The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, March 08, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 41

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE fUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARC1T 8, ' 190S- AUTO CLUB TAKES UPROAD QUESTION Coast Highway for Machines Pet Project of Autoists of . the Pacific Slope. UNITED ENDEAVOR LACKING Even In Local Good Ro.ads Agitation Harmony Is Wanting X'ew .Model Crs Appear on Portland Streets. BT W. J. PETRA1N. v.rv at the approach of Spring the question of Rood roads is brought up and agitated. It has Deen so mnw mo .irlv days when highways were me pnn cipal means of travel, and since the coming of the automobile some eight or n vun ro. the Question has Deen. an vocatcd strongly in all sections of the state. At the present day It must be acknowledged that progress has . been Hinall compared io wok ii ctuiu h-. been had a concerted effort been made. th riit trmihle experienced In mak ing headway with road building is that . i tm nmnnopri. to build a road Into & certain locality, somebody else will come forward and as earnestly aavoca-io the construction of a road in another di rection. As the advocates of each road believe themselves in the right; and are usually proof against argument id contrary, the final accomplishment of Av. min faiw hecause of lack of In terest on the part of the public in gen eral. ... rri-.n- fiitr.frinHiiiat cannot build a road of any great length by themselves, and the sooner tliey get togeiner ana uy iw certcd action start a general interest in 0nnj.hiohwsT the sooner oroirress of the material kind will be accomplished along tnai line. The Mount Hood road, the road to Sea side, and the road to Tillamook have each received more or less attention, but s j far there lias been no concerted action toward raising funds for the construc tion of any of them. Each project is in itself worthy of consideration, but In order that the state shall secure good roads some plan must be developed wherein all the autoists will be backed up by the people of the entire state. At the dinner given by the Portland Auto mobile Club Thursday night. C. F. Swl gert proposed the building of a road from Seattle on the north to Los Angeles on the south. Should the three states take a united interest in - this proposed thor oughfare and. by concerted action, build it. other handsome driveways will be easily secured to the other points desired. This is the pet project of autoists from the Canadian boundary to San Diego. The autoists realize that it Is absolutely essential to the success of road building to obtain one good road, and for the pur pose of selecting the proposed route of improvement, a meeting of the Automo bile Club will be held in the near future, when It is hoped to have a full attend ance on the part of all the automobile owners In the city. R. D. Inman, the speed marvel, and V.-F. Upman. time-annihilator.-are-two of the most active members of -the Port land Automobile Club, and pride them selves on owning the speediest machines in the city. Each year it has been cus tomary with them to parade a new ma chine at the earliest possible date, and this year each believed he had scored on the other by having his car on the ground first. Imagine'-, their chagrin when one bright day- last week, wliile spinning about 1n their bright new cars, they met at a- prominent street corner. The guests of the two men were "wise to the situation" and proceeded to Jolly the knights of the steering wheel and prod them on being behind the times. A challenge to a speed test was immediately issued " and accepted, and tmtil the roads offer suitable induce ments to raclnsr. the merits of the re spective cars will- not be known. . Lipman says he has'it on lnman because his car was unloaded, front a freight" car several hours ahead-of Tnman's, , but the' latter Tnerely smites and whispers. "Wait until get him on the road and I'll lose' hint." ' ' '"..'; ' -,' Keveral " prominent ' Portland ' phys'tcians who enjoy autoing audi own cars, ave cn ."ioylngi a laugh -at the expense of Tr. Krnesfc V.. Tucker, who: s.o .far. has. held out against all the arguments they can offer in favor of the automobile and' con tinues to use -the.- -reliable hocse ' and buggy on all ' his . "pleasure" and business drives. ': Tlie'-object of the autoing doctors' mirth was caused by: an accident' which lctcll their horse-driving comrade. At that the' accident' was brought about by j an auto. .According to the story .being whispered about. Or. Tucker ' recently purchased a brand new buggy, to which lie hitched' hia splendid pacer. .' t"vVhlle driving rmt .Aider street h -encountered . an automobile which was . being con trolled by a man who had but recently eniharked In auto driving and was rather unsteady In handling the steering appa ratus. Tiie result of this, was a rollislon in which the handsome new buggy came out decidedly the worse, and now Dr. Tucker waxen exceedingly .wrath when ever the toot of an auto horn reaches ; his ears. Drs. Markay and Rockey. ; 'however, are hopeful that he can yet be prevailed lpon to buy. an automobile. ,'. - i O. R. Henderson, of Cleveland. O.. a traveling agent- for. the Baker Klectrlc Auto Company. spnt a few days in this city last week. Mr.