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4 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTIyAND, JULY 10, 1910. ORDERS WILL" BE SOUGHT IN AUTOS Portland Grocery Firm Buys Four Cars for Use of Trav .; eling Salesmen. BIG SAVING IS EXPECTED Men Will Cover Wider Territory and Travel Faster Machines Dis placing Horses In Many Lines of Business. That the automobile as a business conveyance will soon take the place of the horse and wagon' Is being dem onstrated more and more every we"elc In Portland and the surrounding terri tory. Not only Is the automobile sue-, reeding the horse as a common carrier In the city, but in the country the farmers are rapidly beginning to real ise the necessity of saving time and to that end they are rapidly doing away with the horse for the quicker mode of getting about their farms. That Portland business men are awakening to the convenience and time saving propensities of the automobile was revealed last week when the Allen & Lewis Company, the largest whole ale grocery company in the Northwest purchased four Maxwell automobiles for the use of their commercial travel ers In Portland and the outlying terri tory. One of these Maxwells purchased by Allen tc Lewis will be shipped to Baker City to be used in that territory by their representative, li. Jj. .LArrison. This machine is the highest powered of the four, this being essential be cause of the mountainous territory tributary to Baker. City. Baker City is In the heart of the mining district of Eastern Oregon and Mr. Larrison, as reDresentatlve of Allen & Lewis h to make frequent trips Into that dis trict. Two of the other three machines will be used In and about Portland and Its neighboring counties, while the third will be used by W. F. Greer, sales man ager of the company in Portland. "By automobile." said Mr. Greer, "our representative will be able to cover more territory, and In less time than by horse and buggy. In this respect the new venture is expected to be a profit able one to the company both as a time raver and as a commercial asset. In the event of these machines proving their worth, as they are expected to no, more machines will be added from time to time." , George J. Fischer, who has been assigned a 22-horse power Maxwell, will use It in Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah Counties. E. Norden- son, with a machine of like model and power, will use it In his territory In Clackamas and Washington Counties. Despite the extremely bad condition of the Washington County roads, these machines are expected to give no trouble to the traveling salesmen. The automobiles will be used by Allen & Lewis" representatives this week for the first time. The future chauffeurs have been busily engaged In learning the mechanism of the cars. - To expedite the many chores and trips necessary to the management of a large dairy farm two brothers, George and James Williams, well-to-do dairyr men of the Trask River territory, near Tillamook, last week purchased two Eve-passenger 40-horse power Over land automobiles from the Crowe Auto mobile Company, of Portland, Oregon distributors. The two Williams brothers own large dairy farms adjoining each other about three miles from Tillamook. They have contemplated purchasing automo biles for some time and when the Port land Automobile Club's monster pa rade of decorated automobiles passed their farms an the way to Tillamook the Williams brothers decided to endure he slower methods of transportation AO longer. L. E. Crowe and II. A. Burgess, agents for the Overland car in Oregon, while on the Tillamook Jaunt of the Portland Automobile Club decided to ply their wares In the territory sur rounding Tillamook with the above mentioned success. One of the cars for the Williams brothers will be shipped to Tillamook by boat while the other will probably be driven there by Mr. Burgess, who will teach the dairymen Jiow to run their recent acquisitions. About a week will be spent in the Til lamook country by Mr. Burgess. Another demonstration of the ever Increasing popularity of the automo bile over the horse was seen in Port land last week when the Swiss Cream ery Company purchased a 4-ton Stude baker electric truck to be used in con veying milk, cream and produce from the terminal yards to their place of business. Many other business con cerns are contemplating: the purchase of these powerful trucks. Frank J. Flanigan, Simplex distribu tor for Oregon and Washington, has a demonstration car on the way from the East and is at present looking for a suitable location for his agency. Mr. Flanigan will also have the agency for the Samson truck. J. II. Wood, one of