The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 7

One Way to Protect the City P Size and Weight of Motor Tr RANK L. at the spend nes which have greatly same time invited the club members DOWLING, President tor Truck Club this —+ avements Would Be to Limit the ucks, of Manhattan Borough, in @ speech week, sald the city was prepared to rly $3,000,000 to repair the badly worn street pavements, interfered with traffle. President Dowling at the to submit suggestions regarding the| THE EVEN limiting of tho sizo of trucks and tho Width of tires that would not be) clock in the 28rd Regiment Armory, #0 injurious to pavements. It has long been tho contention of many automobile experts thet the time would eventually arrive when trucks would be restricted as to weight. Motor trucks have been developed to less than diminutive railroad freight was considered big, but now the limit @ half tons, and the end is not In sigh! the point where they are now nothing cars, At one time a two-ton truck has been pushed well over three and t. These ponderous vehicles are very harmful to city streets, especially tn summer when the sun softens the i! pavements and the trail of @ great truck can be followed by the rut ft jnin makes in the street surface. It would be the sensible thing for tho efty authorities to limit the size of trucks, Antomodile EAttors Have a Ford car and every t! g0 to speed up It begins to miss. Will carbon cause this? WALTER FERRIS, ‘The trouble may be due to faulty tenition or poor carburetion; would advine looking over the entire igni- tlon system before attempting ® car- Durster adjustment. Carbon also in- terferes with the proper running of a car, Automobile Aline: What year did the Morcer mobile Company get out thelr tary transmission and did the Pier Arrow people also put out alr-celled motors? CURIOUS. The Mercer car wa er manu- factured with a planctary transmis- EMERGENCY BRAKING. A new emergency brake Is now be- Ing manufactured, anys t d yle of brak 99 automobiles were equipped with a so-called “spray.” This was attached to the rear of the car, and when ascending @ hill released by a foot brake ao that it pointed down- ward, thus absolutely preventing the ear from dropping back when it be- came necessary to change gears. This now ergency brake digs Iteelf right into the ground. lease the brake, the check fin and start ¢ engine, ston. The metropolitan agents have mo record of it. The first motor used by Pierce wns an air-cel Artomodile Altar: | The third cylinder of my 1912 Ov- ertand leaks oll, Have put in proof piston rings, have no effect, Can remedy? JO} ‘The cylinder walls of the oy you are having trouble with ore no Moubt scored, If this {s not the case the cylinder is probably out of round end will need grinding of @ new piston and ri Automobile Eat While going up tn my car I hear an occasional knock. W this be caused by? ba ‘The knock may bs caused loose bearing or adya carbon, nd the Atting | makes a run 3 cending @ hill w hour, but 1 go twenty or twen miles an hour the car runs smooth! {ED HAUSBEN Carton ts no doubt causing t trouble you mention or t carbon ts re there, would jgnition and exam loose bearings or fo Autemodile Eititor: I have a 1914 Fo ty fail to atart it, 1 took head off and found in onaiderable of] and water. GRANDMOTHER KNEW. There Was Nothing So Good for Congestion and Colds as Mustard But the old-fastioned mustard. Plaster burned and bustered y uly it acted, Get the rv: Ip that mustard plasters at the plaster and without th Musterole docs i white ointment, tard, It is scies chitis, tonsilitis, asthma, neuralcia, he tion, pleuriny, chew s pains and aches of the bac sprains, sore muscles, bruises, blains, frosted feet, eclds of t Gt often prevents pneur a), B0c and G0c jars; hospital s me tf 4 motor, | | White cars? | You will And the timing gears driv- | White cu the cylinders, and will it get out of gear? FRANK ROBERTS. if water is found in any grent amount in the cylinders, it Is evi~ tence of a leaky cylinder head gas- ket or a cracked cylinder, Clear out cylinder and put in new cylinder head gasket, making sure that cylin- r head is tight. If the leak still shows, look for @ cylinder crack. You may lift cylinder without changing the timing of the motor. After cylin- ders are put back valves should be timed properly. Automobile Edltor: I have a pix-cell storage battery on |my car. Two cells are dead. 1 have f told by battery repair men that not worth whilo repairing, I is t to use th pattery for my hts and horn or Wil T burt my geu Jeration if I cut out the two dead cells