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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1910)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 6, 1910. CLUB WILL VOTE NEW BUILDING Multnomah Is Expected to De cide Tuesday to Erect Com modious Quarters. PRESENT HOME OUTGROWN six Directors Will Also Be Cliosen From Iist of 1 2 Men Selected by Nominating Committee and Ported Ten Days Ago. CATJIDATES it)R CLTTB DIREC TORATE. TaBlday night ths Multnomah Amttmr Athletic Club -will select slx directors from the following list of nominees posted ten days ago by the nominating committee: J. F. En-Ins. George TV. Simons. TV. B. Prud homme, J. M. Ambrose. Dr. George Atnslia. TtalelRh P. Trimble. Ed-ward T. Barrett. Waller A. Holt. J. II. Harbour. Colin V. ryment. Oeorga T. Wlllt-tt and Alma 1. Katz. The retiring directors are James F. Kwlng. George W. Imons. H. H. Rasch. Irving Rohr. B. D. Slgler and Rev. A. A. Morrison. The club member -will also vote on the austiorf of building a new clubhouse. BY W. .T. IT.TRAIX. Tuesday niejlir. February S, rrill be an Important occasion in the annals of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic "lub. Not only wil! the member elect fix new members to the board of trus tees at that time, but they will also decide upon the adoption of plans and pecltications for the erection of a new and more commodious clubhouse. The consensus of opinion as ex pressed in eiub circles is unanimously in favor of the building project, but There are many tliines to be taken into consideration in enterine; upon this iimltrtnlclnK. While It seems certain the members will decide to build, con siderable discussion wiil probably pre cede the vote. To build a clubhouse on the plan out lined will necessitate added indebted ness of several thousand dollars. This, however, while a serious venture in itself. iy I II not influence the clubmen to any great extent, as they are deter mined to put their shoulders to the wheel and nto.it all debts so contract ed at the earliest possible) moment. Now HuildliiK limily .Needed. The need of the new clubhouse has been demonstrated beyond question. The plans for the new structure have been submitted to the directors, but thry must now be accepted by the vote of the members themselves. According to the plan the clubmen will build a spacious clubhouse, equipped with gymnasium and swim ming tanks and all other necessary ad juncts to. a purely athletic organization. The present quarters will be set aside for the exclusive use of the Women's Annex to the club. This latter organi zation has p-rowu to such an extent that the two days a week set aside for It to use the hulldliiR-. do not accommo date the regular members. With the new clubhouse in operation, the women can enjoy their quarters the entire week, while the male members will be furnished with a larger and more complete gymnasium and athletic quarters than Is possessed by any other athletic club In the country. With its wide reputation as an ath letic organization, the Multnomah Club practically stands alone in the West. Xo other city on the Pacific Coast can boast of such an institution, for no other clubs embrace tho social end of the game, and provide rooms for the accommodation of the members. Largest 4 vvmna slum in Wesl. The new clubhouse is to be a large one. It wil' nHve the largest gym nasium in the West, and it is also pro posed to install the largest swimming tank on the Coast. This latter feature could be mad-- one til the best -paying attractions of the club if seating" ac commodations w-ri- provided, for tha present general interest in this sport could be increased. . t present Port land does not boast of a swimming tank where spectators can be accom modn t ed com I'orl ably. As in the mutter "' swimming. Mult nomah also miffVni from the lack or m cmnmoda i bins in jujiiMig on other ath letic .