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THE SUNDAY OKKGOXIAX. PORTLAND. JAXUAUV 1, 1011
S GROWTH OF AUTO
I m m m m. a I nil M "f
nuus hi ghui
Assets of General Motors
Company Reaches Enor
mous Figure.
NOTES MAY BE LISTED
Application to w York Stock
Exchange MadeSubsidiary Cor
porations" Sales In 1910 To
tal Sum of SS8.500.000.
Some Idea of the magnitude of the au
tomobile, Industry at the present time
may be gained from the statement re
cently Issued by the General Motori
Company upon the conclusion of the re
organization of this, the greatest cor
poration In the automobile world today.
Of an authorized Issue of tlO.OOo.Oos of
per cent first Hen fire-year sinking
fund gold notes, an Issue of tlS.frOn.nO")
was underwritten by J. N. W. Salt-
man A Company, of Nrw Tork. and I-ee
Hlgatnson Company, of Boston. Appli
cation has been made to list these notes
' on New York Stock Exchange.
The capitalization of the General Mo-
tors Company Is I1B.0OO.0OO per cent
I first lieu flre-years sinking fund gold
notes: J1S.0M.40O 7 per cent cumulative
1 preferred stock of which S.6S:.'0 la
I held by the General Motors Company or
lis subsMlary companies, and J13.S7I.
; 0JO common stock of which $1,015,347
Is aIo held by the General Motors Cora
' rany or the subsidiary corporations.
Asects Are Great.
A statement of the assets of the com-
jpany. under date of September JO. 110.
'shows the total assets of this enorlhous
'corporation as I37.770.SW.
The proceeds of this gold note Issue
have enabled the General Motors Com-
Tanv t. provide for Its own outstanding
liriehtedn'ss and that of Its subsidiary
motor manufacturing romps nles. leaving
the companies with about J24.l47.oo net
a?eta. Including JJ."OO.0OO In cash.
An Interesting bit of reading Is pro-
vl.led In a statement of the net profits
of the corporation for the years 1J08-9.
which are stated at J3.S&7.151. the net
profits for the year ending September
. I10. at the remarkable figure of
$i'.:.3::.
The subsidiary corporations to the
Onera! Motors Company during the
yar -n.i:.:K October 1. !". s-ld an
pmxlmatelv J3l.ooo.oo0 worth of automo
biles, and for the year ending October t.
1910. their sales reached the phenomenal
ftctire of lis. 600.000.
The motor car manufacturing com-pank-s
subsidiary to the General Motors
Company, together with the respective
amounts of their capitalization Is as
follows: Mulck Motor Co.. preferred.
!S"0.O"0; Hulck Motor Co., common. J-.-tH).oor
fad. liar Motor Co.. Jl.500.000:
Ol.ls Motor Works. JJ.IJtSM; Oakland
Motor Car Co.. JSOO.OOO: The Klmore
Manufacturing Co.. tu0.00: Cartercar
t'o.. comin-wi. :toJ7.720; Cartercar Co..
preferred. fia.Ort: Northway Motor
Manufacturing Co.. ST25.oOi: Marquette
Motor Co.. $791,000; Randolph Motor
Car Co J.13.40: Rapid Motor Vehicle
Co.. JiX.0O0; Reliance Motor Trunck
Co.. JlSloO: The Welch Co.. of Detroit.
K7S.0OO; Welch Motor Car Co.. $250,000:
General Motors Co.. of Michigan. J100.
Oow; Champion Ignition Co.. J100.000:
Jackson-Church-Wllcox Co.. J340.OOO;
Mlihlsnn Auto Parts Co.. 1300.000;
Michigan Motor Castings Co.. $100,000;
Oak Park Power Co.. $100,000; McLaugh
lin Motor car Co.. limited. $1.00 J, 000;
Weston-Mott Co.. $1,500,000.
J. P. Tufts, banker, of Grants Pass,
has returned home after an absence of
several months spent In touring Cali
fornia, by automobile. Mr. Tufts pur
chased from the Howard Automobile
Company, of this city, and took delivery
from the Ban Francisco house, of a 40
horsepower Hutrk touring car In which
he and his family visited all points of
Interest In Central and Southern Cali
fornia, together with a visit to points
of Interest In Old Mexico about Tl
Jauns. On account of the heavy snows
In the Siskiyou Mountains. Mr. Tufts
did not attempt to drive home but
shipped his car from San Francisco to
Grants Pass.
C. D. 'Welter and son. of Grants Pass,
were among the visitors to "automobile
town" In Portland, this week. Mr. Wel
ter Is a prominent lumber manufacturer
of Grants Pass.
