Show ALCOHOL MOTORS According to General Consul Hughes at Coburg the recent agricultural fair at Halle has shown the wonderful strides that Germany has mode made within th the last cl eighteen months In alcohol motors mo mo- tors This Is due to a a. great extent he sas says to the personal Interest taken in inthe inthe the thc subject of or the use and application of oC alcohol for trade purposes es by the Emperor and alto also to the low price at which this spirit for fuel Cuel purposes containing containing con con- con con- taming about 90 per cent of pure alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol bol is furnished all over o er a Germany Germany-a a aquart quart costing only about 5 B cents The great advantages of or a n spirit motor motor motor mo mo- mo- mo tor over the ordinary steam engine the General Consul-General says are that It Is 19 al always always ale al' ways read ready for tor use without preliminary preliminary nary warming up it can he be filled oiled olle and started In from two to three minutes minutes min mm- utes there them is no constant supplying of ot coal and water and no danger of oC lire Ill or or- explosion no permits fire are required from Government authorities and there thero is no compulsory inspection the spirit is easily obtainable In fill all ll dIstricts districts dis die there Is no smoke or smell and antl the weight of a po portable table spirit motor Is about one halt that of oc a portable steam engine of oc equal power Ho continues With regard to cost a a. large Ger German lan ian firm that exhibited at Halle Hall showed six she to eight power horse-power port portable bl alco alcohol hol motors for ten to twelve power horse motors for and sixteen to twenty power horse-power motors for tor 61 In the tests made one trial showed a a. consumption of 42 kilogram pound of or 86 per cent spirit and kilogram pound of oc ofa ofa a mixture of or one fifth and four four- fifths S per cent spirit In both cases per brake power horse per hour If Hour our American automobile manufacturers says nays the General Consul-General wish to dap- dap lp ap- ture the German market with their lighter better and antl more stylish runabouts runabouts run tun and pleasure wagons wagon I think they would do well weli to adopt alcohol as asa asa asa a fuel tuel Washington Star Star- |