land send tho current through the four good cells? A READER. It will not hurt your battery to cut out two cells and charge the other four, If you leave the two dead cells you will find {t impossible to charge the battery. Be careful when cutting out the dead cells that you eet a very good connection between | the cells used. These cells should be joined together by burning, but I would not advise you to attempt | thts sort of work unless you have had Jconsiderable experience, Have it done by a battery man. I do not understand why the battery man | should say the battery was not worth |repalring. It seems to mo that !f a thing is 682-3 per cent, good, aa in the caso of your battery, it certainly has some value, Why not aeo if you ould not have two new cells put in at a fair price? | Automobtie Tt T have had my Overland lata up for the cold months with water out of the radiator, Would it do the radi- ator any harm if I put boiling water |in it when I get ready to use tt, fc | the purpose of warming up the ‘sys and getting it ready to start ts, would it do any injury to put hot water in a cold radiator? F.7.M. Tt will not harm the radiator any to pour tr t water, You will fod |the heat a great ald in starting. Automobile Kaitor ‘lease give me information how to fime the spark and valve on Ford and JAMES DELANEY ing tho valves on both the Ford and on certain teeth, Hy shing up these gears #o that the arks coincide with one another the valves will be correctly timed. The Ford ignition is timed as follows: ‘Turn on the motor until No, 1 piston ia Just about to descend on the ex plosion stroke, Adjust the revolving piece (rote the commutation so that {t makes contact with n which No, 1 wire 19 re coil should then buss otor ts turned the slightest This ‘s done with the com- ation retarded all the way. » White, which uses a magneto, | ts timed in very much the same fash- No. 1 piston is brought to the preasion stroke. ‘The mag- eto is set in posttion and turned til the distribution fs about to minko contact on No, 1 sogment. EASY VULCANIZING, er 5 ee sas ae ttk The long used method of vuleaniz- ing from the heat of a di soline or aloohol flame is considerably out of dato now, according to the Illus trated World, which desoribes how an inventor haw perfected a device by which heat is generated from the exhaust of one’s automobile, It claimed thie process can be oarr on while the car is in motion and ¢! the results obtained are quite satis factory, The macneto ts then turned a itttle her, with the apork retarded un- interrupter ker potnta) ia then fas. (br 1 method > that lea LOUTS LALLEY 19 and effective way is to un F pipe at the point where it tho s » then to force nT} alr throu » thia moth 10 pip It, bh as makeshift until a more permanent cleaning out can be accomplished, going to overhaul the car, taking off|{}, the stare six feet in dlany A conerete motor bo noveities of the show. \ is intended for auto lea exclusively, ssociation considered the matter of showing the public the new form of boat in one of the) hile the displ By John Pollock Although an effort has been mate to bring about a bout between Hattling Lavingky, the Hebrew hedvyweight, ana Jack Dempsey, the Western heavy- woight, at the Baltimore A. C. of Baltt- more on March 6, there ts no chance of Levinsky taking part tn as bis man- ager, Dan Morgan, declared to-day that ho has decided to let I ky continue j die duties as civilian boxing instructor for the soldiers at Camp Ayer, Maas, for at least another two months before | |having him engage tn any contests, Dave Astey of this dity, former ematemr ban- tam~weigbt champion, will meet Jimmy Wilde, bantam champion of England Stadium in Liverpool, Kugler | Jeo dnote, manager of osivet the following cable fron A, Director of the Livervoat Stadium “Accept your tere for match with Jimmy ING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 19198, ‘HOW TERRY M'GOVERN | Wide and Dare Aster, Will give you 82.000 and three round trip tickets, fine clam, Date to be| May 6. Cable tf mitatactory,"* “T oent © cablegramn to Mr, Taylor, talieg bin te send the tickets and let as know when to | start," auld Jacote tnst night, |, "Aster ban fa Providence, Pittstrne>, Bt Pant and Balti. face, and he will go through with them all be. fore he gore to Pagian | Jimmy Wilde tn a tail, raney ind, eneecttonally slender, bat with @ terrific punch, He bas beaten oevered American eazirente for bie titte, ‘Tommy Rotmon of Maiion, Mam. who hee do. veloped nto @ real god middiewse, was | eotashed today th meet Teo Honek of Lancaster, Pa, for twelre ronda to a deciatem, at the box ing sum to be staged by the Armory A, A. of Bowon on Tureday evening, Mam’ 5, Honck will hare to te in bla bewt form and ele capable of | tarieg puntvieent If be expecta to get the de Disk Curler, the New York emprmentative of the Nattimow A, C, of Naliimore, wae well ptid oy Henry Mletone, the manager of the AFrangivg Ce Chiete ton-roU te | \0 rec oe eet r anger than Matzer expected tg Landed Curley $200 for tis work, | Ae the new gro Kirk, the former thanager \of A. of Har Jaa ta geticig i hape ka East 128th Street ie tet! wad, n rt niet, tlhe for his ten-rowud takes piace at fie Bef | Allinmeapesie on ‘The larat amount 35,40). 