Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 172, 30 April 1911 — Page 13

THE RIOmiOND PALLADIUM AND OUX-TELEGRASI, SUNDAY. APRIL 30, 101 1.

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11 Bignboards on All Highways Leading into Windy City Now Being Repaired. .'Chicago, April 29. With the approach of spring. Charles M. Hayes, chairman of the signboard committee Cor organised motorists, Is outlining u campaign which will likely commend him to all motorists who use the highways of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. All three states will be touched by members of the committee, armed with , hammers, nail and paint brushes and other Implements necessary for the work. To fulfill all the plans of the chairman three, cars and a motorcycle will be used In scouring the surrounding country. Mr. Hayes will go to Elgin la his big Halladay, his purpose being to place new signs where needed, and to paint all the old signs so that they ,will be valuable for the thousands of motorists who will visit that city this summer. The signs will be of particular benefit to the spectators at the Elgin races, and Invaluable for hundreds of enthuslaats who go around the Elgln-Aurora-Cblcago triangle every week. IL E. Oreen of the committee will go to Rockford In another Halladay, and "Dan" Boone will use his Moline to Inspect the South Bend Route, part of which was visited last Sunday by Mr. Hayes. Very few signs were found missing on the first part of this course but they all need a coat of white paint. Manager Roberts of the Tbor 'concern will send a motorcycle to Milwaukee today for the purpose of checking the signs placed last year by Joseph Lawrence, last year's chairman and the originator of the signboard campaign In this city. It .Is expected that some of , the signs have blown down during the winter, but It Is planned to rapair all damage done, and to erect new signs at many places overlooked or made necessary by changes In the crossroads. AUTO SHAVES ROAD Nebraskan Makes Highways Suit Needs of Car. Among the supervisors of Cheyenne county, Nebraska, not a little perturbation and much curiosity has been aroused by some "Jack the Shaver" slicing pff the high center of the county, roads. Nobody suspected an automobile. They set a watch. But no person was seen at work shaving off the high centers. Tbey sent out a couple of patrols in sombhehos and chaps and mounted on bronchos. At the end of the week, the patrols reported laconically: "We ain't saw nobody doin' nothln'." So a stretch of road was regraded and a crowbar driven Into it until flush with the hump of the highway. That soon told the tale. George Robe rs, who lives in Sidney, Cheyenne county, is owner of a 1908 Mitchell runabout. Ills business takes him a good deal over the county roads, the highe centers of which bothered his car, so he had attached to the under side of the front axle a long, sharp knife, with which he pared off the tops of the high centers. Witty Willis. Nathaniel ; Parker Willis, the poet ' Mid author, was also a bit of a wit. Once at a dinner In Washington Willis and a young girl were talking with greet animation. The young gjrl's aunt, seated beside a Mr. Campbell, passed dowa to her niece a note that said. -Stop flirting with Nat Willi. " Willis on reading the note sent It back to the aunt again with this couplet scribbled on the reverse side: Dear aunt, don't attempt my young feel Ins to trammel Nor strain at a Nat while you swallow a i Campbell. A Garbled Message. At the last moment Mr. Gayley found he could not attend the garden party at Miss Feuton's bouse, and It was, of course, imperative that he should send his regrets, so be summoned Michael, the family gardener. Tell Mlsa Bessie that 1 am very eorry, but business will prevent me coming," be said. -Tea, sir." said Michael. -And stay a moment," said Gayley. "Could yea remember a line of poetry r "Certainly, eorr." -Well, tell ber. Though lost to sight, to memory dear.' " naif an hour later Michael was delivering his message to Miss Fenton. "The master said lt'a sorry be is be can't be wld ye," said Michael, "andand. though he's lost his sight, his memory's clear. And may I be for given for the untruth I'm tellln' ye"! A Willful Misunderstanding. Pitt was Induced by Sir John Sinclalr to constitute a board of agriculture toward the end of the eighteenth century and make blm the president Having enjoyed his office for a few years, Sinclair began to desire promotion la the social scale. "Dear Mr. Pitt." he wrote to the prime minister, -don't you think the president of the board of agriculture should be a peer?" 'Dear Sir John Sinclair," replied Pitt. "I entirely agree with. you. I hare therefore appointed Lord Somerrllle to succeed you as president of the board of agriculture." Sir John Sinclair went about wringing bla hands and exclaiming: -Dear me. dear me! It waa such a willful mis understanding'!" . 'L Net Feasible. -Is there a good parUag Wayr la that

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Night Motoring Dangerous : Yet it Can be Mastered

