STORM NEWS FOR MOTORS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1919, Page 10

STORM NEWS FOR MOTORS.

In recognition of the importance tha* the motor truck bas assumed as a commercial freight. carrier. over established routes, the United States Weatbelr Bureau has made plans to furnish a daily local service to all localities that apply iqr, it. Already the' Bureau has arranged, in cooperation with the State llighway G~> mission of Pennsylvania,* to; Aid, the automobile and motor truck traffic during the winter over' the .Linoobv Highway, between Pittsburg and: Harrssbutg *by giving out daily information Yof the weather QODdi.ions prevailing over the route, sad issuing weather forecast -• and warning* of .< heavy snows and cold waves for the region traversed. The plan ie, for the assistant superintendents of highways at points along the route to report to the Weather Bureau Office at Pittsburgh at 8 o'clock each morning by telephone ot telegraph the depth of snow or ice on tha highway, giving its general ooodition. These reports are published in the, newspapers and furnished to the different automobile club*, thus becoming available to automobile and motor-truck drlTers passing over the highway; The foreoants and warning* aro given public distributton and telegraphed to the Superintendent of . Highways at Hsrrisburg, who gives instructions to his forcej along the nighway to make provisions for the anticipated weather conditions. This servioe was in aeration last winter, and gavf great satisfaction.

At The Hague an exhibition was 1»U recently of work done in Germany by British prisoners who had been transferred, to Holland. The prisoners showed mu9h ingenuity in gathering materials far their handiwork. A, colonel, who •»- hibited a series of books tastefully bound in blue and white, had obtained hi* Wading materials from cardboard packages in his panels. There w«s » considerable show of knitted goods, for which the v/aol wa» secured by " pulling down " <tfd socks. Another curious exhibit waeTftiny mods, of 'a motor chassis made from meat tins, door hinges, and suoh things, Th*! rubber tires were made from the handle of a tennis racket . Even Gorman bread bad been pressed into service, a* a pair of carved and painted sabots was produced; 'rota a loaf.