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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1911)
5 DECADE SEES BIG RURAL JAUNTS DELIGHT PORTLAND CHAUFFEUSE Mrs. Clarence Ireland Passes Enjoyable Summer In Toming Oregon Coun try With Friends in Her Automobile. i ANOTHER WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT FOR Yesterday's Automobiles Were "Something Else Again Yet, Mawruss." EARLY MACHINES FUNNY OLDEST DAJXT PAPER PUBLISH EDIN ALASKA LARGEST CIRCULATION IN ALASKA THE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 29. 1911. CHANGES CARS oseoeooosso soooosee.ssss.s soooooooooso oeeesooeo 4 hihi m in ma.siu.ij ) , m i im mi iiisiii i ian n'n w 4 . " .,-'"'''' - ' First "Horseless Carriage," Brought to Portland by Henry W'emme, Ts Recalled With Much Amusement Today. BT PAUL. J. FEELT. On7 a man with the heart of a lion would hT the temerity to drive, a 100 model motor car down Wash ington stret today. Ther has ben a remarkable change In th appearance and construction machines in Oat period, from a clumsy "horseless cartlaRe." run only by me who cared Utile for the hoots of th skeptical. It hs become a perfected in ventlon, safe Is the hands of any care ful Informed person. Few machine are now unable to attain a speed of at least 49 miles an hour, and a con slderable majority of the larjrer cars accomplish (0 when the. going; Is rood. To the ipeed of racing autos there seems alnost to be no limit. New records in hunc up at almost every meet. A rvcer who cannot negotiate a speed of V miles an hour stacks up with the funous speed kings about like "Pop" Dllbn doss with ths fast base runners of the Pacific Coast League. p-d hmt Oae Featare. Speed Is but one feature of the cars which hai been Improved. Another important advancement has been made In the six of th machines. The nrs automoblK to Invade the Northwest was owne by Henry Wemme. It was a "one-lu rarer." with room for two. The latest thin today la a "camp car." built with two berths and large enoua-h to carry an sntlr camping- outfit and ten persona It was Introduced last Sum mer and la Intended for the camper who deet'es to pro into the rouich coun try and live absolutely Independent of the bonis. The ar Is patterned after the old prairie ichooner. which doubtless will s-lve arreit Joy to Ezra Meeker when he sees one Tourlns csr seats are used In front. The lerg-th of the car back of the d-iver's seat Is six feet and In this bodj are sld seats which may be converted Into tunks. There is stor age roon unde the seats. An extra lus-cace box li hung from th floor of the brdy. TJ camping outfit, which goes wlih the car. constats of a tent. a camp arraf. canvas water bucket. self-cooling atnr bags, food bag, nrelee rooksr. axes, lanterns, cooking utensl.'s. dls'es and other paraphernalia. W asate ot Ka vie. Nobody nvled W'emme the pleasure of Intromiting the motor car to Port land. H'torr does not record Just what bratd of nerve tonic he took, but It must .iar been strong stuff. The dubious jltlsens were not with him. by any mes. That machine wasn't much to look at- It was sort of a half-buggy, half wagor half-engine no. that's three halvesbut. anyhow, it was something ltke sat. and It made a lot of noise. Wsm started his automobile at the top f a sloping streef. which was muc the easier way to go with a "car'age" that was self propelled. . large and enthusiastic crowd." as the music critic says, was out to see hit. There were hoots, cheers. Jeers an a great many encouraging and dis paraging remarks. incidentally, his apearance marked the birth of one of tie 13 standard Jokea of the last decade. J at as the chug chug was passing an snmMed multitude at a street corner, icracklng good humorist, whose name as been lost to history, shouted: 'Which end do the cobs come out of?" 'taud laughter and long applause.) Uraw Xet Feaaea. Wemm was not to be feazed. lie fc.pt running hla machine around the s rests, blazing the trail for others, aid before the season was over several .rotor cars were seen rushing about the e II t . I " av . ; . . ,F 'Ww; j Vtl - ---- J" . MRS. C. I.. 1RKL.I.VD AT 1VHKBL OF HER CAR. AMt?N"Q Portland's most' skillful women motorists Is Mrs. Clarence Ireland, of the Helns apartments, who drlvea a Chalmers "Thirty. Mrs. Ireland has lived mora out of doors than Indoors, all Summer, and Is taking advantage of the beautiful Indian Fummer weather every day. sharing hsr car and her pleasure with her friends. Excursions into the coun try, with a picnic hamper, and return towards sunset, the tonneau gaily laden with rich Autumn foliage, havs become the leading diversion of Mrs, Ireland and her Intimate friends. Mrs. Ireland first learned to drive a Stoddard-Dayton, and also drove th Cadillac formerly