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THE WORLD.
it asked to name the city closest to.
the South Pole doubtless many people!
in tho United States «and elsewhere:
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Motoring Department, The Sentinel—-
l have a Warner speedometer, which
r used on a 3i“ inth tire. and in
changing cars 1 now use a 3213 1-2-
inch tire. i would like to know tho
tatiiiiber of teeth on the hi3 gel: II
also the little gear that I will have to
act >0 u to use the same swivel and
lettd on the 32x3 l-2-inch tile.
READER.
The small gear must have two teeth
more for a 32x 3 12-inch tine than for
a Stilt-inch tirc, tiring the same large
gear for either.
Will you kindly publish through the
auto query column an estimate of
what it would cost for putting in a
new crankshaft in an Autocar? Also
about how many hours it would take
to do same, using two men'.’ A. 8.
Provided no other work was done
two men ought to install the crank-
I‘ltllll of a twocylindcr motor in about
tit-n days. A four-cylinder crankshaft.
would take somewhat longer.
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Motoring Department. The sentinel-—
What manitold connection does the
(holder Model ll. carburetor have?
lift“ long will four dry iiatterles light
:I L'l-tondlcpower, 2 1-2 ampercs, six.
tolt nitrogen gas-filled bulb? llow
{Kill 1 ll‘iilk‘ a sealing compound for
dry Iiitttcrits something that can he
reiiit-lIt-d U. (l.
'l‘ti:tefttiii~tlt.: inch or onc-lnch
t'nitetl States pipe. thread. If the
cells are fresh they ought to light the
lillllp for about eight hours. Dry coils
l:-.~t lf‘tllg if the work is intermitten.
than where it is continuous. l’aving
asphalt makes a Izood scaling com-
pound or rosin may he used.
hittlnrina Dt-tpirtniertt, The Sentinel—‘
My car is equipptd with a vacuum
feed “l'h tank tindt r the hood on the
right side from \‘tlllth the gas falls
by ninth} to the turburetol'. Of late
l have ilOli((‘tl that my motor runs
i‘:t~tti' “hen the loft side of the car
is tit-pressed and slows up when the
rtgli: side is depressed. I cannot tin-
(ir‘rloitd thin. as at all times the car-
eurt-Ior is lower than the vacuum
ft-ttl tank. Can you suggest an tid-
Itulltt'lll which would overcome this?
P. K.
Depressing the car on one side or
the other in some way changes the
:ttlustmcnt of the rod that opens the
throttle itself is loose. The vacuum
the hand throttle lever to the throttle
and see if they are free or if the
tlirottlt itself is loos. The vacuum
feed has no control over the engine;
speed. '1
loloring Departmem, The Sentinel-—
a short time ago the motor of m!
1914 Ford began to run Irregular!)
and sputter occasionally. While in
\estigniing i found that No. 8 cylin-
der had practically no compression
after grinding in the valve they
looked as though they might have been
earning the trouble. I ran the motor
for an hour or so and found No. I the
same as before. 1 ground the valves in
No. 2, then concluded that/they rings
were at fault but after replacing them
the compréflliin lil both cylinder: was
hardly noticeable. The valve stems all
have plenty of clearance, and l a. an-
able to find the leak around the cyl-
inder head picket. J, I
Some small particles of carbon or
grinding compopnd may in loud be-
p tween the valves and the seats.- Take
‘ while the engine is being cranked any
‘is that front tirea should last consid-
Vpublic health work has produced this months later, and the town rebuilt on
innit a school geography or an r "as,
'LE NOTES lbeforc shivering. And yet; it i he
{of the greatest wool exporting
t‘ts
1m the world, located on the aim ori
titan-Han, and is comparatively well-
the head 0!; regrind the valves 4'0?! known by the name of Punt- Arenas.
carefully and wash the valves and How the Spaniards canto to found a
cylinder head thoroughlywith gasoline stillement in this remote section of
Apply three or four toats of shellac the “.0,“ how it mu“ out of exist!
on mm ”“0” replacmg “1' head tiice, how it was revived in the nine-
“0 “0‘ 1“" ”'9 exhaust manifold on[tecntli century by the Chile-us, and
nntllvyouliavetrlcd the compassion. how n has thrived "an,“ and
lly listening at the valve ehmmnigron rich “in" then. As all brought
out in an article by Edward Albee. in
like current number of the Bulletin of
'the l‘ttii-Aiiierican Union Washington.
