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> L y About Your Auto; How To Drive and Keep It; Expert Advice How to Keep Automobile and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Trouble— Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. Bu GEORGE 8. ANY motorists, after they have trouble every now and then ROBERTSON. purchased their first car, experience with the motor and are at a loss to locate the difficulty. There are so many points where this may be found that common sense counts for a great deal in overcoming any GEORGE H: ROBERTSON wrong. In order that the motor run Properly, many points should be carefully gone over. For the timing of the valves and the! magneto should ‘be correct, the spar | plug gaps properly set, the carburet-| tor adjusted, the water circulation right, of carbon and the fuel and oil supply correct. The muffler should also be free from soot and carbon and all drain cocks should be set up tight and closed. The bearings in a new oar are necessarily tight. To build them loose in the new car would cause the motor to develop knocks in a few days. Use special care during the first thousand miles that the car is run. Excessive speed should be avoided. While a certain amount of oil will run a car a certain distance, any car consumes more oil when it is new. Because of this, keep close watch on the oil gauge and change the oi! during the first thousand miles two or three times. Three-fourths of the trouble with motor cars is due to the carelessness on the part of the driver in keeping his car improperly lubri- cated. Never use poor oil; Automobile Bitte: Can I use the storage batteries in- stead of dry cells on a make-and-break engine, and can | use them with the @ame kind of coil? It. Both types of batteries will deliver the necessary current for ignition @urpoees. astomodile PAitor am driving @ passenger car along phaltuin road and Yell. There is a | the road. Tho front whe “Naf wheel on the same side « in contact with the hole, Shere be a ehake cnough to cause a @evere damage to the mechanism at @ome point, or would it be a caso of “dumb luck,” and, if so, what do you wappose would happen: it end: ef machine and the condition of same, ‘and character of hole being b papebel ay A broken spring might be the reeuit, or there might be a possi- A. STODDAP aR upon the psi of the rear axle getting into Automobile Tato It became necessary to have the rear cylinders on my motorcycle re- ground and fitted with new piston and fings; 1-32 inch was taken out, 4 before assembling I find by weighing the new piston is somewhat heavier 0 the one in front cylinders, they have to be balanced or can Tr it safely with the ee h py foal a slight difference in would not be noticeable, but a big difference would tend to throw the motor out of balance. Would advis the reboring of both cylinders, if pos- eible. ’ Aatomobile Pitttor Ia it proper to run a Ford car down. Mill with the clutch in high speed with the engine running and the throttle retarded? = C. BOWERS. The car might be operated while descending a grade in seve She hand or foot. bral left in and the using the moto or it might be operated as you sug- | gest. The operation depends upon the running conditions. Amtomobile bbtor ‘What 1a the advantage of gear rex duction between hand wheel and steer- * tng arm going to the front axle? a . G, Cc, instead of The use of a hand whe lever makes for easier handling, and @ reduction gearing carried at the bottom of the st ring post in most rator to turn the without using all his strength. Antomodile Bistor How will defective miature Reat, and how is carbure to overcome this conditic A mixture that con’ gasoline vapor will be slow burning and will have more heating value without producing correspondingly | more power than one of proper pro- portions or having an excess of alr. cause a combustion is not perfect, the en- ine will not deliver ite full power ind & surpl liberated every ex- jon must evauscread be tnatccels pe system. The carburetor adjust- ment varies with the type of instru- ent used, but as a general rule the heating may be reduced by either olosing down the needle valve requ- latin the fuel supply so that less fine will be sprayed into the mix- The World's Greatest External Remedy, Cou and Colds fd aoover len_dewiring to bo trained CHAUFFEURS or Motor Truck Drivers ‘he bst is non too good. admit more rich Automobile Biter What effect has pieric acid on gam and why is it used? Also what quan- tty is safe to use with a Ford car? Is it necessary to use different — tities in different makes of cars? D. B, MEYERS, Would not suggest the use of picric acid, as it tends to eat the lubrication from the cylinder walls and pistons, A pint to five gallons string mix- tur Autom Where can T obtain parts for @ 1918 Briggs-Detroiter and have reboring of the cylinders tended to? H. FP. GAD! Write to the Puritan Machine Com- | pany, Detroit, Mich. linders, to be rebored properly, should be turned! over to a first cli machin op, Automobile Baltor Is there any cars (four-passenger) that the rear sea can be turned down and used as a two-passenger? B. DAVIS. Write to the Class Journal Publish- ing Company of New oYrk City for ir and thus dilute the this information. Automobile Piitor Lhave 4 1915 Ford and have had a great deal of trouble starting after standing a while, if it stands a few days, 1t is almost impossible to start it by priming or anything else, The way it will etart is by pouring hot ater on top of the carburetor, What I want to know 4s, is there any harm putting hot water in carburetor? After starting and running a while the water in radiator gots boiling hot and files out all over, What js the cause of it and what remedy? . 