owned by th Ire lands. She has made a number of long and interesting trips the past Summer in her Chalmers "Thirty." covering one route through Eastern Oregon with a record of 1000 miles. In the accom panying picture Mrs. Ireland is shown at the wheel of her Chalmers. WEMME IS CHEERY Mishaps on Trip to Mount Hood Do Not Daunt Autoist. EXPENSE OF RUN IS $130 Farmer Demand Pay for Improve ment of His Property Another Ask $10 for Hauling Ma chine From Mudhole., city. These valiant motorists at the dawn nr th twentieth century had many troubles with horses. It took con siderable time and patience to convince th family nags that the motor car was not as dangerous as Its noise would indicate. Many animals were slow to b convinced. Few serious accidents were recorded, for all drivers in that early day wrr extremely careful. Prior to 1?0, few ventured far out on the country roads. Most of them were happy if they"got away with their rides on the smooth pavements, for in thoM days a man boasted of having rlddn in an automobile like a person who has sailed In an aeroplane does to lay. But the Introduction of more cars made rivalry for new records keen ind the motorists began I anl!boo rul ing It around through Multnomah County. Pome ventuxd out.lde the county line, but they were very few. Keata Is Pteaeer. The first "overland" trip was mads ny H. t- Keats In 1305. It waa during This reckless seson that he announced Ma Intention of going to Mount Hood. There were msny doubting Thomsses. He started out early one morning i bout 7 o'clock and made the end of ils Journey shortly after duk. In the andy places the motor performed like i dustpan, ton. He bad traveled all of 4 miles each one of 5.'I0 feet. Think f it! And once he threw caution to :h winds and fairly flew along at a Up of a little more than IS miles an tour. He Just didn't care what hap pened to hlm. Keat's coming was a great event In h little towns h paa.d through. At -ndy every person In the villous came ut to see the reckless record-breaker. Keats recently went bark to Sandy. Is was la a big motoa car. Reemed nlshty good to kft back and give th olki a real good show after the tr'ck e had played on them with thst ath- natts. dinky csr. jo he whlszed Into he village In fln style, threw on his raks and waited for someone to In- pect the ear. Itd the people like the motor? He 'oesn't know. Nobody that he saw paid ny attention to 11. When it comes to having an tnex austlbl supply of optimism. Henry Wemme. "the man who built the Mount Hood road." has a valid claim to a front rank position. Accompanied by Mr. nd Mrs. Charles Mensles and Paul J. eely. Wemme mad a trip to Mount Hood last Sunday. During th Journey many things hap pened that would have peeved th ordl- ary person. First, a hard-headed farmer, who cared nothing for good roads and admitted that he didn't care snap whether hia property waa im proved or not, objected to Wemme tak ing a few feet of his land to make a passable road out of a winding, nar row trail that passed his place. Every sane argument failed to move him. and before he finished Wemme gav th man $130 for the privilege of Increas ing th value of the settler's acreage about flOOO. Even that episode would have given him Just cause for getting out of good humor. But it didn't. He started on the return trip Just. as Jolly a when he left Portland. The good roads enthusiast has don wonders with the Mount Hood hlgh wsy. Persons who have been traveling on It for the pastfew years attest to that. He hss taken a narrow trail and built a 60-foot road wherever possible. Of course, he hssn't Improved the whole route yet. but he has fixed a consider able portion of it at the other end. In many places it Is a veritable boulevard. But to cap the hard luck the motor party had to wait until well on th homeward stretch. About three and half miles the other side of Sandy there Is a strip of new road about 400 feet In length. Instead of It being a pass able highway It is virtually a lake of mud. and the only bad spot in the who! Mount Hood trip. In attempting to get through the mud- hole Wemme's machine waa stalled. It took five horses to haul It out. and by the time it was cleared from the soft earth It wouldn't run. Ths gears had been stripped. And while Wemme was wondering how he wss going to get his macmne back to Portland, the farm er who first attempted to pyll him out or tne mud and failed, told him his bill would be $10. This waa for about flv minutes work. It was necessary to walk to Sandy and telephone to Portland for another automobile. The only comment Wemme made was inst it might have been worse. turn to the left and passing cars go by on the right the converse of the American system. Aside from this change, and the fact that the tires for the cars must be se lected on the metric system, lnstesd of by inches, foreign dealers are supplied by the Studebaker corporation with exactly the same types of cars as ttiose which form the regular run of the American trade. e New Tork leads in motor registration with a total of $3,000 cars and 82,500 chauffeurs. - e The Indiana Oood Roads Association has organized permanently and Is plan ning a good roads crusade In all parts of th state. see There are now In the United States 15S factories producing 50 or more cars per year. Of these. 