William G. Thanbar. traveling repre
sentative of the Howard Automobile
Company, spent the holiday week visit
ing the cities and towns on the west
side of the Willamette Valley, with a
view to enhancing the Bulck cause In
those localities.
George G. Bingham, of Salem. Or, was
a visitor during the holiday week In
Portland. Mr. Rlngham Is the owner of
M Ftutck 40-ltorsepuwer touring car and
enjova the distinction of being his own
mechanic. He Is spending his leisure
moments during the Winter In cleaning
up and readjusting his car for a pleas
ure campaign during the coming season.
O. J. Wilson, of Palem. Or., was a vis
itor here this week. Mr. Wilson is the
p.nrr of the largest garage In Salem
and one which enjoys the further dis
tinction of having probably the great
est rlmr floor space of any garage In
the Pacific Northwest.
R. F. Thompson, familiarly known to
the automobile trade all over California
as "Bob" Thompson, and who has been
manager for the Mirheiin Tire Company
la San Francisco for the past three years
has tendered hie resignation and on Jan
uary t will become a traveling repre
sentative for the Howard Automobile
tloropany.
.MOTOR BOAT RACKS ARE OX
r Year's Day F vent a Will Be Held
Tomorrow.
The second annual New Year's day
motor-boat races will be held tomorrow
afternoon under the auspices of the Port
land Motor-Boat Club. The races will
be held over the course extending from
the Hawthorne bridge to a point below
the Steel bridge. Two events are sched
uled, a fre-for-all and a 3-mile craft
contest. At least four boats are expected
.n race In earn event.
On race will be for a cup donated by
the Western Yacht and Launcliman. a
new Portland publication, and the other
wtil be for a Portland Motor-Boat Club
trophy. Probably both races will be of
at least r miles In length. The race for
the 30-mlle an hour craft will be M
miles long while the others may be ex
tended to 3 mil's.
Son of the fleetest-keeled boats on the
ParlDc Coast will race In the free-for-all
contest. One tnlng. however, that de
tracts front the race Is the absence of
L Pacific Coast champion. Wolff IL
which was destroyed In ber dock at the
asast sod of the Morrison bridge by In
cendiarism last Summer. For the past
two years this fleet craft has swept
everything before It.
However, an exhibition In speed Is
promised by the Seattle Spirit-Pacer, a
Portland-Seattle combination. Thla long,
low. racy-looking speed boat has been
the Woiat's greatest rival all season and
has made the champion travel her fastest
to win.
Equipped with a new engine tho Happr
Heinle II. owned by Al Kllngblll and
Otto Kanft. promises to make a gallant
ftght for first honors over the Seattle
Splrlt-Paeer. The Happy Heinle II was
built, engine and all. in Portland last
Summer by the Portland sportsmen.
After a thorough test the engine failed
to stand the required test and the own
ers sent East for a- new power plant.
It arrived last Fall and the owners aro
desirous of putting It to the test in a
race. In trial for speed, the craft has
made excellent speed and may prove a
surprise to the. other entrants.
The Potato Bug II and. several .other
boats that were entered In the races at
Vancouver for the Pacific Coast cham
pionship and in the races at. Portland
last year, are among those scheduled to
start In the race tomorrow. . In the 10
mile class there will he some handsome
cruisers entered, smonif which probably
will be Treasurer Cooper's palatial
rrulser Charmalee. one of the finest boats
on the Willamette. - ...
The publ sher of the Western lacht
and Uunchmtn has offered a year's sub
scription to every motor-boat owner who
has his craft out on the river, whether
It participates In the contests or not.
BIG GAMES FIXED
Northwest Conference .Col
leges Make Schedules.
RUGBY WILL BE PLAYED
Idaho and Pullman .' to . Introduce
English Game Important Con
tests Between Schools Are Set
for Thanksgiving Day."
AmongNhe other matters agreed upon
by the delegates to the Northwest College-Conference
at Spokane 'was The
signing of dates for football games for
next Fall. The delegates from the six
conference colleges, made public their
respective schedules. Basktball and
baseball agreements also were made. A
November 11 O. A. VT. at corvallis.
November IS Whitman at Pullman.
November 30 Washington at Seattle.
Idaho University
October 21 W. 8. C at Moscow.
October M Washington at Spokane.
November 4 (Rugby W. 8. C. at Pull
man. November 11 Whitman at Moscow.
November S.l Oregon st Eugene.
November SO Utah at Salt Lke.
Wblunan Colleae
November 4 Oregon at Eugene.
November 11 Idaho at Moscow.
November IS W. S. C. at Pullman.
November SO O. A. C. at alia Walla.