- Henderson stated 'that the electric car as a means of transportation in ; a city" far surpasses lite other motor vehicles In all depart ments. Tills type, of machine is being perfevted to greater possibilities each ' year, and at present they are. capable of b-ltii; run from SO to 100 miles a day wlthnut having the batteries recharged. The advantage of an electric car is said to lie in the fact that they are free from the fumes of gasoline and -can be han dled without cranking of t lie motor. They HPe hunt merely for use in the large i-ifies as runabouts. While in Portland Sir. Henderson arranged with 11. . 1,. Kivats A Co. . to handle this machine. Miss lietta Jewell, the leading woman of the Maker Theater Company, is an enthusiastic automobilist. She" has a Maxwell" runabout and puts in her spare time between the hours of rehearsal and performances by touring Portland and Its suburbs, rhirtng the short time she has been In tills city she nas become yntte familiar with-all the beautiful sub urban spots. She takes the keenest de light in visiting the City Park and other jwtlons of the city and vicinity which .nn pc reacned by automobile. - . All the garages In the city where re pair work is done are working overtime at present in the effort to prepare the cars stored there during the Winter for the coming season, and incidentally it m Slit also be mentioned liiut the me chanic are busily engaged in putting to gether the new 1F08 model cars. Every day witnesses the speeding of a new automobile around the principal streets, and to judge by the ever increas ing number of these cars, one would hardly realize that there had been any sort of a financial flurry.-. . EAST MAY liOSE BIG-CUP ACE Savannah and St. Louis in Line -for Vanderbilt Classic. Announcement that the racing board of the American. Automobile Associa tion is giving serious consideration to the applications made by Savannah and 8t. Iuis for the next "Vanderbilt cup race means there is . not much -chance of completing the Long Island motor parkway iri.time for the international struggle, the motor critic's contend. If any one had" hinted a year ago there was the slightest chance of this classic being run anywhere in the East he would have .been laughed at. In deed, California and Missouri did have the temerity to file applications for the race last Fall, but the A. A. -A. did not go Into the matter deeply. Now, however, the National organization has announced it would run' the Vanderbilt this year, anticipating -the completion of enough, of the parkway for a course. "But recent-devclopmentssmake it look doubtful if the parkway will be avail able, so when St. Louis, and. Savannah came forward with- - guarantees that they could offer soldiers to police the. H. F3, OBl.K-S NEW STODDARD course- and that they had roads which would be suitable for such a race, the powers that be sat up and took no tice. The racing: board has not committed itself in the matter. fhouKh. It sim ply has told Chairman Thompson to in vestigate the conditions when he makes his trip to Savannah, but even this is a Brain of comfort -for the Westerners, who have looked at the classic with lonirinjr ' eyes for the last two years, believing it would do the sport and the industry treat stood. It has been demonstrated It is impossible to get the troops in New ork stato, so the West ern offers have made an impression. If the big race does icet away from the East, it Is believed Savannah will land the plum, for the critics who have Inspected the course for the racing carnival there March IS and 19 say it excels anything; of the kind In this country. The Georgians can furnish troops and the Southerners are so worked up over the March affair.it is thought they would give the Vanderbilt strong support and make it the great est event of its kind. STUDEBAKER WAR i ......,,u.fT. .; . 7 r.v -f ! i - A5 $3myk'-r - 4? CVS A'i :yyHr?-4f -r-V-' - , - ' y- JLL. yrl si;:V;'' 5l iwmymmymy l'-- '' " ' V ' 0." V C -. :: ' '- -.: y: :-.y- .':-;''::'-:: 4 "'. ;::; : : ,--:' V :: ',: y:-:y:--y'-: '- : :: ::: '. y::y:y y : .'--:: yyy.-':. ;,y -S :,:: '-y : 'Wyi aS-:::--- THE SOW WAS SO OKKP THAT THU Bl M BOARD PRSTKU OX . rl KETHAt'TIOVTHlS RE.DEHIU IT SCOTCH TEAM TIED English Have Chance for Soc ..cer Championship. EACH SCORES FOUR GOALS English Players Show Big Improve ment Oyer Former Games Teams' Will Meet in a Decisive Contest Next . Saturday. Scotch, four goals; English, four goals. A rally as pretty as it was unexpected on the part - of the determined English association football team enabled that doughty eleven to equal the Scotch lead in the second of the international series, yesterday afternoon, and trie Oest efforts of the Scotch could not give them a de ciding goal before Referee Mounts blew the whistle.' This result forces the Scotch -DAYTON TOl RING CAR, HKCESTLY liE5 CO. to give their foes another game, for by winning the third of the series, the Eng lish would be able to tie the