Driving a ear at night is something most motorists don't like if they are handling the machine on an unfamiliar road. And, most any driver makes two mistakes when he has to send his auto along in the dark, says an article In Motor Print. "Watch the average driver when any delay makes It obvious that he cannot hope to reach his destination without an hour or two of lamplight. As the shadows lengthen he 'keeps pressing the car on urgently and nervously, inspired by the fallacy that It la easier and pleasanter to drive by twilight than in the dark by acetylene to help bim. "As a matter of fact the half hour or hour between lights .Is easily the worst time in the twenty-four hours for seeing. If the lamps are not lit there Is insufficient llgth; It they -are lit the fading daylight is Just strong enough to spoil the clear contrast between the glare of acetylene and the object it throws Into shadow. "As a consequence this half hour or hour beween lights is always an anxious time and may include two or three narrow squeaks, dangers avoided and mistakes corrected at the last possible Instant. These have their effect on the driver's mentality. They string up any nerves In his constitution, and by the time thick darkness has fallen and his powerful lamps can help him to see as far as is possible he Is already utterly demoralized. "If he has to keep on driving for several hours his nerves will recover, as be finds driving easier in the deeper darkness of absolute night; but this is just the experience which the timorous night driver seldom enjoys, for he is generally home by an hour or so after lighting up time and lacks prolonged experience of driving 'in the black.' "Any man with an objection to night driving should arrange to stop and dine, prepare his lamps, smoke; anything to waste a little time during this awkward half hour between lights. He will find nothing to terrify him when he takes the road again as soon as darkness has really fallen. "A second error common among less experienced night drivers is to hug the side of the road and use its illuminated beading of turf as a steering guide. This error has two bad effects. Sooner or later the car will slide up to some conveyance or other the color of which blends readily with the roadway ; its tail lights if any, will be those tiny red glasses set in the back of the faint oil headlights, rendered invisible alike by position and intrinsic poverty until the car is almost upon them, when only a mighty swerve can avert a collission. If the car is held to the center of the road, or even a trifle toward the offside, the vehicle will be visible much earlier, and even if it Is overlooked until rather late quite a minute swerve will avail to clear It. ' "This error also produces a second unpleasantness. - Many owners 'have complained to me that they cannot hold their cars straight at night. By day they can keep the car's nose on a bee line, but by night they quaver and corkscrew and are forever giving little tugs and wrenches at the wheel. This sensation is the product of short focus steering. The eyes are trained on some point too near to the car. It may either be the fault of weak headlights, allowing too brief a range of vision, or of steering by the nearside road edge as illuminated by the side lamps. ', "If a driver takes notice when driving by daylight he will find he steers by and toward a point well ahead of the car and therefore steers straight. He can only steer straight at night by adopting the same plan, and consequently he should employ head lamps of ample power and steer by their light, not along the road edges lit only by the side lamps. "When It comes to nights gray with fogs then truly has the automobilist reached the limit of helplessness, since it seems almost impossible to make his lamps of any value at all either to himself as road illuminants or to others as warning of his approach. To see what might be done In to Improve matters in this direction I have for some time been experimenting with various devices and different colored lights. Some of these experi ments have proved hopeless failures and need not be given here: others, bowever, have proved more success ful and are outlined belqw. "I will first tell you of my experience with colors; the word penetration Is hardly the right definition, but rather what light is stopped the most by the moist atmosphere. It is a scientific fact that on a wet day the air Is much lighter than on a dry one In rifle shooting less elevation is re quired on the former than the latter for on a bright sunny day tbja bullets will travel much slower and lower than when rain or fog is in evidence; much the same is experienced with artificial light. A good Illustration is to observe the colored lights In railway signals, the white and green ones are practically useless at a distance when they are compared with the red. not only because the rays are impeded by the glare in fog from the two former, but the latter is seen and enables one to see at a much greater distance. " "Referring to my experiments, a red glass was put into an ordinary lamp the halo was almost non-existent, but the right given off was somewhat confusing, the road surface and grass sides being only with great difficulty distinguished. Then an orange lens was substituted with marked improvement; steering was by far easier, the sides of the headway, which was 20 feet wide, being quite clear and a considerably increased range of vision directly In the line of travel. "It seemed that with some lights a bank of ethereal matter is thrown up In the form of a glare close to the light, thus effectively obstructing the line of sight. Acting upon the photographic dark room principle, double glasses were tried, red and orange, whereupon the absence of showing up tion painted on the - weatherbeaten

the fog was appreciably noticeable, but the distance that the light shone was much restricted. "The conclusion I eventually arrived at was that orange glass, either by itself or placed with but outside the ordinary white lens, is best. As a. temporary measure orange silk tied over the glass is an assistance, but - not nearly so effective. The orange tinted glass is also quite good enough for clear night driving. : "The position of the famps must vary according to the make of the car. After about every conceivable position had been tried I found it was better to place them low down, or if this Is practical, to cant thejn slightly downward and as near to the

center of the car in reason. If side lights are carried, as they usually must be to comply with the regula tions, let them be as dim as possible "A last very simple wrinkle concludes my observations. All are familiar with those moments of lurid language in which the car has shot swiftly up a crossroad, and as the all the lamps are staring fixedly ahead no one can read a word of the desired lnformasignpost. There is a call for volun teers and after a fractious pause one of the passengers wriggles out of his rugs, dislocates a side lamp; plunges knee deep in the slushy grass and, pos sibly clambers up the fingerpost with the lamp In his teeth. "All this bother is prevented if the' driver provides his man with an opera glass and slows the car forty or fifty yards from the signpost. The passenger can thus often detect the required direction without dismounting and without calling for the car to be stopped or the gears changed." ' - -

AUTO MERGER WILL BENEFIT PUBLIC Advantages to Accrue From Consolidation Pointed Out by Croxton.

