THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JANUARY 29, 1911.
AUTO-BUS SUITS
PORTLAND HOTELS
MOTORING IN OREGON A
DELIGHT, SAYS AUTOIST
Miss Anna E. Gould. Fair Chauf feuse, Voices Her Enthusiasm at Pleasure
She rinds in Driving Her Car About Portland.
Trophy! for endurance
economy in
Three of Leading Hostelries
Have It; Fourth to Install
It Promptly.
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ready Tried Service Find It Much
Better Than That Given by
Home-Prawn Omnibus.
Just a little ever a year ago. quit
experimentally, the gasoline engine was
w.r. it nrmt rhance In Portland to
demonstrate what It could do tn a
field heretofore given over exclusively
that ot the omnibus
err Ice for the leading hotels of the
" Today faithful old Dobbin and Dolly,
time. honored team of round-becked.
!cek-rotrd "old reliables" are ail but
dispossessed, and the gally-palnted old
horse-drawn hotel bus. who hi win-swung-
coach and cracking whip, bids
fr tn K.nm ii obsolete as the
"prairie schooner" of more than half
a century ao or tne piciureiu
stage coach which we now see only In
frontier plays. For three of the four
leadlnc hotels In the city have already
established a permanent auto-bus serv
ice, and the fourth has ordered It.
Imperial Is Pioneer.
Manager Phil Metschan. Jr.. of tha
Imperial Hotel, claims the distinction
of being Portlands auto-bua pioneer.
The Imperial s Is also the only gaso
line auto-bus In the city, those of tha
Hotel Perkins and Hotel Oregon being:
of the electric type. The new vehicle
ordered by the Hotel Portland Is also
to be an electric bus.
Manager Metschan is an auto-bus
enthusiast, and will discourse eloquent
ly and most convincingly upon the su
periority of this auto service at any
time he can get a listener. An In
teresting feature of the Imperials
splendid big auto-bus. with Its glossy
black coat and natty gold lettering, la
that It was once a pleasure vehicle,
being a 40-horse power, nve-pasien-ger
touring car. and having traveled
something like 50 miles before Its
transformation into the spick-and-span
vehicle it Is today, blithely conveying
14 hotel patrons at a trlp.-wlth hand
luggage to and from the Union Depot.
-It's a good, game machine." said
Manager .Metschan to an Oregonian re
porter, -and ther"s many a season's
service In that engine and running
gear yet. It's a Winton car. and that's
some car! Our auto-bus has been a
u cess beyond our highest expecta
tions. It does the work of three teams,
and gives three times tha satisfaction,
with 1000 per cent better service. It
is a smooth-running, luxurious vehicle
to rtde In. and has a big appeal over
the old horse-drawn vehicle, when It
comes to catching the eye and the pat
ronage of a travel-ttred stranger Just
arrived in Portland.
The carrying capacity of our auto
bus Is 14, with ample room for com
fort, and Inside the coach there la a
clock, so that the passengers may know
the time; also a speedometer, so that
they may know Just how fast they are
going, and Just how far they have trav-
lil. Our patrons Ilka IU and this Is
ivldent. In more ways than one. For
Instance, when we local hotel managers
agreed, some time ago. to all charge bus
fares, there waa some little resentment
of the innovation, a little reluctance
in paying the fee. But they seem to
feel different about paying the reason
able 25-cent fare when the vehicle la
a nice, comfortable, swift-moving auto
bus, equipped with everything for their
convenience. More people ride to and
from the hotel since wa adopted our
auto-bus service, and they all enjoy
the little ride.
"We are now using the auto-bus ex
clusively." concluded Mr. Metschan,
-and find we need no other service.
When we first put the auto-bus In serv
ice, we still retained the horse-drawn
vehicle, because we were a little un
certain as to the experiment. But when
our old bua and horses were destroyed
In the big Multnomah Club fire, our
auto-bus was giving such complete
satisfaction, that we did not find it
necessary to replace the horses and
burned vehicle, if our business grows
too big for our present auto-bus serv
ice, we will order another of the same
kind, certainly no more teams and
vehicles of the old primitive kind."
Oregon IJkes Innovation.