HELPFUL HINTS. :l’ U
Considerable hard work can be in tracing the dark and romantic
avoided on the road if the tire rims l.i<tory of the Strait of Magellan from
are Heated OCI'MiiOn-IHY “till a lttllfl the time of its discovery by the fa-
hhelluc and murmu- Mumtnum pail!i iitous Portuguese navigator, Fernando
is also good to prevent the head of the dt‘ Magalhucs, in 1520, the writer tells
lire from ruling on the rim. It is a of the practical abandonment of the
difficult matter to remove the casing route by the Spaniards until 1673,
from ‘ rim when it has become "’5“. nkhen the intrepid Sir Francis Drake
34k. ' l . ‘ f si t r d:l'illlt‘d through its treacherous char-
\ n ' ‘ ‘
. “WW" “’m‘mn " "'9 ‘ ‘ 9‘ nil-t and pursued his way on up the
because front tires “7°” out morn toast of the Atiiericits eyen as f
quickly than the rear tires. The tivt' _ . . 'r "
(ltll'ol'lllfl. It was this font that real- ‘
ly caused the first attempt to found a
colony iii this bltiilt and inhospitable‘
Vfll\'(‘ leak may be noticed.
eralily longer than the rear tires, in‘
that they are relieved of driving _
strains Excessive wear on front tires “'“wn-
is more generally due to niisalign “hr“ ““5 ‘1 WM" “1”" ’0'” 0‘”!
mont of the front wheels. Drivers ““5 some ”“31”" Writes pressedl
form“ that tht'y one“ hit the curb Iliit-Lgli the Small of the Motlitr of!
with the from wheel‘fl and in this mumtbod formerly called the Strait of Ma
m1. throw them out of alignment. tueliaii into the South Sea. undci cunt
n is not advisable to attempt to iiitttitl of Franclsto lirac, it native of
straighten a valve stem. While the ll)lli0uih, a man of lovt condition but
atom may be strallhtcned and used a skillful scniiiiin and a taliant pi-
tcmporzu'ily to mod advantage, novcr- rate“ is the way according to this or»
thclcsa it is best to replace the Valve ticle that the old Spanish l'lll‘tllllt‘lt‘l'b
with a new one. if this is not done it put it, lilld “\l’hcrcfort- Spain. in order
"‘Ik)’ “NYC is bound ‘0 result. it i‘ to protect her rich ports on lllt.‘ Pacl
more cconomicaland more satisfactory ilc coast of South America from the
‘0 ”“3”“ 5 new“"“'9 “5 50“" '3 90"" depredations of this niiirauding
suite}. tr ' t ‘Drac’ and similar pimtically inclined
iere 3 vacuum “Y“em “ 3““ unity, determined to found a settle-
“M feed is used and a leak is sus- .
pectcd somewhere between the small merit “Mk at the same time Would
tank and the large tank, one may “we “,8 at protecting 10'1”“ at some
check up the fault by blowing into the convenient point on tho strait. An
big tank. Sufficient air pressure must expedition uas fitted 0‘" and under,
be created in the large tank to force the leadership of the Spanish naviga.
the gasoline up through the main tor. Pedro Sariiiiento. the first colony
feed Filte- A leak m the main Pipe was established not far from the pres—t
may be noted under these conditions. 0‘“ 5““ 0‘ Puiita Arenas What with
hostile Indians. cold. and starvation,
lf motor persists in missing when
only a light load is being carried, he the “"10 settlement was soon wiped~
0'" of “Went-‘9. Ind the shores of the!
fore restoring to adjustments of the
carburetor if] mung myk pp g Siraithgaln became uninhabited by"
um. wider, presuming of course, civilized man. and thus remained for
that the magneto is being used. On many years."
In 1843 the Republic of (‘hile estab-
the other hand, if the motor misse-
when there is a heavyJoad 0|! board llshed a penal colony near the same
it may possibly be obviated by closing site, which, about 8 years later, was
the spark gap SlightlY- Iconipletely burned down by the pris-
gamers. who matinied and killed the
igovernor, guards and many foreigners.
in This rebellion was quelled a few
MOBQUiTO POETRY.
An- eastern physician engaged
literary gem, by way of poeticalli' its present site and given the name
strafing the mosquito: :of Punta Arenas (Spanish for Sandy
~g'.Polnt) It would seem that sheep
raising is the foundation upon which
the little city's growth and prosperity
depends to a great extent and in this
connection the writer states:
I "The cold climate of Tiem del
Puego and the strait region generally
its peculiarly adapted to sheep raising
tin order to protect them from the ri-
Igor: at the low temperatures nature
l't may hive motion! to be desir- provides the sheep with unusually
9" m film “a mum, but u ”110k and 11."! 00C" of WOOL-10h
mm: mm “a mg. no" quality of which in such that it com-
[m can be said 1 most. of the .1}... stands good prices in the markets at
.4 meme out nowadays. Why lures- Its special csslillu are I
no} 3*" up a. mg: ‘m. verso" it washes very white and will take the
in'd “imagint” elusions, and cmnnilt it most delicate dyes Mioaally well
to memory—thin act on it? trims ruin. Arenas has We qiihp’r
Mother. lend me a hammer,
Mother, give me a pick;
For You a mosquito clamor-
These two will do the trick.
Knock all the. bottles on the head.
Pierce through the ana' tin bottom;
loan all the aha-ten will be dead.
And you’ll nothnn to swat 'ern.