-xli1l.il i..ns. ',, present gym nasium ran s.iit half. the members of the club, end ir friends when a gymnastic eS. hi bit ion. cither by the ju niors or by the Women's Annex. Is in progress, and the club Is put to the ex pense of liiriiip- another auditorium to produce its spectacular stunts. The annual reports of the officers and 1'ie chairmen of the various commit tees will show that the past year has been a prosperous one. The boxing and wrestling matches, the gymnastic drills, the football games and other en terprises will show a marked increase in the profits of the club, and each of these items comprises an individual boost for better quarters. Men Who Will Ueilre. For the past la days, in accordance with the by-laws of the club, the names of 12 members who are candidates for tno six vacancies in the board of trus tees, or directors, as they are more tamiilarlv known, have been posted. They will be balloted on Tuesday- night. The names of the retiring directors are as follows: J. K. Ewing. George W. rill-tons. Rev. A. A. Morrison. Irving Itohr. n. l. -r-igier and H. H. Rash. The ticket named bv the nominating com mittee, from which six will be chosen is as follows: George W. Simons, j! I". Kwing-. lr. George Ainslie. Kdward 1. Barrett. Raleigh P. Trimble, George T. Willett. W. 15. Prudhomme, Alma r. Katx. J. II. Barbour. J. M. Ambrose Oolin V. Dyment and Walter A. Holt. SCHWAB LIKES FISEXCH FOLK I'lnancler Hectares Gauls Are Great est Sportsmen in World. Charjes M. Schwab was talking about port. "The French." lie said with a laugh, ' "are- the greatest sportsmen. Le- sport that is their adoration. 111 never forget how 1 watched on whole afternoon from the Casino terrace of Monte Carlo a cou rt of Frenchmen in a boat shooting sea nulls. The blue Mediterranean was dotted with the beautiful white dead birds. They were, of course, of no use to anybody. rl know a man who Joined . great crowd about a sewer grating In the, Rue St. Honore, In Paris. An excited French man was fishing through the grating. He lowered a strong honk baited with meat, and every- three or four minutes he brought up, squealing and wriggling, a fat rat. Soon lie bad thirty or forty rats, lying at his feet. "The crowd was beside itself with the excitement of this sport. 'Splendide!" it souteri at each fres-h catch. 'Superbe! 'Magniflque! '."Then the gendarmes came and arrested the rat fisher.' The crowd writhed with indignation. It followed t,he prisoner to the gendarmerie. It roared. , " 'A baa la tyi-annie! Vive le sport libre: Down with tyranny! Hurrah for untramir.eled sport:" " SPOTTtXG DEVICE- PLEASES Perfect Triangle Made Possible ly Contrivance Used In Washington. A new and ingenious contrivance just installed at the Royal bowling alleys in Washington. D. C, and which hajs already given the enthusiast of the small pins much satisfaction, is the new pin-spotter, invented by George S. Lewis, of the Royal, and W. M. Farrow, Jr., both Washingtonians. This new invention differs materially from the ten-pin spotters so familiar- to bowlers, in that it is practically part of the alley and does not obstruct the vision of tho bowler. .It consists of a steel triangular plate set flush Into the floor. By aid of a lever this plate, is raised about two inches from the; floor, and the pins are then set in saucer-like appertures. provided for their reception. As the butt of the pin fits snugly Into BAB COCK "ELECTRIC HAS STEERING WHEEL INSTEAD OF LEVER. 1 t . J&stoi 7 : ' 7 - i ' --: 4 ' V THE XKW BABCOCK ELECTRIC, RKPRKSK.VrEll HF.RK BV THE HOSK CITV ELKCTftlO (.'OXSTRICTIO COMPAIVT, KIPTEESTH AXU WASHIXGTOX STREETS THIS Tl'PB OF CAll WAS RECENTLY DRII'E.V 103 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGING. s these holes it is impossible to spot the pins without obtaining a perfect trian-jle. When the lever is released, the plate drops back into place, leaving a perfect ly smooth surface. While originally designed for duck pins, it is equally adaptable for all regular sizo ten-pins. ' Bowlers who have tried the new dtiek pin spotters are enthusiastic in the praise of the innovation. NEW HUDSON CAR OUT TOCKIXG MODEL IS AXXOtXCEU BV DETROIT COXCttUX.- 1 resembling Roadster in Many De tails. Xow Car Carries Five Pas sengers -Price I Low. The Jludson Motor-car Company, of Detroit, lias taken advantage of automo bile show timp. when the entire country is locking at cars, to announce a new Hudson model. It' Is a five passenger touring: ear. distinctly Hudson in every line and feature, and from the seats for ward is Jdnt ie.il In appearance with the previous Hudson model, the roadster. The offi--'is of the Hudson Company s;y that the new oar is beinj? built in re sponse to n demand not only from their dealers but f rom owners of Hudson roadsters, who want a car of the same type but of five-passenger capacity. The car is stylish. 