Show I Gasoline Gossip I Washington D. D C. C Is la to have a Jit Jitney jit- jit ne ney service A number of machines have been beon ordered and will be run on six routes beginning about la 1 May 1 A bill has been Introduced in tho the NewYork New NewYork York YOlk state legislature giving to garage owners a lien on motor vehicles for repairs re repairs re- re pairs storage and supplies purchased from them Automobile owners In Mississippi paid insurance companies comp during luring 1914 and collected In return so o that the companies lost about 12 on the business The loss was per cent greater than In the year before before be- be fore 1913 After two weeks of operation of without without without with with- out any specific regulations the jitney busses In St. St Louis Louls will have to follow a specially prepared set of ot rules of oC traffic laid down by the city No longer longcr long long- er cr will fifteen persons be squeezed Into a pa n passenger five car that IB is Is If one atthe of at the new new- rules Is enforced Yellowstone National park probably will be bo opened to automobiles In tn 1916 The sundry appropriations bill provides provides pro pro- vl vides es for road repair and extension extension ex ex- tension in tn the park and for tor widening the roads so that they can cnn be used for automobile traffic The first union of ot Jitney bus drivers has been bee organized at Rock Island Ill m. and Includes two twenty-two drivers In charge of ot cars running between Rock nock Island Moline Molino and amI Davenport The union Is under the Jurisdiction of the International Teamsters Chauffeurs feurs and Stablemen's union Taxicab owners in Cleveland are arc preparing to fight eight the present city ordinance licensing their machines and charging 5 15 per pcr taxicab and 1 for each chauffeur With the tho le legal al' al struggle In mind few of or the operators have taken out 1915 licenses from the city and the first arrest for violation of the ordinance Is 18 to be made a test case casc A purse of Is being raised In Omaha Neb for the mile race tace to tobe tobe tobe be held there thero July 5 It is 18 exp expected that the leading drivers In the tho Grand Prix and Vanderbilt cup races will par par- It is 18 said Mid that Ralph do de Palma Palma Palma Pal- Pal ma and Barney Oldfield have a agreed to I compete Milwaukee's Jitney bus Industry has ha grown to comparatively enormous proportions proportions pro pro- portions and hardly a day passes without without without with with- out the issue of ot at least one license to operate a bus The Jitney bus owner owners owners own own- er ers have already formed an association for tor mutual benefit and are even now planning a a. system of transfers transfers' for In Interchange In- In of ot passengers Among Amon roadster models there thore la is a marked tendency toward a complete concealment of ot the spare are tire Ure In carrying car car- out this thin plan the the- automobile de designer has baR almost without exception adopted the rear deck construction This offers th the opportunity of making use uee of the compartment provided pro beneath beneath boncath be- be neath the rear deck for baggage or tires Ures- With grain crops worth approximate approximate- I h y n nn grown own In eight states I in the tho Ml Mississippi valley this year and andI I I with even better crop prospects In tn inI I these states for tor next season the value I of ot f the farmer as a consuming factor In inI I automobiles for the present season and andI I also next season Reason is apparent j In some of these states the farmer purchased more than 60 per cent of ot the cars cate m mar mar- In 1914 In 1915 ho he will accordInG according accord accord- ing to conservative estimates purchase purchase pur pur- chase upward of 70 per cent of 01 those sold Motor trucks are to supplant the trolley cy cars CAr at P present nt u used d in mall mail distribution distribution dis dis- In Boston according to tho plans of Postmaster Murray Murra whose recommendations for tor the purchase of the machines have havo been approved b by the tho department at nt Washington Murray has estimated d that about can bo saved annual annually b by the use uBe of trucks |