The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 5

What You Should Know About Your Auto; How | \WiNSNEWCITIZENS It To Drive Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Trouble—Traffie Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. By GEORGE 8. ROBERTSON. HE horn or lead signailing devi of the approach of the car. QEORGE H ROBERTSON. whenever a horn {s sounded. In such not blowing or sounding a warning sign ble than the lack of it. away. Here again is a case in which ment, conditions often bringing about use the horn too freely, if at all. Answers to Queries. Automobile Editor Ihave a 1912-18 S. G, V. with Reh- field carbureter and Bosch magneto. ‘When car ts running with spark ad- vanced there is a dull knock in the motor, and with spark retarded the knock disappears. But the motor then loses power and every time [ come to a stop the metor stalls, and to avold this I have to race the motor or else run with spark advanced, Havo had motor overhauled, clutch looked after, the timing {s right and still the same annoying knock is there, Will you kindly advise me how to locate the trouble and how to remedy it? S$. STORCH The knock you mention is no doubt due to an excess amount of carbon in the cylinders. Would have this re- by the oxygen burnin, method, by scraping or by the use of liquid preparations. Automobile Editor: Have a four-cylinder Pope-Hart- ford model 1909. Find that It back fires when I switch tt from battery to attery and sort of misses, but on the magneto it mis: badly and generally back fires r running about two miles. It voila over, Is that the fault of the carbureter, or| does it need retiming of the valves and Ignition? Could you give me the approximate time required tn retimin @ car?| Would a eciate your o jon as to the best + e to sell ac Had the Pope-Hartford chan d from @ tour- | ing car to a runat Isn't there a better chanco to well it as nabout Instead of « touring car ided 1 can have the — backtire tied? Have 4 1916 Cadillac "8 speed twing to the Phat is the only to refill, How- neter does not regis ing I attribute it to ip the lack of groase at the elbow. Before it brok Premember hea was running, dometer y have paueak when car the squeak stopped when sf broke. Will that nec burnt out some beartn. F. 8. Jr Your magneto trouble is no doubt due to it being timed improperly. Would advise that the ignition timing gone over thoroughly. In order to ispose of the gar would either ad- ise or put it in the hands of a re- able second-hand dealer. A run-| ut is very salable in the epring.| speedometer drive sh tle nol doubt broken, Would stallation of a new drive s ve and} keeping it lubricated afterward, | Automobile Bator | can I secure Alco and Lozier| instruc boi A. R. Write the American Company at Providence, R. Alco book. The other may ie secured at the Lozier factory, Detroit Automobile Edite While putting on a shoe I dentally put the side whict ply this si st on th ‘ the rim.” W 1 \ tn the inner tube? EMIL. BEN EM | In putting the shoe on contrary to the way it is supposed to go you wil! find no results will be produced. The shoe will run regardless of which | way it is applied and the inner tube | will not be damaged Av wil Lover prings « onailitia at fF (bruat (rowvles start with an inflamed. torout, “Teach” your PRO-PH NON PabonoUs Mouth Wash-Gargle-Nasal Dou Ab infect at shild to Hyzieves ali th FY sie Wf your Druggist cannot supply you, fer FREE trial bottle y IY TO ERORUCTA OO, i FIFTH AVENTE NEW MOTORISTS’ PROBLEMS SOLVED Gearne the su 1» America’s foremost " send s, prospective owners fieonte chauttente a course In} aul see Classes for Ladies Call or write for booklet ¥ Stewart Auto School 906 WHT 67TH BTRELT (06 Broadway) If this be not used the law holds that the driver is liable for all damages and injuries sustained. For Many times a skittish horse or other animal will be so terrified at the sound of a horn as to become unmanageable or run > It does not pick up readily |) | Automobile Rditar | after 1,400 miles’ use. and Keep ice Is used for giving notice to others these reasons it !s highly