0. DEATS. Regarding the hard starting of the motor, would say that hot water is ne id hi the inability of the poor gr: line to vaporize in cold weat waer will do no harm. The timing of the motor should be looked over and the carbon cleaned out. Automobile EALtor Why is the direct drive or high speed the best auited for average o ditions A. rati frict of the gears in the ch riot On et set wrnereas_on the high rect drive position practi~ y the only power lost is at the re in the rear ax! Automobile EAitor I am an owner of a 1918 Michigan fear, model K, The Briggs magneto using is practically no good am pelled té get a new jone of some other make, There are so many different makes at different prices on market that I do not know from which to select. Of course, T know, or have heard, that the Bosch is the best that ts made, but what I | would like to know 4s if there ts ore that you can select for me that will 6 as good eervice as the Bose), eason of it being cheaper than the Boxeh ROBERT M'MILLAN Would suggest your equipping the lear with either the Bosoh or the Dixie magneto. Either will prove very efficien Automobile EAitor “Why should hot air be used in the JAMES HALLETT. the main air supply point near the ox- advantage of using heated air is that it is more suitable for use with low grade fuels which do not evaporate readily than cold a The warm tends to vaporize cold air tends t ——_— -—— /BIG LINE OF NEW AUTOS IN BROOKLYN SHOW. fu annual show will open next Wednesday night brooklyn 4 it 7 o'clock in the Twenty-third Regi- ment Armory under more favorable clreumstances than ever before. In of numbers the exhibition will previous one; im artistic wil! outshine its predec setting It ors, exhibited tt ts expected to new mari dred cars, the newest creations of the automobile world, listed for display, together with a large number of mo- tor trucks, motorcycles and’ accese sorles, Cars of @ atylos and prices, rang- Running Smoothly , jissued a warning during the | ese-Russian jkeep off armed merchantinen. \ the British Foreign Office to-day | Mr. Lodge was questioned by sev- jeral Senators and at instance, | }it, In the last analysis Congress in good order, the bearings fitted | the compression space free! ——FUMELP UP IN SENATE. OVER ARMED SHIP WARNING MEASURE (Continued from First Page.) Japan {ts eltizens te The formal denial of thid was issued by} war to length Senator McCumber broke into a denunciation of what he called the gag rule by which the Administration had sup- pressed discussion in the Senate. Particularly he complained of the re. cess taken last evening to prevent « discussion of the resolution which hi introduced yesterday, “Soo. -r or later we will on my resolution,” said Cumber. 1AVA a \ nator Me “Public sentiment will force supreme, and if it believes the Pros dent has gone too far ultimately it cannot be prevented by any par mentary trickery from letting tim know it. HIS INTERPRETATION OF SEN- ATE'S VOTE. “The tabling of the Gore rosolution did not meet the President's own Proposal. If we tako the usual con- struction of a tabling :motion—name- ly, that 4t implies opposition to the measure tabled—the Senate voted yesterday that the killing of an American ix not a cause for war “Bven {f that is but @ parlianen-| tary technicality and if the Admin- istration Senators succeeded in thelr desire to sweep away all resolutions the President's purpose has not been | attained, for he did not learn the sen- | timents of this body on the momen- | tous Issue which confronts him.’ “Senators talk and differ on inter- national law, but there is one eu- Preme law—the law of Ppreservation— and the right of that we must grant to every nation, “I believe that in the present con- troversy there 1s #0 much doubt as to which contention is right that the least this country can do is to warn lite citizens off vessels until the issue where can T| automobite | | and in quality and style of cars| ablish a| ‘There will be several hun- | way from Uny runabouts few hundred dollara to Hmousines cost | wood © passenger pes are to — is settled, “And let us always gress is tho final wa the supreme power, and Iet us not re-| Unquish or shirk rewponalbiit-| ties.” MeCumber declared ‘hat the United | States would regret tts stand against submarines, He said it amounted to} @ rule like one that if “I am armed jand I see you coming, also armed, | you can fire at me, but I cannot at | | you,” and that it would render almost | [useless the large appropriations the | United States was making for eub- marines. nember Con- our | ——>- WILSON IS HEARING FROM THE FIRESIDEs; THEY SUPPORT HIM. WASHINGTON, dent Wilson is hearing people “back in tho co lowing his statement the Gridiron Club dinner @ week ago that |would rather hear from the March 4.