65 produce motor trucks or commercial vehicles exclu sively. According to one expert more cars have been sold In this country in th past 11 months and 10.000 pleasure cars are scheduled for the next 1$. A number of automobiles and motor trucks are being transported Into Tri poli with the Italian army, for service In desert regions, where they are su perior to horses In many cases. In these days when races are won by less than two seconds. It is not surpris ing that the American Automobile As sociation Contest Board insists tnat none but experienced men officiate as race officials. The Automobile Club of Buffalo claims, the distinction of belnK the largest motoring organization In th country with th exception of the Au tomobile Club of America. It now has a membership of more than S000. . - An exhibit of motoring accessories will be a .feature of the annual meeting of the Gasoline Engine Trades Associa tion at Cleveland, O.. from December S to S. There will be more than 100 exhibitors. la. B. KELLER, PubUafcev. nails. Estai Established UN. " ' Sfcagvay, Alaska. Ootober 7, 1911. Ballou & Wright, Portland, Or. . Gentlemen: It gives me great plaa sure to Inform you that on the recent run of the Abbott-Detroit "Bull Dog" to Carmaclc, Yukon Territory and Northwest Mounted Police Post, thirty miles beyond 62 degrees north and one thousand miles farther north than the best previous run to Hazelton, B. 0., that we, used Monogram Oil, and for the entire run, up and back, a distance of nearly five hundred miles, (over the White Pass, the Caribou Trail, Arctic Swamp, Arctic Tundra, Muakan, and twenty to thirty per cent grades) we used two gallons of Monogram Lubricating Oil. As this run is the farthest north ever made in the history of the automobile industry and over trails which can only be negotiated by dog sleds and pack animals and only during the Winter months, we consider the achievement of the Abbott which won the trophy given by the Daily Alaskan of Skagway a most enviable one, and we feel sure that you will feel interested to know that we used Monogram Oil on the trip and have been for thousands of miles. Respectfully yours, Geo. D. Brown, Driver Abbott-Detroit "Bull Dog" " 100,000-Mile Tour. P. S. Mileage to date, 35,600 miles. G. D. B. If Monogram was good on this trip to Alaska, why isn't it good for you? Better try it! BALLOU Distributers, 80-82 Seventh St., Portland, Or. mmmamiBmssKS CAR CARE IS TAUGHT Manufacturers Plan Service Stations for Repairs. MOTORISTS ARE PLEASED Accessory Makers Follow Suit and AutolsU Will Be Shown How to Get Best Wear Krora Tires and Tubes. ments, the averagre automobllist can be saved many dollara each year. AUTO CHUG CHUGS Abbot far In Centralis. CENTRA LI A. Wash.. Oct. IS. (Spe !.( Th Klobe-s-trrillns; Abbott-De. rolt arrived In Centralla In chars of r. Charles O. Perclval. editor of the tealth Mas-azlna. of New Tork. under vhose auspices a trip of 100.000 miles beins; attempted. The Abbot car has een traveling- since July. 1510. on the nst trip ever known to the auto loblie Industry, snd. Judclna from its erformance to date It bids (air to ac ompllsh the teat. Corrected official score rives Ralph Mulford. In Kozler. flrat place In Kalr mount Tark road ra- 600-tnch class, and Hsrry Grant, with a Lozler. third place, both cars lowertne- Falrmount 1'ark course records. The Ixjxlrr bss as-atn proven Its claim to the title of world s cnsmpion. navina; won the ma jority of victories over every car aa-atnst which It has ever competed. . An order, which recently went Into effect at the Studebaker corporation's E-M-F fsctories In Detroit Illustrates the rrowlns; attention which American manufacturers ar rlvlna; to th export trade. The order required the location of tall-Us-hts on the right Instead of the left side of 25 E-M-F "30" and Flanders "20" cars In every day'a run of production. These are the cars which the firm dally ships to Its dealers in foreign countries. , The order is a con cession to th rules of the rosd In force in fore-n lands, where meetlna; cars Western tales of rounding; up cattle with automobiles were outdone recent ly In New TorTc. when a policeman pur sued a runaway steer in a