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CHEVROLET EXPEDITION. Adventures in the Jungle.

LEOPARD AND SNAKES.

on "News Editors diaries, praise be to Allah. When the expedition arrived in the country of the Ma- al, in the shadow of snowcapped Kilimanjaro, the Rufu River was in flood and there was nothing else for it but to sit and walt for several days. One afternoon an Italien gentleman who was also stranded at the Rufu, asked me to accompany him across thio plain, in an attempt to get something for the pot.

We walked out of our camping place for about 30 yards, and then paused to consider our direction. It was a very fortunate pause, for me at any rate, for a leopard jump- cd out of the grass almost at my feet. There was a snarl and a hiss, and I had a glimpse of white whis- kers on quite the fiercest face any one can wish to see, and the great! catlike creature was off,

Ghost Yarns,

Mr. Gordon Makepeace of the Chevrolet Expedition writes:

Early one evening wo had lost the path in the long grass and de- cided to camp in a clearing adjacent to a long stretch of flat country. Having seen much lion spoor in the vicinity, we decided to set a picco of meat about 20 paces from the cars, and to this meat we led n blood spoor from the plain some distanco off. Then the party h dinner, and all the time the ment was in full view of everyone. Half Leopards have a grent Wing for an hour elapsed and the members dogs, and it is likely that the pre- of the expedition were yarning sence of Polly, the dog mascot of round the fire when the dog barked the expedition, caused this particu- Turiously in the direction of the far loupard to come so close to the ment. We heard something being cars, So once again Polly had a dragged away through the bush and narrow escape from being served that was all. The moat had gone up a la carte. We found unmistakable traces of a lion, so we knew the identity of

Billie Williams had an experlenco our visitor.

Naturally the party felt sore nt the other night which is not to ba having the ball taken from under envied. After dinner, the party, their very eyes, and it was decid-reinforced by other motorists who Rubber insulation is also appliedjed to set another piece of meat were held up at the river, were A leg of buck-sitting round a blazing fire telling between the car body and driving closer to the camp. units.

was then tied up securely to a small ghost storles. Incidentally telling The steel beams on which the tree exactly 80 feet away from the ghost stories on a dark night in the

shadow of Kilimanjaro is calculat body reats are built like an auto-camp; spot lights were focused on ed to get quite the right atmos motive chassis. The axles are it and every available gun was load-phere Into any Grand Guigrol effort. underslung and paralled with the ed. Nothing happened for about Well, the fire burned low and Billic body, just as automobiles.three hours and eventually the party Brakes are of the internal expand-went to bed sleeping in the track got up to move a log about four feet ing type and there is an emergency and the Chevrolet Sedan. Periodi- away, nearer to the fire. He seized cable brake, with a lever at the mo- cally the spot lights would be turn-aud dropped it again as if it were a hut poker. A torch quickly na- torman's seat just like the cable ed on, revealing the bait just as we certained the reason for his laste in emergency levers on certain types had tied it. Then at about the dropping the log, for nestling in a a'clock in the morning, Billie Wil- crevice was a poisonous snake. of nutomobiles..

from Adopts Stream Lines, Too. Hams; the official cinematographer Wallie Wilson, who comes The car itself is low hang and attached to the expedition, woke up Port Elizabeth and who in conse For instance, instead of being

stream lined. It has bumpers in suddenly and looked for the meat.quence is the expedition's authority driven direct from motors, the

on snakes, reized the wriggling axles are driven through n propeller front and rear, and stop lights It had disappeared, rope and all. There is a aun bnek.

On the following day, Lacey, was

posited him without further ado, shaft, universal joint and differen- front, and the glass in the ear driving along in the Redan. when reptile with a pair of pliers, and do- That Even he rounded a bend and came upon on the glowing embers. The wheels themselves aren't the bell has been discarded for a lon sitting in a contemplative snake, which, hnd probably crept in attitude watching the roadway, for warmth, thus got all the heat directly connected to the semi-horn..

