Show I Carrying Dead W Weight Bad Thing for an Automobile Persons contemplating a long m motor tor tour are advised by y G. G H. H to differentiate differentiate dif dif- dif dif- I between live and dead weight when making up the thc load the car Is to carry Passengers riding in the are a different proposition from hauling a heavily laden trunk between the rear seat and the back of or the front seat tightly battened down to the floor according ac sc- according cording to Mr who bases lila Ills I opinion on the experience of himself and wife while driving from Rochester N. N Y to Los Angeles Angele in their Chandler touring car carThe The next time we make a long trip well we'll not carry a trunk said Well AVell use suitcases that can Jostle around If carried In the or fasten them to the running board The action of a trunk laden and that of or a acar acar a acar car carrying a capacity passenger load Is far from the same We Ve learned that Inc men who built the Chandler touring car carIn carin carin in which we traveled knew more about the action of ot the rear end of the car on the road than we did and its it's a mistake to carry a dead weight there We Ve put shock absorbers on our car and this we afterward learned made things worse things worse as they did not give th the springs full play In absorbing the road bumps We presumed presumed pre pre- too much in trying to improve Chandler construction Unlike the reports that have been made by other transcontinental parties arriving big ing here recently the said there was no great number of tourists on the I Ie i road headed for California f when 1 came e through There I undoubtedly will be bea a large number of visiting motorists here 1 this winter but most of them will ship I their cars out In preference to making I II the drive This is due to the poor tourIng tourIng touring tour- tour Ing conditions In the Middle Vest West on I account of winter roads I TILe The followed owed the Santa Fo Fe c trail I from Kansas City They said they were I helped materially Y by th by-th the guide posts of I the Automobile Club of Southern Calli Call Call- fornia A A. blizzard I d was raging jl dIna in Ina Raton Eaton i Pass A Ariz when t they arrived d at that I point and nd the Chandler was the only ony car carI I that got through for two days They covered miles on the trip from Rochester Roch Roch- ester and averaged sixteen miles to the gallon gailon of gasoline The same tires and tubes that were on the car at the start brought brought- the them through and still are in use |