important that the novice learn the location of the horn, its method of operation and gradually form the habit of reaching for this a8 soon as he ap- proaches any kind of crossing or other vehicle. In a short time he will get in the habit of doing this in- voluntarily, and thus it will not de tract from his atteption to the can- trol of the car. | A driver should be fair with his| horn and not sound it upon every possible occasion, There are many persons who are t!mid about a ma- chine moving as swiftly ae does the modern automobile, and these jump 4 case a driver is almost justified in| , a8 this would cause more trou- the driver should use his best judg- a situation in which it is not well to 4 machine do them any good, or would washing the truck every night and olling once @ week or #o be better? i. ¢. In oiling the would eug oughly el leaves of springs t that t , plied. Any dirt or Led ae mot file on the leav ind friction. Wa hing a ps a with the dirt, Dirt and oil are a very poor combina- tion, | Automobile Pditor | Does an owner of a For touring} car require a spectal license it he | wishes to hack? 5 A hacking license is ravi fal ears which are for hire. You can secure the necessary application and information the reau of Li- cen Automobile Baibars Can my sixteen-year-old son drive | my car if his mother is with him?| The license ig in my name. Would it © necessary to have the license made out in both my own and my wife's My wife cannot drive a ma- chine. id 1 get out a special license for my son? INTERDS’ The law hi | that D RPADER. tried to arrange it so ith in is driving, ‘3 of a fam should be carried by the license driver. Automobile Editor When I ja high and in turns in my car with motor In motion the lett wheel Jerks, irregularly, while the Wheel is all right. ‘IL loosened e brake band, but this did no good Can | harm my motor tn any way by turning my switch off when going down hill with gears engaged? When descending a hill Is it good. practi to just throw my foot brake alc without disengaging motor? A. R. Your trouble in the differential and you should examine this tely. ng the motor as a brake on some grades is all right, but it is not good practice to use the foot brake without throwing out the clutch, ne e When travelling about twenty-s n hour and whenever [presi n button by lights got. ve Can you advise a remedy GEORC MITH, The amperage of the hastery is un- doubtedly low, the b recharging. tem examined to learn whether it is charging the battery properly or not. Automobile Battor Is the Rambler car still manufac tured? Were the 1913 model engines od? 1.1. B. The 1913 Rambler was the last mode! put out under that name, From then on the car was manufac- tured under the name of Jeffrey. The motor of the 1913 model was very My car has the ga e tank under the front seat, and is causes in Aventence would it be difficult or to have a vacuum ¢ tank don the rear of the car? 8. W 't would not be a costly change. It would necessitate a new tank, addi tional piping, tank supports and a Stewart vacuum tank. The entire in stallation should cost about $40, Automeioie Kalitor Is t vere such thing a na ¢ r which ‘ If 80, wha a good remedy for same? P.M. O. 1, It seems very unreasonable that a universal joint should prove defective If this mileage 8 correct, and it is a new car, would fay that it is a quaranteo replace it by the manufacturer, The lu- brication which this part receives at the factory when assembled should keep it in condition for a greater mileage than that which you mention. joint we would be [offers freo education ANEREAN FORUM IN NEGRO ALIENS Evening World’s Movement Invades Enthusiastic Harlem. The Evening World's Amertcaniza- tion Forum made a peaceful inva+ sion of Harlem last night and brought the message of citizenship to several hundred colored men and women gathered tn Public School No. 89, Ono Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street and Lenox Avenue. There are close to 12, 000 colored men in Manhattan Bo- rough who are not citizens, Of this number about 4,000 live in Harlem, Some don't know