points. A tie or a victory would give the Scotch the 1908 series. This game will have to be played next Saturday, which prolongs the season a week longer than was ex pected. The English forward line Ttaverl much better football than it did in the first I game. Mills, Dean and Hanson doing the bulk of the work. Their defense was particularly aggressive., and the switch ing of Steele to the half line and Law renqo to left wing aided matters consid erably. The Scotch probably had a little the best of the game, inasmuch as Mc Icholas stopped numerous exciting shots that looked like winners, while : Pattullo was given only eight or nine chances during the game. Shots that Just grazed the bar or that struck the posts and bounced back were unusually numerous. This-hard luck was about equally dis tributed. . . The first goal to each side was awarded' from a penalty kick. Harrv Matthew and Rylance scoring them DISPATCH CAR BEING SHOVELED OUT OF THE SNOW easily for Scotch and English, respec tively. Mquntz decisions on these pen alty kicks were peculiar and criticised by both players and spectators. Both were awarded for fouls inside the penalty area, but not for the class of fouls that usually calls for the extremely severe punishment a penalty - kick ' involves. Mounts' offside rulings were also ques tioned, but he Is a hard-working referee, conscientious and popular,- despite . all criticism. . The second English goal r was secured by Hughes.:-, who kicked a .long lob onto goal, which Pattulla' let bounce 'over his head and past hini. This' gave the Britons the lead, but the -Scotch -evened after 30 minutes of play by a beautiful shot off Dick's accurate instep. McNich olasf who had been stopping everything, could not see the ball for the crowd uitil too late. Half time saw the score two each. . The Scotch rushed things in the next half,, and for 15 or 20 minutes had the game, thejr own way. Stevenson ham mered through a sizzler that McNicholas could not reach, though he threw him self full length. Burns secured the fourth from a shot that rebounded "from'" the post. Meanwhile Andrew Matthew had been.' shooting persistently . and , sending over some beautiful centers, all of which resulted fruitlessly. - The third English goal was due to Ry lance, who made a sensational dribble up field, passing the Scotch forward line. The Scotch defense made the tactfcal error of falling back instead of tackling him, and he was enabled to make a pass to Mills, from which the latter scored on PIRCHtSED FROV II. A. Blll- ... a cross-shot. Hanson shot the fourth goal, which was the cleanest the Eng lish made. ' .... The star of the Scotch defense was Bennett, who was back in the game for the first time in several weeks, and is apparently a born Tialfback. Iickson and Mackie were strong, too. Stevenson's playing is very popular with the spec tators. Line-ups: Scotch (4). Goal. Patullo; right back. Dr. Short: left back. Dynicnt (captain); right half, J. K. Mackie; center half, Dickson: left half. Bennett; outside right, Burns: Inside right. Dick: outside left, A. Matthew: inside left, Stevenson; cen ter, H. Matthew. English (4). Goal, McNichoIas: right back, Rylance: left back, Jago: right half, Fenwick: left hair. Bteelc: center half, Hughes: outside right, Kilpack; in side, right. Dean; outside left. Hanson: inside left, Iawrence; center. Mills (cap tain). Referee, Mountz. Linesmen, Stewart and Clark. Attendance, 600. According to M. Abraham, the best tele phone does not transmit to the e'ar more then one-thousandth part of the energy tt'hu-h it receives from the line. THE DRIFTS. MAKING IT III'OSSIBLK NEt ESSARV TO SHOVEL, IT OCT. STUDEBAKER TTHl famous army dispatch car selected by Gen. Frederick Dent Grant to carry a message from New York to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, ih the quickest possible time. The STUDEBAKER was selected on account of its unquestioned ability to meet and overcome all kinds of unfavorable road ' and weather conditions. Studebarer Bros. Co. Northwest 330-336 EAST MORRISON STREET Automobile BRITISH builders , are devoting more attention to the manufacture "of cars that will come within the means of per sons of comparatively moderate Income. The first annual show at Rochester, X. Y.( which has been arranged for "March 18 to a, by the Dealers' and Motorists' Associations combined, promises to be a succesi. It Is almost exactly 100 miles from -Nashville, Tenn., to the Alabama state line, and within that distance an automobilist is obliged to pay $1:95 in tolls to turnpike companiei. ' Carpet cleaning by automobile power re cently was devised by a San Franciscan, who mounted a vacuum pump and qael of hose on the back of his car, connecting the pump with the motor. The world's largest motor-driven fire escape is now in operation at Liverpool. It is both driven and manipulated by elec tricity, and the main ladder can be raised to a height of 87 feet In 20 Eeconds. Every doctor In Rushvllle, Ind., about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, uses an auto mobile, and it is said the city has more motor cars in proportion to its