'World Electric Fixture Complete with two halls and bath room fixtures, $20.00. Do not miss this opportunity of securing one of these sets at such a sac- rifice price. All TUN ISTEN lamps included. Moore's Electric Shop - 206 Wellington Street Motor and Auto Service KINGSTON MOTOR TRANSPORT & LIVERY Cco., Phone 177. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. 1 lon and return over the Merrick in the oil system; yet it jt collects TWENTY YEARS AGO road, on Long Island, in any considerable quantity along : "ni ' the oil line it may cause much . The Vanderbilt Cup Race. {trouble in winter by freezing, and Early in 1904 W. K. Vanderbilt, thus partly or. completely stooping IN 1895. | Jr., announced his intention of offet- | the ow of the lubricant, {ing a trophy to be contested for on n Is Some fates the water may some A ---- : 0 'areless garage attendant, "Speed Demon" Made 7% Miles an an geruational, basis, fot country splashing water on the motor so Hour Then--The Record Now is | ten cars. The first race was run on | forcefully that it gets iito the crank 101.86, October 8, 1904, over a course on Size through thy breathes Pipe: Us: : § 29 2 , Br, e ater. ¢ L dust twenty years ago the most | LE Island; measuring Ba Elen | roy Bat wre pie; pater. Soiies powerful racing automobile attained | oo, Heath, an American, driv- above. an average speed of 7.6 miles an ing a Panhard car won. his time be- It is one of he products of com- dicur. in the first American motor ing 5.26.45 ' ee ~ | bustion, and is also drawn into the derby. A few weeks ago Daric The race Was run cylinders with the air in small quan- esta travelled 101.86 miles an hour, | 1446 when crowding of the spec-| tities. It is also charged that it and the winner of the Astor Cup race | tators on the course, aid failure to IS sometimes entrained in small quan- is expected to exceed that speed. | hoon militia to patrol the road, tities with the oli as a result of im- This great increase in speed is due ! ced the abandonment of contests Perfect settling after certain purify- Mat only to the development of the othe public highways. A plan to! ng operations. facing car, however, but to they 1d a motor park way on Loifg If the piston rings ate loose and scientific construction of tracks and LI land, was then formulated and al- |] the cylinder walls worn, as is the speedways as well. [though omy a portion of the course! C4 With motors that have been run The first automobile road race was | oo inclosed this was the first Am-| a great deal, part of the explosion un between Paris and Bordeaux inl riean speedway Then for several | Will leak past the pistons into the 895. A series of trials had been |... metor competitions were held | crank case. This is cool, and allows Id on the public highway between | © TC racing tracks at Readvillt, | the water vapor, or steam, te con- Paris and Rouen the year before, but i pr sire City. Yonkers 'Morris Park dense. In"the course of. a few They were only tests and not compett-| 4 Brighton Beach. About that months' running this condensattion > ous. | RY ve Aik muy total a pint or more, and mys- : It is a peculiar coincidence in mot- | Swe raightaway foe wi wefe Jun tify the owner when he draws the | Or racing that the first recorded viet- | Beach, Fla.; Ventor . near Atlantic | 011 off, ~ Ory in a road race is credited to Bohy and Galvesor : Peugeot, while the fastest time ever | © The first specially constructed made in competition, 101.86 miles | 0 losed speedway for motor racing an hour, was attained by the Same | was built by Locke Kin at . make car in the 100-milie match race | about twenty 8 v A Brooklands, in the Chicago Speedway a few weeks | from London, This was a saucer- ago. | shaped course, with a cement racing Count de Dion has the distinc- | ¢ ah xing, the first. propelled surface of 2 11-16 miles. America's | HORSE COULD WIN FROM AUTO | : : CARS FOR HIRE Careful, courteous drivers. FOR . McLaughlin x in Al condition yearly until Experiments in the Philippines in crossing native tobacco with a Con- necticut variety have produced a to- bacco selling for more than twice the price of the native, vv OTT vr Motor Boat and Automobile Supplies Halliday's Electric Shop, 345 King Street CITY INSPECTS GASOLENE SUPPLY. Los Angeles Guards Against | inferiority By Watching Supply Points. 