At the lintel Oregon, the auto-bus Is
a comparatively new Institution, hav
ing been inaugurated on January 10.
of this year, but Manager M. C. Dick
inson is watching results closely, and
already has evidence that thf innova
tion Is a business-getter and is giving
superior service. Manager Dickinson is
a percentage enthusiast, with such an
abiding faith in the percentage sys
tem that every detail of hotel Income
and expenditure Is carefully covered
and reduced to daily percentage, so
that at a moment's notice he can fig
ure op all manner of interesting things
from the records kept in his books, and
incidentally can put his finger instant,
ly upon any source of leakage or dis
honesty among the employes of hotel
or grllL
Thus It happened that when Manager
Dickinson waa asked about the practi
cal working out of bla auto-bus experi
ment, he turned to a small square book,
made a few comparative flgurea on a
blotter, and promptly answered that
the first 10 days of the experiment
showed an Increased business in bus
patronage of t per rent.
"Which means." said he. "that S per
cent more of our patrons have ridden
to and from the hotel in the first 1
days of the anto-bus aervlce. than rode
in the last te days before It wss es
tablished. That is merely an indica
tion, but It Is a reliable one. and we are
looking to the auto-bus for Increased
patronage, as well as for better satis
faction and greatly Improved service to
our guests.
"Ours Is a Lansden electric bus.
specially constructed for us and built to
order in Newark. N. J. It carries 14
passengers, with their hand-baggage,
and we believe It w'll prove much
more satisfactory for hotel service,
than would a more powerful gasoline
car. It is admirably adapted for the
short run to and from the depot, and
the expense of up-keep Is not going
to be but a trifling percentage If any
above that of feeding and shoeing the
three teams necessary for the opera
tion of one horse-drawn vehicle. The
Improvement In service and the ad
vantage as an advertising feature will
more than offset any difference In up
keep. The auto-bus Is an unqualified
success, and undoubtedly will supplant
the old style of horse-drawn vehicle
throughout the country. In the near
future. Our hotel In Seattle, the Hotel
Feattle. is Inaugurating an auto-bus
aervlce. tha Joint management having
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This. Is a question fre
ouently asked as a spick
and span Hudson "thirty" whlxzes by
at a goodly clip on some smooth stretch
of street, or wends cleverly In and out.
with marked skill, among a clutter of
streetcars, trucks, vegetable wagons
and other Impedimenta of the busy
downtown district. For at the wheel
of the well-groomed Hudson there Is
always a graceful feminine figure and
there Is nothing of recklessness In the
bearing or expression of the fair mo
torist, only self-confidence and compos
ure, and a certain air of thorough en
joyment that marks Miss Anna C
Gould for the motoring enthusiast that
she Is.
Miss Gould'a home la at C41 Broad
way, and she is the daughter of Aaron
Oould. the architect. A few days ago
Miss Oould was waylaid by The Orego-
ordered vehicles for both hotels at the
same time. Reports from Seattle show
the same good retults as our own."
Matlock Is Enthusiastic. v
The Hotel Perkins followed closely
upon the heels of the Hotel Imperial In
Inaugurating the auto-bus service, and
Assistant Manager Matlock, of the Per
klna. is hardly less eloquent than Man
ager Phil Metschan, of the Imperial,
when the auto-bus subject Is brought
up.
'Xnxr bus Is a 14-passenger Stude
baker." said Mr. Matlock In an inter
view, "and of course it's the best In the
city. We put it on laat February, and
ever atnee that time we have been won
dering how we ever managed to get
along vlthout It. The service is so
much superior to that given by any
horke-drawn vehicle that It seems un
necessary to make the statement. Un
der the old bus system, our patrons
were necessarily subjected to many dis
comforts and annoyances that the auto
bus has eliminated entirely, and ol
course this is a substantial asset In
business, aside from the natural pleas
ure we feel In giving better service to
our guests. In our new, up-to-date ve
hicle our patrons are carried to and
from the depot with the maximum of
comfort and the minimum of delay or
other annoyance, and the attractive
looking conveyance undoubtedly has a
strong appeal to the stranger, over that
of a lumbering, slow-going, horse-
drawn vehicle.