'notable for its lines and un- l usual refinements, and sells for $1150. One of these cars is being rushed here by express from the Xew York show, whlrh closed last night, for the H. Ij. Keats Auto Company to be exhibited at the Portland show. Briefly. Che specifications of the Hud son touring car are as follows: 310-inch wheel base;. 32-inch, -wheels;, . 3-lnch tires, front and rear; selective sliding gear transmission; semi-elliptic front and three-quarters elliptic rear springs; drop forged I beam front axle; semi-floating rear axle. Just at this stage of 1 the ' industry, when many manufacturers are talking higher prices. th Hudson people feM that the public, should- be - given som? reason for their ability to offer a new f n r of snph noTk-pr ai7.e and refinement at the low price of 21150. I When interviewed on this subject. Mr. Chapin. president of the Hudson Com pany, said: Tcsigning and building an automobile is like building anything else. For example: I might commission two engineers each to build a railroad from Xew York to Chicago, the roads to be of equal length. One engineer would build a better road for the same money, or the same road for leas money than the other. One bridge company will build a better bridge for the same money than another company. The same thing holds true in almost any engineering or manufacturing enterprise and also in the automobile busine. . - . "The Hudson Motor-car Company' with their ability and knowledge of auto mobile construction and their experience in the manufacturing end of the automo bile business, can build a better car for the money than any one else, and we feel that a critical examination either of the Hudson touring car at $1150 or the Hudson roadster at $1000 will bear out the truth of this statement. "We declare that these two cars have more mechanical features and refine ments m common with cars that are sell ing at much higher prices than any others on the market." On- or th newest autoxnobii tire-, a Pennsylvania's Invention, consists - of a number of rubber blocks to re mounted In a steel channel and reversible, so that a new surface can replace a worn one. AUTO SHOW FRUIT SEEN? SALES MANY Portland Dealers Dispose of Machines Before They Arrive. .- EXHIBIT-OF GREAT VALUE Xew Public Interest in Motoring Is Aroused- Demonstration Cars in Demand White Gas Auto Arrives on - the Scene. Portland automobile dealers expected a rest with the close of the automobile snow last Saturday night one week ago. Such, however, was not the case. Instead local dealers with a few exceptions, have been equally as busy as during the -show, minus the constant mental strain. This is on of the fruits of the auto mobile show and possibly the only one of any benefit tu the established deal ers. It aroused a new interest in motor ing in the - public and excited the de sires of many people for cars, who had not previously Intended buying. During the past week demonstration cars have been in constant use. Prospec tive purchasers on automobile row were thick throughout the week and many' sales were made. "I Tefuse to give the sales we have mode this week, because you would not believe it." said C. H. King, sales man ager of the Keatn Auto Company. The same expression was made by C. F. Wright, of Ballou & Wrigbt, accessory dealers. "See that pile of orders," said Mr. Wright, pointing to his desk. That is all business. We are having the great eat business of our career." A similar sentiment was expressed by other dealers. For weeks prior to the automobile show business In autodom was quiet here. Tho rush is now on and will continue Indefinitely. "This is the last show we will ever take rart in." was the statement of all the larger and older dealers. The money spent in giving the show will hereafter be spent in advertising. Some of the dealers are also beginning to declare their Intention of discouraging the road races here next June. "We don't wish to hurt the Rose Festival, but our cars have al ready been tried out numerous times and we feel that further contests are without business cause.'' say the old dealers. The automobile show, it is generally agreed, was a great success from the standpoint of the public and the Portland Automobile Club, which managed it. The club treasuryjias been Increased by about ?3000 as a result. This money, that Is the greater part of it. will be devoted to the good roads campaign of the club. Two Mitchell, seven-passenerer touring PERFORMANCE, NOT r, i i f l. i if Apply for Agency. 