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Show I I Engine Goes 300 Miles On One Gallon, Claim I OTRACUSE, X. T, April 28. Three hundred miles by an automo- I bile on a gallon of fuel costing five and one-half cents Is the claln 11. II. Elmer, treasurer and general manager of the Globe Malleable Iron and steel company of this city makes for an engine designed by himself revealed to the directorate of the company at its annual meet- I Ing here Thursday Interna lonally known engineering experts. Including In-cluding Arthur Went, . hlef engineer of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, corpora-tion, have inspected Mr. Elmer's rnglne, ard are said to havs pro- I nounced it hundreds of years ahead of times. Three full-sized models were tested before the directors. One o( i the models a one-cy'.inder, three horsepower engine, tan continuously for IS hours on one and one-nuarter pints of fuel, the direL'.ors stated. The fuel used Is oil, either mineral or vegetable Vo Ignition or carburetor Is U6ed. One of Mr Elmer's models ha attained a speed of from 2f.0o to 3000 revolutions a minute, he claims. i"h'.- principle of the discovery Is based on the chemistry of oil, according to Mr. Elmer A ommittce to arrange for the Immediate development of the en-j en-j gine was approved by the company directors. i |