"And another feature of our auto-bus
service, you know." added Mr. Matlock,
"is the fact that we are prepared. In
case of any emergency, or falling in the
vehicle's supply of 'Juice.' to recharge
the batterlea at once, from our own
electr'c plant here at the hotel. We
have three engines, and our own light
ing plant, so that we are absolutely
Independent In the matter of lighting
or any other electric service. All we
would have to do. in case our electrta
auto-bus needed a new supply of power.
would be to connect up with our plant
and recharge the batteries right here
at the hotel. However, in the courae of
nearly a year's service, there has not
been aalngle call of distress from our
gallant little auto-bus. and we do not
anticipate a very heavy drain on our
power plant from that source."
Henry D. McCoy, Ban Francisco
manager of the Chanslor & Lyon Motor
Pupply Company, arrived last night, on
his way to San Francisco, after having
attended the auto shows In Chicago and
New York. Mr. McCoy la well pleased
with the new Portland store. Mr. Mc
Coy Is at the Nortonia.
Arrangements have been made by the
Wright Company to open an aviation
school at Augusta. Ga. The course will
contlst of theoretical training and prac
tical work in flying.
OXLY SOn'D OARSMEN TO ROW
Yale Puts Crew to Severe Medical
Examination Before Race.
NEW HAVEN. Jan. 2. Tale's row
ing advisory committee, chosen some
time ago to take charge of the cam
paign of 1911. has adopted the policy
of sending the entire vsrslty crew
squad to New Tork City to undergo a
physical examination. The first set of
oarsmen went today and another batch
has been ordered there tomorrow. Cap
nian's camera man. and ths result is
shown In the accompanying picture.
She is not only an enthusiast at mo
toring, but in her appreciation of Ore
gon as well.
T have been in Oregon less than a
year." said Miss Gould, "having come
here from Boston only last July. My
father purchased our car soon after we
arrived, and I have been driving ever
since. I cannot tell you how I have
enjoyed It not only the motoring, but
the beautiful Oregon scenery and this
splendid. Invigorating air. No born-and-bred
Oregonian could be more en
thusiastic for this wonderful state than
I am. and my one regret Is that I can
not have all my old Boston school
friends out here with me. so that they
could really understand the things I
hava been writing In my letters. I sup
pose I must be what you call an Ore
gon booster.' "
Miss Gould has already driven her
car on many long trips, and Is making
plans for several extended tours during
the coming Spring and Summer.
tain Frost went there today with three
other members of the squad.
Those who have been ordered there
are: Van Slnderen. Field. Romeyn.
Tucker, Buckingham. Paul and Lowe.
All of these are husky football players.
It Is not the belief that football has
already even partially crippled these
men. but Tale's oarsmen have gone to
pieces so badly in races the past three
years that no chances will be taken.
Only oarsmen who are sound as a dol
lar physically will be chosen to com
pete In the gruelling four-mile event.
To make sure that each candidate is
sound he Is being sent to New York.
The principle ox examining Yale
oarsmen for heart and other organic
physical weakness Is ' not new. For
two years It has been enforced, but
because the best oarsmen in the boat
have kept passing away during the
races with Harvard, the Idea of the
oarsmen being examined by New
Haven doctors has been given up and
New Tork specialists will this year
be employed.
Every set of oarsmen which goes to
New York will be taken to the Presby
terian Hospital for a searching ex
amination. The entire squad will be
sent to the hospital for examination,
and any oarsmen found to be In error
physically will be ordered to quit row
ing. Those who pass the examination
will get ready for an Interesting bout
on the Thame next June.
CONQl'EROR OF ABB ATTELL
SAYS HIS VICTORY WAS
SOT RESULT OF AC
CIDENT. Joe Coater.
NEW TORK. Jan. 21. (Special.)
Joe Coster has been a center of
interest since he whipped Abe
Atteli. Those who saw the mill
are divided. Some say that At
teli was not in good form, others
that he is played out; others
that he was himself and that Cos
ter proved himself the better
man. Coster thinks he found
Attell In good condition and gave
him a clear whipping.
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STOCK MEN MEET
Resolutions Are Adopted by
State Association.
FUNDS ASKED FOR FAIRS
New Pavilion and Livestock Coli
seum Are Urged as Necessity at
Salem Bill Favored Regulat
ing Speed of Trains.