Portland's busi ness men, returned Wednesday night from -a 1000-mlle tour of the Southern Oregon and Crater Lake country in his Cadillac. Mr. Wood was accompanied by his family. The long trip was com pleted without a particle of trouble. Not even a puncture was had. .Ellsworth Pickel. with offices in the Board of Trade building, recently purchased an automobile. He chose the Franklin Torpedo, which is a 65 horsepower car. Mr. PIckel's car is an exact counterpart of the first torpedo car turned out by the Franklin factory The original car of this type was built for H. H. Franklin, president of the company. Delivery of ' Mr. PIckel's new novelty will be in the latter part of August or the first of September. The new machine Is painted battleship gray with red stripes and has red ud holsterlng. Driving a Franklin touring car that gave evidence of a long and dusty trip J. W. Phillips, of Seattle, accompanied by his wife, daughter and sons, passed through Portland last week on their way to Southern California for an ex tended tour of that country. C. H. Williams, formerly with the R. C. Hamlin Company, of Lo Angeles. Is now connected with the firm of Men ties & DuBois, Portland distributors of the Franklin motor car. Mr. Wil liams has had considerable experience In the automobile line. The- new garage under construction at King and Washington streets for Neate & McCarthy, agents for the Win ton and Locomobile, is rapidly pro gressing and will soon be ready for occupancy. ( An agency for Go .rick tires has been opened In Portland. W. Dunna gan is the manager of the new branch. The agency for the Harmon car, which was formerly held In Portland by the Crowe Automobile Company, has been taken over by the Hollenbeck Au tomobile Company. Mr. McCarthy, of Neate & McCarthy, is on a tour of the Klamath Falls. Cra ter Lake and Uedford districts. Two seven-passenger Locomobiles have been purchased by the Crater Lake Stage Company for use between Crater Lake and Medford in the pas senger business. These are the first machines to be regularly employed on that routet as stage vehicles.) The two machines were shipped south on Wed nesday and began active service yes terday. Clifford MenziesL in his Franklin, along with five other Franklin owners, was at Mount Hood last Monday. from his home, Eugene, to Portland was the trip taken by E. W. Hughes, a. busi ness man of that llllotHntr nMMn made last week In his Brush "10." The Funk Automobile Company," Port land distributors for the Parry car, has moved its headquarters from 8eventh and Ankeny streets to 828 Everett streets. I I One carload of 1911 Studebaker forties r 7T II II r i I i n 3 '- r I I'll! LEFT TO RIGHT E. NOKDEKSOX, CLACKAMAS AM MILTKOMAH COLJVTlESf CBORfiE J. FISHER, WASHJ1MGTOK, CLACKAMAS AD MVLT NOMAH COXJKTTESl G. L. L ARRIS OX, BAKER COUNTY AND OUTLYING TERRITORY W. F. GREER, SALES MANAGER. and -one carload of E. M.' F. cars were received In Portland last week by the Studebaker Company. All have been sold. CLEMENS SETS RECORD RETURN' TRIP FROM TILLA MOOK IX 5 HOURS 45 MIX. With Official Timer Run Is Made From Main Street of Coast City to Center of Portland. Running over roads that were dusty and none too smooth, a distance of ap proxlately 110 miles from Tillamook to Portland in 5 hourB and 45 minutes Is the record of "W. J. Clemens, vice president of the Portland Automobile Association, last week while return ing from the excursion by 100 members of that organization to Tillamook where they were the guests of the Pot ter Realty Company. This fast trip excels all others ever made over the road by far, although Ray Wilson, one of the Buick Company drivers, with a Bulck machine, was said to have made the trip In four hours. However, this was denied and it is held that the actual time made by the car was 6 hours and 15 minutes. Accompanied by H W. Mitchell, Mr. Lyons and Carl Jackson, all members of the Portland Automobile Associa tion, Mr. Clemens left Tlllamooa Tues day morning at 10 o'clock and at 3:45 arrived at the Commercial building. Mr. Clemens office. Mr. Mitchell acted as official timer and recorded the dis tances made in the following time: Tillamook to Dolph, 2 hours and 6 min utes; Dolph to Wilhelmina, 1 hour and 15 mlnues; Wilhelmina to McMlnnvllle, 40 minutes: McMlnnvllle to Portland, 1 hour and 45 minutes. This record run cuts one-half hour off the best previous running time be tween Tillamook and Portland. What makes the record all the more remark able was the fact that Mr. Clemens and party was hailed by a country marshal near McMlnnvllle and admonished for speeding. Several minutes were lost by that maneuver. Good, though somewhat