New York, April 29. Herbert A. Croxton, president of the Consolidated Motor Car company of Cleveland. Ohio in an interview yesterday stated that the commercial feature of the automobile industry is only in its infancy, a fact which was brought forcibly to mind when the policy. of the Consolidated Motor Car company of Cleve land was announced. The Consolidated Motor Car compa ny is a S4.000.000 corporation organized under the laws of the state of Ohio, and now controls the Royal Tourist Car company and the Croxton Motor Car company of Cleveland and the Acme Body and Veneer company of Rahway, N. J.," said Mr. Croxton, Following a very conservative policy the Consolidated will add other plants to its organization as required. The purpose of this merger is to ultimately control the units of motor car manu facture, to absorb accessory linees, to save expense in manufacturing and distributing commercial cars, both taxicabs and trucks and motor cars for the general public, and, in a word, to cut off every ' dollar of expense that can be . saved in the manufacture, equipment and distribution of motor cars, so as to give the public the very best at the very lowest price consisttent with sound .business principles. "The Croxton taxicab has long been considered as one of. if not the foremost, contender in the taxicab field - J- i 1ju-.rj'u'ui

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"The Consolidated Motor Car com pany s commercial ousiness in oom taxicabs and trucke will be of such magnitude that it will entirely carry all the overhead anil general expense, notwithstanding the fact that the equipment of their factories will produce not less than 800 pleasure cars during the coming year. t knew you were married as soon as I met you, Mr. Wed." "How so?" "You wear that apprehensive look." Spokane Syokesinan-Revlew. Tell n not la mournful mumbles .' Hobble BkJrts are here to stay. Tor the Biald each time ehe tumble Vows shn'U throw the thing away. Judge. Muggins Women are gradually usurping the place of men. I heard the other day of a woman bill collector. Bugglns Well, if a woman Is as suecessful In running down a bill as ehe 4s In running one op she should be a wonder. Philadelphia Record. Dyspeptic friends, do not despair. But dally watch the bill of fare. 6ueeeBS In life is but a fake When founded on the stomach ache. St. Paul Pioneer Press. "Show me one of these old robber castles of the Rhine," commanded the tourist. "Robber castles?" echoed the puzzled guide. "Does the gentleman mean a garage?" Washington Ilerald. "L am an optimist." he said. "I love the crowded cars. And when I fall and bump my head I like to see the stars." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Palladium Want Ads Pay.

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"FULLY EQUIPPED II In the Long Run It Means a Big Saving to Consumer Who Does So. The man who reads "fully equipped" in the description of an automobile and doesn't think that amounts to much has another thought coming to him. Automobile makers have been adding to equipment right along the last few seasons, and by this means they have held prices up where they have always been, but have been giving more for the money. But it is the man who buys an auto mobiles devoid of equipment, except perhaps a set of lamps and a kit of tools, who learns how much money may be spent in accessories. There are many conveniences that are so near indespensible that they have to be had. A windshield of some sort is highly desirable. A speedometer is a thing that be ought to have, and as a matter of fact a clock is a valuable convenience. A small thing like license plate holders cost more money than would be thought likely. An adequate pump for tires is something that he won't get with his kit of tools very likely. He ought too to have a gauge to measure the pressure in his tires, tire carriers and cases for theextra shoes are other things he can spend money for. Bumpers, fenders and shock . absorbers are other little things that casually bob up as those he ought to get. Before he gets through he has spent a deal of money in small bits for a number of things that after all he has71

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ers get them, for. . . It is then that he .realises most , strongly the advantage - of - having . made a purchase from some company that sells the automobile Utted . out, And fitting out with all sorts of conveniences, down to robe and foot rails, la; the custom of the largest makers and those who charge great prices for their automobiles. It is their way of making up to their customers what would otherwise be a reduction la price on the new models. He Took the Blame. -The guilty man always gives him elf a way," said a detective, "for, like the chap who bought the forty-cent bathing suit, he cant bide his guilty conscience. The cbap t have In mind entered the water at Atlantic City la a forty -cent suit of blue flannel. As be splashed about he was Joined b; a girl friend. The girt flashed her bright eyes over the tumbling expanse of sea and then with a aigh of delight she said: " 'Isn't the water blue today? "It's shameful.' said the man. with a hot blush; It's perfectly shameful bow this cheap bathing flannel ransr Hew te Week Pleasant. By ber gracious and cordial tnannei the wife of a western senator baa long charmed those so fortunate as to attend her delightful "functions.' On one such occasion a close friend was alluding to the hostess graceful method of making every one feel at home. "How on earth do you manage to do it?" the friend naked. "Oh, it's easy enough." replied the woman with the engaging manner. "As each guest approaches to shake hands I just pretend to myself that the person I am going to apeak to U some one I like. Chicago Record-, Herald. IS to j 3