The semi-annual meeting of the Ore
gon Pure Bred Livestock Association
which was held at a Salem recently,
transacted considerable business rela
tively to promoting the livestock in
dustry in the state. What la regarded
as of most importance to a stockraiser
waa the passing of a resolution asking
the Legislature to pass a bill authoris
ing the various counties of the state to
appropriate funds for the aid of coun
ty, district and local fairs and stock
shows. Senator Bryant met with the
association and after some discussion
of the matter it was left with him to
prepare and present a bill embodying
the wlehes of the association.
Of all the subjects considered at this
meeting, that of new buildings at the
State Fair Grounds elicited the most
discussion. Practically all the mem
bers present agreed that a new pa
vilion and a livestock coliseum, or
covered, seated show arena, are needed.
Resolutions were passed endorsing
Benate bill 43, Introduced by Burgess
and Hawley, providing for a Livestock
Sanitary Board; Hawley's Senate bill
No. 2 providing for the naming and
registering of farm names; Burgess'
Senate bill No. , regulating the speed
of livestock trains, requiring the cor
rect marking up of trains by station
afcenta and imposing a penalty for fail
ure to do ao; the State Fair Board in
asking for an appropriation for the
building of a livestock coliseum and a
new pavilion: urging the North Pacific
Fair Association to arrange the fair
circuit in the following order, viz:
Sacramento, Salem, Portland, Seattle.
Walla Waila. North Yakima. Spokane
and Boise; endorsing the Pacific North
west Livestock Association in holding
a fat stock show at Portland Union
Stockyards next March.
Resolutions also were passed recom
mending the adoption of uniform live
stock classifications by all the fairs of
the Coast: the revision of the premium
lists to transfer the money now offered
for ewes two years old and over to
flock consisting of one ram any a pre.
two yearling ewes; and two ewe lambs
and that the premium money be divided
among the entire winning first, second,
third and fourth; recommending the
addition of Junior classes in the dairy
breeds of cattle both for calves and
yearlings and the retention of the
breeders' classes instead of making
them all open.
The officers of the association are:
President, C. L. Hawley; first Vice
president. William Schulraerick: sec
ond vice-president. C. E. Cleveland;
secretary. N. C. Maris, and treasurer,
Charles Cleveland.
Wingrfield Gets Retrial.
CHICAGO, Jan. 28. James Wingfield
will be permitted to have a retrial of
a case against Jack Johnson in which
the colored pugilist was awarded a ver-
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first in cost of running over a 56-mile course, at rate of 1.3 cents
per ton mile.
first in "cooling" quality, making the entire run without hav
ing to add to the water in its radiator.
first in simplicity and ease of operation, Bender, who with a
"White" finished one-tenth of a cent behind the winning White
truck, being an amateur of only 60 days' experience, and driving
a truck that had been in constant service for 20,000 miles, often
overloaded, right up to the evening before the day of contest.
first in reliability and maintenance, Bender truck running the
full course without making a single repair or adjustment, or
without needing any afterward.
first in speed also, Stine's "White" truck being the first to
reach the top of Troutdale hill (excepting the light delivery
wagon trucks), and, best of all, the
first and ONLY truck to finish carrying a five-ton load.
ail of which again furnishes convincing proof of the advertised
claim that
"White is King"
C-A-Easlman Genl. Mgr.
G S Br Beckett Secretary
diet when Wingfield sued to recover
damages because of Johnson's failure
to appear at a theater in Hammond in
accordance with the provisions of a
contract.
Judge Goodnow granted a new trial
of the suit a few days ago, at the same
time refusing to impose a fine for con
tempt upon George Little for calling
Johnson a "nigger" in the courtroom
during the trial of the case. Attorney
Beerly Insisted that Little should be
fined, but Judge Goodnow was satisfied
with the withdrawal of the remark.
"There never was any feeling be
tween these men on that point," said
the Judge. "They are friendly every
place except in the courtroom."
Both the Wingfield and the Little
cases, wherein ownership of a diamond
ring is contested between Johnson and
Little, have been set for hearing on the
Jury calendar.
PEACE PACT PLEASING
HARVARD-PRIXCETON' RECON
CILIATION SOTS ALL.-'
Alnmni of Both Colleges Join In Ex
pressing Pleasure at Resumption
of Football Relations.