2 H. P., $185 and $215; 4 H. P., $240 ; 7 H. P. Magneto, $340 A FASTEST MOTOR CYCLE IN THE WORLD 0 Monogram Oils and Greases BALLOU & -WRIGHT cars have been purchased to do stage service out of Prinevtlle in Eastern Ore gon. Four five-passenger cars were pur chased last week by persons living at La. Grande, through the agent there, Arthur Hildebrand. - . The Meneies Motor Car Company, lo cal representatives of the Franklin, the only air-cooled engine car In the country, are moving to their new salesroom at Seventh -and Davis streets. The oll offices, garage and repair shops. im mediately in the rear of the new offices, will be maintained as usual. - . Xeate & McCarthy delivered two Loco mobiles" last -week "to local . purchasers. The now Everltt "30" to be handled by the same' firm,- will be represented here for the first time by a demonstrator within" the next week. - Charles R. Williams, . publicity man of the Winton Six factory, is spending this week in Seattle. He will return hero some time this week. The Barnes Auto Company, agents for the Mitchell, has sold a fully equipped runabout for the use of the wholesale drug firm. Clarke. Woodward & Com pany. " It Is now on the street. - William F. Woodward, of Woodard, CAarke & Company, well-known local druggists, is one of the latest purchasers of a seven-passenger Mitchell touring car. Roy Wilson, manager of the Western Auto Company, is this week delivering I ...... T m ipisimi hi, u iji u liii.-T''5SqBV!F. uvua '"M I : p'Jt f " - jii , i.: w-jtrfw 1 " mi m fsftv:- ".i. Off :: ...:. .--v'ory-yirf . - -V . -fe J 1 -,V fiiju nnj-- -qTTT-nnrr--fV : :. '.waicM,ov. 3 ? two automobiles, one a Knox and the other a Moline. to The Dalles purchasers. The Speedwell "50," R. IT. Thompson, Jr., local agent, has moved into its new home. 633 Aider street from Fourteenth and Burnside streets. A carload of Speed wells, including one of the famous tor pedo bodies, will be here this week. Joseph Tansey, Western branch man ager of the Michelln Tire Company, is here visiting the local representatives. O'Oerman-Younle Company. J. M. Cum mings, Seattle manager, is also here. Mrs. E. X. Dallas has purchased a new torpedo body White gasoline car from the White Mortor Car Company. George W. Hyland and S. B. Lockwood, are other purchasers of Wblte gasoline cars since the show. The "White gas car made its first appearance this year and Is rapidly replacing the White steamer. It is ru mored the White Company will discon tinue the making of steam cars after this year. - The Funk Motor Car Company, which recently acquired the local agency for the Palmer-Singer, the car with the racing body, now has salesrooms in the south west corner room of the New Scott Ho tel. This firm is also ne.gotiating for the Parry agency. The Parry car is made tn Indianapolis and is a 1310 product. It Is manufactured, by the old Parry . Buggy Company. The 15 cars, originally intended for ex hibition machines at . the automobile show by the Keats Auto Company, hare arrived. During the show several orders were taken and most of the cars were delivered to purchasers as soon as they were taken out of the freight yards. A meeting of the Portland Automobile Dealers Association will be held Monday night in the convention hall of the Com mercial Club. " A. H. Jones., the hustling factory man of the Morgan A- Wright Tire Company, PROMISE, MADE THE Automobile Accessories OUR STOCK FOR 1910 IS MOST COMPLETE MORGANmTT) IT1 O G O O D -& WRIGHT 1 liHiO R I C H BOTH RECOGNIZED LEADERS MORE 1910 CHALMERS- DETROIT CARS IN THE HANDS OF PRIVATE OWNERS IN PORTLAND THAN ALL THE REST OF THE CARS . IN ITS CLASS COMBINED $1500 THERE IS A REASON Most Popuilaur Car CHALMERS -DETROIT WINS Of 64,060 votes cast for the most popular oar at the Portland Auto Show, January 24-29, th Chalmers-Detroit received 34220 votes, winning the Western Motor Car cup by 19,930 over the nearest competitor, and 2984 more than all the rest combined from an exhibit of 102 e'ara. There is abundant evidence of the popularity of the Chalmers-Detroit throughout the entire North west, for votes -were cast for the Chalmers by people from every direction, even some admirers from far-away Nome and British Columbia. We haven't a great many moie Chalmers-Detroit cars to deliver, as our allotment has dwindled considerably since the show We won't publish any statement as to how many cars we sold during the show aud