—Pres\- from the ry.” Wol- he home firesides than Congressional cloak- rooms, there has been a }! © sponse, Lotters have i dreds from every section of the country, from men engaged in every business and from women and cbil- dren. One sa ‘Iam sixty-one years | old and a veteran of the Civil War, but I am not too old to tako my gun and fight for the stand you bave taken.” It was from the South There was also a long letter from a mother in Massachusetts. “My two boys are grown “I love them as « m not Tam proud of er you wrote | pnator Stone .nd happy that | boys strong enough to help | should you need the | “You ask Tor news from the fire- aide,” another from Indiana read “Mine is cold to-night for my boy has gono to Washington n his collego we 1 am proud, though, that he may some ip you in case the demand comes to up {hold the rights upon which t jdations of this country arc | "Phere were many tolegran port from party organizations scores urging him to warn A } cans that their travel on armed endangers the peace of the y “You have Congress over a barrel,” wired one supporter, “Now apply the board.” —— BERLIN’S PROOF ABOUT BRITISH U-BOAT ORDER IS DUE TO-MORROW, | WASHINGTON, tary the March 4-8 Lansing announced to-day appendices to the ( randum regarding ships were Jam, due to-morrow | ‘hese appendices, it i in Berlin, will show that | Admiralty instructed | chantmen to sink sub a | TAFT WOULD HAVE | VOTED “AYE” TO TABLE | THE GORE RESOLUTION. | armed iner: board the steamshi on BOSTON, Mar. 4 Taft would hive voted tabling of the Gore r jas sixty-elght of the |yesterday, he declared at | House to-day i LEx-Prosident | on the| Just aid nators the X- President a ation of kind we got to stand by President,” he Chink ihe Sendie voted) r-making bodys fa [the opportunny wo advise HAT IN RING ving man ten days for intox ate Voorhe Brooklyn, ad to duck be € a because prisoner threw his hat at Court's WITILE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF was mak specch denying “crime wave," somebody stole Tobea « automobile and holdup men robbed citizen tn UNDERTAK an in letter she in a quick the poison a was unable to get Kansas City inan WHEN FI of promin t man ligh rightly. It is the way Tw voted myself. | WILSON ATTAC KED IN BERLIN AS UNNEUTRAL ON ARMED SHIP I: Preside BERLIN, Mareh 4 Ww son is vigorously attacked in to-day issue of the Lokal Anzeicer, kal Anzelger questions whether Pres- ident Wilson is not acting in defiance of sound sens 1 actually commit. ting a breach of neutrality by his at- itude in the armed mercha troversy “President Wilson ter to Chair- man Stone of t an Re lations Commit ed said the Lokal Anzeicer ppose it was written before th orandum on armed merc published Feb, 10. was n mem- hantmen, officially t known, Otherwise tt w nde-|marry her and then wedding another | flance of sound human woman after an acquaintance of lese “Wilson states that during the] ty tel Seas present w no nation or group of] than @ wee | nations has the right to alter or neg-| A verdict for $40,000, within $10,000 | lect exis which all nations| of the amount of damages asked, was | have agr Upo! nitigate th@) awarded to Mrs. Clark by @ jury in! terrors of war, The German attittde| yy soe Philbin's pa ft the & | in the memorandum relative to sub- ce Philbin’s part of the Supreme marina war d any rules. The memora proof t chant ships not only to arm, but te attack. Theres is no international law which forbids a belligerent sider as hostile armed mere) sels which have been ordered to at- tack bis ships. favor of our enemics fs no further doubt to support the English fleet in ope ue against Germ which against the rules of international ieee VICTORY FOR WILSON, DISMAY FOR BERLIN IS VIEW IN LONDON LONDON, March 4.~The a great victory President, great y in Berlin the press declared to- dis Some of the newspapers confessed Mrs. A. R. Griffith of Kansas they were puzzled, because Senator| City loves New York better than | Gore's amendment tended to obscure she docs her husband, Divorce the armed merchantmen lesu:, But, granted they agreed unanimously that t ate had voted by rity not to interfere an overwhel with Wilson in his foreign dealings. ‘This, abo mi all ‘things, thes was exactly what the President wanted Tho Times said the vote tn the Senate undoubtedly would be fol lowed by another victory for Prest dent Wilson in the House, and An he G to deal more Hberally can press, declaring Ame ernment the Ame cans want only the truth to be con- nee to chief's home, AFTER IIS WIFE got one glimpse of Now ¥. to barber shop window and job finished by rays of head. | UE ! nen cons | rrefutable at the English ordered mer- | that he intends er of Warships, unassailable by protecting them with American power Senate's action in uphokling President Wilson | not only was for the but undoubtedly will cause officials and th ling