dusty roads. were encountered most of the way from Tillamook, reported Mr. Clemens. The road near Dolph and Wilhelmina, the summit of the mountains, was very good and little time was lost by the party in climbing the stiff grades In that vicinity. The record run of Mr. Clemens and party was not from the outskirts of Tillamook to the Portland city limits, but Instead from the main street of Tillamook to the heart of Portland. Mr. Clemens and party far out-dis tanced the other members of the Port land party that started for home at the same time he did. RUBES BACK WITH TRI-CITYS West Portland Club Will Meet Salem at Cherry City. After absence for a couple of games from the Trl-City League schedule, Ru pert's Rubes, the West Portland aggrega tion, will again appear by hooking up with the Salem team on the Cherry City diamond. Sell wood Journeys to Vancou ver, while the Derbies will endeavor to take the measure of the new Peninsula team, on the McKenna Park diamond. The Peninsula team has won both of Its games since Joining the league and ex pect no titrable lifting the bats of the Derbies. " Peninsula has a fast team and is composed of the stars of the former Fulton nine and the old Peninsula aggre gation. Parker and Jorgenson, the bat tery, have more than made good in league company and are a beady pair. Peninsula boasts of a number of hard hitters, too. In their ranks they have McFarland, league leader, and Luckey, on of the sluggers well known to local fans. Parker will pitch for Peninsula and will be op posed on the mound by "Cv" Townsend. Jamieson will umpire. Bellwood will hook up with the Soldiers at Vancouver. The Soldiers win make their last appearance in league company for a few weeks, for they leave next week for American Lake for their annual en campment. The Soldiers have finally struck their true gait and are playing good ball. Jesse Scott and McKinley will work for the Tourists, -while Spear will probably heave for the opponents. Alex Cheyne will umpire. AUTO HELD DY MOD Pathfinder Car Fails in Trip to Gearhart Races. MACHINES SENT BY RAIL Contests at Beach Result in Run With Every Entry Covering Ten Mile Course at Better Than - Mile-a-Minuto Clip. Owing to the muddy condition of the roads caused by the heavy rains of the Friday before the proposed automobile trip by members of the Portland Auto mobile Club through Columbia and Clatsop Counties to Gearhart Park, the trip was abandoned through advices from the pathflnder party and the FOUR MAXWELL CABS AR"E PURCHASED .. m rt , ,., n. ,mii n I r I . -In I , . & 4 A f I MMWI III lll .IIIIIV.aww i - cars shipped to the beach resort by train. Despite the fact that the county of ficials of both Columbia County and Clatsop County had expended several hundred dollars in fixing up the roads over which the party were to have passed, it was found inadvisable to at tempt the trip, by automobile. A pathfinder car carrying C. C. Har rison, assistant secretary of the Port land Automobile Club, H. F. Prince, of Dundee, Or.; J. H. Webb, of the Ruth Trust Company, and driven by Jack Harrison, attempted to make the trip In advance of the large delegation, but got stuck in the mud before proceed ing very far. They telegraphed to the Portland parties not to attempt the trip by motor, but to ship their cars by train. It was necessary to procure a team of horses to rescue the . "Path finder" car from the clutches of the muddy road. Rains Spoil Roads. The bad condition of the road was at trlbuted to the fact that heavy rains had fallen throughout Columbia and Clatsop Counties on the Friday preced lng the date set for the trip. Previous ly to this, however, persons from those counties familiar with the road con dltions in the lower Columbia River Valley pronounced the roads in good condition, and said it was feasible to make the trip by automobile. On Saturday afternoon six large mo tor cars were loaded on the cars and shipped to Gearhart Park and their owners left Portland for the beach out ing the following day, and arrived at their destination that day about noon. where they found the cars unloaded and awaiting them. On Monday, the Fourth of July, the big 10-mile race for stock cars and amateur drivers was held on the beach A beautiful 10-mile straightaway course In front of the big hostelry was selected and the race held. Only six cars started, but It was the most hotly contested automobile race ever wit nessed in Oregon, for all of the cars finished the 10 miles within half a min ute of each other. The cars entered were: R. D. In man's Thomas 90, E. L. Mills' 30-60 Stearns, Lee Clark's Pierce 60, Julius L. Meier's Thomas 70 and Kenneth Honeyman's little