why they have not taken out eltizenship papers; others have special grievances, and still an- other class retain, according to the colored leaders, joyalty to foreign Nags. The crowd gathered in P. S. 89 last night was enthusiastic for the mov: ment and pledged itself to work c« lectively and individually for the Forum. A brass band was on ha Evening World American flags were distributed, and several good speeches made. Borough President Marks was the chief speaker and he maintained his record for promptness, He was t the school ten minutes before the meeting opened, “I think this work {s so important,” he said in his speech, “that I came here a little ahead of time in order not to miss any fcature The success The Evening World has had on tho lower east side justifies it in spread- ing out and carrying the message of citizenship to every part of the city. It has my hearty approval and I am always at the service of this news- paper in this work “Now, my friends, you don't need anybody to tell you what it means to be citizens, Your race has been well represented in the past in every ef- fort to keep Old Glory flying, You are just as good citizens as any other lass in the community, But if there nong you who have been somewhat lax in declaring them- selves—why now is the time to come to the front and let us know just where they stand, This Government of ours doesn't want to force anybody to become citizens, T'at is an act that must ays be_ spontaneous, from rt. It must come freely of your own accord. Nobody wants to force anypody to become a citizen of this country, The object of |theso meetings Is to remind aliens jthat they have a duty to jwhich they may have overlooked “Tell your friends who are zens to think this over, This count Tt has free in- ions which black and white en- It is & place where every man ay aspire to the best that is in him, but in aspiring to this every ought also to have the intention of dedicating @ vory large part of this best that is in him to his country.” r Collector of Intern stity an old-fash ch that worked nigh pitch of his i# the time, American no audience up husiasm he said, backward brethren to come front, Let bygones be bygone men in this country —all should own allegiance to the Stars and Stripes. I » Evening World in th t & country al to the flag. N er found in the r tab Pres dents or ¢ nors of sov ereign States Julius Watson, leader of the dis trict, made @ short, practical speeci He said he knew @ lot of colored men were Not citizens, because in soma 1 districts hard I'ma. little severe,” he don't believe any) man eng benefics » institutior citizen, Let these back folks come out sew and where they stand.” A. J, TALLEY” APPOINTED AN ASSISTANT BY SWANN ation as to Who Is to Resign to Make Room for the New Prose, she is is d_ colored show us utor nter Inserthed name of Alfred J to-day + an attor- + Upon the ass panel of ! close the Swann, ppointed way for T rk oltice “pu unable to emp Jenied to ated unsel to ¢ we GOOD-BYE RHEUMATISM, BACKACHE, WEAK KIDNEYS An unhealthy body and the unhappl- ness and misery which follow may bo prevented by ordinary Judgment and care Keep your stomach and Kidneya in shape snd you Will have good health, The kid ‘ ore 13 to throw off the polsonou, 4 which ent H It : th work © wiart na y ihe Other organs will take omre backache, heumatism, pain'in the lower masy so-called ‘female troubles,’ and discomfort when urinating, udy and pain Ly tringy urine, too {re- quent ‘or suppressed pansages, All t are nature's danger elgnula to warn you of diseased kidneys or bladder, which W o fatal Bright's twolt h " n you , Lu " " each day will keep you toned up and feeling fine, Money refunded if thoy do not help you, But remember to. ask for the lnported GOLD MEDAL brenda aay perform not clti-| | MEN ARE THE LEADERS IN MI-CAREME FETE OF WEST SIDE JUVENILES AT BLAZE IN RED BANK; LOSS PUT AT $150,000 omen Tenants in Childs Building Have Narrow Escapes—One Taken Down Ladder. (Special to The Brening World), RED BANK, N. J., March ¥ire that started at 2 o'clock this morning in the bakery of J. W. Childs & Co threatened for a time to wipe out Part of the business section of Red Bank. The blaze, however, was con- fine? lo the Childs’s three-story brick bullding on Broad Street, which was destroyed. Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Gardner and | thelr seven-months-old baby barely escaped from thelr apartment on the third floor, through the smoke-filled halls and Frits Webeling, an aged machinist, almost euffocated by sinoke, Was rescued by firemen with the ald of « laador, Clarence Beck, Fred Hurley, Fred Gill and Frank Hesketh, firemen, were injured by the collapsing of « barn roof in the rear. The loss ts estima by insurance. On the ground floor of the butid- |e was tho Childs Bakery, the Mar- | cus millinery shop and Samuel barber shop. On the se | Nox were the law offices of Alston Beekman, who lost one of the most extensive law libraries in Monmouth County, and the dental office of Dr. H. A. Tilton. Arrowsmith Post, G. A. RK, had rooms on the third floor, where portraits of veterans and rec- ords were burned The brick walls of the five story furniture house of Robert Hance & Sons on the uth and J. Krodel's bullding on the north, combined with the work of the local volunteer fue companies, prevented the spread of , the fire. Iss eh seus — EARLY NEW YORKER DEAD. A. W. Tenny Bora in Bleecker Street in 1830, A. W. Tenny, who died Thursday at his home tn Fiatbush tn his seevnty Jetghth year, was born on Bleecker Street June 28, 1839, when that section of New York was little more than a Village. He served a# a meniber of the jold volunteer fire department with Engine No. 47, tn, the headquarters awe pulling on Merver Street, near. Prince, pane, [eBop Arenny, aa his friends knew. him, Foro in of the Civil War. He was connected with The Work! in the SOROS tixties. His whiow, four sons and four daughters survive him. He died within a day of the fifty-fifth anniversary of Three of the young women who will N# marriage, take prominent part in the mi-careme i CLOSING QUOTATIONS. carnival at Sherry's, March 15, for the benefit of the West Side Juvenile Club, are Miss Constance Moore, Miss With net changw from previous closing, nie O, Rand and Miss Emily W. My on , Who serve on important com. | Al@Chakmers tis ! in charge of the entertains 1 (ar & bh ats m! In this event customs are to be Am. ti = 2 reversed » you men who form + 8 the direct board of this practical + is neighborl novement In the ¢ ‘ wich section of cbe city jaers. Thus the real force behind this mid-Lenten carnival will be the mem oft 16 Men's Committea, who de Mossrs, Wiliam 1. Boulton " jr, Frank V. Burton jr, William M, Carson jr, Colles J. Coe, Harry @, Cushing $d, William K, Dick, George Ernest Fahys Jr, Fisher Goodhue, t Amory L. Maskell, Alfred O. Hoyt, ("ys | Van Santvoord Merle- Philips and How. urd Krech, Willlam Plummer. tev Cane ere Sm ard A Alice M, Elkin of Washington [att married to-day to Charles A. & former United States Hinnesota, at the Town 0 Riverside Drive : qi Mor. 4 ny Mr. and Mrs. ‘Towne will! Met Marue «fe. in Washington to attend the) Mexican [ jeuna, be . M ‘ 2 ton “4% 4 tH ‘ daughter 4 : wed will take place in ; ‘ . + ih ; Be $13 Mrs, K. Prancis Hyde wi te + 8 rop the evening , we % Mi M : : % M Frar ‘ ‘ an Pew is White of fl un 1 Fy +3 , “Daas M k : * I ' i 1 y : Ho I Ka . 4 John Wood tt of " AV s 1 ‘ 1 cover Wee fo BS yet id » ta Whi Ab ‘4 Miiveawe 444 who entertained last night ™ salee— toll 871.060, . t i Tod, M Jame N. Hill, Mr WW M WwW A ast K Mrs. Jewett Minturn and Mrs. I nk N \ of Charles M, h will take the home of No. West Marjorie Bruce 1 of be na Hriweijal of Ste WM. where ghe will romain for @ eek, iS a VENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROH 3, 1917. FOUR FIREMEN INJURED | | INTERBORO STATISTICS: rt “Out of 28,000 Wheels in the Subway Only 27,500 Were Flat’’—‘‘286,973 Corns Were Sunk With- out Warning in February’’—‘‘One Middle Door Worked on First Trial’—‘‘One Express Went Faster Than a Local.” By Arthur (‘Bugs’) Baer. | Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Pvening World.) According to