Oregon- fnlverslty
October as W. 8. C. at Pu Iman.
November 4 Whitman at V. alia V aUa
November 18 Washington at Portland.
November S Idaho at EOgene.
November 30 Multnomah at Portland.
Oregon Agricultural College
November 4 Washington at Seattle.
November 11 W. 8. C. at Corvallis.
November IS Idaho at M"
November 30 Whitman at Walla Walla.
: WANTED MORE BATTIXG .
Agitation May' Bring' About Change
: In Baseball Game.
Continued agitation Is belna: carried
on extensively for tho reformation of
the baseball rules so that more bat
tfntr can be had. and It remains for
an Easteriufan to propose what looks
like a Joke, but might be worthy of the
magnates' attention.
It Is an old saying that "they never
get fast enough to steal first hs.se,
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Th.'s publication was formerly locatea
at Tare mo, but because of the superior
Interest In motor-boating In Portland the
owner decided to establish In Portland.
The bow to Portland's population will
be made about the middle of the month.
SOCCER OH TOMORROW
TWO IMrORTAST GAMES TO BE
PUVKD OX XEW YEAR'S.
Nationals and Ocean lea and Mult-
noutahs and Portland Cricket
Club Teams to Clash.
Two games of soccer football will be
played tomorrow at the Catholic Toung
u.iv. cinK Athletic Park. Williams
avenue and Stanton streets, one In the
morning and the otner in me
el--. AnntAKt will . lift bS-
uuun. i iiv --
tween the Nationals and the Oceanlcs.
starting at 10:30 in me momma. , i
other will be the annual holiday con
test between the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club team and the Portland
Cricket Club eleven.
For two years previous to this, the
latter game has been played upon
Christmas day, Multnomah winning
each game by a smau scorn, w v....
. an w- trm m M last MdlKUT
against the Oceanlcs the Cricketers
promise to reverse me oruer ui .V..B-
: M f..l.nr.mah Th rfr IP k C t-
jjljiu win .w." -
ers administered a defeat by the scoro
of 11 to J over tne unic
day. while the best Multnomah ha
b.en ahie to do with this team was to
beat them by one goal.
Multnomah provea ins mrprim i
season last week and won from the
. in.iMhiit Nationals team by
the score of S to I. The winged "M"
team waa crippiea yei
. i if left fullback and
left half, respectively, were on the sick
list and nnable to play. Robertson and
Ingles, two former Nationals, taking
their places. These National players
fought harder to win from their former
teammates (nan mey- am 's'"'us -win
for them earlier in the season.
. t. . ..ihiiltv that Multnomah's
two- sick men will bo able to play to
morrow afternoon, ins iimu a -"
will be called at 1 o'clock.
ONE PHONE LINE WANTED
Washington legislator Propose to
Connect Competing Systems.
PTOKANF. 'Wash, Dec tl. (Special. )
Physical connection of telephone lines
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duced at the coming session of the leg
islature by Kprfwoiii x. .
chanan. of Spokane. , w
If thla bill becomes a law it win be
possible for any subscriber on one line
. i m m tAlAnhona
to nave ue vn - - ' ------
connection en another line In cities
where there are competing systems.
"To compel a business or professional
man to have connections with two com
peting telephone systems is an Imposi
tion." declared Mr. Buchanan this morn
ing. "To Install a connection between
the central stations of the two systems
would cost very little. A person having
a Bell telephone and desiring to speak
to a person on a xom
able to call the Bell central, get a con-
i k . v - iinm. central and thea
call his party on the Home line.
Coal Kate Reduction Blocked.
PES MOINES. la.. Pee. IL Judge
Smith McPherson. m the Federal Court
today. Issued a restraining order pre
venting the Iowa Railroad Commission
enforcing its order for a material re
duction of freight rates on coal, and
set next Friday, at Council Bluffs, for
a hearing as to a permanent injunction.
The plaintiffs in the case are the Rock
Island. Northwestern. Milwaukee. Oreat
Western and Burlington railroads.
Many Norwegian families from the cities
srmd two months out of each Bummer lo
the mountains or along the picturesque
fiords, portable cottages are a feature et
this outdoor Ufa.
iMiaa.ian oT tiree was MjoLii.'J lo r.
adjust the schedule for track meets u;.d
WllHam U Hayward. of the fnlverslty
of Oregon, was appointed chairman of
the committee.
The University of Idaho and Washing
ton State College will have English Rug
by foptball teams and a game between
them will be played at Pullman on No
vember 4. This will be the tlrst time
that Rugby has been played by North
west college If the game proves suc
cessful there Is a possibility that the
other colleges of the conference will also
establish the game.