since, but will show you some signed orders if vou will drop into our office and ask to see them. H. L. KEATS AUTO CO. PEKRIESS POPE-HARTFORD CHA I.M EB S.DETROIT HIUSON left yesterday for Seattle, after makinB the largest sale of the year to Ballou & Wrlg-ht. local aponts. Most of the tires were the new "nobby treads." For the ftnst time a full carload of 70 motorcycles was received in Portland last week. The consignment was Indian mo torcycles for Ballou & Wrlsrht. Over half of the Httle "speed annihilators" had been sold before their arrival. ... Manager F. K. Tyon. of the Watson Auto Company, local agents for Inter State automobiles, drove a new 40-horee-power four-cylinder Inter-State up Port land Heights last week on the high goar. Mr. loon was much elated at the. feat. During the past week the Maxwell agency sold cars to Fred A. Kribs. M. I. Klein. E. T. Cooper and Or. A. Tilzer. of Portland; Sherman Swank, of Salem: S. O. Miller, of Aurora; Miss M. K. Will iams, of Independerfce; C. E. White-man. of Ea TSrande; L.ee Duncan, of Haines; Frank King. George Brown and George Staggs, of Weston: C. L. Smith, R. R. Montgomery. M. K. Lou-;. R. L. Smith and E. L. Cohen, of Pendleton. ... The Portland Motor Car Company an nounces the sale of a seven-passenger Winton Six to the Taurelhurst Company, now selling an addition to the city, for use in transporting prospective buyers of lota to the addition. UNCLE SAM TO BAR FOOTBALL? Indian Schools Ma-y Feel Force of Agitation Against Game. WASHINGTOX, Jan. 15. The Indian service of the Department of the Inte rior of the National Government Is apt to abolish football at the Government Indian schools. Such a ruling would affect Carlisle, Haskell Institute and the Grand Junc tion school at Sherman, Cal. The loss of Carlisle would leave a -big vacancy on some of the most Important sched ules in the country. That the Indian service contemplates abolishing football in Its jurisdiction is REPUTATION OF THE MOTOR CYCLE The Popular 1910 2-Cylinder 5 H. P. Magneto, $290.00 Four Models to Choose From: Imperial Lighting Outfits 86 .SIXTH ST. PORTLAND, OR. K Burnside and Seventh Streets Portland, Oregon not only a new phase of the universal crusade against the game but it Is un derstood that "the trouble over tho Pennsylvania-Carlisle game and the death of a Haskell substitute from in juries in a Kansas grame has some AUTOMOBILE BUYERS AND DEALERS ATTENTION! Read! Investigate! Act! EVERY PHASE OF THIS GREAT AUTOMOBILE WILL STAND THE CLOSEST INVESTIGATION. PALMER-SINGER AUTOMOBILES Are the Best that can be Built PALMER-SINGER Is in a Class by Itself Alone as to Quality PALMER-SINGER Has All the Qualities of Cars Selling for One Thou sand to Fifteen Hundred Dollars More ' Tli pro is none to compare with the IWLMKtt .SINGER BABY-TOXXKAU C-cylintler. (UMiorsepowt-r Flv-Abont. Fully equipped. $3600.00 F. O. B. PORTLAND. IF IX THE MARKET IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE DEMONSTRATION CHEERFULLY GIVEN. IT WILL COST YOU NOTHING. NOTICE TO DEALERS THROUGHOUT STATE OF OREGON Write us for territory, we .are allotting same to various ageuts. Now is the time to close, as we are makiug our agents liberal commission. PRICES OF CARS FULLY EQUIPPED, F. O. Baby touneau, 6-cylinder, 60-horsepower Gunboat body, without equipment. t-'i0 II. P.. Seven-passenger body, with equipment. 6-60 II 4-30 Runabout, without equipment 4-30 Tonueau. without equipment 4-30 Victoria, without equipment 4-30 Town Car, without equipment.. 4-30 Limousine, without equipment 4-50 Seven-passenger Touring HENRY FUNK AUTO CO. Salesroom 335 Ankeny, cor. Phone Marshall 852. VAN MATRE-LANDY AUTO CO. 503 Alder Street, A 7612. BARGAINS IN SECOND-HAND AUTOMOBILES 240 11. P. Studebaker. "-passenger. 230 H. P. Studebaker. o-pas- seneer. 1 Cadillac, o-pasc-enger. MORE 1910 CHALMERS - DETROIT CARS IN THE HANDS OF PRIVATE OWNERS -IN PORTLAND THAN ALL THE REST OF THE CARS IN ITS CLASS COMBINED $1500 THERE IS A REASON thing to do with the rumored agita tion. Aluminum paper, a. cheaper .substitute for tinfoil, is made by pressing the powdereii metal into a thin coating of resin on parchment-like iapt-r. E. PORTLAND. .$3600 $4100 .S4SOO .$2450 S2700 S3550 S3700 S3850 P. . Car, without equ ipment..$4200 7th. Repair Shop 329 Everett. Phone Main 7280. 1 Tourist. 5-passenger. 1 30 II. P. Studebaker E. M. F., 5-passenger. 5 2 40 II. P. Olds, one Roadster, one 5-passengcr.