taxlcab. Twice the cab came within shooting; range of the animal, but the police man's aim proved bad. The third time, however, and after the steer had knocked over a fat woman, the cab was sufficiently close to enable the offloer to put a bullet into a arltal re- alon and the runaway fell lifeless. . A proposition has been made by a Pacific Coast automobile organisation to have a rather terrifying Panama Pacific celebration run In 1916. It is to have the A. A. A. National reliabil ity tour from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific. This very considerable Jour ney, the Westerners say. will be easy of accomplishment If efforts are mad from now on to build up a National highway east and west. Inssmuch as many persons are expected to visit California when the world's fair is on. the organisation puts It forward as -an entirely natural thing that many should come by automobile. . In connection with the European trip of members of the Society of Automo bile Engineers during: November, a Joint meeting with the Incorporated Institution of Automobile Engineers will be held In London on November (. At this session Howard E. Coffin, the American automobile engineer, will present a paper on chassis design. This obviously fundamental subject, selected by the representstlve of the British society who recently arrived In this country to confer with the B. A. E.. la a most Interesting on at this time. In view of the general current dis cussion as to the relative mechanical merits of European and American chassis design. Jt is admitted by some European authorities that spring sus pension and other chassis elements have been mors highly developed In America. This does not Include the motor, as to which argument waxes strong. Auto Road Record Broken. Felic Nazzaro's long-standing auto mobile road record of 74. S miles per hour, made by him three years ago in the Florlo cup race In Italy, was brok en twice at tne recent etanta Monica road race, first by Herrlck's National In the JOJ-mlle free-for-all and again by Men In th National, with which he won th 161-mile Shettler trophy con test. Herri ck averaged 74.91 miles per hour, while Merz's average was 74.4 miles per bour, - Do you remember getting a nice, new, shiny red drum when you were a youngster? You Just loved that drum. You wouldn't have broken it for ail the world. Yet about two hours after you assumed possession an extra heavy wnaca proaucea a Dig jagged hole in the sheepskin and a solemn resolve from mamma and papa of ."no more drums for Johnny," all because you didn't know how to use it and no one took the trouble to show you. There have been a lot of grownup Johnnys buying automobiles during the past few years. . When they first got behind that big steering wheel they felt Just as they did when they first tied that red drum around their neck. And they knew as much regarding motor-cars as they used to know about drums. The result was that their ear rollrt back haltingly to the repair shops after a few weeks and they spent the Interval while their machine was laid up expressing their views as to the carmakers' character, ability and an cestry. And there was no parental hand to lead them out to th 'wood shed. Perhaps the manufacturers have been more or less to blame in the past. They bsven't spent enough time showing Johnny how to utilise his new buzz wsgon. At least, that is the way a numoer oi me most prominent man ufRctirrers have figured it out. The result was that the past season has witnessed the establishment of "service departments" -by these car builders, with the object of providing noi oniy siaiions wnere repairs can be made and spare parts can beob tslned speedily, but also of seeing to it that owners know how to treat their cars properly in order to get the best possible service out of them. And It has been proved adequately that they are working along the right lines. There can be no question about It, The automobile of today doesn't require "nursing" It Is safely past the adolescent stsge out It does reaulre proper care In order to deliver the best It Is capable or giving. Even the assessory makers have taken up this idea. There can be no question but that the tires are th most abused part or an automobile. And It ss true, usually, that no part of ths csr mora handsomely will repay a little Intelligent care than tires. It Is sn acknowledged fact among tire makers and repair men that fully 75 per cent of the tires that go wrong do so not through any fault of construc tion, but because of flagrant misuse or neglect on the part of the user. The establishment of service depart ments naturally has met with decided favor among motorlsta who have a thought about their expense bills. By consistent application of a little care fulness and a study of th reaulrs-; BROOKS HAS NEW ROAD Ply AN Highway to Be Built With Convict Labor Free of Cost to State. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 28. (Special.) Completion of a large strip of the Port- land-Halem Capital highway is prom ised in a letter from JL L. Jones, of Brooks, received by Governor West to day. Under the plan which he outlines it will be possible to complete the road from Brooks and Qulnaby to the Salem and Oregon City road, across the Brooks road district on the Salem and Oregon City road. His letter explaining his plan fol lows: If the stata and county will furnish the crushed rock at Brookand Qulnaby I will guarantee that th. people of Brooks road dlntrlct will build the road from Brooks and Qulnaby to the Salem and Oregon City road and clear across the Brooks district on the Salem and Oreson City road for S500 a mile, provided the state will furnish the convict labor and the county the county road machinery. The state or county need not advance any money but the road district la to have the road taxes to apply on ths amount until the $500 per mils Is liquidated. "BULL DOG" IN ALASKA DR. PERCIVAIi AXD GEORGE BROWX PENETRATE NORTH. Automobile Is Driven Through Snow Fourteen Inches Deep on Own Power. WHITE PASS, Alaska, Oct. 13. (Special.) Having successfully climbed the 28 miles from Skagway to this point through 14 Inches of snow. the Abbott-Detroit "Bulldog" has suc ceeded In annexing the icy north to its collection of countries traveled In with Dr. Charles G. Perclval and George Brown. Its crew now claim the honor of having traveled the farthest south and north by automobile. In ad dition to even having made an alti tude of 12,000 feet, in the same ma chine. 1 Since leaving Vancouver, B. C, the "Bulldog" has traveled under Its own power through territory Into which no motorcar has ever ventured. Dr. Per clval and Brown declare the machine was landed at every place the boat which brought them here stopped. "It was our jrood- fortune to arrive at Alert Bay, the famous Indian vil lage and missionary settlement, with its ancient and curious totem poles, during a potlatch festival. The auto mobile attracted a great deal of inter est from the members of the Kwau klutls tribe, many of whom had never seen one and had no idea of the won derful mechanism of the carriage which ran up and down their narrow streets without the aid of doss or reindeers. "At Swanson Bay we visited the Im mense pulp and lumber mills, and also made stops at Prince Rupert and Port Simpson, the first northern post estab. llshed by the Hudson Bay Company. When we stopped at Ketchikan, a busy copper mining camp on the Alaskan frontier, we were able to Inspect the surrounding country at all hours of the 24, for here is the Land of the Midnight Sun." From here the "Bulldog" party will continue ' north until it is impossible to proceed further. The return to the United' States will be made immediate ly after that. Dee to run how littl this $ ts e it cos 750 car .-, l. ' .;u ,i - -sV ii i i . KlinabW-4 cylinder. 20 H. P.. Beea mersato. slidlne (ear traJumusl.B. Price ladsf! lop, windshield. s lamps aad generator: three eil lamps, tools and been. Touring Cor. sosae equipment. $900. Interchooceobl. wozoa bodyior farm as.. $28 aatrsj. Runobovt fullr ee.uippeo' Twsriae Car fuliy equip posl T-lii I I'll II I $750 Detroit For three years the Hupmobile has been showing more people every year What economy in motor car operation really is. The first coat of the, Hupmobile is less than the annual depreciation of many- heavier cars to say nothing of .the. expense of, running them. F. O. B. Detroit one set of tires. That means more than a whole year's use in the service : of the average car owner. Hupmobile simplicity .and strength re duce repairs to the very minimum. With ordinary care the majority of Hupmobile users run; their cars an entire season without repairs of any And. by - the' way, $750 or $900 for a Hupmobile-brings you everything you It is ready to show you and to show require in tfic way of equipment. you the infinite advantages and . . . , pleasures of having a car at your As for cost of operation many farmers disposal -are running their Hupmobiles on average roads, for as low as 25 cents The catalog will help you to under a day for gasoline and oil. stand why : and the Hupmobile . , , . . , . . dealer can further enlighten you.- It is no uncoirimon thing for a Hupmo bile to travel 3000 to 5000 mjles with- Write today for the catalog and the out a tire puncture and 10000 on name of your dealer. DULMAGE & SMITH, Distributors for Oregon, 46-48 Twentieth St., Near Washington. White Motor Car Go. Motor Trucks and Touring Cars ALL SIZES Corner 19th and Washington Sts.