Washington Btate College has .the
largest fotoball schedule of the stx
scholos, having eight lnter-colleglate
games and the Rugby contest agreed
upon. The Washington "Aggies" will
meet every one of the conference teams
and the University of Montana, the Alum
ni and Oontaga College.
With only four games each. Whitman
College and the University of Washing
ton have the llghest football schedules
at the present time. Whitman does not
play University of Washington next sea
son. There are some inteerstlng games
scheduled for Thanksgiving day,- Novem
ber 30. Seattle will have the University
of Washington-Washington State College
game this year. Last year the annual
game on Denny Field was the University
of Washington-Oregon Agricultural Col
lege and the year previous the Univer
sity of Oregon waa the attraction. Idaho
University meets Utah University at Salt
Lake City on Thanksgiving day. Whit
man and Oregon Agricultural will play
at Walla Walla and the University of
Oregon will play Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club.
The football schedules for 1811. subject
to minor changes, are as follows:
University of Washington
October 39 Idaho at Spokane.
November O. A. C. at Seattle.
November 18 Oregon at Portland.
November SO (Thanksgiving) W. S. C.
at Seattle.
Washington State College
Keptember 80 Alumni at Pullman.
October T Onnsaga at Pullman.
October 14 Montana at Missoula.
October 21 Idaho at Moscow.
October 2S Oregon at Pullman.
November 4 (English Rugby) Idaho at
Pullmnn.
out they would If this man's ideas were
i.i'opted, for after the pitcher starts to
dcl'ver his first pitch to any batsman
tho latter would be privileged to tear
for first base. Thus, no matter what
the count on the batter, he could take
on any passed ball or wild pitch, or
with men on the bases he could dash
to first at any time to draw a throw
for some other runner..
In effect the batter would have ex
actly the same base-running privilege
as men on the bags. It sounds like a
wild scheme and certainly would never
get by the rulemakers.
But Its proponent makes a good
argument. If there is to be any im
provement in the game, he pleads, let
It come in the nature of work on the
bases. This Is the only department
of the game In which team work really
counts. And, he says, interest would
be added to the game.
"Suppose," says the writer, "the man
at bat were allowed to steal first base
at any fair chance after being legally
at bat that Is. after the ball had left
the pitcher's -hand for the first time
after facing him. Would not this
bring a new angle to the game and
nullify the groaning lack of- Interest
in these no-hit-no-run Contests, where
we see much lunging,, much sweat,
much labor and much tense apathy on
the part of the spectators? Think of
the possibilities of such plays'. With
one, two or three men on bases the
man at the bat may or may not hit at
the ball, but If he steps out of his
batter's box toward first base he Im
mediately becomes a base runner, and
those ahead of him must move on. If
it did nothing else this Innovation
would help remove a few more of the
boneheads who clutter up the dia
PAPEU
CHASE
IS
EVENT
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Jenkins Will
JLay Course.
Owing to New Tear's day falling on
Sunday this year the Portland Hunt
Club will hold their annual paper chase
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tomorrow morning at 10 , o'clock.
The 8trdD?PoPrt.andW boulevard T
andnMrs Ralph H Jenkins will lay the
cSurse.r8-TheyPhare both old members of
the club. MR Jenkins was. In fact, one
of the organizers of the club and per
haps has ridden through -W P
chases and laid more courses than any
other member of tho club.
The "trail will traverse some of tne
same courses laid In the last ten years
TOU Is considered the
a paper chase in the vicinity of Port
fand and while many changes i have been
made, the course has been Ranged so
as to make a desirable run with a fine
stretch for a half-mile finish.
All of the old-time-riderg expect to
take part Sn- the New Year's paper
chase. Chester Murphy, who has ridden
through one paper chase, fPecVLr
-Oregon Kid." considered the best paper
chase horse in the State of Oregon. This
horse was ridden for several years by
Burk Tongue, who never lst ace;
Dr W. L. Wood, one of the officers of
the Hunt Club and an enthusiastic rider,
will not ride on this occasion. Dr.
and Mrs. Wood left yesterday for Axi
gona, where they expect to remain dur
ing the Winter. Mrs. Wood also is an
enthusiastic rider and a member orthe
Hunt Club, and they expect to attend
race courses in Southern California on
their way to Arizona for the purpose of
buying two thoroughbreds suitable for
Hunt Club paper chases.
At the last meeting of the club it was
decided to hold the annual Spring races
at the Country Club racetrack Saturday
of Rose Festival week. This year there
will be about 15 new horses in addition
to some of the old-timers that have
heretofore raced at the Spring meet.
A new meter registers how long a tde-
ptinne IB useq. .
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