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Pron RGYR LORMLAR OE IS ay ‘ SHPO There.” If they weren't GOOD— They wouldn’t' be good enough for.the Boys “Over i oo tae ~ EVENING WO dd we - ( t S S; RLD HEADPIN / 2) iy : oummar, rom These Men Will Make a Great Success MIDE Rab ASTOR |e y Fre deal Rah Mt ry Of Brooklyn’s Annual Automobile Show Southern Links| ws wo rae ies / f New rooklyn’s Annual Automo | « wiasiaramcartieet tee | sags’ semoe wom, 4 Bs ® y of ood lan - ge Vg “aN 1897—Had nis first glove Bout [ions mendey ae eee eet ’ ie fn the old Greenwood A. C. ‘ od 3 " (> aA | ye Tday when he defeated W. 1B, ited 98—Knocked out Harry |?) 4 A t #, forinidable bantam, in the of In the floais by 12 up and tt white pen 1 Ay Ouel I’ enth round at the Pelloan A, |‘? Pla Ashley has improved in @v@ry | finn Uniin, Aimale ( ooklyn 1d he has played this weelt, | .Thamiey ) 1899--Jimmy narry, bantam [and @ teod up for the thirtyeats | fetme en the a champion of Am retired, | holo final he was at the top of his game. RADWAY’S READY RELIEE leaving title to Bc A 79 from the hack tees is pratty ADWAY’S READY RELIEF } 1899-—Tteat Pediar Palmer, Bing-..| «olf on the championship course, yet f Meh bantam champion, for the [tits was A ‘+ modal eeore for the { World's title at Westchester A. Ca [fret elgnteen, he wan even up when Tucknhoe, In halt a round, layers retire’ to luncheon, In the \ | 1900- ked out George joy. ~ h bi ; | Dixon, “featherweight champion {*fteinovn the feat tots was nalved. 60" | Fors Rheumatic—Mus te bt - of Americ i he eighth round be om ser conua y ry +} Beneath & Fed, white and dive can of Amesioa, in. the el Jning etreak at the aerond and became lO Neuralgic Pain @ jopy formed bd oe largest American, acd cok coane mene, lolant us Las 5 Te flag ever made, Brooklyn's annual au- an ad cut BrADK ene, | _. 7% 3 rays, i tomobile show will open to-night at Tver, Mich., Who constr po Hen ine hoa roond a a | M ORFACT, Pia, Fed, 32TH | Pay OC od er tas ane having made a wager with some of hit) handicap match, Erne being ro- | 4 In the women's annual golf | the deres oft suis, starts Bedford Avenue, between Atlantic and eee ootte ene displayel by the] Stricted to 128 pounds ringside, urney for ehamplonshlp of the Sti —— b esopaak Pacife Streets, It ts the aevonth show | stland Cement Association. 1901—Knocked out by Young fare Mra. C.J. Fel ‘onne and 25¢c i of the Brooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealurs’ Corhett in the second round at | yiiey Ethel hiladelphia Amocintion, og Hartford, Conn. for the feather= fit” oth came through thelr matche D 50c, elton invee large It war trond Crsceey || \n componed of f. C, Kirkham, Chairman:| at 126 pounds, ue | ve onaaun ar bene e s to run it In two sections, During the |C. Mt. Bishon, A.D. Corwin, A. B, Ran- 1908—Last bout in the ring with | Priber slefeating Mra. Vougiag v. Paige $100 first week, until Saturday night March dali, F Keter and Le J. Seaback. pike Robson elleport 4 up and 3 to play, a . i 4 2, the display will cousint of pansenger Monday. Will be end. Navy ba [Mine Campbell puting Misa Lote @tu- Chass niptertatiog Ne crcbTe eter ednead ner, Ravialoe, Out of the tourney by the aa rT rs Ul the passenger ¢ he COMMer BOSTON, Mass., Feb, 22.—B ch waa the most Inter- and true fA, . Part wo runs = Army and or, the aeneational Brench boxer, adc iWon to the reputation | y, March as Bat: | ‘forma of the my Shea to his iat of victories « H an expert golfer @ @rAKeN POBRv ALY Urdey, twhich in to help win the a will be a re, |the Commercial A, A. here yest been ‘playing. remark: | rm THe MELTED 6? sremesh no flag measures 250 by 166 feet, tho |!taportance to war » 107 exhibitors on the Hat for |atternoon, winning evary Found for a girl of her aaa, narrows chills, Indigration, stripes being twelve feet in width and fed ® he show, twelve in @ fast contest, cramps in bowels, GARETTE | .