The resumption of football relations
between Harvard and Princeton caused
much favorable comment among alumni
of both institutions residing in Chicago,
says Walter H. Kckersall in the Chi
cago Tribune. In resuming friendly
relations football teams representing
the crimson and orange-black colleges
will meet on the gridiron this Fall for
the first time since 1897. In that year
the Tigers triumphed over Harvard, 12
to 0, but the game was the cause of so
much bitter feeling that football rela
tions were broken off, and since that
time efforts have been made to bring
together the two colleges on the foot
ball field.
"I believe I speak for every alumnus
in Chicago when I say that I am glad
to see Harvard and Princeton resume
football relations," said Mitchell D.
Follansbee, president of the Harvard
club. "There is no reason why these
teams should not meet in an annual
game, and I would like to see a con
tract drawn up calling for about five or
six games. In this way there would be
no loophole for either to cancel games,
and, these contests would place football
on a much higher plane.
"Shortly after 1897 the feeling at
Cambridge was bitter toward Prince
ton, but with the new students coming
in every year this feeling has died out
and the crimson will have another
worthy opponent to meet on the grid
iron. As president of the Harvard club
I think every Harvard alumnus will
agree with what I have said in this
connection."
"It Is one of the best things that pos
sibly could have been done for foot
ball." said Charles Y. Freeman, presi
dent of the Princeton club. "I know
the athletic authorities at Princeton
have been striving to schedule a same
with Harvard ever since relations were
broken off, in 1897. but their efforts
were of no avail. With the resumption
of football relations 1 believe It will be
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possible to determine the strongest
eleven in the East each year, besides
giving bpth institutions a game which
alumni will travel from all sections of
the country to see. In scheduling this
game Princeton will meet a football
team worthy of its best efforts, and the
Princeton alumni of Chicago heartily
second the move which has been made
by the athletic authorities of both in
stitutions." Other Princeton alumni who voiced
the opinion of Mr. Freeman were Clyde
Stevens, Ben Donnelly, Ralph Bard,
Ralph Hoagland and Ad Kelly. Everts
Wrenn, the well-known football official
Tire Bills Cut
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Rim-Cutting; is made impos
sible in Goodyear No-Rim-Cut
tires. And the tires are made
10 per cent oversize. These
two features together cut the
average tire bills in two. Yet
they now cost nothing extra.
Tha 63 Braided Wires
The picture shows how Goodyear
No-RIm-Cut tires fit any standard rim
for quick-detachable tires. Alo de
mountable rims.
With the ordinary tire the clincher
tire the removable rim flanges must
be set to curve inward to grasp hold
of the hook in the tire.
The sharp hook
of the flange then
digs into the tire.
Thus a punctured
tire is often ruined
by running a hun
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So the removable rim flanges are
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tire, instead of that thin-edged hook.
Half a million of these tires have
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in a hundred tests as far as 20 miles.
In all this experience there has never
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This Is how we avoid the hooks:
Through the base of the tire we run
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Auto Show Opens In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2fc. The annual Chi
cago automobile show opened today,
with all the space in the Coliseum and
the First Regiment Armory occupied.
Twenty companies were unable to se
cure space. The combined value of the
exhibits is placed at $2,500,000, ranking
from little S450 runabouts to $10,000
touring cars.
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When the tire is inflated these
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134 pounds to the inch. Thus we make
a tire which can't come off, and with
out any hooks or bolts.
These braided wires which contract
under air pressure form the only way
to make a safe hookless tire. We con
trol this feature, so we control the only
practical tire which can't rim-cut.
10 Per Cent Oversize
Goodyear No-Rim-Cut tires are made
10 per cent wider than rated size. We
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tire without any extra charge.
That means 10 per cent more carry
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the top, glass front, gas tank, lamps,
extra tire, etc. Motor car makers, in
these days of close prices, rarely figure
these extras in adopting a tire size.
That 10 per cent extra tire, with the
average car, will add 25 per cent to the
tire mileage. It saves the blow-outs
due to overloading.
In every great
show held this
year up to this
writing, more
pneumatic tired
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with Goodyear a
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other make.
Goodyear No -Rim -Cut tires
now cost no more than tires
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as skimpy tires. Last year, when
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