statistics furnished by the Interboro for January's trade in their jitney mausoleums, 306 nickel studenta of their transportation system took chances with an accident and finished second, These figures are on exhibition in every five-cent underground taxi. He who limps may read, He who doesn't read may limp, Of these 806 damaged customers, 69 failed to watch their step, The other 237 were winged on the fly by car doors. Those guards who shoot those car doors have an aim Itke an le. In case of war, one door shooter could repel the enemy if the car doors held out. at $150,000, partly covered | chain. | These statistics are displayed as prominently as an alderman's watoh For some unknown reason the Interbvoro falls to exhibit the records of other accidents during the eame period, Maybe they don't like to boast, Gathered from a somi-officlal source, hero are some unpublished Interboro statistics of accidents, While the 306 published passengere were wetting knocked for goals-— —286,973 corps were gunk without warning. noticed who wasn't trying to et halt. fare for a seven-year-old ¢ —nobody stumbled over —a lady got a seat, feet jutting out into the als! flock ot —® stranger in the city got om the right train, —876,992 passengers were comfort- oneness able during January. —39,000,000 germs fell off one strap = . and broke their domes. —no watohes were lost. —out of 28,000 wheels in the end —a car window im the Bronx local was transparent. during January aly 27,600 were flat —there wasn't “pingle passenger partly on and partly off when 57 ex- presses started during the rush hour, —1,856 affable strangers accktently put their hands in their own pockets fan was working on the West —a crowd of subway citizens col Kurms express. urs exp ree lected at Krooklyn Bridge and che: —an express went faster than @ jo-| the management. | cal, se! 89,657 fares were refunded to pas- | —a door in the middle of a car worked the first um sengers who didn't third Tuesday in Fe ts on the at exactly 747 A, M. tourists got on at —not @ single celluloid collar was) observed on 4 5 jouth h Ferry train, on Monday, One Hundred | Old Glory has advanved nobody stood up in a Broadway train, | cent. not a ain 16 express stopped bo-louy ta Hold F tween station lease , 4 youth was seen on a Flatbush} SAN FRANCISCO, Muroh do In a train. who wasn't wearing cloth-top | decision handed down yesterday by the shoes and reading Snippy Storics, — | California Supreme Court, the city of long each, Cal, ie held responsible no chewing Kum was seen or heard | for damages Caused In May, 1913, when in a Harlem express the superstructure of a municipal pier | —a Times Square local stopped aome- | Foy" yorans., One hundred aid eluhise whore near the platform, seven -sulto for damages, acgromating about $3,500,000, have beer 1 amainat —passenger with a brown derby was the city WHAT'S THE CHUSE OF GOUT, AAEUMATISH, LUMBAGO ? Prov. H Srraves, i, D., of the oval Charity Hospital Beriln, eaye, The cause for an Alad of gont, Maron \ matiem, lumbago, ie supplied b: increase of uric acid 4 ie | blood serum, the reau! various causes yee frequen of which is renal, re an attack, one anflers sometimes from hear aetey nouralgia, twinges of here and there or Coline to a single locality.” Dr, Levison and Dr. Straues both hold that a long } we aAAY continued disturbance of the kidney function, reguiting in 4n acoumula- tion of uric acid in the blood serum, causes these painful adtliction When your kidneys feel like lumpe of lead, when the back hurts or the urine is cloudy, full of sedi- ment, or you are obliged to seek relief two or three tines during the The largest and most com pective owners and men de- siring to enter the business as a profession should not fail to investigate the bene- fits to be derived Sp ATKINSON AUTO SCHOOL MCCMUCW@@@=@ OH. \\ night; when you auffer with « headache, or dizzy, nervous spells, acid sto ou have the rheumati or lumbago, gout, seiatica, when the weather is bad, do not neglect the warning, but try simple means As Dr. SrRAUHa ay the amount of fluid should be regular and