Cole 80. Inman's Thomas 90 Wins. Inman's monster Thomas 90 won the race by covering the 10 miles in less than a mile-a-minute rate. He made the 10 miles in 9 minutes and 30 sec onds. E. L. Mills in a 30-60 Stearns was second, closely followed by the other entries. Kenneth Honeyman's little 30-horse-power Cole made the best showing of any of the machines. By skillful man euvering on the part of the driver the little car' got away in the lead, but was soon overtaken by its higher-powered rivals. Nevertheless the little Cole made the others go to beat It out, and while It was the last machine in, made the ten miles in exactly ten minutes fiat. A race for the smaller machines was to have been held, but none of the other little cars appeared. Rather than not race at all, young Honeyman con cluded to enter his machine in the con test against the large cars. Crowd Clusters at Finish. The races were witnessed by a crowd that lined the entire course on both sides-and cheeered madly as the racing cars shot past them. So Intense was the Interest that the crowd near the finish line surging out onto the track Impeded the finishing of the race by the racing machines. Several narrow escapes of being run down were expe rienced. The crowd numbered several thousands. Twenty machines from Astoria made the run to Clatsop Beach to partici pate in the day's frivolity and to watch the races. Some of these machines were expected to enter the contests for the cups. The local machines were shipped back to Portland on Tuesday, while most of the x-ortland party returned by train on Monday night. Later in the season, when the road to the beach resorts will be passable, Julius L. Meier Intends to lead a large party of Portland automobile members on the trip to the ocean. Keen disap pointment was expressed by the mem bers of the party that went to Clatsop Beach over their inability to make the trip by automobile. The Portlanders were royally entertained during their stay at 'the beach. Kilrain Beaten In 7 5th Round. PORTLAND, July 8 (To the Sporting Editor, Oregonian.) Can you give, through the columns of your paper, the. result of the ullivan-KHraln fight? Was Kilrain ever champion? Yours sincerely, FRANK THOaNTON. Sullivan defeated Kilrain July 8, 1889. in 76 rounds at Richburg, Miss. Kilraln's only claim to championship was the fact that he fought a draw with Jem Smith near Paris, France, on December 19, 1887. NO "COLD FEET" AT RAIXIER Sam liebire Writes About July 4 Ball Game. RAINIER, Or., July 9. (Sporting Editor, Oregonian). An erroneous re port was sent The Oregonian regarding the game of July 4. when Rainier eas ily defeated the overestimated team from St. Helens by the score of 18 to 1. Brakke was pounded all over the lot, a total of 16 hits for 21 bases being the reception for him in six innings. Campbell then went in to relieve him, but as the Rainier team had enough he got off easy. Haggins pitched for Rain ier and held St. Helens to four hits and one run in six innings. In the seventh, after the score was 18 to Seaton, who was spending the Fourth in Rain ier, asked to pitch. As the game was won and the audience wanted to see Beaton work, Manager Leblre allowed him to go in. Lebire's feet are perfect ly normal and in fact no one in Rain ier has cold feet when it comes to play ing baseball with St. Helens. We have learned they expected three men from BY ALLEN & LEWIS FOB THEIR s.- -. J- X 5 Portland for this game but they missed the train. In the former game Rainier did not have their first baseman or shbrtstop, but held St. Helens to a 3 to 2 score. In this game Rainier batted Brakke out and Campbell took his place in the sixth. Rainier earned both the runs, while St- Helens made theirs on errors at first and short where there two new men. The score by innings: Rainier 00044600 x 13 St. Helens 1 0 0 0 0 0 O'O 0 1 Batteries Rainier: -Hagglns, Seaton and Thurston; St. Helens: Brakke, Campbell and Morton. SAM LEBIRE. SCANDAL HITS CLEMENCEAU Ex-Premier Accused of Part In Rochelle Swindles. PARIS, July 9. A great scandal, involv ing ex-Premier George Clemenceau, has broken out in connection with the trial of Henri Rochelle, the well-known French promoter, whose financial institutions, the Franco-Spanish Bank and the Credit Minier, were closed In March, 1908, when Rochelle was arrested on charges of ex tensive swindling. The testimony shows that immense sums of money were made by speculators immediately before the failure. It Is now charged that the arrest of Rochelle was made on direct order from Clemenceau. Several Interpellations in Parliament regarding the affair will be made on the 11th of this month. Clemenceau's