34-38 Princess Street. General Motor Cartage a Auto Service. First-cinss Horses and Carrel . Frelght and Baggage Transfer attended to promptly. Fremier Gasoline and Polerind. Jor sale, s Phone 94 -2- -1- .2- s FE » i ET oN, Tey ED Me J OC MORRIE © Civ... aa. Phene CC -------------- ta Le eam tim, His car Yas a Suadragyble, !apolis in 1909. It is two and a half Public inspeeti I 2 lana 1d J. C. MORRIS 2 -. Manager, ewe ewe - - an 11s "speedway a aris boule miles in circumference It had a ublic 1aspection : Ol gasolene 00 7 ------ a a -- vard. to motorists through the medium of & gravel surface originally, Alter seve a city oi] testing laboratory is being | ------ ral persons bad been killed in wmis- haps caused by the. poor condition of the track, the surface was rebuilt with yitrified brick. The first races at Indianapolis were short sprints of fio more than 50 miles. A speedway was also built at Atlanta, Ga. in 1909, Only a few short-distance 732 miles. Twenty-two cars started, | races were run. A mile board speed- and nine covered the course. The | way was built at Play Del Rey, near » Peugeot ran the race at an average | Los Angeles, Cal, in 1910, but failed of 12.2 miles an hour, and finished | to retain the patronage of the publie three days after it started. Until 1914 Indianapolis had a he The first motor car race in Am- | monopoly in speedway racing. In Peugeot Winner Then and Now. In the frst recorded race, Paris to Bordeaux and return, the "Peugeot Was declared the winner, although it did not finish first, the leading car being disqualified for not complying | with the rules. The distance was successfully carried out in Los An geles, which is the only city in the ! world that has thus far taken up | the task of prohibiting adulteration | of gasolene and enforcing a system of fuel oil testing. The large number of in Southern California, where the | number of machine owned per capita is greater than in any other | section of the country, has made it | expedient for Los Angeles to adopt i this system of municipal gasolene in | motor cars | erica was held in 1895. It was held! that year the Tacoma road race Spection. a tions have been rried by a Chicago newspaper. A car | course was converted into an enclos- on for 1) p Eredar eer manufactured by C. E. Duryea came | ed and banked speedway. Sioux °0 rant ar aul DAT of a year The practice of adulterating, gaso- City also had a two-mile speedway. Now there are in existence a dozen enclosed tracks, all measuring two miles or more. The speedway, as well as the car Le Off victor, averaging: 7.5 miles an Lour for a 54-mile course covered with snow and ice. Only two years later Alexander Winton, in his little Winton runabout, set the first Am- lene with cheaper oils is believed to hav been stamped out whose products failed to comply with the standards have been directed to | | Refiners | --small--light--economical --your ideal car But you must ride in it to . SOP a | : Sh . Pn improve the quality of their goods . i I pag urd by travilting # ile Hus have wredit ring 'eoarkable |, refrain from selling in the ity. Each season foranumberof pearance, of highest quality [Aare Satly part of 1915 the: Los and finest finish--to sell for appreciatefullyand completely season of 1914. Indianapolis began i the string with the International Sweepstake of 500 miles, won by a Mercede car driven Palma at an average speed of 89.84 Between 1898 and 1901 several motor race meets were held. They ~~ served one purpose, giving the public {the idea that a new means of trans- © portation had . arrived. Therg was . Ro apathy in the public's reception of P the motor cyr as a racing engine. | Huge crowds turned out to witness | _ the sport whenever a meet was an- nounced. 3 y In 1901 motor racing became more * than experimental. Cars had been 80 perfected that they could finish a race, Their speed almost equaled! die that of the common object of com- speedway races in a Maxwell car made on the Indianapolis track. The two-mile board track at Chi- cago was then dedicated with a 500 mile contest. Dario Resta, in a Peugeot car, drove at the average speed of 97.6 miles an hour, estab. lishing a new American record. Ed- Rickenbake won the next two parison, the railway engine. On (On a two-mile dirt track at Sioux Fractional distallation methods are 4 isO \ August 20, 1901, at Newport, a on he averaged 75.07 miles an |Sene, with additional Slash, sulphur, veniences known to the auto- was designed to meet the You can own this erland. a \/ William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., drove his hour, and on the new two-mile, nd used for analyzing gasolene and . . d d f th h 1d - d MN " Mercedes five miles in about seven board track at Omaha he travelled kero-acid tons for the latter, De mobile industry--to sell at a €mands o ose who cou See the Overland dealer an \ 7 \ and a half minutes, and ten miles in he rate of 91.27 miles hour. gasolene specifigations require 1a . 