distrib- nted are the day. ke six or cight glasses of water thru the day, a glass of lukewarm water at ane jnet bel e KOing to bed, or @ pint of hot water a half hour before meals ( th onebalf teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda.) btain at your nearest drug store ANUMIC, double or triple strength, Then c This & flush the kidneys and to act as @ tonic eo that the kidneya will filter out the uric acid poison, ANuRIC, double or triple strength lithia, and in most cases it will dissolve the uric acid as Adve is more potens than hot water does Ug! : ANNOUNCEMENT | Nature Says “T can remedy most ills, and help you to escape many ail- ie oie plete School of its kind will ments, if you give me timely > Woe “Oh be opened to the public on aid,” Naturally, Nature prefers a Monday. 9 w fi Automobile owners, pros- BEECHAM S PILLS Largest Sale of Any Medicine im the World, Sold o In bexes, 10c., 25¢. The New York World Sets The Pace | cial Classes for Ladies Went Oth Bt. Neur Broadway, {and Fifty-seventh Street whose china | —a Indy qustomer failed to blook the | were absolutely dovold of cag. ticket window parade for more than - ten minutes. —out of 902,745 students matrio- —— ulate on Jan. —two actors tried to beat each other | 2% only 902.7 allop by the to the ticket window hopper without coughing up a - ticket, i} -tourtat from Jersey opened his suit : rig | fo Hew air got into the|—at 484 on the aft ot Jan, 22] the elderly folks down | pate numbered the young folks who were | —wasn't a singlo flat wheel on a| “nding up. Me | Brooklyn train, 4 copy of Aesop's Fables was found | crowd at Grand Central tailed to] %t the same tim | elbow, jostle, seratch, seramble and eerie | maul. GOING UP ALL WAYS | | , be a “WANTS BUTLER'S HOME FOR THE FACULTY GLUB Prof. Cattell Would Ask “Many Talented and Much Climbing President” to Vacate, President Butler’s $300,000 home, owned by Columbla University, i suggested for the Faculty Club by Prof. J, McKeen Cattell of the de- partment of psychology. Tho club's house ts to be torn down to make room for the new School of Business, Prof, Cattell’s “confidential memo- randum” to the 426 members of the organization, after outlining the plan, adds “It our many-talented and mudgh- climbing President should be swept into the national Vice Presidency by & reactionary wave it ts not likely that his successor would care to live in such @ mausoleum. [ certainly should not be @ candidate for the job under such hard conditions.” Prof. Cattell has been at Columbia twenty-nine years, After the ousting of Prof, Harry Thurston Peck, Prof, Catteli, tn 1910, issued a pamphlet In which he ke- serted that President Butler was au- tocratic and did not attract able men to Colun Subsequently he showed considerable ta tin tas retirement of Prof, Spingarn. It was said that President Butler inter, ned in 191%, when an effort was ade to force Prof, Cattell out. LIFT OUT ANY CORN No Humbug! Afew drops and corn lifts out with fingers—No pain ‘Tiny bottles of the new ether come pound called fre tain at any drug store here. ‘This drug freesone is the recent discovery of a Cin- nnatiman, It is need to ever again be pester with a corn or a callus, be- cause they shrivel up and lift out, root and alle with- out a twinge of pain. Apply « few vines of freezone directly upon @ tender corn or callus, In- stantly the soreness sub- des and shortly you fi the corn or hardened cak lus so loose that you lift it right off rs or calluses, bu@dries them up. You feel no pain, or irritation applying it, or af- terwards, It doesn't cause any inflammation of the tissues or skin sur- rounding of underneath, It is now really foolish to let a corn hurt you twice. A few dre freesone in all that is neces genuine is sold vly in’ th bottles packed in a {ttle wor ing a yellow wrapper. pt anything else.——Advt Dog Section With To-Morrow’s Sunday World Iwo Pages of Adver- tisements Covering All Manner of Goods Con- nected with Poultry | Raising. DO YOU WANT A DOG? Read Sunday World “Dogs For Sale” Ads, To-Morrow. | | | Place Your Order Early With Your Newsdealer. ‘