" , following subjects, which will have
writers visit. there was one company. the relative Isiah“ indicated:
capitalized at $7,300,000, which owned, Subjects. Weigh“.
over 1,800,000 acres of hind on which 1—40»va and met-a (tn.-
jwvrt- maintained 1,253, 000 sheep. 35. l,_(. "‘F‘m”! """""" hud'r'nlt 10
opying rom run:
000 head of cattle “‘l .!“ W (Iypewriting) .............. 5
lllt great woolexporting ports of the ed to IlllP at onte foi application w J
'0,“ something over 30 300,000 blanks. uhi h ay be had from the
‘ 1 b 'hi d i’ Civil StrvicA- (omission. at Wash-
Bull's {”1“ “tippied rom there an lington or from its district offices.
”1“ ‘ i b 9” ma that there are Those desiring to take the examina
itow 2,,000000 sheep in the territory tton an urged to hie application fort
i
iwht re 35 tears ago there were but. 185 both ”limo"?
head I” told. At. lb. “no u the! Cln‘ldllefl Will be examined in the}
For one year the production of this arropying from plain copy (type-
company amounted to nearly 0,,500000, "1008)
pounds of '00! shorn from 1..l90 683 i—‘l'lmo (consumed on Subjects 1.
tilleep, thus averaging 7.91 pounds of 5 pro‘If‘thAtingtan Jaaybgu'.
‘ool Der Inlmll l else and grunmatlcsl state-
The little city bouts of about 13, moat. not more than :00
00 inhabitants, and their prosperityl "n" l“ ”“3“ °' u” ‘m‘
lit indicated when an examination of‘ 23,931 ingudsgolno: “a:
the credit information books ol the!
words) ..................... 15
banks reveals the fact. that among G-Arlthmetlc (fundamental rules.
them there are 79 fortunes that ox- fractions. ‘m‘m‘ “5 W
ceed $100,000; 64 fortunes of more
urea. percentage, lutorost. dia-
tliaii $200,000; 31 of more than “00,- limit; heiglmmgtlockturnfi
000; and there are several that range bonds. plrlnflrlhtp. snail!“
from 31000000 to “000,000. lncldsl “‘1 ““9”“ °' “mm “‘
tally til» it umta of the banks also 7 (:ify‘tlili‘if)andcorrcctingmanu 5
short that there are 2 .300 accounts in} script (M in linking a
smooth. corrected copy of a
draft of manuscript which in’
cludes erasures, misspelled
the savings departments that exceed,
$200, a remarkable showing for a town;
0‘ 13' 000 ”‘90le. showing that per words errors in svntax etc) 5
"31‘“ '9“ small ““9. in ”‘9 "ntwls- —Gensral.coiiimcrciul'geography' 6
States of Europe can 0qu Butthat‘s 9—— —Trttai-liition from one or more .
llit‘ kind of a tOI'u Pam. Arenas is— of the following languages
| into English: DanoNorwegian,
ll‘\‘ “5 h l ‘ t
\l' ) Hum" ernmos C“, I. the; Dutch, Preach. German. Hai-
I l t. tan, Portuguese, Russian.
__ Spanish, Swedish ........... 35
GOVERNMENT WANTS MEN WHO Total ....................... ioo
CAN SPEAK FOREiGN ‘ Candidates who desire will also be
LANGUACiIO. 'examinod iii the optional subject (I
l ncle Sam is still hunting for men guljogmphy, Persona who pass this
qualified to act as clerks to commer- teat in addition to the required sub-
ttal attaches located in foreign coun 'jpm will be given preference in up-
tries. He also wants clerks qualified pointth The candidate may be ex-
in foreign languages for service in the amined m as mgny languages as hedo-
llureiiu of Foreign and Domestic (‘om siren Onc no“, additional “ill be .1.
‘lllt‘ff‘fl Department of Commerce. at lowed for each additional language
Washington On May 17 the Civil ”up"
Sertlte Commission in going to holda ,
cHICIIE§rIati s has; j
these positions. Those who pass this
test successfully wil be placed on the
eligible list for both positions. Clerks
to commercial attaches are paid 81,-!
500 a. year, with expenses for travcli
and subsistence from Washington to!
the foreign poet and return. Clerk-l
qualified in foreign languages unpaid
sit gic examination to find eligiblea for
'l' I In luv“!- snap.
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rifle in It "hi my“; Main;
is m sea "than.
‘ Tobi no “is"?
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mg an itntufi‘fllh‘fwn
an \Il 901M Always it“
yen-in
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somewhat less, but are in an advan-. m .n‘
tegeous position to qualify themselves'. TSK on
for vacancies which may arise in the H I K’s
clerk-to-attache positions. or for other
high-grade positions in the field ser-' m ORIGINAL '
vice.
As the examination is to be held in!
a very short time, candidates are urg-l MALTEoBYOMULfi
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0r Boone—“cal People Who
What Are Your Assets?
The scientific conduct of business and personal attain today classes
the mm. employ“ very didlnctty.
Avoid The liability
of not having a checking accent We invite accounts which are
Jim alum and courteous mutton.
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are easy and comfortable the first
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In its applicatiou, efficiency of course is but the mod-
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those who love fine things, and above all is moderately
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