for Greenville. How we made that twen ty miles I can hardly tell you, but} jand told her father, | Sais FANCY DRED on THe sreeeT AGED PAIR MURDERED BY ROBBERS ON FARM, SLIM CLUE TO SLAYERS Nici of Wyckoff a and House- Near Flemington, N. J. (Spedial to ‘The Brening World.) FLEMINGTON, N. J. Feb. 12— | Richard J. Wyckoff, a wealthy and aged farmer residing near Wertaville, «@ few miles from Flemington, and Miss Catherine Ann Fisher, aged about seventy-five years, his house- keeper for many years, were found murdered at the Wyckoff homestead ‘The crime was discovered by Will- jam Wyckoff, a neighbor. ‘The body | of Miss Fisher was found in the barn covered with a pile of straw. Not| keeper Found at Homestead | late yesterday afternoon. | “BRUNO'S GARRET,’ ~ SHEPTBY BY FLAMES Only One Wall Let Left of Build- ing From Which Lafayette Saw ‘Execution. One of the old landmarks of Wash- ington Square, known in recent years as “Bruno's Garreét,* was destroyed by fire at 230 o'clock this morning. When flames and firemen finished their work on the structure, which ie | sald to have been 140 years old, only one wall and two paintings were left. The paintings were those of Abraham | Lincotn and Nancy Hanks, made by Capt gE tired The Garret,” owned by Guido Bru- no, famous as one of the “high brows” of Washington Square, faced No. 5% Washington Square South and ox- tended back to No, 244 Thompson Street. On the second floor lived Sid Geor Hall, U. S. A. re- ney Carlysle, a painter, and his wife Doris, a stage dancer. ‘Tho fire started in the Carlysie stu Mr, and Mrs. Carlysio wore dio. An Exhibitio Opening Day Oriental Rug Departm one of these precious To these people the of taste in New York. the matter is that a g them today. Kirmanshahs. far away lay an axe with which it is thought the crime was committed A basket a few feet way contained a revolver. Wyckoff's body lay upon the kitehen | floor, where he had been felled with a blow which probably caused inatant death. The condition of both bodies indicated that life had been extinct | but a few hours, | ‘That robbery was the motive for tho crime is apparent. Wyckoft was thought to have considerable money in his home. In a room on the second floor a wooden money box was found which had been pried open and rifled of its contents. A small sugar bag, containing about $2, was left by the murderers. ‘Tracks In the «| ow lead in the di- rection of Sourland Mountain, but these were lost a quarter of a’ mile away from the Wyckoff home. A pair of overali# and a jumper were found a considerable distance from the farmhouse —— THE FALL OF BABYLON. i} Babylon has fallen again, Its accounts show a municipal loss of $5,000. boiod DL. 1, tt ie. HELO FOR INSULTING GIRL WHO ANSWERED WANT AD. Stationer, Arrested Afier ( complaint | to World, Admits Similar Offense Ten Years Ago. George Rea, a stationer of No, 132 Nassau Street, was held in $500 bail by Magistrate Devel in Centro Btreet Court to-day on charges preferred! through The World by Miss Florence Barnett, a stenographer, of No, 77 Bands Street, Brooklyn, In answer to an advertisement in The World Miss Barnett presentod herself at Rea’s office last Saturday afternoon She charg that he in sulted ber, Miss Rea returned home He brought her to the office of ‘The World, which placed the matter in the hands of jJohn §. Sumner, superintendent of | the Society for the Suppression of | View Rea, who was arrested last night, denied the girl's sworn story, Sumner asked Rae it he had not ed viously been convicted of a similar offence, Rea acknowledged that he had, ten years ago, and that sentence had’ been suspended Mise Barnett's father, as Rea was leaving the witness stand, rushed at him, cursed him and attempted to strike him, but was restrained by Capt, Lee and other court officers, | Lo HERALD SQUARE yoo fiS0 ON SALE n tunity to obtain choice Original Oil Paintings 912.19 up to $87.00. Were $24.39 up to $174.00. Beau tiful Landscapes, Pastorals and Marines, from the studios of reprenentative | Foreign and n artists. Appropriately framed in gold leaf and antique Siened Proof Etchings 92.48 to $17.75. Carbon Photographs 74 to $11 Were $1.49 ti Keproduc tions of celebrated old and mod ern masters, Cathedrals, ruins, etc. Solid Walnut, dark wood and yeneer frames. Special Purchases, Unframed Mezzotints nd Limited editior Were $6.00 to $26 Special mouldings, suitable for framing Art Galleries, 4th } | | | | { | | HERALD SQUARE Kirmanshah Rugs On Tuesday next we shall display in the chase of Kirmanshah Rugs. There are thousands of people who have longed for a Kirmanshah Rug, but have never had that longing gratified because they felt that luxury beyond their means, sesses peculiar significance. Kirmanshahs of surpassing beauty in a wonder- ful range of sizes are available for every family These Rugs were bought at a sacrifice and they are priced accordingly. priced at about what other stores would pay for You are invited to visit Macy’s on Tuesday next for a first view of this great collection of Macy's—Fourth Floor See Monday's Evening Papers for Details. RH Macy es "MONDAY A Clearance of FINE PICTURES Framed and Unframed 50%, LESS THAN ORIGINAL PRICES As Macy's prices are based upon merchandise worth, t upon inflated sentiment, this art sale is an oppor- Original Oil Paintings — Mezzotints —- Proof Etchings, Colored — Carbons |) Hand Colored Photogravures asleep at the time, They eave find themselves surrounded by rlysle hie ew to Meantime th to the | ret" Guido Bruno was out of the ety, but his sons, who live near the “Gar- ret,” hurried over to the structure. the firemen to let La Martine, de Maupassant and Twain, which were in the pines. © Thotr pleas were rejected amd tie manuscripts were destroyed, © When Bruno returned to the oty Jater in the day and viewed the eusaa he was heartbroken for fifteen méin- utes. Then he said: “TH start all over again. IM get a new ‘garret.’ Things ike this are to | be expected in life. What's pat ference? My one regret bree Hall, who was to give a reading in the place to-morrow, can't read there.” Brono said that Lafayette tived in) the “Garret” in 18%, eu he wit- nosed the execution of twelve men who had tried to kilt fn Burr. In recent years Bruno thad been ‘using the “Garret” as the headquar- ters for his two publications, Ld ve jodical Weekly and a pert aah "Greenwich Village.” operated Sree Tein, Reae Mee at No, 10 Fifth Avenue. ———— APPLIED PROVERBS. Even if every Garrison docen’t hold out, it’s a long Lene that hag no turning. n and Sale of Next Tuesday ent a very large pur- ~ news of this Sale pos- It means that ee ae ee ste The plain truth of reat many of them are tne! / panesyey vais ha YORK American and Foreign Original Water Colors Original Water Colors $2.74 up to $27.37. q Were $5.49 to $54.75. Many well known artists are represented tn thi election, which contains an excellent variety in. alae and subjects, Framed in bright and to A gilt i Proof Etchings Printed in Colors 24 to 912.12 re $8.49 to $24.20 A printed tn color G. Marchet and other Lnited by Antique [ Picicamainen Hand Colored and Colored Prints Me to $15.75. Were 89 to $91.50, An unusual variety of subjects In facsimile mezaotints, etc, Framed in num- rous styles of gilt and wood, Specially Priced Unframed Proof Etchin On Parchment. 89 to $449 Were $3.00 to $18.00. S40 sheet pictures, 25°0 less than usual NEW YORK : «