3 3 : x Ler 15 minutes. On November 16 of tho | *t he Fate of 91.27 miles an hour "seventy per cent. of gasolene shall price so low as to defy com- not afford a big, expensive let him give you a demonstra- Lr ae Tang aiund els es amos ipocy | WATER TROUBLESOME | {ict over acy tenperstire ot ex parison. automobile, yet would not be tion, ( 5 : rp IN AUTO CRANK CASE. : content to own a little, un- / trials on the Coney Island Boulevard. ¢ Un this event Henri Fournier drove = © bis Mors ear one mile in 0.51 4-5.[Carelessness of Garage Atten- by Ralph De ne mies an hour, the fastest time ever | Angeles department of oil inspection drew up specifications for petroleum products, including gasolene, ben- engine distillate, kerosene, Stove distillate 33 degrees Baume, and furnace distillate 28 degrees Baume, and provided that such com- modities sold by dealers within the city should comply with these stand- ards, Refiners, marketers, jobbers, and retailers are included under the supervision, Method of Analysis residue shall have a specific gravity 87---i.e, not not greater han oh heavier than 47.5 degrees Baume.' years the Overland organiza- tion has accomplished what no other automobile manufac- turer has even attempted. Each season it has built a car that would satisfy the demands of the most fastidious --one having all the up-to-date advantages, comforts and con- Overland organization, $850. Only the economies possible with a production of 1,000 cars a day make possible such a complete car at such a price. This Overland was built to reach a new low level of oper- ating and upkeep expense. It $sightly, uncomfortable car. its ample power, its smooth operation, its comfort, sim- plicity of control and remark- . able easy riding qualities. Yet it is not only inexpen- sive to buy, but very economi- cal to operate. But do it now. ® This feat © sed the greatest ite- A c Both straight ryan distilled gasolene Overland experi Cc Over- : In spite of our output of : ho: ri au the hy pe dant W ny r Re and blended or compressor gasolene land f to acs il h T But its success has been 1 000 a day we are aa to "© "headlined" i A er I } sponsible. are admitted, actory iaciities have tha eryone--peo ' ? e tas R, Svery Jveper from po City inspectors are sent to filling such tev on ple of f+ Coast to coast. & Following the Coney Island boule- It is frequently the case, especially = vard contest, trials were held over | with older motors, that when the oil * the South Shore boulevard, Staten|is drained from the crank case pre- Island. They ended in an accident! ~ that killed several persons. The ply, a quantity of water will be year before the Automobile Club of , found mixed with it. Normally, this America had promoted a 60-mile water does little if any harm. In _ Toad race from Springfield to Baby- most cases it is trapped somewhere paratory to pouring in a new sup-|. stat'ons, garages, refineries, grocers, and all points where petroleum, pro- ducts are sold, The mariner's compass performs a lot of important needlework. Failure is another thing always spoiled by success er sc nn accomplished what others have considered impossible. This year Overland domi- nance is even more positive. We have developed and built the ideal small, light, economical car--complete in every detail of construction and equipment--smart in ap- wealth and automobile experi- ence, as well as those of modest: means find in this economical $850 Overland their ideal light car. It has beauty, finish, com- forts and conveniences that everyone wants. A look at the car will tell you that. OVERLAND SALES ROOMS Arthur W, H, Callaghan, 22-24 Market St., "Phone 1410. Willys-Overland, Limited the utmost to meet the de- an mands. For no other car at anywhere near the price com-' pares with this small, light, economical Overland in beauty, finish, comfort and , performance. Do not delay action until it means a long wait for delivery. Act today. Head Office and Works, West Toronto, Ont. S Roadster $s2s Model 75 = fob. Toronto