friends Intimate that for mer Foreign Minister Delcasse, who is an Implacable enemy of Clemenceau, has taken advantage of the latter's absence in South America on a lecturing tour, to spring this sensation. Clemenceau's brothers, Paul and Albert, In an open let ter characterized the attack as cowardly and declared that hlsr public life is above suspicion. AUT0L.ITE. The latest in cigarettes. You need no matches with Autolite. Just scratch the end of the cigarette on the box and it Ignites. Clean, odorless, con venient the coming cigarette. Sig Slchel & Co., 92 Third, or branches at Third and Washington and Wells Fargo Bldg. . Captain Webber Recovers. VALDEZ, Alaska, July 9. Captain E. P. Webber, of Westport, Me., fleet engineer of the Bering Sea revenue cutter patrol, whose skull was fractured by a fall on a merchant steamship on which he was going North to Join the fleet arid who was believed to be fatally Injured, has so far recovered that he will leave for Seattle on the Alameda next week, accompanied by his daughter. SEND YOUR 5 . - StJt WeX AND AUTO SUPPLIES TO A. J. WINTERS CO. NO. 67 SIXTH STREET RELIABLE AUTO SUPPLY AND HARDWARE DEALERS VULCANIZING AND RE-TREADING ASK THE MAN WHO KNOWS ABOUT DIAMOND MOUNTAIN TREAD TIDES BOWSER BURNS AFTER NEGRO Tommy Says Johnson Has Promised Him Match. FIGHTER LOOKS RUGGED One-Tlme Champion Disappointed at Outcome of Fight Thinks Bill Squires Could Have Won From Jim Jeffries In 190 7. Tommy Burns, the former heavyweight champion, arrived In Portland Friday morning, and left that night to meet his wife at Seattle. Burns is accompanied by W. F. Corbett. the fistic expert of the Sydney Referee, and while here the former champion announced that Jack Johnson promised him a return match to be staged either in England or Australia SALESMEN v - r as near the Christmas holidays as the black champion's theatrical engagements will permit. Bums looks the picture of health, though he is somewhat overweight at present. He expressed keen disappoint ment at the outcome of the recent fight at Reno, for he was one of the many fistic experts who picked James J. Jef fries to win. Burns' companion, W. F. Corbett, picked the black man, and when ever the opportunity offers he chides Tommy Jokingly about the Judgment the fighter used. "It was the biggest disappointment I ever experienced," said Burns in com menting on the fight. "Jeff never had a chance. He was all in from the Btart, and I really believe that had he met Bill Squires when the latter challenged him before meeting mo in 1907, Squires would have beaten him. That is my opinion of it. and if he had, I would have held the undisputed title after beating Squires. It was the biggest surprise I had ever had, for 'I really thought Jeff could beat the colored man. I think I can do it, and he has agreed to give me another chance. I have no excuse to offer over the Australian affair, for Johnson beat me then, but I think I can take his measure the next time and will camp on his trail until I get another match. "While at Reno I called at Johnson's camp, though at his invitation, for I did not care to seek him out on my own hook In view of the fact that I had picked Jeff to win, and he greeted me quite cor dially, and win, lose or draw, he promised me then and there that he would give me another chance. Johnson agreed to meet me under the auspices of Hugh Mc intosh, the Australian promoter, who staged our other meeting, and this bout will take place in either England or Aus tralia, where they are not likely to abol ish fighting, and will occur about Christ mas time, or as near that time as John son's theatrical contracts, will permit him to appear in the ring." W. F. Corbett very tersely expressed his views of the fight by saying that Jeffries could not come back under any circumstances and was beaten before he entered the ring. According to Corbett Jack Johnson is an underrated fighter, and has not yet been put to the test. He would not commit himself when asked 1 he believed Burns had a chance with the negro at a second meeting. Gilliam Elects Oregon "U" Man. CONDON, Or., July 9. (Special.) Jesse H. Bond, graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon, class of 1909, was yesterday elected principal of the Gil Ham County High School for the com ing school year. Professor Bond, who has Just returned from a year's work at Columbia University, New York, has had seven years' experience as a teacher. He is a debater of ability and last year won the Interstate oratorical contest in which representatives from Oregon, Washington and Idaho Univer sities participated. 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