Inside the car. Is built for the Possibly it was waiting for some It wanted. driven floating axles, but are

comfort of the passengers, with thing to turn up for dinner. Any. Of course, it is quite a regular through knuckle points, just as are

separate soft seats for each rider way it had not bargained on the practice for each member of the Automobile wheels, Thus wheels may turn on the tracks and the motorman's sent sunk into Chevrolet Expedition coming also party to shake out his blanket care without requiring movement of well, to afford clear vision over and it bolted and was son lost to fully every day, for scorpions liave the entire axle and eliminating the his head.

Another feature of this car is On the following afternoon Lavey playful habit of dropping in oc- grinding noises we get from the that it can accelerate from a stand- had a long shot at two lious, and present street enrs.

ing start to 20 miles an hour in though we followed them into the Wheels Silenced by Rubber.,

saw nothing. You get five seconds, keeping up with auto bush, we

Jols for your money in Tanganyika. Roller bearings on each axle as- traffic.

The two motors are Westing- Nearly Stepped on Leopard. Hure quiet operation and this Is further brought out by means of house designed 60-horse-power I suppose it does not fall to the rubber strips between the flange units, providing two and a half lot of the Average journalist to and.core of each wheel. Thus horse-power for each seated passen- come within a foot or so of tramp quiet and ease of riding are main-ger, which is much more than neces-ling on a leopard. It is an engage-pened, that is, after a few weeks ment which does not often, figure in the bush. The traveller in this tained.

Houston, Tex., Oct. 3rd.-An au-| tomotive street car is the novelty in street rallway transportation just introduced in this city. It is tho new Birney

car, street so named after ILA inventor, C. O. Birncy of St. Louis, just brought here after a showing at the American Electric Railway Assc ciation convention in Cleveland,

The only reason why this novelty In transportation is still called a street car is because it runs along a track and gets its electric power from an overhead wire. Otherwise it is mostly automobile.

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casionally. It is really surprising how one accustoms oneself to the presence of these creepy things which in ordinary circumstances would send a thrill of horror down one's spine. Even the most finicky person will shake out a scorpion and go to sleep quite soundly afterwards as if nothing untowards had hap-

part of the world seen all the snakes The wants to see. Often the cars comprising the Chevrolet Exped!- tion haye run aver snakes coiled up in the road. One run over by the sedan, was 12 feet in length, and poisonous to boot. Quite a nice sort of thing to find in one's Block ing!

And hyenas? Thousands of them! If you care to sit up of a night with a spot light and a rifle you can shoot at gleaming red eyes until you are tired.

The Chevrolet Expedition has soon giraffe curious 'creatures which gaze at cars from the bush with the greatest curioalty and then make off in their own inimit able fashion, their long necks dip- ping and swinging with cach mo- ilon of the body." Delightful cren. tures, rightly protected by the Gov. ernment. Thus the traveller along the Great North Road scen nivch more than bogs and swamps.

GASOLINE TAX. Fairest Yet Devised..

Madison, Wis., Sept. 28.-The gasoline tax is the fairest plan yet devised for financing road con- struction, according to Solomon Levitan, state treasurer of Wiscon- Rin.

Levitan is vice president of the North American Gasoline Tax Con- ference, meeting at Memphis, Tenn., this year.

"The rasoline tax," he says, "has accomplished more toward the con- struction of good roads throughout the nation than any other factor. Since ancient days goud roads have been one of the evidences of a pro- gressive civilization and good goy- crnment."

But the co-operation of all branches of government' is needed to make possible a nationwide sys- tem like that being built up in this country, Levitan insists.

"With the extensive travel by au- tomobiles these days, highways hould be planned so they are con- tinuous from stato to slate, This course, has been followed to some extent but not constantly.

Too many of our highways are a patch- work of several miles of concrete leading to some small town, and from there on a number of miles of bid road that is likely to be impassable In atormy weather.

"The financing of road construc- tion by means of the gasoline tax is the most equitable, plan yet de vised. It eliminates the necessity of bonding the cominunity for this purpose and places the burden of coat on those who reap the direct benefits of good roads,"

"Every automobile owner realizes that good roads save mors in the wear and tear on a car than the gas tax he pays amounts to in a year."

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1928.

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