detained. M ! ha ear Ai ( yonne tht asks tan, {bn ‘ ' arvation rations. The Helga was Wife Was in Mo When for ¢ I ‘ up t . sh patr 1 boat and Letter Came From tf oh eae . rene tt she was allowed to Prison Camy ‘ 4 - wr inves CF Mra. Gustav Ruhl of N t ed r it T tow blah Nineteenth Street, Bayonne, wif at a iTON the first mate of the Danish oil tank bya ttin hy ed W ¢ Com- or Helga, got a letter from ler hus whe. 1, niniaaion’s prisoners who |pand to-day, dated at a field prison! cuted on the spot ne prices 3D by Medford, L. 1, wom. | ntended to commit sutcite mado such | © he got there before she had taken a Job. rk he 1 her to return to Missouri, complaine | in divorce mult. TRIC LIGHTS went out during shaving | in Clayton, Mo., his auto was driven | BOO FUL BABY” WINS. - $40,000 HEART BALM ~ FROM BROKER MARTIN Jury Awards $15,000 More Than in First Trial of Breach of Promise Case. Forty thousand dollars {» the price John Leon Martin, a former stock broker, will have to pay Mrs, Cora Maude Clark, his “Boo'ful Baby,” for courting her eight years, promising to Court yesterday afternoon, three days’ trial of the McManus, counsel for Jasked that the verdict be set aside as Jexcessive, but the Justice refused. There had been a vigorous summing up by each side. Mr. McManus sald | his client was being blackmailed; that | ending the case. Terence | the defendant, seth, Witeon pttlt holds | the wlew: | the action was brought in bad’ faith | joint exhibited in this letter a and that any promise of marriage was | th ier a @ Bing ae Beatralley 16 ve d by both parties to the agree- | ment, as they had agreed to live sepa © lives | Aaron J. Jetmore, for Mrs. Clark, | told the jury that Martin, a man of the world, taken advantage of Mra. Clark; had lived with ber as her husband under promise of marriage, and had deserted her when she began I}to “age and fade." It is belleved the jury took Into |consideration the fact that in his an- swer Martin charged Mra. Clark with having been intimate with several | men he named, but made no effort to! prove tho charges, ‘The court in- structed that this fact might be given weight if it were thought the allega- tions were made in bad fatth ‘This was the third trial of the suit At the first Mra, Clark received a verdict for $26,000, which was set aside by the Appellate Division. At the second the jury disagreed, Mii H bed Schoo} PATRIOTISM. and then there ae eee JURY ACQUITS GARDNER. | lity of Couspiracy Charge, Fx-Senator Frank J. Gardner and wrge H. Decker, @ nurse, on trial in {the County Court, Brooklyn, for con ® | splring too » eatate Jof Samuel ¥ were acquitted early tis morning by # Jury after} seven hours’ deliberation. 1 — Mother Reports (o Police Danghter In Missing Again, Mrs, Joseph Post of No, 443 Kast | Pifty-second Street, reported to de- cetives of the Sccond Branch Bureau | vinced of ustice of the allies’ | just night that her daughter, Beatr venteen years old, has been mlesing D Chre ys eye Monday. She suid that at the Chronicle said that) same time there disappeared $800 dent Wilson has been “triuinpi rth of jewelry and $28 in cash antly justified.” The girl left home seven weeks ago. . and returned @ fortnight ago, saying A firm stand by d States | sie had been working uptown Congress will force Ger to back bs — down and remove practi all pos. Wanted to Make Her Own Money, BiWlitd a was Matwaan the LWo.c Mrs. Hetty Hetland forty years old, | her address at No. tries, English editors and officials de- |! clared to-day Avenue, Was sent to Hellevue for ob-| Betting and insurance a Sho was arrested by | flected this sentiment, No od on in the offices of the | the posstbility of war between ¢ \inerican Banke Note Company, No. 10 any 4 wore Lroad Street, where she was attempting | posted, ud that for the manufacture of $3 definite requests for insurance are ade their termy will be very libera in view of the vate's action day. They are counting upon similar action by the House of Representa- tives: WILL TOUR IN $1, 000 GOWN Model Wil Try to Win for ¢ Style Leadersht CHICA of Amerten March 4.—Miss Ellen ch a model day trom @ bevy of beauties |prize gown 1 Will be taker it Mlinois tn a al train as part of a campaign 1 Chicago tle dictatorship of America The vn will t edu Wednesday - /OPTIME, DAM OF SYSONBY. IS DEAD AT AGE OF 20 wc" LAXATIVE Keene's Colt by English Mar BIND AES 1 Onty LEXIN March 4.-0p time, a bay mare foaled in 1896 anc imp trom 1) neler din 1901, the to-day, She waa imported by Mage > Spectaltat PILL for Pimple, tr Daly and was at one time t mon iitouanesa, ick ‘ead : fist he and Crntipation tune of his death, Get a Box TeNight 10c, and 25¢. the Box tengo | ¢ finishing. het own designs, ut she wanted to open up a dress. | king shop) and. having no. inoney | ught that she would make her own cy lke the Government does, th od 85,278,089 for Jewish Reltef. The Treasurer of the American |.|Jewish Rellef Committee announces .t up to the evening of March 8 the wing amounts have been re- 4 In cash, $2,618,540.01;) In} 108, LUO total, $4,278,059.69, SAILING T TO-DAY. 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