size than any other city in the Hoosier State. On account of the long distance between supply stations, one of the French ma chines constructed for the run from New York to Paris has a tank in the lower part of its body holding 260 gallons of gasolfne. Cleveland's police have been ordered to forbid automobile owners leaving their cars along the curbs in' the shopping dis trict while they are shopping or transact ing business within doors, as 'they inter fere with traffic. There probably are more than 50 so called "schools" for motoring in New York, of which less than five have the approval of genuine autoists. Some grant a "diploma" after a pupil has spent but a few hours in a car. New York City motorists will ask tle Legislature of that state for a law to hedge abqut with safeguards the granting of chauffeur's licenses. At present any one filling, out a blank and sending it with $3 to Albany can secure a license. Boston automobilists won public appro bation by offering a substantial reward for the conviction of the motorist who ran down a little girl in the suburb of Milton, carried her to the door of her home and sped away without driving his name. There is a lot of Interest In regard to the probable driver of the second Fife car. The name of the driver may not be made known. Jimmy Ryall has be-n mentioned as a possibility, as has also Mr. .Parker, who drove with Cedrino when the Fiat won the last NEAR HOBART, IND. FOR THE WHEELS TO 5K- News Notes 24-hour race at Morris Park in such a sensational way. Ryall, should lie drive, will operate his own car. as it is- his intention now to purchase the car outright. .Tire agenta of San .Francisco estimate from the orders they "have, received that 9000 automobiles will be sold in California during -1908. Some .of . these will be sent to Hawaii, Washington and. Oregon, and, estimating the cars at $2000 each, the total reaches $18,000,006. Los Angeles can claim credit for the latest novel use of "an automobile. D. C. Wilgus, a manufacturer, moved a com plete machine shop, including planers, lathes and general machine tools, from an old plant to a new one. using the motor-car to tow the machinery, piece by piece. "People concerned in the motor industry In the United Kingdom are beginning to believe that the productive power of fhe industry here haa finally equaled and will soon if it has not already done soexceed the demand," reported United States Con sul Halstead, of Birmingham, recently. Two horseless cars, eacb capable of car rying 12 men and a4l necessary parapher nalia, have been purchased by the St. Louis Fire Underwriters for use of their salvage corps. The machines are provid ed with extra emergency brakes, and It is claimed can be stopped within 20 feet while running at a speed of 30 miles an hou!. The army car. from New York to Leavenworth, Kan.. is smashing records. The first day it covered a dis tance of 293 miles through snowbanks W In the annual Fasadena-Altadena Hill Climb, at Los Angeles, the $2000 Kissel Ear won first place in event for roadsters selling at $3000 and nnder, and also won the event for touring cars at $2000 and under. The time of the speedy Kissel Kar roadster was 'only beaten by four cars, each selling for $4000 and. over. . The Kissel Kar was the only car to win all the events in which it was entered; in fact, the only make to win more than one event, and .making better time than the following well-known cars: Ha'ynes $37o0 Stoddard Dayton 2."00 Thomas Flyer 400Q White Steamer ..... .. 3ri00 Thomas Detroit 27o0 Oldsmobile 27o0 Tourist 3000 And all other ears of lower price. The Kissel Kar covered the distance, 1 3-10 miles, in 2:22,. over an average grade of 11 per cent. Arrange for a demonstration in the Kissel Kar. FRED A. Northwestern REO, PREMIER, KISSEL KAR, FORD 495 Alder St., Portland, Or. 1409-11 Broadway, Seattle, Wash. B AL LOU & WRIGHT Announce the Arrival of 1908 INDIAN MOTORCYCLES 2 H. P., $210. Immediate Delivery. 5 H. P. Twin Cylinder, $260. TEICAES DELIVERY VANS CALL ON US FOR DEMONSTRATION and over ice . and slush at .various"' periods of the day. . The car carries, a " message from General F. D. Grant, of Governors .Island, to commanding offl- ' ters of Army postB. The car Is equipped ' with Continental anti-skid tires. Rouge " Ferre. No chains are used. This Jour ney gives a fair opportunity for decld- ' ing whether Continental antl-sktd ties 1 are faster than other tires with chains.' A test case before the Federal Gen- " eral Board of Appraisers to determine ' the amount of duty to be paid on ferro manganese, ferro vanadium and other ' ores containing iron in combination with .other metals used In the manufac- ture of steel developed the fact that' pure ferro vanadium, much used In steel for automobiles. Is worth $10,000 a ton. -V ' J ACER Motors " " NIAGARA Motors PHONE PETERBOROUGH . Canoe EAST 3S1 IS Rambler , $2,500 Pope Hartford 2.300 Elmore 2500 Rco '. ....2o00 Oldsmobile 1900 Tourist 19.50 Jackson 2000 BENNETT Distributor. 3l)J-ll Second Ave. i Spokane, Wash. BICYCLES AND AUTO . SUPPLIES Largest Stock of These Goods in the West. 86 SIXTH STREET LOSIER Motors M